Entering the hall, what do you suppose I saw? I saw Ruby and four or five other little girls, including the fiddler’s child among them, dancing away with all their might to the inspiriting music of the fiddle, fiddler and children seeming as happy as possible together. But the strangest sight of all was to see Ruby’s pretty blue shoes upon the dirty stockingless feet of the fiddler’s child, while Ruby herself had only her white silk socks to dance in.
Dear little Ruby! hers was the true spirit of charity, though certainly not well directed.
SPRING-VOICES.
Allegretto.
1.
“Caw! caw!” says the crow,
“Spring has come again, I know: