“Only one day?”

“I’ve been on the night shift till neow.”

Dwarfs? Ah, yes; dwarfs indeed. But would that those who affirm it might catch sight of the expression that lowered under the brows of those two miniature victims. Like a menace, threatening, terrible, it seemed to presage the storm that shall one day be unchained by the spirits too long pent up in service to the greed of man.

[9] Moffett, Yard & Company.

The Crusade of the Children

By Margaret Belle Houston

(In “The Woman’s Journal.”)

O’er the grind of the wheels of traffic,

Through the strident scream of the mart,

Soundeth a muffled tramping,