BROKEN-HEARTED.
The sorrows of childhood are real enough while they last. Happily, however, they are not only brief but often so much on the’surface that even the sufferer hardly knows what they are about. A small girl ran to her mother the other day, sobbing as if her heart would break, and burying her head in her lap, cried o it that she would never, never play with her sister Emetine again. ‘Why, my child, what ha- Emeline done?' the mother asked. ‘<> mamma, she has said something that has just broken my heart,’ the child declared, sobbing yet more violently. • What was it ? The child jiaused a moment in the midst of her wild weeping as if trying to think : then her tears burst forth afresh. ‘ O mamma,’ she cried, ‘I can't rememlier what it was, but it was so cruel that she has broken my heart.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 46, 15 November 1890, Page 19
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147BROKEN-HEARTED. New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 46, 15 November 1890, Page 19
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