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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Little Annie's Ramble (From "Twice Told Tales") + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Posting Date: November 27, 2010 [EBook #9202] +Release Date: November, 2005 +First Posted: August 23, 2003 +Last Updated: April 2, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE ANNIE'S RAMBLE *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + TWICE TOLD TALES<br /> + </h3> + <h2> + LITTLE ANNIE'S RAMBLE<br /> + </h2> + <h3> + By Nathaniel Hawthorne<br /> + </h3> + <p> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <p> + DING-DONG! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! + </p> + <p> + The town crier has rung his bell, at a distant corner, and little Annie + stands on her father's doorsteps, trying to hear what the man with the + loud voice is talking about. Let me listen too. O, he is telling the + people that an elephant, and a lion, and a royal tiger, and a horse with + horns, and other strange beasts from foreign countries, have come to town, + and will receive all visitors who choose to wait upon them! Perhaps little + Annie would like to go. Yes; and I can see that the pretty child is weary + of this wide and pleasant street, with the green trees flinging their + shade across the quiet sunshine, and the pavements and the sidewalks all + as clean as if the housemaid had just swept them with her broom. She feels + that impulse to go strolling away--that longing after the mystery of the + great world--which many children feel, and which I felt in my childhood. + Little Annie shall take a ramble with me. See! I do but hold out my hand, + and, like some bright bird in the sunny air, with her blue silk frock + fluttering upwards from her white pantalets, she comes bounding on tiptoe + across the street. + </p> + <p> + Smooth back your brown curls, Annie; and let me tie on your bonnet, and we + will set forth! What a strange couple to go on their rambles together! One + walks in black attire, with a measured step, and a heavy brow, and his + thoughtful eyes bent down, while the gay little girl trips lightly along, + as if she were forced to keep hold of my hand, lest her feet should dance + away from the earth. Yet there is sympathy between us. If I pride myself + on anything, it is because I have a smile that children love; and, on the + other hand, there are few grown ladies that could entice me from the side + of little Annie; for I delight to let my mind go hand in hand with the + mind of a sinless child. So, come, Annie; but if I moralize as we go, do + not listen to me; only look about you, and be merry! + </p> + <p> + Now we turn the corner. Here are hacks with two horses, and stage-coaches + with four, thundering to meet each other, and trucks and carts moving at a + slower pace, being heavily laden with barrels from the wharves, and here + are rattling gigs, which perhaps will be smashed to pieces before our + eyes. Hitherward, also, comes a man trundling a wheelbarrow along the + pavement. Is not little Annie afraid of such a tumult? No; she does not + even shrink closer to my side, but passes on with fearless confidence, a + happy child amidst a great throng of grown people, who pay the same + reverence to her infancy that they would to extreme old age. Nobody + jostles her; all turn aside to make way for little Annie; and, what is + most singular, she appears conscious of her claim to such respect. Now her + eyes brighten with pleasure! A street-musician has seated himself on the + steps of yonder church, and pours forth his strains to the busy town, a + melody that has gone astray among the tramp of footsteps, the buzz of + voices, and the war of passing wheels. Who heeds the poor organ-grinder? + None but myself and little Annie, whose feet begin to move in unison with + the lively tune, as if she were loath that music should be wasted without + a dance. But where would Annie find a partner? Some have the gout in their + toes, or the rheumatism in their joints; some are stiff with age; some + feeble with disease; some are so lean that their bones would rattle, and + others of such ponderous size that their agility would crack the + flagstones; but many, many have leaden feet, because their hearts are far + heavier than lead. + </p> + <p> + It is a sad thought that I have chanced upon. What a company of dancers + should we be! For I, too, am a gentleman of sober footsteps, and + therefore, little Annie, let us walk sedately on. + </p> + <p> + It is a question with me, whether this giddy child, or my sage self, have + most pleasure in looking at the shop-windows. We love the silks of sunny + hue, that glow within the darkened premises of the spruce drygoods' men; + we are pleasantly dazzled by the burnished silver, and the chased gold, + the rings of wedlock and the costly love-ornaments, glistening at the + window of the jeweller; but Annie, more than I, seeks for a glimpse of her + passing figure in the dusty looking-glasses at the hardware stores. All + that is bright and gay attracts us both. + </p> + <p> + Here is a shop to which the recollections of my boyhood, as well as + present partialities, give a peculiar magic. How delightful to let the + fancy revel on the dainties of a confectioner; those pies, with such white + and flaky paste, their contents being a mystery, whether rich mince, with + whole plums intermixed, or piquant apple, delicately rose-flavored; those + cakes, heart-shaped or round, piled in a lofty pyramid; those sweet little + circlets, sweetly named kisses; those dark, majestic masses, fit to be + bridal-loaves at the wedding of an heiress, mountains in size, their + summits deeply snow-covered with sugar! Then the mighty treasures of + sugar-plums, white and crimson and yellow, in large glass vases; and candy + of all varieties; and those little cockles, or whatever they are called, + much prized by children for their sweetness, and more for the mottoes + which they enclose, by love-sick maids and bachelors! O, my mouth waters, + little Annie, and so doth yours; but we will not be tempted, except to an + imaginary feast; so let us hasten onward, devouring the vision of a + plum-cake. + </p> + <p> + Here are pleasures, as some people would say, of a more exalted kind, in + the window of a bookseller. Is Annie a literary lady? Yes; she is deeply + read in Peter Parley's tomes, and has an increasing love for fairy-tales, + though seldom met with nowadays, and she will subscribe, next year, to the + Juvenile Miscellany. But, truth to tell, she is apt to turn away from the + printed page, and keep gazing at the pretty pictures, such as the + gay-colored ones which make this shopwindow the continual loitering-place + of children. What would Annie think, if, in the book which I mean to send + her, on New Year's day, she should find her sweet little self, bound up in + silk or morocco with gilt edges, there to remain till she become a woman + grown with children of her own to read about their mother's childhood! + That would be very queer. + </p> + <p> + Little Annie is weary of pictures, and pulls me onward by the hand, till + suddenly we pause at the most wondrous shop in all the town. O, my stars! + Is this a toy-shop, or is it fairy-land? For here are gilded chariots, in + which the king and queen of the fairies might ride side by side, while + their courtiers, on these small horses, should gallop in triumphal + procession before and behind the royal pair. Here, too, are dishes of + china-ware, fit to be the dining set of those same princely personages, + when they make a regal banquet in the stateliest ball of their palace, + full five feet high, and behold their nobles feasting adown the long + perspective of the table. Betwixt the king and queen should sit my little + Annie, the prettiest fairy of them all. Here stands a turbaned Turk, + threatening us with his sabre, like an ugly heathen as he is. And next a + Chinese mandarin, who nods his head at Annie and myself. Here we may + review a whole army of horse and foot, in red and blue uniforms, with + drums, fifes, trumpets, and all kinds of noiseless music; they have halted + on the shelf of this window, after their weary march from Liliput. But + what cares Annie for soldiers? No conquering queen is she, neither a + Semiramis nor a Catharine, her whole heart is set upon that doll, who + gazes at us with such a fashionable stare. This is the little girl's true + plaything. Though made of wood, a doll is a visionary and ethereal + personage, endowed by childish fancy with a peculiar life; the mimic lady + is a heroine of romance, an actor and a sufferer in a thousand shadowy + scenes, the chief inhabitant of that wild world with which children ape + the real one. Little Annie does not understand what I am saying, but looks + wishfully at the proud lady in the window. We will invite her home with us + as we return. Meantime, good by, Dame Doll! A toy yourself, you look forth + from your window upon many ladies that are also toys, though they walk and + speak, and upon a crowd in pursuit of toys, though they wear grave + visages. O, with your never-closing eyes, had you but an intellect to + moralize on all that flits before them, what a wise doll would you be! + Come, little Annie, we shall find toys enough, go where we may. + </p> + <p> + Now we elbow our way among the throng again. It is curious, in the most + crowded part of a town, to meet with living creatures that had their + birthplace in some far solitude, but have acquired a second nature in the + wilderness of men. Look up, Annie, at that canary-bird, hanging out of the + window in his cage. Poor little fellow! His golden feathers are all + tarnished in this smoky sunshine; he would have glistened twice as + brightly among the summer islands; but still he has become a citizen in + all his tastes and habits, and would not sing half so well without the + uproar that drowns his music. What a pity that he does not know how + miserable he is! There is a parrot, too, calling out, "Pretty Poll! Pretty + Poll!" as we pass by. Foolish bird, to be talking about her prettiness to + strangers, especially as she is not a pretty Poll, though gaudily dressed + in green and yellow. If she had said, "Pretty Annie," there would have + been some sense in it. See that gray squirrel at the door of the + fruit-shop, whirling round and round so merrily within his wire wheel! + Being condemned to the treadmill, he makes it an amusement. Admirable + philosophy! + </p> + <p> + Here comes a big, rough dog, a countryman's dog in search of his master; + smelling at everybody's heels, and touching little Annie's hand with his + cold nose, but hurrying away, though she would fain have patted him. + Success to your search, Fidelity! And there sits a great yellow cat upon a + window-sill, a very corpulent and comfortable cat, gazing at this + transitory world, with owl's eyes, and making pithy comments, doubtless, + or what appear such, to the silly beast. O sage puss, make room for me + beside you, and we will be a pair of philosophers! + </p> + <p> + Here we see something to remind us of the town crier, and his ding-dong + bell! Look! look at that great cloth spread out in the air, pictured all + over with wild beasts, as if they had met together to choose a king, + according to their custom in the days of AEsop. But they are choosing + neither a king nor a president; else we should hear a most horrible + snarling! They have come from the deep woods, and the wild mountains, and + the desert sands, and the polar snows, only to do homage to my little + Annie. As we enter among them, the great elephant makes us a bow, in the + best style of elephantine courtesy, bending lowly down his mountain bulk, + with trunk abased, and leg thrust out behind. Annie returns the salute, + much to the gratification of the elephant, who is certainly the best-bred + monster in the caravan. The lion and the lioness are busy with two + beef-bones. The royal tiger, the beautiful, the untamable, keeps pacing + his narrow cage with a haughty step, unmindful of the spectators, or + recalling the fierce deeds of his former life, when he was wont to leap + forth upon such inferior animals, from the jungles of Bengal. Here we see + the very same wolf,--do not go near him, Annie!--the self-same wolf that + devoured little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother. In the next cage, a + hyena from Egypt, who has doubtless howled around the pyramids, and a + black bear from our own forests are fellow-prisoners, and most excellent + friends. Are there any two living creatures who have so few sympathies + that they cannot possibly be friends? Here sits a great white bear, whom + common observers would call a very stupid beast, though I perceive him to + be only absorbed in contemplation; he is thinking of his voyages on an + iceberg, and of his comfortable home in the vicinity of the north pole, + and of the little cubs whom he left rolling in the eternal snows. In fact, + he is a bear of sentiment. But, O, those unsentimental monkeys the ugly, + grinning, aping, chattering, ill-natured, mischievous, and queer little + brutes. Annie does not love the monkeys. Their ugliness shocks her pure, + instinctive delicacy of taste, and makes her mind unquiet, because it + bears a wild and dark resemblance to humanity. But here is a little pony, + just big enough for Annie to ride, and round and round he gallops in a + circle, keeping time with his trampling hoofs to a band of music. And + here,--with a laced coat and a cocked hat, and a riding whip in his + hand,--here comes a little gentleman, small enough to be king of the + fairies, and ugly enough to be king of the gnomes, and takes a flying leap + into the saddle. Merrily, merrily plays the music, and merrily gallops the + pony, and merrily rides the little old gentleman. Come, Annie, into the + street again; perchance we may see monkeys on horseback there! Mercy on + us, what a noisy world we quiet people live in! Did Annie ever read the + Cries of London City? With what lusty lungs doth yonder man proclaim that + his wheelbarrow is full of lobsters! Here comes another mounted on a cart, + and blowing a hoarse and dreadful blast from a tin horn, as much as to + say, "Fresh fish!" And hark! a voice on high, like that of a muezzin from + the summit of a mosque, announcing that some chimney-sweeper has emerged + from smoke and soot, and darksome caverns, into the upper air. What cares + the world for that? But, well-a-day, we hear a shrill voice of affliction, + the scream of a little child, rising louder with every repetition of that + smart, sharp, slapping sound, produced by an open hand on tender flesh. + Annie sympathizes, though without experience of such direful woe. Lo! the + town crier again, with some new secret for the public ear. Will he tell us + of an auction, or of a lost pocketbook, or a show of beautiful wax + figures, or of some monstrous beast more horrible than any in the caravan? + I guess the latter. See how he uplifts the bell in his right hand, and + shakes it slowly at first, then with a hurried motion, till the clapper + seems to strike both sides at once, and the sounds are scattered forth in + quick succession, far and near. + </p> + <p> + Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! + </p> + <p> + Now he raises his clear, loud voice, above all the din of the town; it + drowns the buzzing talk of many tongues, and draws each man's mind from + his own business; it rolls up and down the echoing street and ascends to + the hushed chamber of the sick, and penetrates downward to the cellar + kitchen, where the hot cook turns from the fire to listen. Who, of all + that address the public ear, whether in church, or court-house, or hall of + state, has such an attentive audience as the town crier? What saith the + people's orator? + </p> + <p> + "Strayed from her home, a LITTLE GIRL, of five years old, in a blue silk + frock and white pantalets, with brown curling hair and hazel eyes. Whoever + will bring her back to her afflicted mother--" + </p> + <p> + Stop, stop, town crier! The lost is found. O, my pretty Annie, we forgot + to tell your mother of our ramble, and she is in despair, and has sent the + town crier to bellow up and down the streets, afrighting old and young, + for the loss of a little girl who has not once let go my hand! Well, let + us hasten homeward; and as we go, forget not to thank Heaven, my Annie, + that, after wandering a little way into the world, you may return at the + first summons, with an untainted and unwearied heart, and be a happy child + again. But I have gone too far astray for the town crier to call me back. + </p> + <p> + Sweet has been the charm of childhood on my spirit, throughout my ramble + with little Annie! Say not that it has been a waste of precious moments, + an idle matter, a babble of childish talk, and a revery of childish + imaginations, about topics unworthy of a grown man's notice. Has it been + merely this? Not so; not so. They are not truly wise who would affirm it. + As the pure breath of children revives the life of aged men, so is our + moral nature revived by their free and simple thoughts, their native + feeling, their airy mirth, for little cause or none, their grief, soon + roused and soon allayed. Their influence on us is at least reciprocal with + ours on them. When our infancy is almost forgotten, and our boyhood long + departed, though it seems but as yesterday; when life settles darkly down + upon us, and we doubt whether to call ourselves young any more, then it is + good to steal away from the society of bearded men, and even of gentler + woman, and spend an hour or two with children. After drinking from those + fountains of still fresh existence, we shall return into the crowd, as I + do now, to struggle onward and do our part in life, perhaps as fervently + as ever, but, for a time, with a kinder and purer heart, and a spirit more + lightly wise. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Little Annie's Ramble (From "Twice Told Tales") + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Posting Date: November 27, 2010 [EBook #9202] +Release Date: November, 2005 +First Posted: August 23, 2003 +Last Updated: February 5, 2007 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE ANNIE'S RAMBLE *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + + + + + TWICE TOLD TALES + + LITTLE ANNIE'S RAMBLE + + By Nathaniel Hawthorne + + + +DING-DONG! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! + +The town crier has rung his bell, at a distant corner, and little Annie +stands on her father's doorsteps, trying to hear what the man with the +loud voice is talking about. Let me listen too. O, he is telling the +people that an elephant, and a lion, and a royal tiger, and a horse with +horns, and other strange beasts from foreign countries, have come to +town, and will receive all visitors who choose to wait upon them! +Perhaps little Annie would like to go. Yes; and I can see that the +pretty child is weary of this wide and pleasant street, with the green +trees flinging their shade across the quiet sunshine, and the pavements +and the sidewalks all as clean as if the housemaid had just swept them +with her broom. She feels that impulse to go strolling away--that +longing after the mystery of the great world--which many children feel, +and which I felt in my childhood. Little Annie shall take a ramble with +me. See! I do but hold out my hand, and, like some bright bird in the +sunny air, with her blue silk frock fluttering upwards from her white +pantalets, she comes bounding on tiptoe across the street. + +Smooth back your brown curls, Annie; and let me tie on your bonnet, and +we will set forth! What a strange couple to go on their rambles +together! One walks in black attire, with a measured step, and a heavy +brow, and his thoughtful eyes bent down, while the gay little girl trips +lightly along, as if she were forced to keep hold of my hand, lest her +feet should dance away from the earth. Yet there is sympathy between us. +If I pride myself on anything, it is because I have a smile that children +love; and, on the other hand, there are few grown ladies that could +entice me from the side of little Annie; for I delight to let my mind go +hand in hand with the mind of a sinless child. So, come, Annie; but if I +moralize as we go, do not listen to me; only look about you, and be +merry! + +Now we turn the corner. Here are hacks with two horses, and +stage-coaches with four, thundering to meet each other, and trucks and +carts moving at a slower pace, being heavily laden with barrels from the +wharves, and here are rattling gigs, which perhaps will be smashed to +pieces before our eyes. Hitherward, also, comes a man trundling a +wheelbarrow along the pavement. Is not little Annie afraid of such a +tumult? No; she does not even shrink closer to my side, but passes on +with fearless confidence, a happy child amidst a great throng of grown +people, who pay the same reverence to her infancy that they would to +extreme old age. Nobody jostles her; all turn aside to make way for +little Annie; and, what is most singular, she appears conscious of her +claim to such respect. Now her eyes brighten with pleasure! A +street-musician has seated himself on the steps of yonder church, and +pours forth his strains to the busy town, a melody that has gone astray +among the tramp of footsteps, the buzz of voices, and the war of passing +wheels. Who heeds the poor organ-grinder? None but myself and little +Annie, whose feet begin to move in unison with the lively tune, as if she +were loath that music should be wasted without a dance. But where would +Annie find a partner? Some have the gout in their toes, or the +rheumatism in their joints; some are stiff with age; some feeble with +disease; some are so lean that their bones would rattle, and others of +such ponderous size that their agility would crack the flagstones; but +many, many have leaden feet, because their hearts are far heavier than +lead. + +It is a sad thought that I have chanced upon. What a company of dancers +should we be! For I, too, am a gentleman of sober footsteps, and +therefore, little Annie, let us walk sedately on. + +It is a question with me, whether this giddy child, or my sage self, have +most pleasure in looking at the shop-windows. We love the silks of sunny +hue, that glow within the darkened premises of the spruce drygoods' men; +we are pleasantly dazzled by the burnished silver, and the chased gold, +the rings of wedlock and the costly love-ornaments, glistening at the +window of the jeweller; but Annie, more than I, seeks for a glimpse of +her passing figure in the dusty looking-glasses at the hardware stores. +All that is bright and gay attracts us both. + +Here is a shop to which the recollections of my boyhood, as well as +present partialities, give a peculiar magic. How delightful to let the +fancy revel on the dainties of a confectioner; those pies, with such +white and flaky paste, their contents being a mystery, whether rich +mince, with whole plums intermixed, or piquant apple, delicately +rose-flavored; those cakes, heart-shaped or round, piled in a lofty +pyramid; those sweet little circlets, sweetly named kisses; those dark, +majestic masses, fit to be bridal-loaves at the wedding of an heiress, +mountains in size, their summits deeply snow-covered with sugar! Then +the mighty treasures of sugar-plums, white and crimson and yellow, in +large glass vases; and candy of all varieties; and those little cockles, +or whatever they are called, much prized by children for their sweetness, +and more for the mottoes which they enclose, by love-sick maids and +bachelors! O, my mouth waters, little Annie, and so doth yours; but we +will not be tempted, except to an imaginary feast; so let us hasten +onward, devouring the vision of a plum-cake. + +Here are pleasures, as some people would say, of a more exalted kind, +in the window of a bookseller. Is Annie a literary lady? Yes; she is +deeply read in Peter Parley's tomes, and has an increasing love for +fairy-tales, though seldom met with nowadays, and she will subscribe, +next year, to the Juvenile Miscellany. But, truth to tell, she is apt to +turn away from the printed page, and keep gazing at the pretty pictures, +such as the gay-colored ones which make this shopwindow the continual +loitering-place of children. What would Annie think, if, in the book +which I mean to send her, on New Year's day, she should find her sweet +little self, bound up in silk or morocco with gilt edges, there to remain +till she become a woman grown with children of her own to read about +their mother's childhood! That would be very queer. + +Little Annie is weary of pictures, and pulls me onward by the hand, till +suddenly we pause at the most wondrous shop in all the town. O, my +stars! Is this a toy-shop, or is it fairy-land? For here are gilded +chariots, in which the king and queen of the fairies might ride side by +side, while their courtiers, on these small horses, should gallop in +triumphal procession before and behind the royal pair. Here, too, are +dishes of china-ware, fit to be the dining set of those same princely +personages, when they make a regal banquet in the stateliest ball of +their palace, full five feet high, and behold their nobles feasting adown +the long perspective of the table. Betwixt the king and queen should sit +my little Annie, the prettiest fairy of them all. Here stands a turbaned +Turk, threatening us with his sabre, like an ugly heathen as he is. And +next a Chinese mandarin, who nods his head at Annie and myself. Here we +may review a whole army of horse and foot, in red and blue uniforms, with +drums, fifes, trumpets, and all kinds of noiseless music; they have +halted on the shelf of this window, after their weary march from Liliput. +But what cares Annie for soldiers? No conquering queen is she, neither a +Semiramis nor a Catharine, her whole heart is set upon that doll, who +gazes at us with such a fashionable stare. This is the little girl's +true plaything. Though made of wood, a doll is a visionary and ethereal +personage, endowed by childish fancy with a peculiar life; the mimic lady +is a heroine of romance, an actor and a sufferer in a thousand shadowy +scenes, the chief inhabitant of that wild world with which children ape +the real one. Little Annie does not understand what I am saying, but +looks wishfully at the proud lady in the window. We will invite her home +with us as we return. Meantime, good by, Dame Doll! A toy yourself, you +look forth from your window upon many ladies that are also toys, though +they walk and speak, and upon a crowd in pursuit of toys, though they +wear grave visages. O, with your never-closing eyes, had you but an +intellect to moralize on all that flits before them, what a wise doll +would you be! Come, little Annie, we shall find toys enough, go where we +may. + +Now we elbow our way among the throng again. It is curious, in the most +crowded part of a town, to meet with living creatures that had their +birthplace in some far solitude, but have acquired a second nature in the +wilderness of men. Look up, Annie, at that canary-bird, hanging out of +the window in his cage. Poor little fellow! His golden feathers are all +tarnished in this smoky sunshine; he would have glistened twice as +brightly among the summer islands; but still he has become a citizen in +all his tastes and habits, and would not sing half so well without the +uproar that drowns his music. What a pity that he does not know how +miserable he is! There is a parrot, too, calling out, "Pretty Poll! +Pretty Poll!" as we pass by. Foolish bird, to be talking about her +prettiness to strangers, especially as she is not a pretty Poll, though +gaudily dressed in green and yellow. If she had said, "Pretty Annie," +there would have been some sense in it. See that gray squirrel at the +door of the fruit-shop, whirling round and round so merrily within his +wire wheel! Being condemned to the treadmill, he makes it an amusement. +Admirable philosophy! + +Here comes a big, rough dog, a countryman's dog in search of his master; +smelling at everybody's heels, and touching little Annie's hand with his +cold nose, but hurrying away, though she would fain have patted him. +Success to your search, Fidelity! And there sits a great yellow cat upon +a window-sill, a very corpulent and comfortable cat, gazing at this +transitory world, with owl's eyes, and making pithy comments, doubtless, +or what appear such, to the silly beast. O sage puss, make room for me +beside you, and we will be a pair of philosophers! + +Here we see something to remind us of the town crier, and his ding-dong +bell! Look! look at that great cloth spread out in the air, pictured all +over with wild beasts, as if they had met together to choose a king, +according to their custom in the days of AEsop. But they are choosing +neither a king nor a president; else we should hear a most horrible +snarling! They have come from the deep woods, and the wild mountains, +and the desert sands, and the polar snows, only to do homage to my little +Annie. As we enter among them, the great elephant makes us a bow, in the +best style of elephantine courtesy, bending lowly down his mountain bulk, +with trunk abased, and leg thrust out behind. Annie returns the salute, +much to the gratification of the elephant, who is certainly the best-bred +monster in the caravan. The lion and the lioness are busy with two +beef-bones. The royal tiger, the beautiful, the untamable, keeps pacing +his narrow cage with a haughty step, unmindful of the spectators, or +recalling the fierce deeds of his former life, when he was wont to leap +forth upon such inferior animals, from the jungles of Bengal. +Here we see the very same wolf,--do not go near him, Annie!--the +self-same wolf that devoured little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother. +In the next cage, a hyena from Egypt, who has doubtless howled around the +pyramids, and a black bear from our own forests are fellow-prisoners, and +most excellent friends. Are there any two living creatures who have so +few sympathies that they cannot possibly be friends? Here sits a great +white bear, whom common observers would call a very stupid beast, though +I perceive him to be only absorbed in contemplation; he is thinking of +his voyages on an iceberg, and of his comfortable home in the vicinity of +the north pole, and of the little cubs whom he left rolling in the +eternal snows. In fact, he is a bear of sentiment. But, O, those +unsentimental monkeys the ugly, grinning, aping, chattering, ill-natured, +mischievous, and queer little brutes. Annie does not love the monkeys. +Their ugliness shocks her pure, instinctive delicacy of taste, and makes +her mind unquiet, because it bears a wild and dark resemblance to +humanity. But here is a little pony, just big enough for Annie to ride, +and round and round he gallops in a circle, keeping time with his +trampling hoofs to a band of music. And here,--with a laced coat and a +cocked hat, and a riding whip in his hand,--here comes a little +gentleman, small enough to be king of the fairies, and ugly enough to be +king of the gnomes, and takes a flying leap into the saddle. Merrily, +merrily plays the music, and merrily gallops the pony, and merrily rides +the little old gentleman. Come, Annie, into the street again; perchance +we may see monkeys on horseback there! Mercy on us, what a noisy world +we quiet people live in! Did Annie ever read the Cries of London City? +With what lusty lungs doth yonder man proclaim that his wheelbarrow is +full of lobsters! Here comes another mounted on a cart, and blowing a +hoarse and dreadful blast from a tin horn, as much as to say, "Fresh +fish!" And hark! a voice on high, like that of a muezzin from the summit +of a mosque, announcing that some chimney-sweeper has emerged from smoke +and soot, and darksome caverns, into the upper air. What cares the world +for that? But, well-a-day, we hear a shrill voice of affliction, the +scream of a little child, rising louder with every repetition of that +smart, sharp, slapping sound, produced by an open hand on tender flesh. +Annie sympathizes, though without experience of such direful woe. Lo! +the town crier again, with some new secret for the public ear. Will he +tell us of an auction, or of a lost pocketbook, or a show of beautiful +wax figures, or of some monstrous beast more horrible than any in the +caravan? I guess the latter. See how he uplifts the bell in his right +hand, and shakes it slowly at first, then with a hurried motion, till the +clapper seems to strike both sides at once, and the sounds are scattered +forth in quick succession, far and near. + +Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! + +Now he raises his clear, loud voice, above all the din of the town; it +drowns the buzzing talk of many tongues, and draws each man's mind from +his own business; it rolls up and down the echoing street and ascends to +the hushed chamber of the sick, and penetrates downward to the cellar +kitchen, where the hot cook turns from the fire to listen. Who, of all +that address the public ear, whether in church, or court-house, or hall +of state, has such an attentive audience as the town crier? What saith +the people's orator? + +"Strayed from her home, a LITTLE GIRL, of five years old, in a blue silk +frock and white pantalets, with brown curling hair and hazel eyes. +Whoever will bring her back to her afflicted mother--" + +Stop, stop, town crier! The lost is found. O, my pretty Annie, we +forgot to tell your mother of our ramble, and she is in despair, and has +sent the town crier to bellow up and down the streets, afrighting old +and young, for the loss of a little girl who has not once let go my hand! +Well, let us hasten homeward; and as we go, forget not to thank Heaven, +my Annie, that, after wandering a little way into the world, you may +return at the first summons, with an untainted and unwearied heart, and +be a happy child again. But I have gone too far astray for the town +crier to call me back. + +Sweet has been the charm of childhood on my spirit, throughout my ramble +with little Annie! Say not that it has been a waste of precious moments, +an idle matter, a babble of childish talk, and a revery of childish +imaginations, about topics unworthy of a grown man's notice. Has it been +merely this? Not so; not so. They are not truly wise who would affirm +it. As the pure breath of children revives the life of aged men, so is +our moral nature revived by their free and simple thoughts, their native +feeling, their airy mirth, for little cause or none, their grief, soon +roused and soon allayed. Their influence on us is at least reciprocal +with ours on them. When our infancy is almost forgotten, and our boyhood +long departed, though it seems but as yesterday; when life settles darkly +down upon us, and we doubt whether to call ourselves young any more, then +it is good to steal away from the society of bearded men, and even of +gentler woman, and spend an hour or two with children. After drinking +from those fountains of still fresh existence, we shall return into the +crowd, as I do now, to struggle onward and do our part in life, perhaps +as fervently as ever, but, for a time, with a kinder and purer heart, and +a spirit more lightly wise. 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Ding-dong! + +The town crier has rung his bell, at a distant corner, and little Annie +stands on her father's doorsteps, trying to hear what the man with the +loud voice is talking about. Let me listen too. O, he is telling the +people that an elephant, and a lion, and a royal tiger, and a horse with +horns, and other strange beasts from foreign countries, have come to +town, and will receive all visitors who choose to wait upon them! +Perhaps little Annie would like to go. Yes; and I can see that the +pretty child is weary of this wide and pleasant street, with the green +trees flinging their shade across the quiet sunshine, and the pavements +and the sidewalks all as clean as if the housemaid had just swept them +with her broom. She feels that impulse to go strolling away--that +longing after the mystery of the great world--which many children feel, +and which I felt in my childhood. Little Annie shall take a ramble with +me. See! I do but hold out my hand, and, like some bright bird in the +sunny air, with her blue silk frock fluttering upwards from her white +pantalets, she comes bounding on tiptoe across the street. + +Smooth back your brown curls, Annie; and let me tie on your bonnet, and +we will set forth! What a strange couple to go on their rambles +together! One walks in black attire, with a measured step, and a heavy +brow, and his thoughtful eyes bent down, while the gay little girl trips +lightly along, as if she were forced to keep hold of my hand, lest her +feet should dance away from the earth. Yet there is sympathy between us. +If I pride myself on anything, it is because I have a smile that children +love; and, on the other hand, there are few grown ladies that could +entice me from the side of little Annie; for I delight to let my mind go +hand in hand with the mind of a sinless child. So, come, Annie; but if I +moralize as we go, do not listen to me; only look about you, and be +merry! + +Now we turn the corner. Here are hacks with two horses, and stage- +coaches with four, thundering to meet each other, and trucks and carts +moving at a slower pace, being heavily laden with barrels from the +wharves, and here are rattling gigs, which perhaps will be smashed to +pieces before our eyes. Hitherward, also, comes a man trundling a +wheelbarrow along the pavement. Is not little Annie afraid of such a +tumult? No; she does not even shrink closer to my side, but passes on +with fearless confidence, a happy child amidst a great throng of grown +people, who pay the same reverence to her infancy that they would to +extreme old age. Nobody jostles her; all turn aside to make way for +little Annie; and, what is most singular, she appears conscious of her +claim to such respect. Now her eyes brighten with pleasure! A street- +musician has seated himself on the steps of yonder church, and pours +forth his strains to the busy town, a melody that has gone astray among +the tramp of footsteps, the buzz of voices, and the war of passing +wheels. Who heeds the poor organ-grinder? None but myself and little +Annie, whose feet begin to move in unison with the lively tune, as if she +were loath that music should be wasted without a dance. But where would +Annie find a partner? Some have the gout in their toes, or the +rheumatism in their joints; some are stiff with age; some feeble with +disease; some are so lean that their bones would rattle, and others of +such ponderous size that their agility would crack the flagstones; but +many, many have leaden feet, because their hearts are far heavier than +lead. + +It is a sad thought that I have chanced upon. What a company of dancers +should we be! For I, too, am a gentleman of sober footsteps, and +therefore, little Annie, let us walk sedately on. + +It is a question with me, whether this giddy child, or my sage self, have +most pleasure in looking at the shop-windows. We love the silks of sunny +hue, that glow within the darkened premises of the spruce drygoods' men; +we are pleasantly dazzled by the burnished silver, and the chased gold, +the rings of wedlock and the costly love-ornaments, glistening at the +window of the jeweller; but Annie, more than I, seeks for a glimpse of +her passing figure in the dusty looking-glasses at the hardware stores. +All that is bright and gay attracts us both. + +Here is a shop to which the recollections of my boyhood, as well as +present partialities, give a peculiar magic. How delightful to let the +fancy revel on the dainties of a confectioner; those pies, with such +white and flaky paste, their contents being a mystery, whether rich +mince, with whole plums intermixed, or piquant apple, delicately rose- +flavored; those cakes, heart-shaped or round, piled in a lofty pyramid; +those sweet little circlets, sweetly named kisses; those dark, majestic +masses, fit to be bridal-loaves at the wedding of an heiress, mountains +in size, their summits deeply snow-covered with sugar! Then the mighty +treasures of sugar-plums, white and crimson and yellow, in large glass +vases; and candy of all varieties; and those little cockles, or whatever +they are called, much prized by children for their sweetness, and more +for the mottoes which they enclose, by love-sick maids and bachelors! +O, my mouth waters, little Annie, and so doth yours; but we will not be +tempted, except to an imaginary feast; so let us hasten onward, devouring +the vision of a plum-cake. + +Here are pleasures, as some people would say, of a more exalted kind, +in the window of a bookseller. Is Annie a literary lady? Yes; she is +deeply read in Peter Parley's tomes, and has an increasing love for +fairy-tales, though seldom met with nowadays, and she will subscribe, +next year, to the Juvenile Miscellany. But, truth to tell, she is apt to +turn away from the printed page, and keep gazing at the pretty pictures, +such as the gay-colored ones which make this shopwindow the continual +loitering-place of children. What would Annie think, if, in the book +which I mean to send her, on New Year's day, she should find her sweet +little self, bound up in silk or morocco with gilt edges, there to remain +till she become a woman grown with children of her own to read about +their mother's childhood! That would be very queer. + +Little Annie is weary of pictures, and pulls me onward by the hand, till +suddenly we pause at the most wondrous shop in all the town. O, my +stars! Is this a toy-shop, or is it fairy-land? For here are gilded +chariots, in which the king and queen of the fairies might ride side by +side, while their courtiers, on these small horses, should gallop in +triumphal procession before and behind the royal pair. Here, too, are +dishes of china-ware, fit to be the dining set of those same princely +personages, when they make a regal banquet in the stateliest ball of +their palace, full five feet high, and behold their nobles feasting adown +the long perspective of the table. Betwixt the king and queen should sit +my little Annie, the prettiest fairy of them all. Here stands a turbaned +Turk, threatening us with his sabre, like an ugly heathen as he is. And +next a Chinese mandarin, who nods his head at Annie and myself. Here we +may review a whole army of horse and foot, in red and blue uniforms, with +drums, fifes, trumpets, and all kinds of noiseless music; they have +halted on the shelf of this window, after their weary march from Liliput. +But what cares Annie for soldiers? No conquering queen is she, neither a +Semiramis nor a Catharine, her whole heart is set upon that doll, who +gazes at us with such a fashionable stare. This is the little girl's +true plaything. Though made of wood, a doll is a visionary and ethereal +personage, endowed by childish fancy with a peculiar life; the mimic lady +is a heroine of romance, an actor and a sufferer in a thousand shadowy +scenes, the chief inhabitant of that wild world with which children ape +the real one. Little Annie does not understand what I am saying, but +looks wishfully at the proud lady in the window. We will invite her home +with us as we return. Meantime, good by, Dame Doll! A toy yourself, you +look forth from your window upon many ladies that are also toys, though +they walk and speak, and upon a crowd in pursuit of toys, though they +wear grave visages. O, with your never-closing eyes, had you but an +intellect to moralize on all that flits before them, what a wise doll +would you be! Come, little Annie, we shall find toys enough, go where we +may. + +Now we elbow our way among the throng again. It is curious, in the most +crowded part of a town, to meet with living creatures that had their +birthplace in some far solitude, but have acquired a second nature in the +wilderness of men. Look up, Annie, at that canary-bird, hanging out of +the window in his cage. Poor little fellow! His golden feathers are all +tarnished in this smoky sunshine; he would have glistened twice as +brightly among the summer islands; but still he has become a citizen in +all his tastes and habits, and would not sing half so well without the +uproar that drowns his music. What a pity that he does not know how +miserable he is! There is a parrot, too, calling out, "Pretty Poll! +Pretty Poll!" as we pass by. Foolish bird, to be talking about her +prettiness to strangers, especially as she is not a pretty Poll, though +gaudily dressed in green and yellow. If she had said, "Pretty Annie," +there would have been some sense in it. See that gray squirrel at the +door of the fruit-shop, whirling round and round so merrily within his +wire wheel! Being condemned to the treadmill, he makes it an amusement. +Admirable philosophy! + +Here comes a big, rough dog, a countryman's dog in search of his master; +smelling at everybody's heels, and touching little Annie's hand with his +cold nose, but hurrying away, though she would fain have patted him. +Success to your search, Fidelity! And there sits a great yellow cat upon +a window-sill, a very corpulent and comfortable cat, gazing at this +transitory world, with owl's eyes, and making pithy comments, doubtless, +or what appear such, to the silly beast. O sage puss, make room for me +beside you, and we will be a pair of philosophers! + +Here we see something to remind us of the town crier, and his ding-dong +bell! Look! look at that great cloth spread out in the air, pictured all +over with wild beasts, as if they had met together to choose a king, +according to their custom in the days of AEsop. But they are choosing +neither a king nor a president; else we should hear a most horrible +snarling! They have come from the deep woods, and the wild mountains, +and the desert sands, and the polar snows, only to do homage to my little +Annie. As we enter among them, the great elephant makes us a bow, in the +best style of elephantine courtesy, bending lowly down his mountain bulk, +with trunk abased, and leg thrust out behind. Annie returns the salute, +much to the gratification of the elephant, who is certainly the best-bred +monster in the caravan. The lion and the lioness are busy with two beef- +bones. The royal tiger, the beautiful, the untamable, keeps pacing his +narrow cage with a haughty step, unmindful of the spectators, or +recalling the fierce deeds of his former life, when he was wont to leap +forth upon such inferior animals, from the jungles of Bengal. +Here we see the very same wolf,--do not go near him, Annie!--the self- +same wolf that devoured little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother. In +the next cage, a hyena from Egypt, who has doubtless howled around the +pyramids, and a black bear from our own forests are fellow-prisoners, and +most excellent friends. Are there any two living creatures who have so +few sympathies that they cannot possibly be friends? Here sits a great +white bear, whom common observers would call a very stupid beast, though +I perceive him to be only absorbed in contemplation; he is thinking of +his voyages on an iceberg, and of his comfortable home in the vicinity of +the north pole, and of the little cubs whom he left rolling in the +eternal snows. In fact, he is a bear of sentiment. But, O, those +unsentimental monkeys the ugly, grinning, aping, chattering, ill-natured, +mischievous, and queer little brutes. Annie does not love the monkeys. +Their ugliness shocks her pure, instinctive delicacy of taste, and makes +her mind unquiet, because it bears a wild and dark resemblance to +humanity. But here is a little pony, just big enough for Annie to ride, +and round and round he gallops in a circle, keeping time with his +trampling hoofs to a band of music. And here,--with a laced coat and a +cocked hat, and a riding whip in his hand,--here comes a little +gentleman, small enough to be king of the fairies, and ugly enough to be +king of the gnomes, and takes a flying leap into the saddle. Merrily, +merrily plays the music, and merrily gallops the pony, and merrily rides +the little old gentleman. Come, Annie, into the street again; perchance +we may see monkeys on horseback there! Mercy on us, what a noisy world +we quiet people live in! Did Annie ever read the Cries of London City? +With what lusty lungs doth yonder man proclaim that his wheelbarrow is +full of lobsters! Here comes another mounted on a cart, and blowing a +hoarse and dreadful blast from a tin horn, as much as to say, "Fresh +fish!" And hark! a voice on high, like that of a muezzin from the summit +of a mosque, announcing that some chimney-sweeper has emerged from smoke +and soot, and darksome caverns, into the upper air. What cares the world +for that? But, well-a-day, we hear a shrill voice of affliction, the +scream of a little child, rising louder with every repetition of that +smart, sharp, slapping sound, produced by an open hand on tender flesh. +Annie sympathizes, though without experience of such direful woe. Lo! +the town crier again, with some new secret for the public ear. Will he +tell us of an auction, or of a lost pocketbook, or a show of beautiful +wax figures, or of some monstrous beast more horrible than any in the +caravan? I guess the latter. See how he uplifts the bell in his right +hand, and shakes it slowly at first, then with a hurried motion, till the +clapper seems to strike both sides at once, and the sounds are scattered +forth in quick succession, far and near. + +Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! + +Now he raises his clear, loud voice, above all the din of the town; it +drowns the buzzing talk of many tongues, and draws each man's mind from +his own business; it rolls up and down the echoing street and ascends to +the hushed chamber of the sick, and penetrates downward to the cellar +kitchen, where the hot cook turns from the fire to listen. Who, of all +that address the public ear, whether in church, or court-house, or hall +of state, has such an attentive audience as the town crier? What saith +the people's orator? + +"Strayed from her home, a LITTLE GIRL, of five years old, in a blue silk +frock and white pantalets, with brown curling hair and hazel eyes. +Whoever will bring her back to her afflicted mother--" + +Stop, stop, town crier! The lost is found. O, my pretty Annie, we +forgot to tell your mother of our ramble, and she is in despair, and has +sent the town crier to bellow up and down the streets, afrighting old +and young, for the loss of a little girl who has not once let go my hand! +Well, let us hasten homeward; and as we go, forget not to thank Heaven, +my Annie, that, after wandering a little way into the world, you may +return at the first summons, with an untainted and unwearied heart, and +be a happy child again. But I have gone too far astray for the town +crier to call me back. + +Sweet has been the charm of childhood on my spirit, throughout my ramble +with little Annie! Say not that it has been a waste of precious moments, +an idle matter, a babble of childish talk, and a revery of childish +imaginations, about topics unworthy of a grown man's notice. Has it been +merely this? Not so; not so. They are not truly wise who would affirm +it. As the pure breath of children revives the life of aged men, so is +our moral nature revived by their free and simple thoughts, their native +feeling, their airy mirth, for little cause or none, their grief, soon +roused and soon allayed. Their influence on us is at least reciprocal +with ours on them. When our infancy is almost forgotten, and our boyhood +long departed, though it seems but as yesterday; when life settles darkly +down upon us, and we doubt whether to call ourselves young any more, then +it is good to steal away from the society of bearded men, and even of +gentler woman, and spend an hour or two with children. After drinking +from those fountains of still fresh existence, we shall return into the +crowd, as I do now, to struggle onward and do our part in life, perhaps +as fervently as ever, but, for a time, with a kinder and purer heart, and +a spirit more lightly wise. 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