"I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, "Children, you must not make so much noise," that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them."
Child mortality

January 1, 1970

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Abbott Eliot Kittredge, p. 51.

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