she is just like themselves.

* * * * *

The wife cried. The husband took her by the shoulders and shook her,
and she stopped crying.

* * * * *

After his marriage everything--politics, literature, society--did not
seem to him as interesting as they had before; but now every trifle
concerning his wife and child became a most important matter.

* * * * *

"Why are thy songs so short?" a bird was once asked. "Is it because
thou art short of breath?"

"I have very many songs and I should like to sing them all."

(A. Daudet.)

* * * * *

The dog hates the teacher; they tell it not to bark at him; it looks,
does not bark, only whimpers with rage.

* * * * *

Faith is a spiritual faculty; animals have not got it; savages and