Very Short Stories And Verses For Children

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</SPAN></span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2><SPAN name="WAR" id="WAR"></SPAN>WAR.</h2> <p>"I don't like you," said he, in a rage.</p> <p>"You are a naughty boy," said she, crossly.</p> <p>"I shall never speak to you again."</p> <p>"I shall never play with you any more."</p> <p>"I don't care."</p> <p>"And I don't care."</p> <p>"I shall tell of you."</p> <p>"All right. I shall tell of you."</p> <p>"Nasty mean thing to threaten."</p> <p>"You threatened first."</p> <p>"Nasty, disagreeable thing."</p> <p>"Ugly, unkind boy." Then they turned back to back, and stood sulking. He put his hands into his pockets, and she sucked her finger.</p> <p>"That's the worst of a girl," thought he; "I shan't give in."</p> <p>"I can't bear boys," thought she; "and I won't make it up to-day."</p> <p>"We might have had good fun all this afternoon if she hadn't been so silly," he thought presently.</p> <p>"It would have been so nice if he hadn't been disagreeable," she thought after a bit. Then he began to fidget and to kick the floor a little with one foot, and she began to cry and to wipe her tears away very softly and quickly, so that he might not see them.</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />