Excerpt from Influence, or the Evil Genius

Two lads were skating on that little streamlet, and on the plank stood a little girl, watching them, and as the taller, by some awkward slide, lost his foot ing, and fell, she clapped her little hands and laughed loudly.

The boy rose, and raising a pair of magnificent dark eyes to the pretty laughing face looking down on him, said, somewhat pettishly, Thank you, Ethel 3 I might have been very much hurt.

But you weren't, you know, said the little maiden, laughing again, and you looked so funny, I could not help laughing. But I wouldn't if you had been hurt, would I, Cyril? She asked of the other boy, who skated towards them.

N C, that you wouldn't, you're the kindest little darling I ever saw.

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