When half grown they are serious,
sober women.—They dance and sing,
and smile, and simper methodically.
They walk on stilts, or dance with evi
dent constraint, and by-and-by we ex
pect they will not dance at all. V e
expect soon to see the little beings,
with eyes fixed alone on their
neighbor’s deficiencies. Ah! how
wrong to check the buoyancy, the ex
hileration,-the joyous outbreak of these
young creatures whether it be in romp
ing, or running, or dancing, and wheth
the dancing be to the music of their
own voices, of the piano, of the violin,
of the harp, or the tabret, or of a Ger
man band, if providentially they might
pick one up for love or money.
