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"He looks just like an angel," said the
Charity Children as they came out of the
cathedral in their bright scarlet cloaks and
their clean white pinafores.
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THE HAPPY PRINCE
one of the Town Councillors who wished to
gain a reputation for having artistic tastes; "only not quite so useful," he added, fearing lest people should think him unpractical, which he really was not.
"Why can't you be like the Happy Prince?" asked a sensible mother of her little boy who was crying for the moon. "The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything."
"I am glad there is some one in the world who is quite happy," muttered a disappointed man as he gazed at the wonderful statue.
"How do you know?" said the Mathematical Master, "you have never seen one."
"Ah! but we have, in our dreams," answered
the children; and the Mathematical
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