Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — A Child’s Version. [ARTICLE]

A Child’s Version.

The idea presented to a child’s mind by a word which he thinks he under- ; stands, though its meaning has never 1 been explained to him, is often quite 1 foreign to anything which the dictionary has to offer. “ ‘The wind bloweth where it listeth,’ ” read the Sunday-school teacher to her class of little girls. “Do any es you know what ‘listeth’ means?" The children, with one exception, shook their heads. The exception was an 8-year-old, flaxen-haired girl, who after a moment’s reflection said, eagerly , “I know!” “You may tell us, then," said the teacher, encouragingly. “I’m afraid,” said the little girl, in a dubious tone, “that I can’t make the rest of them understand,, for they haven’t any grandpas in the country, same as I have. But there’s always a strip on the bottom of frontdoors in the country that grandpa told me was ‘list;’ and If you could just feel the wind blow in under that door once," said the child in a tone of conviction, addressing the rest of the class, “you’d know what ! that verse meant in a minute!”