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Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 63, January, 1863
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Title: Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 63, January, 1863 A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics
Author: Various
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A MAGAZINE OF
LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.
VOL. XI.--JANUARY, 1863.--NO. LXIII.
HAPPIEST DAYS.
Long ago, when you were a little boy or a little girl,--perhaps not so very long ago, either,--were you never interrupted in your play by being called in to have your face washed, your hair combed, and your soiled apron exchanged for a clean one, preparatory to an introduction to Mrs. Smith, or Dr. Jones, or Aunt Judkins, your mother's early friend? And after being ushered in to that august presence, and made to face a battery of questions which were either above or below your capacity, and which you consequently despised as trash or resented as insult, did you not, as you were gleefully vanishing, hear a soft sigh breathed out upon the air,--"Dear child, he is seeing his happiest days"? In the concrete, it was Mrs. Smith or Dr. Jones speaking of you. Bu