dark little girls moving about in the crowd.  It was impossible not to seen them, for they could not keep still a moment.  They were here, there, and everywhere, playing hide-and-seek and skipping and racing wherever they could find an opening, and by and by, taking hold of each other, they started dancing.  It was a pretty spectacle, but most interesting to see was the effect produced on the other children, the hundred girls, big and little, the little ones especially, who had been standing there tired and impatient to get out to the sea, and who were now becoming more and more excited as they gazed, until, like children when listening to lively music, they began moving feet and hands and soon their whole bodies in time to the swift movements of the little dancers.  At last, plucking up courage, first one, then another, joined them, and were caught as they came and whirled round and round in a manner quite new to them and which they appeared to find very delightful.  By and by I observed that the little rosy-faced dumpy girl on my neighbour’s knees was taking the infection; she was staring, her blue eyes opened to their widest in wonder and delight.  Then suddenly she began pleading, “Oh, mummy, do let me go to the little girls—­oh, do let me!” And her mother said “No,” because she was so little, and could never fly round like that, and so would fall and hurt herself and cry.  But she pleaded still, and was ready to cry if refused, until the good anxious mother was compelled to release her; and down she slipped, and after standing still with her little arms and closed hands held up as if to collect herself before plunging into the new tremendous adventure, she rushed out towards the dancers.  One of them saw her coming, and instantly quitting the child she was waltzing with flew to meet her, and catching her round the middle began spinning her about as if the solid little thing weighed no more than a feather.  But it proved too much for her; very soon she came down and broke into a loud cry, which brought her mother instantly to her, and she was picked up and taken back to the seat and held to the broad bosom and soothed with caresses and tender words until the sobs began to subside.  Then, even before the tears were dry, her eyes were once more gazing at the tireless little dancers, taking on child after child as they came timidly forward to have a share in the fun, and once more she began to plead with her “mummy,” and would not be denied, for she was a most determined little Saxon, until getting her way she rushed out for a second trial.  Again the little dancer saw her coming and flew to her like a bird to its mate, and clasping her laughed her merry musical little laugh.  It was her “sudden glory,” an expression of pure delight in her power to infuse her own fire and boundless gaiety of soul into all these little blue-eyed rosy phlegmatic lumps of humanity.