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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

32 LIFE IN THE MAKING simple, but they are stories. With the ability to listen to stories comes the desire to have them told. If you have observed young children at play, you will recall how imaginative they are. One day when Kendall, who was five, was at his play a neighbor stopped to chat with him. As they talked the woman stepped quite close to some sticks and stones with which the child had been playing. Immediately he became quite excited and said : "Oh, now your feet are all wet. You are walking right in the Niagara River." This sort of pretending is quite to be ex­pected from children at this time. Because of his love of pretending the Beginner revels in fairy tales. He likes to be told such stories and frequently ven­tures to tell one of his own imagining. Learning to Tell the Truth. Two mothers were dis­cussing household affairs. The conversation hap­pened to turn to the subject of mice. The one woman remarked that since she had moved to her new home she had not seen a mouse. Immediately her small son, who was amusing himself

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