` Will you allow me to ask if the other statues in the city fly by night ? ' ` They promenade in the parks ; and occasionally have social gatherings , when they discuss politics , education , medicine , or any of the subjects in which they are interested . Ah ! we have grand times when you are all asleep . It quite repays me for being obliged to make an owl of myself . ' ` Do the statues come from the shops to these parties ? ' I asked , resolving to take a late walk the next moonlight night . ` Sometimes ; but they get lazy and delicate , living in close , warm places . We laugh at cold and bad weather , and are so strong and hearty that I should n't be surprised if I saw Webster and Everett flying round the Common on the new-fashioned velocipedes , for they believed in exercise . Goethe and Schiller often step over from De Vries 's window , to flirt with the goddesses , who come down from their niches on Horticultural Hall . Nice , robust young women are Pomona and Flora . If your niminy-piminy girls could see them run , they would stop tilting through the streets , and learn that the true Grecian Bend is the line of beauty always found in straight shoulders , well-opened chest , and an upright figure , firmly planted on active feet . ' ` In your rambles do n't you find a great deal of misery ? ' said I , to change the subject , for he was evidently old-fashioned in his notions . ` Many sad sights ! ' And he shook his head with a sigh ; then added , briskly , ` But there is a deal of charity in our city , and it does its work beautifully . By the by , I heard of a very sweet charity the other day , -- a church whose Sunday school is open to all the poor children who will come ; and there , in pleasant rooms , with books , pictures , kindly teachers , and a fatherly minister to welcome them , the poor little creatures find refreshment for their hungry souls . I like that ; it 's a lovely illustration of the text , `` Suffer little children to come unto me ; '' and I call it practical Christianity . ' He did like it , my benevolent old bird ; for he rustled his great wings , as if he wanted to clap them , if there had only been room ; and every feather shone as if a clearer light than that of my little fire had fallen on it as he spoke . ` You are a literary woman , hey ? '
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