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seeing paper burnt, because it sends up such pretty 
flames, and so many red sparks are afterwards seen 
twinkling in the ashes, and popping out, one after the 
other, so fast—so very fast. They called it « looking 
at the boys coming out of school ”; and the last 
spark was the schoolmaster. They often thought hg 
had gone by, but then another spark would appear. 
“There goes the schoolmaster,” would they say. Ay, 
a deal they knew about it! If they had but dreamed 
who was going by! We know who, but they did 
not. 
The whole hundle of old paper was placed on the 
fire, and it soon kindled, « UR 1” cried the paper, ag 
it flared up—¢“ Uh!” Tt was not very agreeable to 
burn ; but when the whole had caught fire, the flameg 
rose higher than the flax had ever seen his little 
flowers shoot up, and glittered as the white linen 
would never have been able to glitter. At one mo. 
ment, all the written letters turned fiercely red, and 
the words and thoughts were presently consumed by 
the flames. “Now I’m in gq fair way to rise up to the 
sun,” said the paper, in the midst of the flames ; and 
it was as if a thousand voices had spoken these words 
all in a breath, and the flames darted up to the top of 
the chimney. *~ And then Swarm of little beings, as 
many in number as the flowers of the flax had been, 
more delicate than the flames, and invisible to mortal 
eyes, fell down in showers, and kept hovering about. 
They were lighter than the flames of which they were 
born; and when the latter were extinguished, and 
nothing remained of the paper but its black ashes, 
they danced over jt once more; and where they 
touched it, they fired a train of red sparks. “ The 
children came out of school, and the schoolmaster was 
the last,” said the little folks ; and they were in high 
glee, as they Sang’ over the dead ashes :— 
“ Heigh ho! 
There they go— 
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