Only dolls are allowed to live in an area and at a time different from ours, not devoid of rules and customs, of course, but different ... Their time is marked by our desires, our imagination, and that's why spying through the windows of their house makes us so curious and excited.
To see a happy child in the face of new toys, we should not necessarily wait for the morning of December 25 ...
course, this child seems a little different from modern children: despite having only four years, Edward is already well educated with good manners of his time and boring, so here it is, sailor suit, as is proper, sitting among the toys on the living room floor.
on his face serious and difficult to read all the happiness for being admitted into a room normally closed to its games, but today is Christmas, and how hard the practices are any exception!
Off-screen, somewhere behind him, his voice calm but firm Miss Brum the nurse's Points should not in any way annoying, while in the presence of parents who observe with affectionate restraint.
Nor is given to them to express too openly that this scene arouses tender feelings in their hearts, in the mistaken belief that children need more rigor and discipline of sweet effusions.
However, the pride in seeing how beautiful and well educated!
Mrs. R. loves to see him dressed as Little Lord Fauntleroy that, since 1886, has become the model of the perfect child for many mothers of Victorian times: today surely disapprove all along the line leather boots, skirt, jacket and tight the big lace collar, but then the rules were very different teaching and the practice was undoubtedly subdued elegance with a taste for formal and codified, even when it came to children's clothing ...
Edward sits so composed and quiet, among the new toys and regret what we feel today, in admiring these poetic testimony of a now vanished world of childhood: to pull the lamb The trumpet, the cubes with the alphabet ... 
But these are hardly the only surprise of the day for little Edward. In the living room are shown
of himself and maybe even some sweets, in defiance of the strict diet, do not touch the taste of someone ...
Now we must again say goodbye to our family and close the doors of the house because the real life dolls and pressed impatiently: it's nearly Christmas for us, and there is much to be done, there is no time for toys ...
Wake up! Wake Up! now we are great and there's no time to dream.
Or does it?
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