JANUARY AND JUNE - 1834 - A LITTLE Prehce to a little Book is a jewel so these random sketches are not portionless. Some body has declared that water runneth by the Mill, the Miller wots not of and, for proof thereof, 10 here a little, caught in the hollow of ones hand. Not enough, indeed, to turn a wheel, but to quench, may-be, a roses or a robins thirst to baptize an infant love of Nature to sparkle in dews, on opening leaves of Thought. Hark says the mother, as she soothes the restless child. Now, Nature is the mother, a d I-the child. jfirst part . PAOE Life ............................................. 12 A Mystery ....................................... 16 Pumpkins and Enterprise .......................... 1 7 Death .......................................... 18 Our Folks. ..................................... 22 Jemelry ......................................... 30 Finished ......................................... 34 Bugs and Beauties ............................... 37 Ploughshares and Elorrows ......................... 41 Our Defences ..................................... 44 Digging for a Subject. ........................... 60 Railway Magic ................................... 57 Fourth of July ................................... 64 It Rains ......................................... 69 Movements ..................................... 5 6 Hendom .............................. .... . 84 Chicken Pie ...................................... 91 viii COXTENTS Happiness at Cost. ............................... A 9 M 5 Aerial Rehearaal .................................. 97 Domestic Enchantment ............................ 100 An Unscientific Chat about llusic .................... 101 The Wind and the Night ........................... 115 The Stage is Coming. ............................ 121 A Summer Day in Haying ......................... 127 The Last Rose of Summer .......................... 139 Fall ............................................. 1 43 Indian Summer ................................... 148 And Such a Change. ............................. 163 The Old Times and the New ..................... 167 Queer Estimates ................................. 160 A Voice from the Past ............................. 164 Waiting ......................................... 166 l N o Room for Two. ............................ 1 . 7 0 The Grammar of Life ............................. 1 12 Dont Forget .................................... l80 Blessed Almanacs .. W........................... 1 . 8 . 3 . . The Wonders of Galena. ......................... 186 The Okl-fa hioned Fire ............................ 188 CONTENTS. k Presto I Chnnge l ................................. P 1 A 9 G 1 E Voices of the Dead ............................... 1 95 Thanksgiving ...................................... 202 The Old Garret ................................... 206 A Half-hour at the Window ....................... t 210 Our Pnper ....................................... 220 Riding on a Rail .................................. 242 Winter Nights .................................... 249 The Laat of Ten ................................. 262 ................................. a Shadows we are 266 Time Indicted .................................... 26 1 The Old-fashioned Mother ......................... 2 12 The Dying Musician ............................... 2 79 June Dews ....................................