Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-22

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Oere de tree Of lite is bloomin',
All de hosts am passin' by.
Raise me up, hear de rustlin',
Angels at de cabin do;
Don't you weep for poor ole nanny,
She won't never grieve no mo-.
Little by Little.
II can never do it!'
Eyes, but you can
1T is too large and hard, and has
trees
"That makes no difference
But it does, indeed, SIR" said Ma
rion, half yexed.
"You want it for New.ycar's gift!'
"Yes, SIR
For your father, you told ME, be-
level"
Eyes; l thought it would please
him.
Then tell me; if it is no trouble to
do. is little and does not amount to
anything, what will he care for it!''
"Oh, | don't know, Mr.. Damescino;
but like little easy sketches; cannot
do sucL a large one; it is so complicat.
ed; it is pretty, but too difficult"
ut is pretty, you Think"
ooh, yes, it is more; it is beautiful,
but too fne for me to do
Enough! Who is naster!"
''You, Mr.. Damescino;' and Marion
laughed.
''You like the picture, but it is too
large and complicated; you are afraid
you cannot get through with it!'
Eyes. SIR
"Then it is settled. You will not
miss, draw the whole picture at once
but will do a line at a time-a portion,
day after day. You can draw house!''
''Yes.''
"And treesl''
"Ithink so.'
And you can draw horse and
cart!
"If try think I cam
''Then you can keep the picture.
You will not do it all in a day but by
doing little each day, in its proper
place, and doing it we'll, the whole
will make a picture fit for father
New Years gift"
Marion looked incredulously at the
picture, as she set to work and com.
planned:
at will take me year to do it,
"No, it will not take you a year ;
and suppose it did would it not be
better to have beautiful picture at
the end of that time than to have done
a tree on one slip Of paper, house on
on another and horse in cart on
another! Great pictures are brought
to beauty by touch at time. TO
look at task ar d count over its diff.
culties is to be discouraged in the be.
ginning; but to take hold and make
the first line, and meet the difficulties
as they come. one at q time, is to in.
sure success
So Marion measured and looked,
and thought only about the lines
of the house, with its pretty odd ga
bles, and tried to forget that there
were many other things to look at
a wilderness of other work to do and
when the first days lesson was over,
enough o. the outlines was on the
card board to give fair promise of finish
afterward.
ut is too bad - said Marion to
mamma, after Mr.. Damescino had
bowed himself out of the room "he
thinks he is so wise, and that can do
just what he says. Look here, mamma;
he has brought me a picture big
enough for an artist to do, and with
work enough to last year. I only
wanted little sketch to give papa at
New Year."
''New Year is great way off ; and,
you know perseverance does great
things. The picture is very beauti-
ful one.''
"Oh, yes, mamma, like it f; but
cannot do it. I cannot do it!''
"'Cannot' does not seem to me quite
the right word maybe you mean will
not"
mamma! do you think me perverse
enough for that -
"No; and l expect to see your draw.
ing in pretty frame, with papa point.
ing it out, among his other treasures,
as Marion's picture"
do you think he would like it q
She smiled, and stood regarding it
with an air of half.pleased uncer
tainty.
~ will do it, anyhow. Mr.. Danes.
elmo says by thinking about and work.
ing at only a little spot at a time, it
will grow, almost without my know
ing it, to be pretty picture"
So, little at a time, trying to forget
the greatness of the big task before
her, Marion worked away-sometimes
during lesson hour, sometimes alone
often getting tired, but as often get
ting refreshed. so when autumn
crimsoned the leaves, and winter drift.
ed its first snow, Marion's picture was
beautiful; and when, at New Year,
papa saw the finished work of 80 many
months, and heard how it had been
done-nOt by groaning over the whole,
but by thinking about each part in its
turn-he felt not only pleasure in his
daughters triumph, in completing
such beautiful picture, but the ad.
diti0nal pleasure given by the realiza-
ton of the lesson abe had learned in
triumphing over difficulties of life, in
all their varieties; for it is by con-
quering obstacles little at time that
all obstacles are overcome.
Marion stood on New Years Day
among her fathers choice pictures, her
hands behind her and her eyes on the
fruits of her labor, her face bearing
the impress Of the high resolves stri.
ring at her heart and the words upon
her lips, as she thought of tho works
she had accomplished. were:
II will never again say cannot ;
for it seems to me, now, that, little by
little, almost anything can be accom-.
plished; and it Is, 20 pleasant to per-
severe and to conquer
The Post ONCE Patronage.
Postmaster General Key, In reply to
letter from Senator Merrimon. asking
for information in relation to the dis.