The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-08

was occasionally launched and followed
here and there with shouts, rs the wind
made it bow to the water, and sent it
on long voyages from shore to shore.
And then the lessons in rowing, the
awkwardness laughed at and enjoyed,
the most adventurous chap of the gay
party tied to the boat for fear that in
some sudden transport of delight he
might 60 to make closer acquaintance
with the fishes; these, and more beside,
made incidents enough to cause that
day to be remembered to one, at least,
forever.
The pleasant holiday passed, other
incidents and individuals came to make
life and home pleasant. There was
Rover, the great, affectionate Newfound-
land dog, who almost lived in the
water, who used always to insist on q
pleasant swim with his constant play :
mates, the boys; and there was, for a
time, Jock, a smaller canine, who one
day, running from what seemed an i'm
pending conflict with another and
smaller cur, called forth the indignant
comment on his cowardice from his
owner, little Alice, that "Jock wasn't
brave specN" Then there was the
old black pony-another famous insti-
tution-who, however dreadfully snap
pish and threatening to his tormentors,
seemed to take it as something fatea,
something he must submit to, to have
two or three. young girls all at once on
his back, and one or two more running
alongside, urging him to what he
seemed to demonstrate against with
leveled ears, as indiscreet speed, which
might endanger his precious load.
Such is our new home and its sur
roundings in the great Northwest. Ad-
Joining Crystal springs, and close by
the beautiful lake, with cranberry
marshes within q few hundred feet Of
the dwelling, yet "miasma," as in SINH
lar situations further south, is thing
unknown, and ruddy cheeks and "rous-
ing appetites" with the youngsters are
the rule and not the exception now.
Climbing the hill near by-a two-min-
utes' walk-the view thence takes in the
steeples of the great town a few miles
away, the wooded hills and the prairies
intervening, with chain of lakes fur
Their of, and thence, locking backward
and downward into that sheltered nook
we call our home, the thoughts may
follow thence the running waters to the
gulf, which bounds the southern por-
ton of the Union, to remember nothing
any more attractive, or for which we
would consent to an exchange.
And now, in our retrospect of the
past i'll the little valley, were it only that
it is the very abode of health, that alone,
almost, should make it what the old
poets called the "vale of content"
What man so foolish as to consent will
ingly to continued sickness for all the
wealth and distinction that could be
lavished upon him; and so with those
feelings of exuberant health and elias
ITCHY which make for one new lease
of life, as it were, something which
calls back the blood to pallid cheeks,
and life-giving health and spirits to an
existence up to that period afflicted
measurably with such lassitude and
e,anui as at times to make life almost a
burden, who shall say that, under these
new conditions, life has not now its
compensations, and that man, many
times, is the maker of his own destinies
for happiness or misery? REVERE.
CHICAGO. Ill.