Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1917-05-09

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Dear Mufuais;
The blue birds and the violes
Ara with us once again,
And promises Of summer, spot
The hillside and the plain.
The clouds around the mountain tops
Are riding on the breeze,
Their trailing azure trains OF mist
Are tangled in the trees
The snow drifts which have lain SO long.
Haunting the hidden hooks,
Like guilty ghosts have slipped away.
Unseen, into the brooks
wonder IL any Of you read. in your early
school days, from the National series OF
readers. IS I did9 And l wonder II every
spring you remember the lines quoted above:
They are from the second selection In the
fourth reader. And do you remember those
other selections relating to spring. with
which the book opens. The first one. by
Donald q. Mitchell, begins with these words:
The old chroniclers made the year BEGIN
In the season Of frosss; and they have
launched us pom the current OF the months
from the snowy banks of January ! love
better TO count time from spring to spring; y
seems me far more cheerful. to reckon the
year by blossoms than by blight.
Then comes the poem. 1.-THE Awakening
Year." from which quoted, then Birds of
Spring. by Washington Irving, and '.The
Notes of the Birds" by Isaac Mcclellan. am
sure NO more modern reader can have better
descriptions Of these subjects than we're
found in these lessons. and NO better founda-
ton laid for love Of good literature than We
found in those pages. read over and over tfor
in those dsvs readers were not changed sim
ply because they had once been read
through" by the pupils) thus gaining fund
OF quotations which have, to me ct least.
proven lifelong treasure.
OF these readers have only the fourth and
fifth. The others, descending to younger
members Of the family, were, suppose, worn
out. I've often wished had the third reader
also.
Another valuable lesson we learned from
those school books. purchased often at
sacrifice, by Woodworking parents. was the
proper care Of all books, . lesson needed by
many who horrow hooks To- dav as well "a by
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'ne e"'.ie' :" '.e ~" ~
misuse the books furnished them by the
p.,,. mn, sv.rvon. c.,ss o., 10, ola
them. as And here and there the au,oprspb
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u some senoo''hsse' NV, psin~ps' s'A1"Sseu
from the greater school OF life, or in some dis
tant land. some lesson or pararraph the re-
sAn' anu, sons 'sseon =. pe.a ~ spn wy
nemoerea ren"erins u ~nien " some one In
funny incident Of those treasured school DAYS.
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wonuen n .nose DO" using 'o"n sonooi-
something when school day lie wears behind
tnem.
1 don't know as these rambling thoughts
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days when many may be too busy to write
the column. thus leaving Aunt Madge. VIII o
might happen TO be busy also, the additional
task OF creating the needed copy All BY
n.r 'oneso%e' a.nsq1enuy napps1.
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II IA morning. and a morning sweet. and
fresh. and delightful Every body knows the
morning IN us Unsupported sense, appned
and beauty 81 early wears LEAD M 10 cs,i
that period the morning Of life.
But the morning itself. few people, In
The tsrss stTeak Of lirnt. the ss2,iest nurniinr
Of the east. which the lark springs up 70
greer, aad .ne aeePsr snd deeper eo.or,nE In.
snn "a zen ,esenr ~ shs d.v1St ~ tbsv
never enjoy, for they never see it. Beautiful
aescripticns OF the morning abound IN al
the East. where the sun Il ofien AZ Object az
worship. King David speaks Of taking to
himself the wings o. the morning. know
love IL. i love II ssesh And svee, - Il t.
daily new creation, breaking forth and CALI
ing All that have iiie AND breath and being. to
nov weii remember these quotations
yoo u.Se sAse" W. Hsnef' Ane ~ev
the days when solid literature was dis
p.n.ed RI The r;.;nv ver.r.tior r.,rv
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