Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13
A Beautiful Legacy

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inmate of Cook county asylum, at
Dunning, ILL.,, recently deceased. Read
it:
81, Charles Lounsbury, being of
sound mind and disposing memory do
hereby make and publish this, my last
will and testament, in order as justly
as may be to distribute my interest in
the world among succeeding men.
THAT part Of my interest which is
known in law and recognized in the
sheep bound volumes as my property,
being inconsiderable and of no account,
l make no disposal of in this, my will.
"My right to live, being but life
estate, is not at my disposal, but these
things excepted all else in the world l
now proceed to devise and bequeath-
'Item: l give to good fathers and
mothers, in trust for their children,
all good little words of praise and en-
couragement, and all quaint names
and endearments, and | charge said
parents to use them justly and gener-
ously, as the needs of their children
may require.
"Item: l leave to children inclu-
sively, but only for the term of their
childhood, all and everyone, the flow
ers of the fields, and the blossoms of
the woods, with the right to play
among them freely according to the
customs of children, warning them at
the same time against thistles and
thorns. And devise to children the
banks Of the brooks, and the gold
sands beneath the waters thereof, and
the odors Of the willows that dip there
in, and the white clouds that float
high over the giant trees. And leave
the children the long, long days to be
merry in, in a thousand ways, and the
night and the moon and the train OF
the Milky Way, to wonder at, but
sui, ect nevertheless to the rights here
matter given to lovers.
"Item: | devise to boys jointly, all
the useful idle fields and commons
where ball may be played; all pleasant
waters where one may swim; all snow
clad hills where one may cast, and all
streams and ponds where one may fish;
or where, when the grim winter comes,
one may skate; to have and hold the
same for the period Of their boyhood.
And all meadows with the clover bios
SONS and butterflies thereof, the woods,
and appurtenances, the squirrels and
birds, and echoes and strange noises,
and all distant places which may be
visited, together with the adventures
there found. And l give to said boys
each his own place at the freside at
night, with all pictures that may be
seen in the burning wood, to enjoy
without let or hindrance and incum-
brance Of care.
Item: To lovers, l devise their
imaginary world, with whatever they
may need; as the stars of the sky; the
red roses by the wall; the bloom of the
hawthorn; the sweet strains of music,
and aught else by which they may de-
sire to figure to each other, the last
ingness and beauty of their love- !
Item: To young men jointly,
devise and bequeath all boisterous, in
spring sports of rivalry, and l give to
them the disdain of weakness and un-
daunted confidence in their own
strength, though they are rude; l give
to them the power to make lasting
friendships and of possessing compan-
ions, and to them exclusively, l give
all merry songs and brave choruses,
to sing with lusty voices.
"Item, And to those who are no
longer children or yonths or lovers, l
leave memory, and l bequeath to them
the volumes of the poems of Burns
and Shakespeare, and of other poets,
if there be others, to the end that they
may live over the old days again, free
ly and fully, without 1.-THE or dimuni-
ton.
"Item: To our loved ones with
snowy crowns, bequeath the happi-
ness of old age, the love and gratitude
of their children until they fall
asleep"
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