Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-24
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Did you ever stand by the surf
 alone in the early evening and watch the moon rise out of the sea and
 come wobbling up the sky, taking shape and shrinking in size as it approached the zenith? If you have you know what the poet felt when he wrote: T stand on the shore the stars arise in the darkeni1g skies one by one, and like angel eyes, thew | are gazing where my dead past lies, but they brins no fear to me- But I there is something awe inspiring about the reach of the beach, the 1 surging of the. waves, the whispering l of the pebbles and the vastness of i the ocean, and the spectral appear
 ance of the vessels dimly seen near
 the horizon gliding by. No wonder early man thought the sea to be a sing: "But the sea, with it's waves so wild, is dasfling against the shore and though I abide in my cell and i hide my boat is afoat on the food
 ing tide; ah. soon away on the
 surge I'll ride, and the world shall be
 mine no more!"
 When the season of breeding is over most birds cease singing. The I wren seems to be an exception, for 1t
 keeps up it's musical salutatiens un- | til about time for it's departure in 1 September. It arrives in the spring l a day or two later than the golden l robin, and it stays a week or two 1 later; and it IS among the last of our i birds to reach the tropics For the 1 last ten days a male golden robin has | enlivened our neighborhood with it's metallic "Ukalee! Ukalee!" ana I have been wondering if this was a l bachelor bird, like Mir Rawson's robin
 redbreast recently heard calling for
 a mate. It is certainly ringing cheerful call, but I see no mate with
 him and he industriously hunts his food in the big cherry tree nearby every day. I do not recollect of hear ing 8 golden robin before indulging in
 this springlilze call so late. The robin in it's September flight looks so much like the bobolink that it is often killed in the wild rice tracts by mis- take while associating with them.
 What is mere picturesque than the
 summer day after a storm when the sky is cobalt blue and great white 1 grey-shaded fieecy, storm spent
 clouds are being borne across it by
 the wind, forming cloud pictures for
 the imaginative who love to look up
 into the depths of endless space.
 have never been able to descrY the , palaces and ships and moated for tresses there which people of lively
 fancy have been able to trace; but
 recently while amid the green noun tains of nei.shboring state, l was
 surprised by the figures tke sunlit
 masses of woody cumutuy eloude
 which 1eated before mo with theii edges glowing above the eastern
 mountains compelled me to recog- nize. The spirit of the winds tossed out a separate cloud mass which wal
 recognizable as q monster whale, oi : a C-boat, according to the trend ot mind of the individual and later if
 one of these great white cloud masses
 appeared the face Of 3 man. 50 posi- tive and strong of feature that 1 wal forced to say to myself that look
 like old Paul Kruger the President O the Tfofrs.' And I cannot get thes, sky pictures out of my mind NJ , wonder the imaginative. primitiv 7 roan was awed by what he saw in tn, sky.
 ! While the young of the robin al , ways seem to be in evidence it i :. seldom we get d sight of the younj of the wren, the sparrows or th eolGfnch. Although the wrens rais l large brOods-fiye and siX-and hay = nestled twenty years on my premises
 1 l have never seen q young one learn f ing to fly, or a mother bird teacbin :, the young to hunt food for them selves. as We see robins doing ever season The robins are always i
 evidence and clumsy. I say 3 youn , sparrow upon the telephone wire on 9 day last week and should not hay q recognized it as a baby bird had n not seen the mother feeding it. if . plunage was sleek. and when u flew it seemed to have as much powe e and confidence as the older birds; bu n it's bee-line indicated that haste | K land which experienced birds neve
 manifest. Its first feathers wer
 doubtless telltale, but inexperieno e in comparative study put that beyon e me. l have seen one infant goldhncl l. strong of flight like the young spar g row, but still being fed, The gold ir f1nches are not yet fedged
 d There is no time in life when tr q adventuresome spirit Of the boys worl is out pure and undecided as it does i infancy when the boy of imaginatio
 and energy is caught playing he
 II the owner of a circus, 8 railroa IS engineer a soldier or a policena Is I do not know whether this is tl j. spirit of the man playing in the bo l. or the spirit of the boy forshadowir
 the coming man. The other day 2 is excited boy ran up to another in Il ,t street and shouted Come on! StiC a aat out your belly, grab your sword ar o' march," and away they went, u l. boy with the lathe-sword and the re, te ulation paper cooked hat bent on obe, y ing the order to the letter, and rusl1ii oe with the other in the direction of u
 %a En A., -s down here!'' shouted the exited cor ii. mander. I did not stop to follow the t. since imaginary conflicts of th d. kind result in no casualties: but u
 value of appearances, the putting
 of a bold front was amusing
 me. There is always laugh on t a. street for you if you are observing. 1g It is good to dream hopeful drear
 and cheerful dreams though tn ,u never come true. The ardor of you D and the calmness of age are just ~ natural as the roses of June and t e- frost pictures of December. Wh
 man hopes to do and what he ia nk to do comprehends human life. as makes no difference what our achiey " ments may be our hopes are usua
 a little ahead of them; and howex at depressing our failures we know eu are not alone, and are free to si all dream that our failures may turn C H. to be blessings, as many failul
 have. Life is something man rep, ne sents and lives in the midst of a ,re must recognize as an eternal vitalit Ire put when II comes 10 geltlng r
 knows as much about it as the m, IT. or the eagle; and not much more. a is good to be in it conscious, met ,e- tative and aspinng, with ia
 enough to hold the soul true to led Creator in the storms of despair.