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mind as well as health to nerve and delight to the eye; and 

 the sense of beauty grew like an infant drawing new life 

 from the maternal fount. John, tireless, faithful, kind, to- 

 be-dcpended-on, unobtrusive, busy about the household 

 duties, added to rather than detracted from this s.'iise of 

 delicious peace and rest and enjoyment of nature. No 

 other vacation scene of cam;), or voyage, or glorious spoil 

 with rod and reel, ever come- hack to memory so frequently 

 or with such perfect and entire satisfaction, refreshment 

 and delight as this at "Stickney Camp." 



1 saw, too, all these things through the fresh, younir eyes 

 of a boy of vigorous mind and body. I shared his healthy 

 and entirely natural sensations And 1 suppose the father'^ 

 heart was gladdened by the happines- of hU MM born. 



