The Rescue of an Old Place 



acorns achieve fourteen feet in forty years 

 we shall feel we have not lived in vain. 

 HOW to make "What do you do to make trees grow ? " 

 I asked an Englishman who was coaxing 

 along a rebellious Butternut to some show 

 of vigor. 



" Oh ! " said he, " I just talks to 'em, 

 and tells 'em to grow, and they grow." 



Mindful of this advice, I do not fail to 

 exhort these recreant acorns, but no 

 teacher of a primary school ever had a 

 worse time in getting a shoot out of a 

 young idea, than do I out of. this infant 

 class of refractory nuts and seeds. 



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