﻿138 PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. 



Yet be thou happy whilst thou may ; 



And if these notes should seem 

 Like to the pleasant music 



That may haunt thee in a dream 

 If, blended with home voices, 



The running waters sound, 

 And if tender singing like the birds 



Makes thy light heart to bound, 



Rejoice ! ere yet the melody 



Brings only thoughts of woe ; 

 Rejoice ! ere yet thy loved one 



Through the " low green door " must go ; 

 Ere like the waters running 



On a way far off and lone, 

 And like the pleasant summer birds, 



Thy joy of heart has gone. 



About Angling. 



THERE has fallen a copious shower. Every tree and plant is 

 dripping with the moisture with which the hot earth is cooled. How 

 the fish will bite now! Let us take our rods and lines, boys, and 

 try our luck down the river, on the new-mown bank. 



Do you realize how pure the air has become ? How much 

 stronger we feel ! A word or two as we walk along. 



The atmosphere is composed principally of two gases, oxygen 

 and nitrogen. The oxygen supports life and combustion. It makes 

 about one fifth of the whole atmosphere. A less proportion makes 

 us feel dull and heavy ; as we did this forenoon. 



Now each drop of rain, in falling, attracts and brings to the 

 ground particles of nitrogen. These particles are readily absorbed 

 by plants, and this is why things grow so after a smart shower. 



But stop ! here 's a grand place to throw in. 



Let us cover our hooks well with the bait, and sink about three 

 feet. 



What a lovely spot this is ! The river seems as if it loved to 

 linger under these over-hanging trees, whose pendant branches 

 break the bubbles that corne sailing down from the dam above. 



