206 Old Bays on the Farm 



Because' — the brown eyes lower fell — 

 'Because, you see, I love you.' 



"Still memory to a grey-haired man 

 That sweet child-face is showing, 

 Dear girl, the grasses on her grave 

 Have forty years been growing. 



"He lives to learn, in life's hard school 

 How few who pass above him 

 Lament their triumph and his loss 

 Like her — because they love him." 



BAEEFOOTED BOYS AT SCHOOL 



Country school cliildren during the summer sea- 

 son in those good old days did not wear shoes, and 

 the boy who came the earliest in the spring with- 

 out his footwear was looked upon as a hero and 

 was the envy of his fellows. The teacher, of course, 

 had his eye open to check any undue rushing of 

 the season in the matter of bare feet. It may be 

 added, too, that the schoolboy who could not show 

 a stone bruise on his heel in the good old summer- 

 time, lost caste in the eyes of his companion, and 

 was surely termed a ** sissy." 



ABOUT THE SCHOOL STOVE 



I have distinct recollections regarding the im- 

 perfect heating of a pioneer school. The big box 

 stove would be fed to capacity and, with dampers 

 wide open, would roar like a blast furnace in 



