MINSTREL WEATHER "$ CHAPTER 

 XIV. HIDING PLACES "$ *$ 



CHILDHOOD remembers a 

 secret place refuge, confes- 

 sional, and couch of dreams 

 where through the years 

 that bring the first bewilder- 

 ing hints of creation's loneliness he goes 

 to hide and to rebuild the joyous world 

 that every now and then is laid in flowery 

 ruins beneath the trampling necessities of 

 growing up. These little nooks where we 

 confronted so many puzzles, wondered over 

 incomprehension, and looked into the hard 

 eyes of derision, abide caressingly for 

 memory, who flies to them still from cities 

 of dreadful light. The need for those 



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