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Such were the experience and opportunities had by 

 this youth before he attained the -age of fifteen. Is it a 

 surprise then that when a score of years had been ad- 

 ded to his fifteen that he should love to recall the days 

 of his youth, or that the inherited love of dogs and 

 guns should still claim its strong hold on him ? 



These little scenes and incidents of boyhood are re- 

 cited, the writer feeling that they will recall pleasant 

 memories to the mind of the reader, and place him 

 temporarily back, to the scenes of his childhood, that 

 like Hood he will say : 



" I remember, I remember, 

 The house where I was born, 

 The little window where the sun 

 Came peeping in at morn ; 

 He never came too soon, 

 Nor brought too long a day ; 

 But now, I often wish the nights 

 Had borne my breath away. 



I remember, I remember, 

 The fir trees, dark and high, 

 I used to think their slender spires 

 Were close against the sky. 

 It was childish ignorance, 

 But now 'tis little joy 

 To know I'm farther off from heaven, 

 * Than when I was a boy." 



