94 EASY-CHAIR MEMORIES 



down from his perch ; he gets up, or, rather, 

 comes down, much too early in the morning. 



I have observed that most of those who have 

 told the story of their youth in your interesting 

 columns have done so to show the truth of 

 Wordsworth's axiom, " The child is the father 

 of the man," and they have grown up to be 

 what Nature intended them to be : the child 

 artist has developed into the celebrated painter ; 

 the child actor into the great tragedian; the 

 child singer into the prima donna. But with 

 the unimportant individual who tells this story 

 Nature has played pranks. The boy who loved 

 the woods and the green fields, the birds and 

 the beasts, and whom Nature intended to grow 

 up into something higher and better, at length 

 developed into a mere publisher ! 



