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Dulce Domum will then be duke domum not 

 only in the desire of the teacher, who has the 

 child's welfare at heart, but dulce domum in fact. 



Perhaps your son cannot be rich in money or gee- 

 gaws, but he can be wealthy in his ownership of 

 the world. As Banyan said, " I have known many 

 laboring men that have got good estates in this 

 valley," and Bradford Torrey tells us, that, " His 

 private opinion is that the world belongs to those 

 who enjoy it ; and taking this view of the matter 

 he cannot help thinking that some of his more 

 prosperous neighbors would do well in legal 

 phrase, to perfect their titles. He would gladly be 

 of service to them in this regard." 



I hope that all teachers may be of service to 

 our boys and girls, in this regard. Rightly 

 viewed that " ish vat it ish for." Many persons 

 " want the earth ; " so do we, but we want it with 

 no " fence around it." Let old and young break 

 through the palings, and take possession of their 

 birthright, with all its multitudinous resources of 

 enjoyment, and be at home there. 



Thoreau thought that the holder of the deed 

 was not really the best owner : 



How when a man purchases a thing, he is determined to 

 get and get hold of it, using how many expletives and how 



