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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
SUMMER AND 
20. For ways that arc dark and tricks that are vain, 
The heathen Chinee is peculiar. 
SI. Presence of mind is necessary at all times. 22. Hector. 
412. Tools rush in where angels fear to tread. 
413. Be in haste, and remember delays are dangerous. 
4U. Popping the question. 
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"WINTER . — DRAWN BY EmsLIE. — Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
Snmmcr and Winter. 
How sweetly and peacefully grandma sits un- 
der the trees ! She has been reading. But now 
the spectacles are laid upon the book, and the eyes 
are looking far away. Perhaps she hears the birds 
sing. Perhaps she sees something. But we think not. 
What she hears, are the sweet voices of the girls 
who are swinging under the trees. She hears their 
happy voices, and her heart is made happy. She 
is thinking of the time when she, too, was a child. 
She seems to hear the voices of the little girls she 
used to play with so long, long ago. She can almost 
see them again. These little girls will have a long 
road to travel before they get to be as old as grand- 
ma. How many stories the old lady can tell these 
two children in the evenings! But the stories they 
like best, begin : "When I was a girl." And these 
two happy girls are all the happier for having 
grandma by them. They brought her chair out 
here, and then they went and invited her to come 
out and sit with them under the trees. It makes 
grandma happy to know that she is loved and that 
the girls enjoy her company. A young person 
can do much to make the last days of an old person 
happy. The birds sing sweeter to these girls be- 
cause they are kind and loving, and the heart of the 
old lady is so happy that the happiness shines out 
of her face. Dear old grandma! May you live 
many days yet, to make the children happy. 
