. John Burroughs, boy and man . EARLY MEMORIES 37 phee! shrilly called the elfin piper, just a few inches fromthe ears of the patient lad. Cautiously he stretched forth his hand and graspedthe elf. After a long time, when the tiny creature hadbecome accustomed to his new perch, he inflated histhroat and piped from the boys hand! It was the spring peeper* (Hyla crucifier} whose shrillpipings we hear in the marshes in early spring. THE LITTLE SAWMILL In Johns boyhood it was an unheard of thing to havepleasures planned for boys and girls. Life was a seriousmatter for the grown-ups, and they tried
. John Burroughs, boy and man . EARLY MEMORIES 37 phee! shrilly called the elfin piper, just a few inches fromthe ears of the patient lad. Cautiously he stretched forth his hand and graspedthe elf. After a long time, when the tiny creature hadbecome accustomed to his new perch, he inflated histhroat and piped from the boys hand! It was the spring peeper* (Hyla crucifier} whose shrillpipings we hear in the marshes in early spring. THE LITTLE SAWMILL In Johns boyhood it was an unheard of thing to havepleasures planned for boys and girls. Life was a seriousmatter for the grown-ups, and they tried, though in vain,to make the youngsters regard it in the same light. Playwas not considered a preparation for lifes activities as ithappily is to-day. Toys were rare articles. Boys had tomake their playthings or go without. Holidays were asscarce as hens teeth, or as white blackbirds, and it some-times keeps one guessing to see where the boys, with alltheir chores to do, got in any fun. But they managed itsomehow, gleaning it h
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