. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist ^x4ro. E^m-wm e'x'ooK JOuri^Ei'Ai* Vol. 7~No. 2. SAN JOSE, CAL., FEBI^UARY, 1876. JSpBECRiPTiON Price, $ a Year. X Single Copies, 15 C'«nts. A Valentine. Oh, little loveliest lady mine, Wbat shall I send for your valentine? Summer and flowers are far away: Gloomy old Winter is kin^ to-day. Bnds will not blow and eun will not shine; What shall I do for a valentine? Prithee, St. Valentine, tell me here. Why do you come at this time o'
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist ^x4ro. E^m-wm e'x'ooK JOuri^Ei'Ai* Vol. 7~No. 2. SAN JOSE, CAL., FEBI^UARY, 1876. JSpBECRiPTiON Price, $ a Year. X Single Copies, 15 C'«nts. A Valentine. Oh, little loveliest lady mine, Wbat shall I send for your valentine? Summer and flowers are far away: Gloomy old Winter is kin^ to-day. Bnds will not blow and eun will not shine; What shall I do for a valentine? Prithee, St. Valentine, tell me here. Why do you come at this time o' year? Plenty of days when lilies are white; Plenty of days when sunbeams are bright. But now, when everything's dark and drear, Why do you come, St. Valentine dear? I've searched the garden through and through. For a bud to tell of my love so true; But buds were asleep and blossoms were dead, And the falling snow came down on my head. So, little loveliest lady mine. Here is my heart for your valentine! â[St. Nicholas. RALPH'S VALEN- TINE. A Story .as Aunt Abby Told It. BT NELL TAN. One rainy February day Dr. Pember- ton's children, witli their cousin George, were all gathered around the dining-room table preparing valentines for the ap- proaching festivity of St. Valentine. No one could excel Cousin George, so the young folks thought, in the making of comic valentines. He had the faculty of producing burlesque likenesses of any one he knew, with bodies of birds or or beasts arranged in the most killing positions, and causing the most intense satisfaction among the j'oung folks, â while Bertha selected suitable verses from a book of promiscuous poems. The sedate Arthur was arranging sentimental valentines of gilt and perforated paper, profusely ornamented with decalcomanie birds and flowers and tinted tissue paper trimming. They were having a most de- hghtful time, when, as is often the case, an altercation arose between the younger ones because George could not draw fast e
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