. Book of the Royal blue . sings Hows business? why, what do I do?Well, I claim that I aim to be honest and I sometimes lie. Dont you? When something at home is decidedly wrong; When somebody sings a false note in the song, Too low or too high. And, you hardly know why. But it wrangles and jangles and runs all awry, Aye, awry!And then, at the moment when things are askew,Some cousin sails in,With face all a-grin, And a Do I intrude? Oh, I see that I do!Well, then, though I aim to be honest and I sometimes lie. Dont you? When a man that I need has some foible or fad. Not ver
. Book of the Royal blue . sings Hows business? why, what do I do?Well, I claim that I aim to be honest and I sometimes lie. Dont you? When something at home is decidedly wrong; When somebody sings a false note in the song, Too low or too high. And, you hardly know why. But it wrangles and jangles and runs all awry, Aye, awry!And then, at the moment when things are askew,Some cousin sails in,With face all a-grin, And a Do I intrude? Oh, I see that I do!Well, then, though I aim to be honest and I sometimes lie. Dont you? When a man that I need has some foible or fad. Not very commendable, not very bad; Perhaps its his daughter. And someone has taught her To daub up an oil or to streak up a water ; What a water!And her grass is green green and her sky is blue blue;But her father with pride,In a stagey aside, Asks my candid opinion. Then what do I do?Well, I claim that I aim to be honest and I sometimes lie. Dont you? The Hudson River Centennial H. F. BALDWIN, in the Southwestern Book. JEARLY every country hasits distinctive river closelyidentified with its history,and interwoven with thedaily life of its people, likethe English Thames, theGerman Rhine, or FatherVolga of Russia. Our own country is sobig and so many inland water-courses haveplayed such an important part in the historyand development of its different sections— the James, the Potomac, the Ohio, theMississippi, the Rio Grande and, later, theColumbia and the Yukon — that it wouldbe a difficult matter to name any one as thedistinctive American river, but the Hudsoncan, perhaps, come nearer laying claim tothat distinction than any other, both fromits early discovery and the important eventswhich have taken place on its banks and onits placid bosom. Por unnumbered ages —/;/ the dim, dumb days ere Columbus came,it flowed, unfettered and unfretted by therestless traffic of pleasure or commerce, tothe sea, its calm surface only ruffled by thestorms which swept down from the moun
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