. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. <k- TWENTY-EIGHT Vol XVIII. No II. Bo. J1S BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A TEAR. STRAY THOUGHTS. Haevet Wakde Peck. "who will remember thee when thou aet dead?" I remember the dim and shady wood, And the whirr of the grouBe and quail; The little log house tbat cosily stood By tbe side of tbe winding trail; The spring of clear water, nnder the eaves — So sparkling and deep and cool— WMle autumn's painting was on tbe leaves, As I loitered borne from school. Twas said that many a year before, Tb
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. <k- TWENTY-EIGHT Vol XVIII. No II. Bo. J1S BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A TEAR. STRAY THOUGHTS. Haevet Wakde Peck. "who will remember thee when thou aet dead?" I remember the dim and shady wood, And the whirr of the grouBe and quail; The little log house tbat cosily stood By tbe side of tbe winding trail; The spring of clear water, nnder the eaves — So sparkling and deep and cool— WMle autumn's painting was on tbe leaves, As I loitered borne from school. Twas said that many a year before, TblB cabin was built by a man Very learned indeed in all sorts of lore; (He bad traveled from Spain to Japan.) Finally the grim Reaper came one day— He was buried out under a pine- Not a prayer was offered above his clay, On bis bead-board never a line. And then the lichen covered the wall, Tbe door fell In bye and bye; Tbe wind and rain—tbe cause of it all— Swept through from tbe earth to tbe sky; And 'tis tbns I see it to thin day— By Its side the slumbering pool; Above all, the bird's sweet roundelay— As I loitered home from school. Little did any of tbe country folk know of the past life of this man whom they denominated "the hermit of the ; ; Be built the log hoube, and for two years led a secladed life "far from the madding crowd;" his intercourse with his fel- lowman was of the briefest duration, held at long intervals. When be died, the country paper, some thirteen miles away, I mentioned incidentally that the strange character that lived in tbe bills had been found dead. No one knew bis name. nor did any of his effectB, within the cabin, reveal it. After a long time they divided his traps among themselves. Many of the books were quite beyond the country people, bnt the schoolmaster mumbled something about dead lan- guages. A oountry-boy secured a book which contained, in manuscript form, twelve poems; one for every month of the yea
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