. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . THE OLD MILL Country Sights and Sounds 305. AFTER A WET SNOW-STORM solitude and silence. We come to know ourselves and the world ill the deeper ways onlj when we are apart from the rush of things. It is only when traffic ceases and the dust is laid that the landscape becomes clear and complete to the pedestrian. The quiet of the woods, the cool note of the mountain streams, the silence of the summits, represent, not the luxuries and pleasures
. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . THE OLD MILL Country Sights and Sounds 305. AFTER A WET SNOW-STORM solitude and silence. We come to know ourselves and the world ill the deeper ways onlj when we are apart from the rush of things. It is only when traffic ceases and the dust is laid that the landscape becomes clear and complete to the pedestrian. The quiet of the woods, the cool note of the mountain streams, the silence of the summits, represent, not the luxuries and pleasures of a rich life, but its necessities. To the townsman these outly-ing provinces of the farm are even more important than are the well-tilled day some man or woman will write a luminous book on the education of country life; the training of the eye, the ear, the hand, the unconscious enrichment of the senses and of the mind which are effected by its sights and sounds. There has never been in the long history of education, a better school for the open-minded, imaginative boy or girl than the farm. Every day sets its tasks, every task teaches its lessons; and nature stands looking o
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