St Nicholas [serial] . Not only in the Christmas-tidei The holy baby lay :But month by month his home he blessed,And brightened every dav. He made the winter soft as spring. The summer brave and clear,For Christ, who lived for all the world, Was part of all the year. 448 I VAX HOE. N IVANHOE. By Donald G. Mitchell. I DONT think I shall ever forget my first readingof Scotts story of Ivanhoe,—not if I live to beas old as Commodore Vanderbilt. It was about the time when I was half throughAdams Latin Grammar (which nobody studiesnow). I was curled up in an easy-chair, with one. 3*- THE SWINEHERD A
St Nicholas [serial] . Not only in the Christmas-tidei The holy baby lay :But month by month his home he blessed,And brightened every dav. He made the winter soft as spring. The summer brave and clear,For Christ, who lived for all the world, Was part of all the year. 448 I VAX HOE. N IVANHOE. By Donald G. Mitchell. I DONT think I shall ever forget my first readingof Scotts story of Ivanhoe,—not if I live to beas old as Commodore Vanderbilt. It was about the time when I was half throughAdams Latin Grammar (which nobody studiesnow). I was curled up in an easy-chair, with one. 3*- THE SWINEHERD AND WAMBA. of those gilt-backed volumes in my hand, whichmade a long array in a little upstairs book-caseof a certain stone house that fronts the , I think, and promising good slidingdown-hill (we knew nothing about any such wordas coasting in those days). But snow, andsleds, and mittens were all forgotten in that charm-ing story, where I saw old Saxon England and thebrave Coeur de Lion, who was king, and a prettyprincess, and dashing men-at-arms, and heardclash of battle, and bugle notes, and prayerfulentreaties of a sweet Jewess, and anthems in oldabbeys. All these so lingered in my mind, that whenyears after I went rambling through England, Iwandered one day all around the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouche to find—if it might be found—the old tournament-ground where was held the famfete that opens so grandly the story of Ivanhoand in going through Sherwood Forest (whafeleft of it), I think the Robin Hood of Scotts sMwas as lively in my thought as the Robin
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