. Christian herald and signs of our times . Lower GeyserBasin is another field for exploration. Suchnames as the Excelsior, Hells HalfAcre, Fire-hole River, the Castle, andOld Faithful, applied to certain springsand localities give some indication of thecharacter of the sights to be the greatest admiration must be re-served for the grand Canon itself—a tre-mendous gorge among rockv, pine-cladheights between which flows tne swiftYellowstone River, rushing to a series offalls that are incomparable, as viewed withthe eve of an artist or a lover of nature. A week in this greatest of
. Christian herald and signs of our times . Lower GeyserBasin is another field for exploration. Suchnames as the Excelsior, Hells HalfAcre, Fire-hole River, the Castle, andOld Faithful, applied to certain springsand localities give some indication of thecharacter of the sights to be the greatest admiration must be re-served for the grand Canon itself—a tre-mendous gorge among rockv, pine-cladheights between which flows tne swiftYellowstone River, rushing to a series offalls that are incomparable, as viewed withthe eve of an artist or a lover of nature. A week in this greatest of Parks—it canbe pretty thoroughly seen in that time—will furnish good food for many pleasantreflections. Tt is an experience not to beforgotten. The Miirv nml Her lamb. Thousands upon thousands of childrenhave put the questions to puzzled parents:Who was Mary and was there really alittle lamb? In a recent Issue of the LadiesHomt Companion, Mother Stewart relatesthe true story of the of famous household .THE FAMIDfiAND HOMECIRCLE. poem. On a recent trip, she writes: Ifound my neighbor on the steamer to be aMiss Sawyer, a very pleasant, intelligentlady, from Somervilie, Massachusetts. Inthe course of our chats she informed methat she was the niece of Mary, the ownerof the pet lamb of school-book fame. Theheroines name was Mary Elizabeth Saw-yer. She was born in Sterling, a prettvfarming community in Worcester County,Massachusetts, March 22, 1806. When alittle mite of a girl, her father, who was afarmer, brought to the house one day apoor little lamb, almost dead. Mary askedher father if she might have it and hegave it to her. She nursed it with suchloving care that it soon got well, and be-came greatly attached to its little nurse,and wanted to be with her and follow herabout all the time. And when Marystarted to the district school, the lambcould not see why it should not go toschool as well as other folks. A youngstudent by the name of Rallsteine hap-pened to be visi
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