. St. Nicholas [serial]. 0. TRIPPING LIGHT THROUGH THE MEADOW GRASS. 66o FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK. ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE A STORY OF THE ROAD BY ELIZABETH CLEAVELAND (AGE 14) (Gold Badge. Silver Badge won November, igig)I am the road. Like man, I am born, I live, nourish,wither, and die. Like man, I progress with the centu-ries. I spring from an Indian trail, a deer path leadingto a pool; I spring from a brook bed; I am crossed off;I grow until I become a thriving thoroughfare—a high-way for rich and poor, good and bad, big and primeval warrior made me to become a short-cutto his cave; the
. St. Nicholas [serial]. 0. TRIPPING LIGHT THROUGH THE MEADOW GRASS. 66o FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK. ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE A STORY OF THE ROAD BY ELIZABETH CLEAVELAND (AGE 14) (Gold Badge. Silver Badge won November, igig)I am the road. Like man, I am born, I live, nourish,wither, and die. Like man, I progress with the centu-ries. I spring from an Indian trail, a deer path leadingto a pool; I spring from a brook bed; I am crossed off;I grow until I become a thriving thoroughfare—a high-way for rich and poor, good and bad, big and primeval warrior made me to become a short-cutto his cave; the Egyptian put me to good use; the Greekmade me beautiful; and the Roman gave me perfection. I am the Appian Way; I am Fifth Avenue; I am theLincoln Highway—I am everything that gives to mana route to progress and a path to experience. Lackingme, mountains would not have been crossed, desertswould remain barren, forests uncut, and buildings un-built. No people on this earth survive without meexcepting the Venetian. The horse would remain use-less, the automobile uninvented, if it were n
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