. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial at Didsbury, England. A Story of Four Dials 437 In our New Englandhome-gardens and home-meadows, and I am toldalso in yards and gar-dens in the Middle andSouthern states, theregrow trees unclassified ofbotanist, unnamed ofscientist. It matters nottheir fruit, their flower,or their cone or nut, itmatters not the shape oftheir leaves nor thespread of their branches ;but be they broad oftrunk or bole they areright, and by their rootsye shall know tre
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . Sun-dial at Didsbury, England. A Story of Four Dials 437 In our New Englandhome-gardens and home-meadows, and I am toldalso in yards and gar-dens in the Middle andSouthern states, theregrow trees unclassified ofbotanist, unnamed ofscientist. It matters nottheir fruit, their flower,or their cone or nut, itmatters not the shape oftheir leaves nor thespread of their branches ;but be they broad oftrunk or bole they areright, and by their rootsye shall know tree that runs intothe earth wide-spreadingor curiously gnarled rootsthat extend out a littleprotected enclosure orcircuit, this tree is theChildrens Tree, andthose roots form for thechildren their cubby-house. This word ^^<^-^y-^^^jd,universally usedby children, is one ofthose obscure and uni-versal terms so tempting. Sun-dial, showing Mean by John S. Bailey. 438 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday to the philologist. The word cub^ in the sense ofthe young of various animals, has always been con-temptuously applied to servants, and, in the eigh-teenth century, to the assistants in hospitals, nowknown as interns. Each surgeon shall havethree cubs as helpers, says an old hospital word cubicle (from the Latin cubare) seems tobe little used save for the little cubby-holes of ourboys schools, — such, for instance, as the fifth formsleeping-apartments at St. Pauls School. I am alwaysglad to find Dr. Holmes using the word cubby-hole,as he does all New England words and phrases, evenin his serious writings. I have no doubt he playedin a cubby-house, for they were beloved of boys aswell as girls. The boys cubby-houses showed dis-tinct and different furnishings. I well rememberone under a great Oak tree in sunny Narragansett,where two loved boys played many a long summerday. Of one child, a
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