. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . A WIDE-KEACHING AFFAIR. A VETERAN OF THE RANKS. At the Lunch Stand is Whit-tiers Barefoot Boy, transferredto the city. His lips are not redder still, kissed by straw-berries on the hill ; nor may he becoated with outward sunshine,or full of inner joy. The lux-urious bowl of milk andbread which our Quaker ■^-poet describes, is not his,even with the wooden dishand pewter spoon ; but heseems happy for the momentwith the cup of more or lesshot coffee which he imbibes. His jaunty, independent attitudeshows
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . A WIDE-KEACHING AFFAIR. A VETERAN OF THE RANKS. At the Lunch Stand is Whit-tiers Barefoot Boy, transferredto the city. His lips are not redder still, kissed by straw-berries on the hill ; nor may he becoated with outward sunshine,or full of inner joy. The lux-urious bowl of milk andbread which our Quaker ■^-poet describes, is not his,even with the wooden dishand pewter spoon ; but heseems happy for the momentwith the cup of more or lesshot coffee which he imbibes. His jaunty, independent attitudeshows that he is bound to get allthe good of his powerful and per-haps palatable beverage ; that he earned it, andis entitled to it. The Street to the Sea is in fact a pictureof the sea, although the same is hardly in sight. Everything shows that we areapproaching the great Country of the Waters. The villas in view ; the wheel-harrowed road, admirably foreshortened ; the deep shadows upon each side of theway ; human figures looming faintly in the distance ; everything, in fact, is some-how t
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