The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . dly: The richesthat have :ome, dear, will smooth thepath, I hope, for Dan and Nell. Andyet I cannot help but fear their happi-ness will not be as great as ours. Wecannot tell how much longer we maybe spared to guide them. The twain were seated now uponthe old settle that still stood besidethe yawning fire-place. As he spoketheir hands met in a long love , one of sutnmers suddenstorms had arisen and the sky wasveiled in deepest black. Low thunderrumblings heralded a keen, sharplightning flash that for a mo
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . dly: The richesthat have :ome, dear, will smooth thepath, I hope, for Dan and Nell. Andyet I cannot help but fear their happi-ness will not be as great as ours. Wecannot tell how much longer we maybe spared to guide them. The twain were seated now uponthe old settle that still stood besidethe yawning fire-place. As he spoketheir hands met in a long love , one of sutnmers suddenstorms had arisen and the sky wasveiled in deepest black. Low thunderrumblings heralded a keen, sharplightning flash that for a momentseemed to blaze a path from the lit-tle black house straight to the gate-ways of heaven. So it proved for the grey-haired,warm-hearted lovers within. Whenanxious searchers found them nextmorning happy smiles still illuminedtheir worn features and the blue markof the lightning on their claspedhands told the storv. ? • ? !13 • & X^. :tS * ? • ^_ v.^^VL^a£tf,3iiasa tew*—. %iJ£^Mount Caesar. MT. CAESAR SEMINARY AND SWANZEY Chloe P. HIS institution waslocated in the beau-tiful valley of theAshuelot river,near the base ofMount Caesar inthe village of Swan-zey Centre. The building which wasits home was surrounded by amplegrounds, upon a wide and level street,at that time a part of the Greenfieldstage road. The broad valley, throughwhich flows the south branch of theAshuelot river, is bounded by steepand nearly continuous ranges of hills,with grand old Monadnock tow-ering beyond and above, forming thebackground of the view in the the front, to the west, a shortdistance away, is Mount Caesar, ris-ing about a thousand feet above the level of the sea. showing its bold andabrupt profile toward the south andthe long slope to the north. Its sideis partly clothed with forests, but hereand there bare ledges show. The school was distant and secludedfrom the large business centres, forthe Cheshire railroad was not com-pleted until May, 184S, five yea
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