. St. Nicholas [serial]. A HEADING FOR OCTOBER. THE RETURN OF AUTUMN. BY MAUD DUDLEY SHACKEL ORD, AGE 15. [Cash Prize.) We hear her footsteps in the rustling leaves, Oer all we see the magic of her hand ;The broadly waving fields of ripened grain, The golden harvest scattered oer the land,The hush that rests within the hazy air, The faint sweet echo of the bob-whites call,The distant hills, bathed in the mellow glow Of autumn sunlight, lingering over all. It is only a little while ago that we were writingabout the close of school and the coming of vacation ;now the weeks and months have slippe
. St. Nicholas [serial]. A HEADING FOR OCTOBER. THE RETURN OF AUTUMN. BY MAUD DUDLEY SHACKEL ORD, AGE 15. [Cash Prize.) We hear her footsteps in the rustling leaves, Oer all we see the magic of her hand ;The broadly waving fields of ripened grain, The golden harvest scattered oer the land,The hush that rests within the hazy air, The faint sweet echo of the bob-whites call,The distant hills, bathed in the mellow glow Of autumn sunlight, lingering over all. It is only a little while ago that we were writingabout the close of school and the coming of vacation ;now the weeks and months have slipped by, and weare writing of school again, and the vacations that areleft behind. The children also have written aboutschool this month; not about the schools of to-day, but. THE OLD HOlSt of those of the time of their grandfathers, when most ofthe lessons were taught by one schoolmaster or school-mistress, in a single room, in some country village, orin an out-of-the-way corner of a rural district. We read her greeting in the yellow leaves That down the forest aisles are thickly spread;We hear her voice amid the sighing wind That blows among the branches overhead ;And day by day upon the landscape wide We see the glories of her wealth unfold, .Till lo! the earth a dream of beauty lies, Clad all in robes of crimson and of gold. It is but natural that old folks should believe that thechildren of to-day, with all the added advantages, all theeasier ways of learning, and the short cuts to knowledge,should reach a higher place than they were able to in general this is the case, but, after all, thehard benches and crude methods were not withouttheir value. It was so hardthen to get education that itwas valued all the more, andwhen we recollect that m
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