. Country walks for little folks . long enough to reach them; nor is it safe orpossible for boys even to climb along thebranches and get all the walnuts at their extre-mities, so they take long poles and knock themoff in the manner you see. Now why do you flog- the poor walnut tree so,That its leaves and green branches lie scauered below ?Hark! it murmurs complaints to The whispering shakes its green head at hard blows such as these. O dear little lady, you dont understand,I cannot pluck fruit at this height with my hand,Unless I d long arms, reaching high as the tree ;I should laug
. Country walks for little folks . long enough to reach them; nor is it safe orpossible for boys even to climb along thebranches and get all the walnuts at their extre-mities, so they take long poles and knock themoff in the manner you see. Now why do you flog- the poor walnut tree so,That its leaves and green branches lie scauered below ?Hark! it murmurs complaints to The whispering shakes its green head at hard blows such as these. O dear little lady, you dont understand,I cannot pluck fruit at this height with my hand,Unless I d long arms, reaching high as the tree ;I should laugh in my sleeve, if that ever should be. So I take a long stick the ripe walnuts to it you d have few to crack, it is plain ;The tree bears the buffets, forgets and forgives,And still does its duty each year that it lives. Do you do the same, little lady, I pray,Lest when the tree whispers next time it should say,Whilst it shakes its green head in the way that you see,There goes a young girl with less sense than a tree!. 35 THE DOVECOT. This is a little house, as you see, made to shel-ter pig-eons. It is placed on a tall post and setin the water, very prudently, to prevent naughtyboys from climbing up and robbing it. Pigeons,although tamed by man to a great degree, yetretain the free exercise of their wings; and theyare, in this respect, unlike common fowls, andducks and geese, which can scarcely fly acrossa field. Pigeons, or Doves, as they are called,are most beautiful and interesting birds, mildand inoffensive; they are in Scripture named torepresent gentleness and innocence. The power of flight possessed by these birds,is truly wonderful, as is their unaccountable sa-gacity in finding their way home, over landsand seas, whither they had never been bornebefore. So, when persons have gone abroad,to France or Holland, for instance, they havetaken a tame pigeon with them in a basket, andhaving arrived, perhaps at Paris or Amsterdam,they have tied a letter under the w
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