. Country life reader . Pluto tobring her up from the underworld and restore her to hermother, Ceres. When Mercury reached the palace of Pluto he foundthat he had arrived none too soon; for Proserpina, unablelonger to resist the pangs of hunger, had rashly tastedthe withered pomegranate, and, it was found, had eatensome of the seeds. Jupiter, although he was King of heaven,could not interfere when once his laws were broken; andso for every seed she had eaten, Proserpina was condemnedto spend one month of each year in the palace of KingPluto. And this is how it comes that for full six monthseve
. Country life reader . Pluto tobring her up from the underworld and restore her to hermother, Ceres. When Mercury reached the palace of Pluto he foundthat he had arrived none too soon; for Proserpina, unablelonger to resist the pangs of hunger, had rashly tastedthe withered pomegranate, and, it was found, had eatensome of the seeds. Jupiter, although he was King of heaven,could not interfere when once his laws were broken; andso for every seed she had eaten, Proserpina was condemnedto spend one month of each year in the palace of KingPluto. And this is how it comes that for full six monthsevery year Proserpina is forced to return to the under-world. Then the good mother, Ceres, mourns once againfor the lost Proserpina, and the earth brings forth no when Proserpina returns, the skies become blue andsunny, the songs of the birds are heard on every hand, andthe earth is once more white with the promise of an abun-dant harvest, with which Ceres in her gladness is readyto bless the earth. PART IIAUTUMN. ^^ THE COUNTRY BOYS INHERITANCE I give and bequeath to boys, jointly andseverally, all useful idle fields and commonswhere ball may be played; all pleasantwaters where one may swim; all snow-cladhills where one may coast; and all streamsand ponds where one may fish, or where,when grim winter comes, one may skate; tohave and to hold these same for the periodof their boyhood; and all meadows with theclover blossoms and butterflies thereof; thewoods with their appurtenances, the squir-rels, and the birds, and all echoes andstrange noises, and all distant places whichmay be visited, together with the adventuresthere found. Charles Lounsberry.
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