. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . A WIDE-REACHING AFFAIl A VETERAN OF THB 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 outwara sunshine,or full of inner joy. The lux-urious bowl of milk andbread which our Quakerpoet 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.^^\W^! \ (J!^~ ^^^W^/J/^.Wa^^^^ ^^ jaunty, independent attitude shows th
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . A WIDE-REACHING AFFAIl A VETERAN OF THB 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 outwara sunshine,or full of inner joy. The lux-urious bowl of milk andbread which our Quakerpoet 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.^^\W^! \ (J!^~ ^^^W^/J/^.Wa^^^^ ^^ jaunty, independent attitude shows 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,
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