. St. Nicholas [serial]. ears can I now look back On the wandering thread of a sea-blown track; Round the Horn and across the Line, In the black gales teeth or the hot star-shine. Oh, the taut shrouds tune and the halyardscreak, And the cry of the sails when the northers speak,And the voice of the sea on a hurrying keel,Ever and ever my heart shall feel. Yet—when we drop past the shores of Clyde,Slipping in with the evening tide,When the sheep bells blow on the landward air,And the dusk is come, and the moon hangs fair, When the harbor lights shine out so still,My eyes turn back against my wil
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ears can I now look back On the wandering thread of a sea-blown track; Round the Horn and across the Line, In the black gales teeth or the hot star-shine. Oh, the taut shrouds tune and the halyardscreak, And the cry of the sails when the northers speak,And the voice of the sea on a hurrying keel,Ever and ever my heart shall feel. Yet—when we drop past the shores of Clyde,Slipping in with the evening tide,When the sheep bells blow on the landward air,And the dusk is come, and the moon hangs fair, When the harbor lights shine out so still,My eyes turn back against my willTo the windy top of Ardrossan Hill—The hill where I stood with a song on my lip,Before that I plighted myself to a ship. THE BIGGEST FAMILY IN NEW YORKSEXECUTIVE MANSION By HAROLD G. McCOY Children crowd the famous executive mansionin Albany, New Yorks home for its governor, nowthat Governor Nathan L. Miller has takenpossession. All records as to the number of children inthe stately old Governors residence have been. CONSTANCE AND LOUISE MILLER AND THEIRDOG SCOUT broken, and they will be shattered still furtherwhen Governor Miller can induce his first grand-child to visit him in the big house on the hill inAlbany. There are seven children in the Miller family,from youngsters to grown-ups—more than everbefore made their home there. They are a mightyproud lot, now that they have moved from thebig old English home in Syracuse, with its wonder-ful lawns and gardens, to the first home in theState. It was long before Governor Miller was nomi-nated for the governorship,—in fact, when he wasasserting that he would not accept the nomina-tion,—that some one tried to reach him by tele-phone and found him away on his vacation. Oneof the Miller youngsters answered, and when theinquirer had learned where Judge Miller and were staying, he persisted with this query: How would you like to go down to Albany andlive in the big executive mansion and have yourfather governor?
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