The fountain : with jets of new meanings . indness in the dulcet days of childhood ? The writerof this recollects himself at this moment, as a bare-footed lad, standing at the wooden fence of a poor littlegarden in his native village, while with longing eyeshe gazed on the flowers which were blooming therequietly in the brightness of a Sunday morning. Thepossessor came forth from his little cottage; he wasa wood-cutter by trade, and spent the whole week at 148 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. his work in the woods. He had come into the gardento gather flowers to stick into his coat when he wentto church.
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . indness in the dulcet days of childhood ? The writerof this recollects himself at this moment, as a bare-footed lad, standing at the wooden fence of a poor littlegarden in his native village, while with longing eyeshe gazed on the flowers which were blooming therequietly in the brightness of a Sunday morning. Thepossessor came forth from his little cottage; he wasa wood-cutter by trade, and spent the whole week at 148 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. his work in the woods. He had come into the gardento gather flowers to stick into his coat when he wentto church. He saw the boy, and breaking off one ofhis carnations—it was streaked with red and white—he gave it to him. Neither the giver nor the receiverspoke a word, and with bounding steps the boy ranhome. And now here, at a vast distance from thathome, after so many events of so many years, the feel-ing of gratitude which agitated the breast of that boyexpresses itself on paper. The carnation has longsince withered, but now it blooms DREAM OF A QUARRELSOME LITTLE BOY. Thus lifes events gradually assume dramatic com-binations in the memory. Dreams, for the most part,are dramatic (sometimes tragical) exercises of the un-sleeping imagination. The faculties work and do atnight what they think and fancy in the daytime. A IMAGINATION AS A FORCE. 149 boy dreamed out what he had long wanted to see : Hisfavorite dog kill three troublesome mice. At nightthe whole mind is at liberty to picture, upon its ownmemory canvas, the forms of eyes and faces aud fea-tures before unthought of and unknown. Endlessly diversified are the activities of the imagin-ation. Attention is cultivated and disciplined quickestby training the mind to accurately imagine any objector scene. Tou cannot truthfully and graphically de-scribe any thing in language or by pencil, unless youfirst clearly imagine and picture to yourself its shape, size, color, nature, hab- v its, &c. A new breed of .^m^SSdomestic fowl
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