. St. Nicholas [serial] . when the apple-tree is in bloom and we are having tea beneath the branches. 1061 1062 THE APPLE-TREE. [Oct. they found perhaps they had done only onething, and that not a very important one, either,and so they felt discouraged and was wrong. People should remember thatthe beautiful things they wish to do, and tryto do, but for some reason never can do, are. TO make the rooms look pretty. like the blossoms. They have helped to makelife pleasant—to make it resemble May. You see now why this sermon would be goodfor a discouraged or a disappointed person
. St. Nicholas [serial] . when the apple-tree is in bloom and we are having tea beneath the branches. 1061 1062 THE APPLE-TREE. [Oct. they found perhaps they had done only onething, and that not a very important one, either,and so they felt discouraged and was wrong. People should remember thatthe beautiful things they wish to do, and tryto do, but for some reason never can do, are. TO make the rooms look pretty. like the blossoms. They have helped to makelife pleasant—to make it resemble May. You see now why this sermon would be goodfor a discouraged or a disappointed person tohear, or for an apple-tree which had beenobliged to see a great many of its blossomsscattered by the wind or broken off to makethe rooms of a house look pretty. AVhen I asked Aunt Elinor how I was toknow the discouraged and disappointed, so asto invite the right ones,—for of course no onecould go about asking people if they had thatthe matter with them,—Aunt Elinor said I wasto invite whomever I wished; that all personshad moments of being discouraged and disap-pointed ; that it would be almost impossible tofind any one who would not be cheered and comforted by a cup of tea and hearing theblossom-time sermon read under the apple-tree. From this I imagine that grown-up people donot have things always the way they want them,any more than children do. In October, when the apples are rip
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