Around the tea-table . of polemics and battle. Some are to run;they are the candidates. There are four hunks—youth, manhood, old age and death. Some onetakes the bat, lifts it and strikes for the prize andmisses it, while the man who was behind catches itand goes in. This man takes his turn at the bat,sees the flying ball of success, takes good aim andstrikes it high, amid the clapping of all the spec-tators. We all have a chance at the ball. Someof us run to all the four hunks, from youth tomanhood, from manhood to old age, from old ageto death. At the first hunk we bound with uncon-trollable
Around the tea-table . of polemics and battle. Some are to run;they are the candidates. There are four hunks—youth, manhood, old age and death. Some onetakes the bat, lifts it and strikes for the prize andmisses it, while the man who was behind catches itand goes in. This man takes his turn at the bat,sees the flying ball of success, takes good aim andstrikes it high, amid the clapping of all the spec-tators. We all have a chance at the ball. Someof us run to all the four hunks, from youth tomanhood, from manhood to old age, from old ageto death. At the first hunk we bound with uncon-trollable mirth; coming to the second, we run witha slower but stronger tread; coming to the third, 52 AROUXD THE TEA-TABLE. our step is feeble ; coming to the fourth, our breathentirely gives out. We throw down the bat on theblack hunk of death, and in the evening catchersand pitchers go home to find the family gatheredand the food prepared. So may we all find thecandles lighted, and the table set, and the old folksat CHAPTER VII. THE FULL-BLOODED COW. WE never had any one drop in about sixoclock p. m. whom we were more glad tosee than Fielding, the Orange county farmer. Inthe first place, he always had a good appetite, andit did not make much difference what we had toeat. He would not nibble about the end of apiece of bread, undecided as to whether he hadbetter take it, nor sit sipping his tea as though thedoctor had ordered him to take only ten drops ata time mixed with a little su^ar and hot contact with fresh air and the fields andthe mountains gave him a healthy body, while thereligion that he learned in the little church downby the mill-dam kept him in healthy spirits. Field-ing keeps a great drove of cattle and has an over-flowing dairy. As we handed him the cheese hesaid, I really believe this is of my own , I inquired, how does your dairythrive, and have you any new stock on your farm?Come, give us a little touch of the country. Hegave m
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