. St. Nicholas [serial]. for the carriages, on the-other a course for the horsemen, and in the cen-ter a noble inner avenue of trees set in a velvet-like carpet of grass; and here and there alongthe way, almost in touch of your hand from theopen car window, appears the Spanish dagger,with its green, sharp blades and its snowy, showyplume. Not far away stands a lowly negro cabin,where the sun beats down hot and fierce upona great straggling rose-bush, reaching up to theeaves, beating back the rays of the sun defi-antly and gaining fresh strength in the such a bush one day T counted
. St. Nicholas [serial]. for the carriages, on the-other a course for the horsemen, and in the cen-ter a noble inner avenue of trees set in a velvet-like carpet of grass; and here and there alongthe way, almost in touch of your hand from theopen car window, appears the Spanish dagger,with its green, sharp blades and its snowy, showyplume. Not far away stands a lowly negro cabin,where the sun beats down hot and fierce upona great straggling rose-bush, reaching up to theeaves, beating back the rays of the sun defi-antly and gaining fresh strength in the such a bush one day T counted two hun-dred and ninety roses. For weeks I have watched the spring comeon. I think it must be natures way of moving,this slow, slow pace of the South. In myNorthwestern home, where the snows are somedays suddenly swept away in a torrent of rainor under an unseasonably hot sun, there isno spring; only a few brief days of bud andburst—lo, before you lies the summer; and theswift leaves have lost their delicate green and. ALLIGATORS IN THE PAR the earth is thirsty for rain. But here the treesare so lazy! The live-oaks have been loitering ?9°3-] THE CITY THAT LIVES OUTDOORS. 419 along their way to greenness, the birds seemsleeping away the fair days, or else they havegone their way to the North, for I see no signsyet of my dear friends that used to come bymy window in the sweet, short springof the North — the grosbeak withthe dash of blood over his merryheart, and the scar-let tanager, and therichly liveried ori- ^.^oles, none ofthese, and thespring so slowin coming! may see through the frame-like branches of agiant live-oak the students of a great university
Size: 2089px × 1196px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthordodgemar, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookyear1873
