. St. Nicholas [serial] . e meadow. And Cicely said it was close by the spring,But Polly was sure that the woodlands shadow Sheltered that magical fairy ring. So over the meadow they swiftly hied them,— Oh, but the bird in the blue sang sweet!They saw not the blush of the brier beside them, The violets smiling beneath their by the spring they lingered and listened; T was a diadem set in a mossy rim,And oh, the beauty that clustered and glistened In frail ferns falling about its brim! They sought in the wood for a wonder revealing. And saw not the leaves in a net , but the s
. St. Nicholas [serial] . e meadow. And Cicely said it was close by the spring,But Polly was sure that the woodlands shadow Sheltered that magical fairy ring. So over the meadow they swiftly hied them,— Oh, but the bird in the blue sang sweet!They saw not the blush of the brier beside them, The violets smiling beneath their by the spring they lingered and listened; T was a diadem set in a mossy rim,And oh, the beauty that clustered and glistened In frail ferns falling about its brim! They sought in the wood for a wonder revealing. And saw not the leaves in a net , but the song through the pine-tops stealing, And oh, that hush down the dim ways shed !Then, when the sun leaned lower to find them, Homeward they wandered a sorrowful way,And knew not the land they were leaving behind them, The rare, new land of a young June day ! But Dorothy thinks it is over the meadow,And Cicely says it is close by the spring; While Polly is sure that the woodlands shadowShelters the magical fairy ring ! 483. By Tudor Jenks. An old manuscript recently discovered by aGerman professor seems to indicate a very early-origin for the photographic camera. The original text is in Sanskrit, and the trans-lation is iaithful in all respects. The preamble,as usual, recites the titles of the potentate whofigures in the story, and I omit most of it. Thefirst sentence, however, helps us to fix the date. It runs thus: .In the period of rulers fromthe land over the sea, when the ice-bridgeexisted, in the times of the forefathers of theancestors of the forerunners; in the reign ofthe great, wise, strongest-in-battle and swiftest-in-retreat, the outrunner-of-the-chariots-of-the-five-toed-horses, in the thirteenth period afterthe slaying of the next-to-last toothed bird —and so on. The references to the glacial period, to theoriginal form of the present horse, and to thepterodactyl will convince any student of geol-ogy that this document is perhaps the oldest inexistence. Indeed, t
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