Business Journal . used to keep me in till stars were in the sky. I remember, I remember, how in Winters long ago I woke to find my attic bed half covered up with snow, And how the home-made socks of blue that patiently I wore Were knitted from the kind of stuff in Nestors shirt of yore, I remember, I remember, how we sat by candlelight And vainly tried to see to do our lessons overnight, And how before the glowing hearth from time to time W€ tunic (1,Because, alas! our hacks would freeze the while our faces burned. I remember, I remember, how our holidays were fewAnd father always found some
Business Journal . used to keep me in till stars were in the sky. I remember, I remember, how in Winters long ago I woke to find my attic bed half covered up with snow, And how the home-made socks of blue that patiently I wore Were knitted from the kind of stuff in Nestors shirt of yore, I remember, I remember, how we sat by candlelight And vainly tried to see to do our lessons overnight, And how before the glowing hearth from time to time W€ tunic (1,Because, alas! our hacks would freeze the while our faces burned. I remember, I remember, how our holidays were fewAnd father always found some chores we had to stav and do;In hoeing corn and sawing wood we got our dads old trousers for us boys were made a smaller remember, I remember, how the seasons came and we helped to reap the harvests, hut we never got a like to recollect it all and talk of it, I thank the Lord with all my heart those times arc overnow. —Minna Irving in The .V. ). Times. 57 ~.lVrY\ S-f~. FAC-SIMILE OF I 3Y W. E. DENNIS. BROOKLYN. N ,»**** I 21 OJrje Susinws Journal
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