. Little folks' own : stories, sketches, poems, and paragraphs, designed to amuse and benefit the young . THE SILVER BROOK. I MIND the spot behind the cot That smiled amid the corn,Where I, a child, by the leafing wild, Was wont, in the sunny morn,For thejSrst-oped buds of spring to look,By the velvet rim of the silver brook. And there we played in ?un and shade, Bub, and sissy, and I,Thinking it morn till the shrill-mouthed horn Bade us to dinner hie ;So fleet was time in the playhouse nook,Where the bluebird sang, by the silver brook. Oft startling there the silk-coat hare, The mother partri
. Little folks' own : stories, sketches, poems, and paragraphs, designed to amuse and benefit the young . THE SILVER BROOK. I MIND the spot behind the cot That smiled amid the corn,Where I, a child, by the leafing wild, Was wont, in the sunny morn,For thejSrst-oped buds of spring to look,By the velvet rim of the silver brook. And there we played in ?un and shade, Bub, and sissy, and I,Thinking it morn till the shrill-mouthed horn Bade us to dinner hie ;So fleet was time in the playhouse nook,Where the bluebird sang, by the silver brook. Oft startling there the silk-coat hare, The mother partridge too,O, many a shout our lips sent out, Till echo rang Halloo !Our life was gay as a picture book,When it flew by hours at the silver brook. Neath Autumns tread the ground was spread With carpet of dappled leaves,And beech nuts brown came pattering down Like rain from our cottage eaves ;Ha ! squirrel thieves from our baskets took,To store their home by the silver brook. 5 (49) THE LITTLE BEGGARS. Two beggars are at the door, mamma, Two beggars are at the door:A beggar boy and a beggar girl,And the
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