. St. Nicholas [serial]. N SUMMER IS PECULIARLY SILVERY. THIS IS ESPECIALLY APPARENTWHEN VIEWED ACROSS A SMALL LAKE OR POND. And all around me every bush and treeSays autumn s here, and winter soon will be,Who snows his soft, white sleep and silence overall. . While firmer ice the eager boy awaits, Trying each buckle and strap beside the fire, And until bedtime plays with his desire, Twenty times putting on and off his new-bought skates. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 75 POSSUM WAYS. There are few country boys living south ofa line running through New Jersey and west-ward to Ohio who do n
. St. Nicholas [serial]. N SUMMER IS PECULIARLY SILVERY. THIS IS ESPECIALLY APPARENTWHEN VIEWED ACROSS A SMALL LAKE OR POND. And all around me every bush and treeSays autumn s here, and winter soon will be,Who snows his soft, white sleep and silence overall. . While firmer ice the eager boy awaits, Trying each buckle and strap beside the fire, And until bedtime plays with his desire, Twenty times putting on and off his new-bought skates. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 75 POSSUM WAYS. There are few country boys living south ofa line running through New Jersey and west-ward to Ohio who do not know the mild funof a moonlight possum hunt, few who have notreached gingerly into some old hollow stumpand pulled out the smiling, unworried marsu-pial. Unless my experience is a very uncom-mon one, there are few boys within that districtwho have not taken their prize home, put himin a barrel to await the morning, and foundnext morning, to their chagrin, that he wouldnot stay in the barrel; there were greater at-. reached gingerly into some old hollow stump andpulled out the smiling, unworried marsupial. tractions outside. Later he took occasion inthe moonlight to go back to his home stump. Somehow it was always a relief to me whenthe possum did that. It was much more funto go out the next night through the corn-fieldslooking for him than killing and eating himwould have been. Possums are good to eat,but eating is not the whole of life,—even to asmall boy,—and killing is bad work.
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