American Miscellany of Entertaining Knowledge Volume 3 (9781130563405)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...as happy as the bees and the butterflies that were sipping honey from the flowers beneath our windows. Yet was my young heart so full of sorrow, that it overflowed its banks, and bitter tears were shed. 152 OUR FIRST GREAT SORROW. We buried little Freddy in the orchard where we loved to play. Some of our playmates, who knew him, and lamented his loss, came to see him for the last time, to mingle their tears with ours, and to aid us in committing his remains to the grave. It was at the evening twilight hour when we buried our pet. Wo raised a mound over his grave, covered it with green turf, and strewed it over with flowers. Then we set up a little pine slab, with an inscription upon it in rude letters, telling the name, and rehearsing some of the virtues of our Freddy, when we walked slowly, silently, thoughtfully, tearfully away. How desolate Freddy's cage looked for days and weeks after that! We could not bear to have it before our eyes, I remember, and so we removed it to a dark corner of the garret. This was our first great sorrow. Men with the weight of half a century upon their shoulders, and some of the snow of age beginning to settle upon their temples, might laugh at such a childish grief, were they to see it exhibited by some of their little friends. But Uncle Frank, albeit no longer a romping child, would look back upon such a scene, even now, as the burial of a cherished bird, with real, honest sorrow. Aye, and I do believe that, were I to see a group of boys and girls mournfully and lovingly committing their pet to the grave, I should want to be one of the mourners, and tell them I felt sorry for them. I wonder if this feeling--which will come up in my breast, struggle against it as I may--is the " second childhood " which they talk a...

Product details

• Format Paperback | 80 pages
• Dimensions 189 x 246 x 4mm | 159g
• Publication date 01 Mar 2012
• Publisher Rarebooksclub.com
• Publication City/Country United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 1130563405
• ISBN13 9781130563405

Download American Miscellany of Entertaining Knowledge Volume 3 (9781130563405).pdf, available at ebookdownloadfree.co for free.

>DOWNLOAD NOW<