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. 1878 Excerpt: …glad it needn’t be me. I want to study a great deal more, but I would like to have more of chemistry and botany and geology, and all those live things, and not so much Latin and Greek and mathematics. They must have put an uncommon lot of mother earth into me, for I do love gardening and such things, and I ‘11 show you a thing or two yet. There’s that vacant lot; if I only could contrive–’ ‘What an unsatisfied mortal!’ said Charley, laughing. ‘Here you’ve been fairly working miracles, and now you F THEY WERE All. SINOINO NOW, THE BOYS’ VOICES HINGLINU FINELY WITH THEIR Mother’s Sweet, Full Tones.–See page 83. go sighing after vacant lots, like Alexander, with no more worlds to conquer. ‘ 'Come in out of the night air, ’ said Mrs. Bruce, pushing open the blinds to let the soft moonlight brighten the little parlour. ‘I want to see how the dear old piano sounds after its long vacation.’ She struck the keys softly, and, after a long, sweet prelude, began to play the simple melodies she loved best. ‘It seems good to hear folk over in the house again, ’ said Janet to herself as she brought her knitting to the back door, and sat there listening. Captain Grimes, too, felt a bit lonely without Eddy’s bright face in his study, and looked over a little curiously toward the cottage as he listened to the music. They were all singing now, the boys’ voices mingling finely with their mother’s sweet, full tones, in the grand old hymn which they had sung together in hours of dark, ness as well as of triumph: ‘God is my strong salvation, What foe have I to fear? In darkness and temptation My light, my strength is near; Though hosts encamp around me, Firm in the fight I stand; What peril can confound me With God at my right hand?’ And then came the sweet…