AUTUMNAL LEAVES. AUTUMNAL LEAVES: TALES AND SKETCHES IN PROSE AND RHYME. BY L. MARIA CHILD. I speak, as in the days of youth, In simple words some earnest truth. NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO., 554 BROADWAY. BOSTON:--53 DEVONSHIRE STREET. 1857. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, BY C. S. FRANCIS & CO., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. Several of the articles contained in this volume have appeared in various periodicals ten or twelve years ago. Others have been recently written, during the hours that could be spared from daily duties. CONTENTS. PAGE THE EGLANTINE, 9 A SERENADE, 46 THE JURYMAN, 47 THE FAIRY FRIEND, 65 WERGELAND, THE POET, 72 THE EMIGRANT BOY, 79 HOME AND POLITICS, 96 TO THE TRAILING ARBUTUS, 119 THE CATHOLIC AND THE QUAKER, 121 THE RIVAL MECHANICIANS, 143 A SONG, 165 UTOUCH AND TOUCHU, 166 THE BROTHER AND SISTER, 181 THE STREAM OF LIFE, 200 THE MAN THAT KILLED HIS NEIGHBOURS, 203 INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS, 221 THE WORLD THAT I AM PASSING THROUGH, 231 JAN AND ZAIDA, 233 TO THE NASTURTIUM, 268 THE ANCIENT CLAIRVOYANT, 269 SPIRIT AND MATTER, 291 THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, 302 I WANT TO GO HOME, 364 THE EGLANTINE, A simple Love Story, FOUNDED ON A ROMANTIC INCIDENT, WHICH OCCURRED IN THE FAR WEST, ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO.