American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Sunday schools -- United States -- Periodicals
_Oct. 1._ LITTLE BROWN MAIDEN _Kate Greenaway._
_Oct. 15._ ON NANTUCKET SHORE _F. Childe Hassam._
_Nov. 1._ IN GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN _W. T. Smedley._
_Nov. 15._ THE DREAM PEDLER _Edmund H. Garrett._
_Dec. 1._ MORNING _F. H. Lungren._
_Dec. 15._ EVENING _F. H. Lungren._
_Jan. 1._ WILD DUCKS _Charles Volkmar._
_Jan. 15._ IN HOLLAND _F. Childe Hassam._
_Feb. 1._ THE THREE FISHERS _Thomas Hovendon._
_Feb. 15._ UNDER THE ELECTRIC LIGHT _F. H. Lungren._
_Mar. 1._ TWO CONNOISSEURS _T. W. Wood, N. A._
_Mar. 15._ LOST _W. L. Taylor._
_Apr. 1._ THE PIPERS _Jessie Curtis Shepherd._
_Apr. 15._ ON EASTER DAY _W. L. Taylor._
_May 1._ THE YOUNG EMPEROR COMMODUS _Howard Pyle._
_May 15._ A VENETIAN AFTERNOON _Joseph Pennell._
=D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY, Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Sts., Boston.=
_Volume 13, Number 31._ Copyright, 1886, by D. LOTHROP & CO.
_June 5, 1886._
THE PANSY.
[Illustration: "THE LITTLE GIRL MOVING THE DASHER."]
SIX O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING.
LORD, EVERMORE GIVE US THIS BREAD.
THOU ART THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.
YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM REJOICED TO SEE MY DAY: AND HE SAW
IT AND WAS GLAD.
"WHY, you've found another verse about bread!" said Grandma, then her
eyes grew thoughtful.
"Association is a queer thing, children; association of ideas, I
mean." (Some people might think that Grandma Burton used large words
in talking to her grandchildren; but the fact was, she did not try
very hard to make her words little. Not that she selected long ones;
her language was always simple; but words which they would be likely
to hear among cultured people, or to see in their books, she aimed to
use in talking with them. If they did not understand a word, they were
always at liberty to ask its meaning. The consequence was, they were
quite intelligent children, and the phrase, "association of ideas," did
not trouble the older ones in the least. As for little Sarah she did
not bother her brains about it, yet awhile.)
"Now you wouldn't suppose," continued Grandma, "that there was anything
in that verse to make me think of a large, old-fashioned farm-house
kitchen, with a wooden bowl on the table, and a wooden spoon hanging
over it, and old-fashioned dishes arranged on the shelf above it, and
a woman in a straight dress, and neck handkerchief, bending over the
bread-bowl, and a little girl with a high-necked apron on, standing
before an old-fashioned churn, moving the dasher up and down, yet I see
all those things as plainly as though it was yesterday morning, instead
of sixty odd years ago."
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