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Show I THE SAXE FAMILY. Natural Boru Pouls-A Seveu-Vear-Old Ueuins. Certain characteristics ,ofton pervade per-vade families, and genius sometimes crops out in successive generations iu an unexpected manner. Here ia a seeming illustration, or rather what' promises to be one: Rev. Alfred Saxe was the cousin of John G. Saxo, the poet of whom Brooklyn is eo justlv proud. He died many years ago, aud one of hie grandchildren, Nellie, lives iu this city. She is a bright, vivacious, golden liain-d child of 7 yflara, who hm taught herself to read, aud auks as many questions in a day as would take a volume of the uew American Cyclopoalia to answer. an-swer. From the first she has taken a great interest in poetry, and singularly enough, even when reading alouil poems entirely beyond her youthful comprehension, manifests a conception concep-tion of the rhyujth by infiVline her voice inancnrcUnno iKamuilili Wku , but six years old, Bhe was looking out of the window, when sfae suddenly turned to an auut and said: Three little ehiMr-n out in a storm, Without any oi..tho3 to k p the us-elves Her aunt being struck with the re marks entrusted it to writing. The child, noticing this, went te her Ust Valentiue's-day, and requested her to indite a valentine to a little baby she knew. Toe lady cosuplied, aud the child without hesitation spoko as follows: Duar baby, you are an anjjsl BWect, You have such cunnine hands and feot. JJiOio big brewn oyo ttiat you have got I I Rive thara kiiies, suco a lot; Thoy ar as sweat as many things. T liia is all I can say tj-night, 1 And ao I bid a sweet good night. Since then Nellie has composed othor things, some batter and some worse thau the foregoing bat all remarkable for a child who has jut passed her seventh birthday. Pope is said to have "lisped iu number, " and why may it not be possible that a poetic germ exists in the soul of this little Brooklyn girl, whose blood comes from the same stock as that of one who has already made for himself him-self a name and place in American literature. Brooklyn Eagle. |