Show walter scotts mother As an young walter was waa one of 0 mikey children lo lie coull not of 0 ti ourse ruo nopo lizi the mothers lao tharD attention but probably she ebo recognized tho the promise of liia his future greatness unlike the mother of this Dake or of who thought arthur the family duties anil and gave him a I 1 oare care for speaking enking ep of ill bai early tic chood he ha tells tell usi 1 an toofil ell consolation la in the partiality cl cf my ay mother and aej he bo goes on to siy say that she aib joined to a light and hippy happy temper tamper of mind a strong turn to study poetry anil and works of imig I 1 ria tion like the mothers ot of the ettrick shepherd ephord Bb anil and of bf burns she bho repeated to her son the ballads ballai js tho she linew knew by heart beart and so ao soon boon as aa he bo was ml ad hanood his leisure hours were usually spout apont in reading popes pope a translation of homer aloud to her which with the exception of a air anil and of allu ramsays Hima Ram aya says songs was the alio first poetry ho bo mails made acquaintance with it must oft ottea u have been with anxiety ety aqil and sometimes samo timea not without a straggle that his hia mother solicitous solicit ons about every trilla trifle which affected tho the training of her child on oa the books which she was to lo in ia his hands bands she wished him to javelos liia intellectual faculties bat not at the expense of lis bis spiritual and romantic rom antio frivolity anil and mental ills dig si pation on oil the one hand od and a too severe bevera repress ion dangerous danger ons in its at after tor reliction ou on tho the other were the scylla and between which she abo had to steer tho the puritan ism of her training ruining end and surroundings would natu have hare led her to the narrower nat and moro more restrictive view in which tier her yet would have hava heartily hoat concurred bat her broad sense quickened by tits the marvelous in sigl that comes irom from maternal ina love led her to adopt the broader and we may safely add with sir bir walters career and before us ua tho the better batter course her courage was wai however tem tempered perel with a wise discretion and when ho be read to her she ehe was waa wont he says to make liim him 11 pause upon those passages pua agai which generous geue roas and nd worthy sentimental a most moat happy method of education unit anil a most effect ITO ire one ona to in the case of an all impressionable bay A little later when he passed from the tha educational care of his mother to that ot of a t tutor ator his hid relations to lit ill changed OR an the following pas paa bage from froin lis his autobiography will show 61 my tutor thought it a sin fin to open a profane play or poem anil and my mother had no longer thu the opportunity to hear cio rend poetry as aa formerly tor meily I 1 found howe however veru n her dressing room where I 1 slept at oua one time somo some odd volumes of shakespeare nor can I 1 easily with I 1 sat gat un in ia my shirt rending reading them by the tha light of 0 a fire in her apartment until the lie bustle of the tha family rising from lop up pet warned mo me that it was wag tina time to creep ear link to m my y bed bad where I 1 was waa supposed to lava have boon been safely deposited since 9 f frood good words |