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Show JOYFUL SONG OF THE CRICKET. V Its Remembrance Almost Stirs Maine 1 Editor to Poetry. J Tho song of the cricket is associate ed with somo of the most Joyful events in life, with full granaries and heaping cellars, with bending or- chards, where squirrels scamper and cough along the walls, with hazy hills and misty vales, with mellow sunlight and sliver moonlight, with kissing parties in the old farmhouses, and with seeing the rosy-cheeked girl ' homo along the country road, and 1 with standing by her side at the front 1 gate, until tho old stars went down in the west and new stars peeped above the eastern hills. How tho crickets did sing on those nights! And they said "Cheer up" as plainly as could bo! Why any fellow should wish to cheer up, or how he could possibly need to cheer up, when standing close up alongside of a nice ) girl to keep the bears away, Is a ques- 1 tion that we refuse to answer; and It , floes not matter In the least, for if the crickets had cried for us to feel bad wo should have disobeyed them and would do so now, If wo had tho chance. Bangor News. |
