| Show BURDENED WITH ODD NAMES some of those inflicted on colonial children would seem to be the I limit given names of colonial children were often strange one richard gridley had three children return believe and tremble edward ben deus children were named true grace reform hoped for more mercy and restore tho the children of richard clap were named experience waitstill preserved Hop Hopes estill lill wait thanks desire unite and supply madam austin an early settler of narragansett had 16 children their names were parvis pierius Pier sus Pria emus polybius lois lettice avis anstice eunice ma mary ry john elizabeth freelove Pre elove all lived to be seventy one to be one hundred and two very common names were these deliverance temperance endurance patience silence submit rejoice comfort peace joy faith charity one child which arrived after its father had died in a snowstorm was called Father gone A baby born on a ship was named selborn seaborn the rural appeal to be out of 0 doors Is the normal condition of the natural man at some period of our ancestral life so dim in our thought but so potential in our temper disposition and physique we have all lived so to speak in the open air and although althou gli city born and city bred we turn to the country with an instinctive feeling that we ue belong there there are a few cockneys cock to whom the sound of dow bow bells ls la sweeter ter than alian the note of 0 the bluebird the resonant clarion of 0 chanticleer or the far off bleating of sheep but to the immense majority of men these noises s are like sounds sound that were familiar sn in childhood I 1 have sometimes thought that the deepest charm of the country lies in the tha tact fact that it was the home and playground of the childhood odthe of the race und however long some of ia havo been departed from it it stirs within us rare me memories morles and associations which are imperishable the lowing of the cattle coming home nt at night fall the tho bleating of sheep on the hill side pastures the crowing of the cock are older than any human speed which now ehlts exl ts they were ancient sounds before our oldest histories wert were written I 1 know of nothing to the man who comes out of the hent beat and and dust of the city in mid summer T ii NY mable |
