Show L i OS THE bisti r i if I 1 i 4 a 7 tv r 0 raial babar ay ja DAY SMALL SHAIA a I 1 zot tar and M act to alie 3 11 P or nr ida day Z doss n the bacr rc of a tiny pruned S 3 1 of an all the days ayd that tome uld aud go on wings wings as listless ds as those of cf the te mechanic wr who 0 is working by the day perhaps 5 the saddest and the ad most woe provoking provoke ang to the small scalf bo boy I 1 1 is ala that day upon on ia e hid th the e windows odthe ot the s sy y are thrown open and abts tl crystal rain comes do dowidat r v t m at the rate ai of a ce cents n ta on th the ao 60 dollar ua r i P 1 the average small boy would i rather ather r see e ten engagement ringe ringa on the finger of heilig bis big sister chati one tins around the moon because lh engagement ring on bisters finger means sun while the misty ring ar around aund the pale priestess of the night meads rate raia as surely aff the small boy 6 as it does to the larmer farmer 0 and imherr the small boy kno knows vs that a storm borni Is near ut at hand he h experiences ances that thrill of bf sorrow which camps out in the soul of a plumber lumber when he haars a d sing blithely eldna upends a bery cedar in the midd leot a january januar dy dg when atas it id so BO warm that are pawning their seals sealskin kin maciques bacques to provide themselves with tha necess necessary nry cash for the purchase let ice cream because a day of rain means as byich boy as it does doer to a dealer in umbrellas only ther meaning or significance ni ance is of a tena different tune of bourie course when it ita ades rois the umbrella lm brella man mells um umbrellas brellis and when ithen it is fine he dispenses sunshades eun shades 4 but when one man inan bl buss a gur sunshade shaded twenty will purl purchase umbrellas tuen ticen aa on i a one fine day a boy can play par bay imd and on a rainy day daf he can liay don unos the rain spoils the game of bailat iba e sunshine seriously affect the e game oft dominos yet the ifie boy li isais as hapy happy n on a fine day as the umbrella be illa man is on a rainy day 1 I lut when it is fine he is ii not perfectly happy because then he fears it my may a adai before tight night just as a rich man mt ha happy because being behig daiy il independent dependent but he be Is restless with a great gnawing pain night and day lest peradventure he lose leize his all now if fie lie could only buly enjoy chati peace of mand by the man ao bmw where his breakfast is coin coming ing from be he xo would uld be almost as happy as a sm small all boy when he sees the shaa sea suddenly alii burst st through thic the rain and through its 16 genial influence the earth mume the fhe of df dryness peau peculiar VP tp a salted codfish for then the small boy manipulates the grass with a significant twinkle in his lil s eye and ascertains tf the sun w will ill dry it for foi a game of ball or if it will the be necessary to get it into condition by ay a swift and vigorous a palica J tion of turkish ta awls Y another mccun ence that mortifies a small bo boy y even more than d to have hava his haircut hair cut by his ninth maith ji a pair aj of dull scissors with wobbling blades is to ta see sea a fine feathery snow mow storm tum turo luto jain he would as lief sea a plum am turn jurn ato a school teacher or a brick of arn into a tattle bottle of medicine aneer or a b brace race of turkey tarkey y drumsticks into a pair of pigs piat feet he would rather bave a rain storn sturn into than to have a snow storm into rain raft once there is no other oiher ednd of storm that fills ti a boy with the und kind of joy that thrills i a plumber umber while folding a blizzard bliz ird aard tb his heart in id fae face he does docs not regard lt as a storm at au he looks choa it ds as a bi benison ben lson nison and each bach to hi nim seems a blossom that f bight to deap develop CD into a watermelon glon tas as he 1361 at the snowfall against d an tv wood OA I 1 S fi ra airo dalr tae tafe tying yin fla keslo z ta ad b e weighted wei gated down with oneal plaz zb ananas and Musk ni muskmelons melons arhe jr be is of those happy small boys selected by fate to own a sled he is just as happy as Is ische the rich mans man 3 eon at that supreme when the gray day I 1 Is s dotted hirie here and therewith there alth white punctuation jie cause he avoul ld rather bf be lotan tle the snow than in tha rain the only thing the ever eter exerts it a disastrous i effect upon is the skating many a time hs has he gone forth in the d deep drifted snow to search for the nod i pond with his bis kii ackles and when he has located it iby the aid of in apple ap pp le trees aid ibid posts he has gone to work to chavel vel theano the now from its up heaving bosom with a v vim rn that i he never ei displays a at least ao to advantage while the snow enow from the tha sidewalk in front of Ms fd fathers houed A smalls boy vill work harder for fun ln in the snow than he will for money inthe id the ram aud it makes him mad to thann that strains an the il year r r round 11 rid and only snows stows during tha winter he would ue ahle to have chiv e shiow during the vacation period of forto for to him calfi ismore abre dismal and thau thas a buckwheat cake which his ls lost it its coy flexibility by being afo satio to a draft in which it has as assumed uv so rigid a chardi character that if dropped upon tate floor it will break into me many ny pieces rk like li i a saucer of the daintiest daintie st t of fragile wares 4 ar cannot nn t look upon the ra rain through the es of the poet aho sees in it goret oll et tr infinitely be beautiful i and sweet tt abe poet pes the croopin g refreshed ched dusty grasses it twinkling ln in the iridescent le jewel vel of the shower barc parched hed nature feature is iel relieved deved dia refreshed an and 0 the pu ph bared aired bf snow wrest rest upon the cis hilltops atule biti lle the birds flutter in ili the way i sido side trees tree ind and the then ii th the poet works k s it an all up ap lio into 0 a dinnee dinned sonnet winch if a sn successful escort two wo tons of coal at current rates fates but the baj bo cannot regard it in this chaste melodious fashion he can 11 only jul 1 regard itai it as afi an i of df croup and a thin upon which waddi hesni his other mother ca can n base aLgx cuse to td compel him to stay MY within for the purpose c of f studying his lessons A shower Is 13 a tiff can on his mental tailed tail md one that is filled with firecrackers florec a that explode at eawy jump evi eveta v while lehi he e enbe endeavors avora to ily fay through afonce a fence where there is picket miss missing ing and cann cannot ou bm because ac the can le 13 took atoo largejr large lar geor ifor tb the aperture t the small aby of come coarse M realizes ali that iaan rain must fall bat it if be coald h have ta his owe own about it he would have an tharald 1 jilin aln fill fan ont Sunday and nevera never a dro drop 1 of f jt it on saturday A thou thought glit of t the h equinoctial storm lq is to hini glim agats qt adream of tha jiing is to the gobbler perched in n cosy baitt bail lupon upon the topmost limb ot the elm 0 leand nd w henche that the moon dav wate wat watered erid fid ope the tides he tafu things t at queer that thet the rain Z jan only is shin adi above for th then mh about libut tenths ome tain would fiu fal I 1 wh when en he Is tacked in his bis feather feath sr i cor corch ch ind and lo 10 lyst in a pleasant that is only dt arbea w bhea heair the e mata rp rap iian upon his that it ins is timeto ma to barise avd and prepare kep are far forthe the dire ordeal al 41 IL a G |