Jonathan Janes was a highly esteemed citizen of Northfield. The family lived a little east on a rise of the mountain, and was at a convenient distance for many merry visits from their friends on the street.
Their relatives the Fields, Mattoons, and Janeses, made many a friendly call, and possibly a few selfish ones in the spring, when all were cheerful and merry around the golden maple sugar, the syrup or the wax which was cooled upon the white driven snow, and crackled in the mouth.
How great the change from our boyhood. The house and farm remain. The maples are cut down for fuel. The family are scattered; and the majority passed from earth.
Time works out its own changes, and hushes many a gleeful and innocent voice, and curtains with the somber shades of mourning.
Jonathan Janes was a highly esteemed citizen of Northfield. The family lived a little east on a rise of the mountain, and was at a convenient distance for many merry visits from their friends on the street.
Their relatives the Fields, Mattoons, and Janeses, made many a friendly call, and possibly a few selfish ones in the spring, when all were cheerful and merry around the golden maple sugar, the syrup or the wax which was cooled upon the white driven snow, and crackled in the mouth.
How great the change from our boyhood. The house and farm remain. The maples are cut down for fuel. The family are scattered; and the majority passed from earth.
Time works out its own changes, and hushes many a gleeful and innocent voice, and curtains with the somber shades of mourning.
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