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I have enough turkeys for all of our birthdays and holidays. I raised a great many flowers and I worked several days in the field. In all I have told about I have had no help but Jerrine. Clyde's mother spends each summer with us, and she helped me with the cooking and the babies.
The idea might include birthdays and weddings. A firm would do the business thoroughly. They would see that all your friends paid up I mean sent presents; and they would not forget to send to your most important relative. There is only one member of our family capable of leaving a shilling; and of course if I forget to send to any one it is to him.
On memorial festivals, and especially on the birthdays, a mother's soul needs a prayer and a gift from the son, a wreath, a fillet, fragrant ointment, a piece of honey, a cup of wine or milk all these things even the poor man spares from his penury yet a warm prayer, in pure remembrance and love, would suffice to rob the wrath of Nemesis, which the enraged barbarian girl let loose upon you, of its power.
They were all tired. Verena came for a minute into Pauline's little room. "I am too sleepy even to brush my hair in your room to-night, Paulie," she said. "I am too sleepy to talk about our long happy day. What a pile of presents you have got! Don't you think you have had a perfect birthday? I only wish mine was near at hand." "It will come in good time," said Pauline; "and even birthdays "
The child was fond of birthdays, while he had reached a time of life when they had ceased to have any interest for him. Most of us, if we live long enough, experience that indifference. The birthday emotion vanishes with the toys that awaken it.
On their birthdays men made offerings to their Genius, women to their Juno. A modern poet thus alludes to some of the Roman gods: "Pomona loves the orchard, And Liber loves the vine, And Pales loves the straw-built shed Warm with the breath of kine; And Venus loves the whisper Of plighted youth and maid, In April's ivory moonlight, Beneath the chestnut shade." Macaulay, "Prophecy of Capys."
Our daily existence was full of fun, and Christmas, New Years, Fourth of July, and birthdays were delirious. This is normal and natural and logical. Religious faith is a central heating plant it warms and energizes one's whole existence. It gives a reason for life itself, for development.
Now don't you dare open it before Tuesday, and, dear, you may be sure it is a 'white gift, and may you have a 'white birthday'." And before she could say a word, he had opened the door, and was gone. Touched by his thoughtful gift and his words, she said to herself: "A 'white birthday! I always have perfectly beautiful birthdays."
Miss Ansted was introduced at seventeen. The prospect was illimitable. "'Do people always grow much on their birthdays? asked one of the little ones.
As she climbed the wall, she looked back to nod good-by to the pretty lady; but the meadow was empty, and all she saw was the grass blowing in the wind. "Now, deary, run out and play, for birthdays come but once a year, and we must make them as merry as we can," said granny, as she settled herself for her afternoon nap, when the Saturday cleaning was all done, and the little house as neat as wax.
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