All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar,
And this way the water comes down at Lodore.
FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote A: Robert Southey, an English poet, wrote these lines, not
for _our_ "Nursery," but for all nurseries where children are gathered
and taught. The Cataract of Lodore is near Keswick, Cumberland County,
England. Robert Southey died in the year 1813.]




BOILING MAPLE-SUGAR.


Most of the sugar we use is made from the sugar-cane, which grows in
warm countries. But in France they make a good deal of sugar from beets;
and in North America, where the sugar-maple-tree grows, some very nice
sugar is made from its sap.

Early in spring, while the weather is yet cold, and before the trees
have begun to show many signs of life, it is the time for tapping the
maples.

The sun, which has already begun to make his power felt by melting the
snow, and leaving great green patches here and there on the cleared
lands, has kissed the rugged trunks of the trees, and has set the sweet
sap mounting through every vein and tissue.

Now is the time to set the troughs in order, and to bore the holes for