the vine?
Can you put the dewdrops back on the flowers, and make them
sparkle and shine?
Can you put the petals back on the rose? If you could, would it
smell as sweet?
Can you put the flour again in the husk, and show me the ripened
wheat?
Can you put the kernel back in the nut, or the broken egg in its
shell?
Can you put the honey back in the comb, and cover with wax each
cell?
Can you put the perfume back in the vase, when once it has sped
away?
Can you put the corn-silk back on the corn, or the down on the
catkins--say?
You think that my questions are trifling, dear? Let me ask you
another one:
Can a hasty word ever be unsaid, or a deed unkind, undone?

KATE LAWRENCE.




THE BRAVEST BOY IN TOWN.


He lived in the Cumberland Valley,
And his name was Jamie Brown;
But it changed one day, so the neighbors say,