the personality of a person; to the child the accidents of voice and look
are charged with separate and unique character. Such a sense of place as
he got in a day within some forest, or in a week by some lake, so that a
sound or odour can bring it back in after days, with a shock--even such a
sense of single personality does a little watchful girl get from the
accents, the turns of the head, the habits of the hands, the presence of
a woman. Not all places, nor all persons, are so quick with the
expression of themselves; the child knows the difference. As for places
that are so loaded, and that breathe so, the child discerns them
passionately.

A travelled child multiplies these memories and has them in their
variety. His heart has room for many places that have the spirit of
place. The glacier may be forgotten, but some little tract of pasture
that has taken wing to the head of a mountain valley, a field that has
soared up a pass unnamed, will become a memory, in time, sixty years old.
That is a fortunate child who has tasted country life in places far
apart, who has helped, followed the wheat to the threshing-floor of a
Swiss village, stumbled after a plough of Virgil's shape in remoter
Tuscan hills, and gleaned after a vintage. You cannot suggest pleasanter
memories than those of the vintage, for the day when the wine will be
old.




THE BARREN SHORE


It may be a disappointment to the children each year at play upon so many