Do you see that shining thing with bright-red patches of color?
It is an old tomato-can; a robin has built her nest in it; there are three dear little birds inside; the mother-bird is away, and I wanted you to come before she returned.

Isn't it lucky that I should have found that?
And here, in our own grounds?
I don't believe there was ever another robin who made her nest in a tomato-can!" Doubtless the two birds who had made that nest sincerely loved each other; and there were at that moment a great many other birds, and a great many men and women, in the same plight, but never anywhere did any human being possess a soul so happy as that of Margaret at that moment.
"Roland," she said, "when I first knew you, you would not have noticed such a little thing as that." "I couldn't afford it," he said.
"It is the sweetest charm of all your triumphs!" said she.
"What is ?" he asked.
"That you feel able to afford it now," answered Margaret.
Samuel Block and his wife Sarah found that life grew pleasanter as they grew older.

Fortunate winds had blown down to them from the distant north; the substantial rewards of the enterprise were eminently satisfactory, and the honors which came to them were not at all unwelcome even to the somewhat cynical Samuel.
Sitting one evening with his wife before a cheering fire--for both of them were wedded to the old-fashioned ways of keeping warm--Sammy laid down the daily paper with a smile.
"There's an account here," he said, "of a lot o' fools who are goin' to fit out a submarine-ship to try to go under the ice to the pole, as we did.

They may get there, and they may get back; they may get there, and they may never get back; and they may never get there, and never get back; but whichever of the three it happens to be, it'll be of no more good than if they measured a mile to see how many inches there was in it." "Sammy," exclaimed Sarah, "I do think you are old enough to stop talkin' such nonsense as that.

To be sure, there was a good many things that I objected to in that voyage to the pole.