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ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLAND.
The children were now accustomed to assemble round Grandfather's chair at all their unoccupied moments; and often it was a striking picture to behold the white-headed old sire, with this flowery wreath of young people around him.

When he talked to them, it was the past speaking to the present, or rather to the future,--for the children were of a generation which had not become actual.

Their part in life, thus far, was only to be happy and to draw knowledge from a thousand sources.

As yet, it was not their time to do.
Sometimes, as Grandfather gazed at their fair, unworldly countenances, a mist of tears bedimmed his spectacles.