How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 101
face had broken loose from theclouds of winter, and the rain and mists of spring. Theysymbolized the revolution of the season by rolling greatwooden wheels down the hill-sides ; sometimes attaching strawto the outer circle and setting fire to it at night, making aminiature midnight sun as it dashed… … Midsummer-eve Party. Midsummer Eve. 85 Misfortune represented as travelling, like an acrobat at a circus,upon a wheel. All the elves, brownies, and fay^ were supposed to be onhand at midsummer night, and it is this old superstition thatShakespeare has so beautifully illustrated in his…
