Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 117
ofthe battles to be fought, laurels to be won, in the forth-coming. This is why I like autumn better than summer. PRIDE BY A. S. BEHRMAN (AGE 16) {Silver Badge) Is t pride,To scorn the honest labor of the handsAnd hold yourself aloof from laboring man;Boasting of ignorance of manual work,Whose… … TRAVELING. BY MARY E. EKWIN, AGE 13. Not so;For honest labor s but noblesse oblige,Since honesty is true nobility.Why hold aloof from honors noblest ranks,And, ignorant, boast your inability ?Nay, brother mine, not this the heavnly prideThat God has givn us for our earthly guide. List now :To be…
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