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 SCENES IN THE COUNTRY AND !grand marble or granite warehouse filled
 THE CITY. with the most costly goods.
i~-." .O\V enchanting are country All these things are, indeed, attractive
 S scenes to city children. Little to city children, but they are perfect
 do those brought up in the marvels of interest to the children from
 country know with what de- the country.
light those from the city look upon every Can we ever forget our first visit to
tree and shrub and flower, upon every the city, when eleven years of age? Oh,
stream and hillside and meadow, in their no. When we first came in sight of it,
visits to such scenes. in the distance, and saw such a pile of
 Then with what wonder do the chil- brick buildings, with the dome of the
dren from the country gaze upon the State House towering above them, and
many beautiful and attractive things in such a forest of church steeples and
the city. What a marvel are the splen- masts of ships, how the cold chills ran
did mansions, broad and pleasant streets over us, almost as if we were approach-
all smoothly paved, all kinds of stores ing an army all ready for battle.
and warehouses, with every variety of When we entered the city, what a
things for sale, all exposed so temptingly source of wonder were the signs. We
in the huge windows with their immense could never cease gazing at those of the
panes of glass, from the little candy-shop apothecary shops. Here was hung up a
with everything pleasant to the eye and golden mortar and pestle, or the gilded
sweet to the taste of children, to the bust of a venerable man, perhaps of the