work, and when his school was finished, it was pronounced the best the district
had had for many years.

So teaching and studying, Ned went on, until after a few more years Pro-
fessor Dawson resigned, and Ned was called upon to take his place. So any
boy who desires can gain an education if he will make the most of his oppor-
tunities, for “‘where there’s a will there’s a way” is as true to-day as years ago.

D GE

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we

Ghe Summer's Call.

OME away! The sunny hours - Dreamy, starry, greenly bright—

Woo thee far to founts and bowers! Come away!

O’er the very waters now Where the boughs with dewy gloom

In their play. Darken each thick bed of bloom.
Flowers are shedding, beauties glow— ' Come away!
Come away!

Where the lilies’ tender gleam,
Quivers on the glancing stream—
Come away! i

 

In the deep heart of the rose
- Now the crimson love-hue glows;

Now the glow-worm’s lamp by night
Sheds a ray,

Dreamy, starry, greenly bright—
Come away!

Where the fairy cup-moss lies

With the wild-wood strawberries
Come away!

All the air is filled with sound,

Soft and sultry, and profound;

Murmurs through the shadowy grass,
Lightly stray;

Faint winds whisper as,they pass,

: Come away! Now each tree by summer crown’d
Where the bee’s deep music swells Sheds its own rich twilight round;
From the trembling foxglove bells, Glancing there from sun to shade,

Come away. Bright wings play;

There the deer its couch hath made—

In the skies the sapphire blue __ Come away!
Now has won its richest hue; Where the smooth leaves of the lime
In the woods the breath of song Glisten in their honey-time—

Sheds a ray, Come away—away.