%.^^^ • I n •^^ ^ ^°-ni.. ■*^** .-:«»;•. \,/ .•■.^^•. v»* ••- •/■ JANUARY AND JUNE : DT Benj. F. Taylor. 'I NEW YOKK: OAKLEY AND MASON^ 21 MURRAY STREET. 1868. Katered aceordiog to Aft of CoDgress, in the year 1860, by D. B. COOKE AND CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Northern District of Illinois. ixf'i TO JOHN B. RICE. ESQ., The True Man, and Firm Friend, this little volume ig respectfully inscribed. C0 It t ^ n t s. iFirst 33art, FAOB Life 12 A Mystery 16 Pumpkins and Enterprise -'^ Death IS 'Onr Folks' 22 Jewelry 80 Finished 34 * Bugs' and Beauties 37 Ploughshares and Sorrows ^^ Our Defences 44 Digging for a * Subject' 50 Railway Magic 5 ; Fourth of July 64 It Rains 69 ' Movements' -- '^6 Hendom ^^ Chicken Pie 91 Vm CONTENTS PAGB Ilappiness ' at Cost* 96 Aerial Rehearsal O*? Domestic Enchantment 100 An Unscientific Chat about Music 104 The Wind and the Night 115 ♦The Stage is Coming' 124 A Summer Day in Haying 12*7 The Last Rose of Summer 139 Sccontr 31)art. Fall 143 Indian Sunmier ilS 'And Such a Change' 163 The Old Times and the New 157 Queer Estimates 160 A Voice from the Past 164 Waiting 166 No Room for Two* I'JO rhe Grammar of Lif