KD8367 WARD COLLEGE LIBRARY SHELDON UND JULY 10 +340 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 185%, y SAMUEL HUESTON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the JOHN A. GRAY, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER, 95 & 97 CLIFF STREET. то Stephen W. Taylor, LL.D., PRESIDENT OF MADISON UNIVERSITY, WHO HAS PASSED A LIFE, LOOKING NATURE IN THE FACE, AND INTERPRETING HER EXPRESSION, THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. Preface. A LITTLE Preface to a little Book is a jewel: so these random sketches are not portionless. Some body has declared that 'water runneth by the Mill, the Miller wots not of;' and, for proof thereof, lo! here a little, caught in the hollow of one's hand. Not enough, indeed, to turn a wheel, but to quench, may-be, a rose's or a robin's thirst; to baptize an infant love of Nature; to sparkle in dews, on opening leaves of Thought. Hark! says the mother, as she soothes the restless child. child. Now, Nature is the mother, and I-the |