built one to equal it. I often thought how nice it would be if I could 
     
     go like the birds and visit strange lands, and sail over great seas, and 
     
     live in summertime always. I would not need to carry a trunk; I 
     
     would have beautiful clothing all the time, free meals and free pas- 
     
     sage wherever I wished to go, and plenty of cheerful companions. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It was a beautiful illustration of God’s care for us, that Jesus 
     
     used when he told us to consider the birds and the flowers, how they 
     
    
   
   
    
     are clothed and provided for. The One who guides the birds and 
     
    
   
   
    
     provides for them will guide us and provide for us too. Browning 
     
     expressed this: 
     
    
   
   
    
     "I see my way as hirds their trackless way. 
     
     I shall arrive, what time, what circuit first, 
     
    
   
   
    
     I ask not, but . . . . 
     
     In some time, His good time, I shall arrive 
     
    
   
   
    
     He guides me and the birds.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     William Cullen Bryant’s “Lines to a Waterfowl” conclude: 
     
    
   
   
    
     "He, who from zone to zone, 
     
     Guides through the boundless slay thy certain flight, 
     
     In the long way that I must tread alone 
     
    
   
   
    
     Will lead my steps aright.” 
     
     DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND BIRDS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Besides horses and cattle we kept large flocks of sheep, geese, 
     
     turkeys, hens and a goo-d number of pigs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Springtime on the Farm 
     
    
   
   
    
     Springtime was full ”of exciting surprises for us children. Nearly 
     
     every morning, when we went out, there would be some new arrival: 
     
     a calf just learning to walk, or an innocent looking little lamb, or a 
     
     beautiful foal, or a litter of cunning little pigs struggling with all 
     
     their might to get the place where the most milk was for breakfast.‘ 
     
     They would act like naughty children, crowding one another for 
     
     the best place. It was great fun for us. We would watch for the 
     
     goslings and chickens to come out, and would take great delight 
     
    
   
   
    
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