Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things

W Hamilton Gibson
AFIELD WITH NATURE AMONG FLOWERS AND ANIMATE THINGS
WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON
ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1899
Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers. All rights reserved.




I AM enjoying a book, a picture, a statue, or, say, a piece of music. I know these to be the finished works of the man or the woman, but I invariably hark back to the boy or the girl.
What I want to discover is the precise time, in the lives of certain boys and girls, when the steel first struck the flint, the spark flew, and out streamed that jet of fire which never afterwards was extinguished.