Older, and Knew More.
A Brooklyn gentleman tells a new story of Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. Beecher was a great preacher and a great teacher, but he was also not above admitting that he was a student as well, and had things to learn and to unlearn. Dining with the gentleman who relates the incident, the probability of a civil war was discussed. It was the year 1859.
"Oh no," said Mr. Beecher, positively, "the South will never make war on the question of slavery alone. And it has no other ground. Slavery will be abolished, first in the border States of Kentucky and Tennessee, and gradually southward to the Gulf. The controversy is spirited, but war will not come."
Late in 1861, when the war was raging and the Northern cause was darkest, the great divine lunched with a parishioner, and the gentleman first named was also a guest. Reminded of his prediction, the question was put,
"What do you think now?"
"I am three years older, and know more," was Mr. Beecher's reply.
Kinks.
No. 8.—More Poetical Pictures.—Birds.
Fill in the blanks with the names of the birds answering the description, and find out the authors' names. Answers will be published soon.
"The gentle ****, weary of rest,
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high and wakes the morning." (1)
"The **** hath sung beneath the thatch
Twice or thrice his roundelay." (2)
"The noisy ***,
Jargoning like a foreigner at his food; (3)
The ********, balanced on some topmost spray,
Flooding with melody the neighborhood." (4)
"The ****, round-breasted as a rustic maiden,
Paddles and plunges, busy still." (5)
"O what a winning way thou hast of wooing,
Gentlest of all thy race—sweet ******-****!" (6)
"The ******, then, on every tree, (7)
Mocks married men, for thus sings he, ***-***!" (8)
"The call of the ********
Is frequent and pleasant
When all other calls are hushing." (9)
"The **** high floating, like a sloop unladen,
Lets the loose water waft him as it will." (10)
"Alone, and warming his five wits,
The ***** *** in the belfry sits." (11)
"The tawny ***** seats his callow brood
High on the cliff, and feasts his young with blood." (12)
"The *********** begins his song
Most musical, most melancholy bird." (13)
"'Tis the merry ***********
That crowds and hurries and precipitates
With fast, thick warble his delicious notes." (14)
Answers to Kinks.
No. 7.
1, Stork—Longfellow. 2, Sparrow—George Parsons Lathrop. 3, Robin; 4. Bluebird; 5, Sparrows; 6, Crows—Longfellow. 7, Swallows—James Barron Hope. 8, Partridge; 9, Woodpecker; 10, Oriole—J. T. Trowbridge. 11, Jay—William Howitt. 12, Thrush—John Clare. 13, Peacock—James Barron Hope.