Very tender are the pastoral banks and brooksides of LEAFHOPPER.

In dusty pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun; The sedges flaunt their harvest In every meadow nook, And asters by the brookside Make asters in the brook; From dewy lanes at morning The grapes' sweet odors rise; At noon the roads all flutter With yellow butterflies By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

So here, by brookside, all alone, I sit me down and make my moan.

Long agoa long, long time agoin fact, when he was a boy, and loved dearly a child like himself, a child who is now a fair and beautiful-browed woman, and who smiles with a dreamy, thoughtful expression, when his face comes to herlong ago, flowers were very bright in the bright May day, by a country brookside.

The sedges flaunt their harvest In every meadow nook; And asters by the brookside Make asters in the brook.

How do "Asters by the brookside make asters in the brook"? Give in your own words the tokens of September mentioned in the poem.

For three most happy days Mary rejoiced in her lover's society, Maulevrier was with them everywhere, by brookside and fell, on the lake, in the gardens, in the billiard-room, playing propriety with admirable patience.

When he returned to the brookside he found that Mary had undone her bundle and spread out its contents.

She haled him away to the brookside.

I know a lovely road out Brookside Avenue way.

CHAPTER XIII ALONG A BROOKSIDE ROAD "Oh, here you are!" cried Polly from the doorway, just beyond Mrs. Bonnyman.

It was the only thing that could prevent my zealous friend from dragging me forcibly down to the brookside.

Few country boys could walk along such a stream unheeding its fascinations, especially when the doors of a school house opened at the farther end, and many an hour when studies should have claimed him, he was sitting by the brookside, care-free and contented, delightedly fishing.

Come, gather wild flowers, from the brookside and dell, And fruit from the orchard you once loved so well, And feast on the sugar, fresh made from the grove, Where you and your brothers delighted to rove.

And by a brookside on a summer noon The pair sat down and sang; but Daphnis led The song, for Daphnis was the challenger.

Creswick had a better feeling for nature, but convention in his methods gave place to trick, and I remember his showing me the way in which he produced detail in a pebbly brookside, by making the surface of his canvas tacky and then dragging over it a brush loaded with pigment which caught only on the prominences, and did in a moment the work of an hour of faithful painting.

Every walk over hill and dale, every ramble by brookside or through wildwood, gave to her some fresh home-adornment.

"I don't believe we could except in a place like this where any plant can have his taste suited with meadow or brookside or woods or rocks.

In my own homely pasture I have found the dainty wild rose, the little field strawberries so fragrant and spicy, the blue berries high and low, so desirable for "pie-fodder," and daisies and ferns in abundance, and, in an adjoining meadow by the brookside, the cardinal flower and the blue gentian.

They are older now, and are no mean anglers, I believe; but they look back gratefully to those brookside lessons, and acknowledge gladly their obligations to Fishin' Jimmy.