then— His “guiding stars,” he said; While she demurely watched her wheel And spun with a shining thread. Frill, and ruffle, and curl are gone, But the “knickers” are with us still— And so is love and the spinning wheel, But we ride it now—if you will! [Pg 45]In grandfather’s “knickers” I sit and watch For the gleam of a lamp afar; And my heart still turns, as theirs, methinks, To my wheel and my guiding star.

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In the dust of the long ago,

For the step she had learned to know.

With frill and ruffle and curl—

When grandmother was a girl!

When they spoke of the things at all—

When he sallied forth to call.

His “guiding stars,” he said;

And spun with a shining thread.

But the “knickers” are with us still—

But we ride it now—if you will!

[Pg 45]

For the gleam of a lamp afar;

To my wheel and my guiding star.

[Pg 46]

[Pg 46]

The Love Story of the “Sage of Monticello”

American history holds no more beautiful love-story than that of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, and author of the Declaration of Independence. It is a tale of single-hearted, unswerving devotion, worthy of this illustrious statesman. His love for his wife was not the first outpouring of his nature, but it was the strongest and best—the love, not of the boy, but of the man.

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