All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

Chapter 75: A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION

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A varied anthology of travel sketches, short tales, poems, and domestic vignettes by multiple contributors, offering lively impressions of foreign cities and countryside alongside thrilling adventures and gentle children’s stories. Pieces range from first-person travel sketches that capture street scenes, markets, and local customs to whimsical and moral short fiction and occasional verse. The collection alternates descriptive reportage and imaginative narratives, often accompanied by illustrations, and emphasizes vivid sensory detail, folk practices, everyday amusements, and small moral or comic resolutions, providing a blend of light entertainment, practical observation, and homely sentiment.

A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION

By The Editor.

WINTER TO SUMMER.

“I would not be so friendly with the sun;—

Hot-headed fellow, prying everywhere!

My flowers brightly bloom when he is gone,

And sparkle in the clear and frosty air.”

SUMMER TO WINTER.

“Winter, I own your icy blossoms fair,

But cold and white, unlike the rainbow hues

That paint my flowers—and who would ever care

For flowers less lasting than my morning dews?”