If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift... to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We had heard of a Grand Fall on this stream, and thought that each fall we came to must be it, but after christening several in su...ccession with this name, we gave up the search. There were more Grand or Petty Falls than I can remember.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be a pleasant pastime to find suitable names for the hundred varieties which go to a single heap at the cider-mill. Would... it not tax a man's invention,--no one to be named after a man, and all in the lingua vernacula? Who shall stand godfather at the christening of the wild apples? It would exhaust the Latin and Greek languages, if they were used, and make the lingua vernacula flag. We should have to call in the sunrise and the sunset, the rainbow and the autumn woods and the wild-flowers, and the woodpecker and the purple finch and the squirrel and the jay and the butterfly, the November traveler and the truant boy, to our aid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »