38 TALES OF TRAVEL: CONSISTING OF NARRATIVES OF VARIOUS JOURNEYS THROUGH SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING PARTS OF THE WORLD. BY F. B. MILLER, TALES OF TRAVEL. CHAPTER I. "How fast the days shorten, and how dark and dismal the evenings are growing, mamma!” said Edward, from amid a group of little ones surrounding a tea-table, headed by their kind mother: "how different from the pleasant evenings of summer, when we used to drink tea in the arbour, and enjoy ourselves so much out of doors!" "Yes, winter is, indeed, coming upon us with a rapid march;" said his mother, "and necessarily the days will shorten, and dark our evenings must be for some months to come, Edward; but that they will necessarily be dismal too, I cannot allow, since that will entirely depend upon B |