It is quite possible we may find "books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
While seated in my garden plot. I observed close to my chair a single stalk of corn. Its strong stem stood erect, and to the human eve, was a model of beauty as well as of innate strength; its foliage of long, slender leaves gave out the color of dark and olive green, as well as those shading to lighter hues; its "talk" ran along these lines, in the form of questions and answers:—
When came I?
