it is a blessed trait in sound healthy human nature that the sere yellow leaf time of age comes on the friends we have made
in our long wandering ways pilgrimage as well through the world as our beloved blood relations drape? nearer nearer become
dearer dearer to all of us. for the e'enin brings a name? and we cling to them all the more fondly as one by one they approach
the better land Of all my old Scotch relatives I best remember cousin Maggie Hay Lunam. Grandfather Grandmother Gilrye who
were always so kind to us Muir children whom I used to meet on the winding stone stairway of the Gilrye house when I was
going to recite my lessons to grandfather the struggle I often? had on getting past