Arthur Theodore Lyman and Ella Lyman, Vol. 3: Letters and Journals With an Account of Those They Loved and Were Descended From; The Later Years (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Arthur Theodore Lyman and Ella Lyman, Vol. 3: Letters and Journals With an Account of Those They Loved and Were Descended From; The Later Years

There were myriads of ways in which my mother and father's rejoicing love of us all was expressed. Papa's skilled fingers wove into wreaths and carefully pressed and marked the ﬂowers from each of our christenings. I have mine still, showing violets and lilies of the valley beautiful in their outlines. For everyday occasions there were special ﬂowers, or white strawberries, or smooth chestnuts by our plates at breakfast; then there were birthdays with the privilege Of not going to school, there were occasional prized excursions to ancestral homes, there were marches in procession as we sang Hark the Herald Angels on Christmas morn, there were paper dolls and their dresses cut out and painted for us by our mother's art, there were Papa's spar kling jokes and his gay excursions with us to the tall maze of a cornfield, on hay wagons drawn by meandering oxen, or down the pond in a light boat which he taught us to row.

There were days when with a great wave of affection, shoot ing above the steady inﬂow of her love, our mother Shake hands all around the table! 'f and rippling with laughter we all joined hands, little hands and big hands shaken hard and lifted high till something unknown to us entered our lives.

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