A Sonnet By Wiliam Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimme'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy enternal shall not fade,
Nor lose possesion of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in enternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see;
So long will lives this, and this gives life to thee.

They Loved To Laugh

Martitia is a downcast young lady who is orphaned when her parents die abruptly. She is taken in by a friendly doctor who tried to save her parents, but failed. On arrival, Martitia unexpectedly meets the doctor's five rowdy sons and forever after that is kept on her toes from their mischievous tricks. Though the five fun fellows greatly enjoy their own jokes, they only make her become even more afraid of them. They tell her they will stop picking on her if she would only learn to laugh with them.

She learns to do many things that she would have never thought of doing before. And she is constantly at battle with Ruth, the youngest daughter in the Gardner family, who believes that “every tub ought to stand on its own bottom!” (I really don’t get what she meant by that, but that’s okay. If you can make heads or tails out of it let us know!)

This wonderful book is definitely one of our favorites! We both own a copy of it, so if you would like to borrow it, we would love to lend it to you on the condition that we get it back sometime. :)

Welcome! Welcome! dearest friend
We write for thee, and this we send,
The small talents we posses
I hope will be great success!