Excerpt from The Saint Pauls Magazine, Vol. 10: January to June, 1872 Ir was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay - se the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side, enjoying the warm day, and one another. For they were all friends two of them young men, and playmates from boyhood; the third, a girl who, two or three years younger than themselves, had been the object of their boy-love, their little rustic, childish gallantries, their budding affections until, growing all towards manhood and woman hood, they had ceased to talk about such matters, perhaps thinking about them the more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.