<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416030" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gratification</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We occasionally get a few gleams of encouragement while struggling through the trials<br>of life.A number of years ago a person employed by the Dominion Government to give<br>sketches of the various towns in Canada, and especially to describe the power of the<br>various streams and the number of streams in each town or neighborhood ; he came to us,<br>as we had written rhymes on the rivers and creeks. Years afterwards we were informed by<br>persons who came from Britain, as the book was to encourage emigration,that my name was<br>the only one they had ever heard of in Ingersoll until they came here.The celebrated<br>Spaulding, manufacturer and inventor of prepared glue, was in town a few days ago. He<br>expressed to a gentleman in town that he was gratified with a conversation he had with<br>me on poetic themes. As there is no natural affinity or adhesion binding glue to poetry,<br>we might say we discovered that the inventor possessed a refined and cultivated mind<br>and a fund of American humor.An old lady expressed herself very warmly after reading my<br>Canadian romance, that it was a true history of herself and husband ; that 35 years ago<br>they were not worth a dollar,and now they had 500 acres paid for of good land. The<br>reason why we alluded to this is:-Some have no faith that there is anything worthy of<br>commemorating in their own country, but consider worthy themes for either song or story<br>are three thousand miles across the Atlantic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416030" data-title="Gratification de James McIntyre" data-description="We occasionally get a few gleams of encouragement while struggling through the trials of life.A number of years ago a person employed by the Dominion Government to give sketches of the various towns in Canada, and especially to describe the power ..."></div> </div> </div>

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