Who is he, then? His name is Ralph Waldo Emerson, and he writes books.
Very good; and what are people who write books called? Then Mr. Ralph
Waldo Emerson is an author. He lives in a republican country which has
Washington for its capital. He was born in the Bay State, in the
largest city of New England. He dwells now in a little town where a
battle was fought a hundred years ago, and the name of this town means
"harmony." You know where that is, do you not? He was born in 1803,
and, as this is 1878, every one of you boys and girls who can subtract
can tell just his age. One of the books he has written tells about
England, another about such famous men as Shakspeare and Napoleon, and
others talk about wealth and friendship, prudence and power.
That does not sound as if he meant them for you? Well, one thing he did
mean for you, and that is a dear little poem--"The Squirrel and the
Mountain." Every one of you will want to read it, and when you have
read it you will want to learn it, and when you have learned you will
want to speak it. I need not have told you he meant that poem for you;
you would know that the minute you saw it.
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