A Strange, Sad Man Is He

pearl asked her mother if the minister would be there. She said he was a strange, sad man who did not greet thee to day. But look about thee and see how cheery is everybody's face now, she added. The children have come from their schools and the grown people from their workshops and their fields, on purpose to be happy for to day a new man is beginning to rule over them. And so they make merry and rejoice as if a good and golden year were at length to pass over the poor old world.