Excerpt from Talks and Tales: A Magazine; Published by the Conn; Institute and Industrial Home for the Blind; Nos; 334 and 336 Wethersfield Ave;, Hartford, Conn The blind are, more than the sighted, subject to insomnia. Now when they can not set up that barrier betwixt day and night which is the dear mother of fresh thought and joyous health, the movements of the sparrows in the ivy, or the small birds' melodies amongst the orchard trees, tell them, as the latter told Wordsworth, that day has begun once more. I await, too, the arrival of the cuckoo with more impatience, year by year. The 'double shout' of that blithe new comer, that thrice welcome darling of the Spring, that blessed bird has a peculiar charm for me. 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.