Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates

Name: By the Wayside
Author: Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates

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Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates published works such as A Tale From the Rainbow Land — A Tale From the Rainbow Land, On the Hill-top and Up the Sunbeams. These writings evoke Marjorie, Uncle Rob and Bess.

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Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates, Cheery and the Chum (1908)

“ Aunt Beth touched the tiny pink steeple and the little gold ring on Cheery's finger. "It's a pretty pink and gold church, isn't it?" she said. "Not a bit gloomy and sombre. No wonder he's so contented there."
"Our church is white and gold inside," said Cheery, "and it's so bright and cheerful!—why, it just seems as if the sunshine stays in there all the time and makes everybody all warm and clean. I suppose it is love that makes it seem that way—but somehow love and sunshine always seem a good deal alike to me, don't they to you?" ”

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Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates, Up the Sunbeams (1916)

“ Marjorie heaved a sigh and looked about. The apple-tree beneath which she was sitting was in full bloom, and the sunbeams came flickering down through the leaves and the pink and white blossoms, dancing all about over the grass and the pink and white fallen petals. "Oh," she said, "how beautiful! And don't the apple blossoms smell good! Don't you love them?"
"Yes," said the Dream, "they are beautiful and they are good; and they are working to make themselves something worth while—not just to be pretty apple blossoms. That is one reason we love them so much." ”

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Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates, Along the Trail (1912)

“ And so Marjorie told it all, between choking sobs and little gasps as the bonds cut and galled her;—and when she had finished, the little girl still held her hand closely. "Never mind," she said, "we will soon get rid of all this. You know better than it all, so it won't be hard."
"But listen," said Marjorie, "I want to ask you a question. Why is it that when I do know that Sequence is nothing—is an emptiness with nothing around it, just like Superstition;—and that Fear, which seems to govern it, is the same;—why is it that I still feel these bonds? ”

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Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates, "Chet" (1912)

“ I don't know what to say."
"Well, I've been thinking it over, and this is the way that I've figured it out," said Bess. "It's something as if we held up a pair of scales, and weighed a person's attributes, without knowing that we did it. A pair of scales with two scoops, you know; and we throw into one or the other scoop, our impressions of him; the ideas we get from what we see him do and hear him say, the good things into one scoop and the bad things into the other. And then, if the good things weigh heaviest, we like him; and if the bad things make that side go down,—we don't." ”

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Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates, In the Valley (1922)

“ Marjorie thought for quite a long time. "I believe," she said, "that I would say that matter is human experience."
"Good;" said the Dream. "And as human life is made up of the same sort of stuff that I am, that disposes of "matter" pretty thoroughly, doesn't it?"
"It certainly does," said Marjorie. "Looking at it that way makes it a lot easier to say, 'Nothing is the matter,' when people ask the question, doesn't it?"
"What else do you get out of it?" asked the Dream. "A clear thought isn't good for much unless you get something out of it that you can use every day. ”

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Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates, By the Wayside (1908)

“ Marjorie bit her lip.
"Be honest," said the Dream.
"Well," said Marjorie, at last, "I suppose the reason is just about as small and selfish and useless as a reason could possibly be."
"It is," said the Dream. "Now I'll tell you something. Those who have come to be known for their work are those who have worked for the love that was in them,—not for the name. To really work, is only to help; and those who are helped will see to it that the work and the worker are never separated; for while the work lives, the worker is in and of it. Do you see?"
"Yes, I see," said Marjorie, softly. ”

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