From a New England Hillside: Notes from UnderledgeMacmillan and Company, 1895 - 305 pages |
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... village street I had to dodge the horse - chestnuts , which have become ripe enough to fall , and , bursting their burrs as they reach the path , scatter shell and nut on either side . summer . ( And apropos , as I was writing this I be ...
... village street I had to dodge the horse - chestnuts , which have become ripe enough to fall , and , bursting their burrs as they reach the path , scatter shell and nut on either side . summer . ( And apropos , as I was writing this I be ...
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... village street , the fra- grance of the late apples carried me back at once to the great show at Chicago . You cannot help remembering , if you were not so unfortunate as to have missed it , that the most refreshing experience at the ...
... village street , the fra- grance of the late apples carried me back at once to the great show at Chicago . You cannot help remembering , if you were not so unfortunate as to have missed it , that the most refreshing experience at the ...
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... village , white and still ; All around it the forest trees Whisper and shiver in the breeze ; Over it sailing shadows go Of soaring hawk and screaming crow , And mountain grasses low and sweet Grow in the middle of every street . Over ...
... village , white and still ; All around it the forest trees Whisper and shiver in the breeze ; Over it sailing shadows go Of soaring hawk and screaming crow , And mountain grasses low and sweet Grow in the middle of every street . Over ...
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... village on the hill where there's Never a clock to toll the hours . These people are as hospitable as one could ask to find . Here comes a good lady day after day and picks me up and carries me in the smoothest rolling of carriages far ...
... village on the hill where there's Never a clock to toll the hours . These people are as hospitable as one could ask to find . Here comes a good lady day after day and picks me up and carries me in the smoothest rolling of carriages far ...
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... village streets ; an elm or a plane tree , a pine , a maple or an oak . But most of the wood is " second growth , " or more frequently a third or fourth growth , and yet much cutting is going on , and some of it is very , very evil ...
... village streets ; an elm or a plane tree , a pine , a maple or an oak . But most of the wood is " second growth , " or more frequently a third or fourth growth , and yet much cutting is going on , and some of it is very , very evil ...
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