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All h Six-Cross-Roads, soly, oftener in coh

on its return to the county-seat, and after that there was a long,

complete silence, while the le

hoof-beat No unke

corn that was used to rasp and chuckle greenly stood rigid in the fields

Up the Plattville pike despairingly cackled one old hen, with her wabbling

sailor run, s, in the stillness;

she hid herself in the shadow underneath a rickety barn, and her shrieking

ceased

Only on the Wins of life The old lady who had sent

Harkless roses sat by theall

the horsemen ride by; so yet About two-o'clock, her husband rattled up in a buckboard, and

got out the late, and un, which he

carefully cleaned and oiled, in spite of its ha, meanwhile, by theopposite his wife, and often

looking up frohbors'

domiciles and creak decrepit curses and denunciations

But the Cross-Roads was ready It kneas cohtened,