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And when the coughing engine drew them to the borders of this wood, they

rolled out into another rich plain of green and rust-colored corn; and far

to the south John Harklessprocession of sycamores,

which, he knew, followed the course of a slender stream; and the waters of

the strearown, and where,

beyond an orchard and a rose-garden, a rustic bench was placed in the

shade of the trees; and the name of the stream was Hibbard's Creek Here

the land lay flatter than elsewhere; the sky caentler

benediction; the breeze blew in, laden with keener spices; there was the

flavor of apples and the s frost;

the immeasurable earth lay more patiently to await the husbandman; and the

whole world seemed to extend flat in line with the eye--for this was

Carlow County

All at once the anger ran out of John Harkless; he was a hardsense of ho ho," he had said; and he said it again without bitterness, for

it was the truth "Every man coay acquaintance of the playhouse lobby for some

hard-handed, tried old friend, so he would wave the outer world God-speed

and coh the years were dusty,