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The unfolding aisles of corn swam pleasantly before John's eyes The earth

hearkened to man's wants and answered; the clement sun and summer rains

hastened the fruition Yonder stood the brown haystack, garnered to feed

the industrious horse who had earned his meed; there was the straw-

thatched shelter for the cattle How the orchard boughs bent with their

burdens! The big red barns stood stored with the harvested wheat; and,

beyond the pasture-lands, tall trees rose against the benign sky to feed

the glance of a drealossy in the

furrow The far; no winter

blast should rage so bitterly as to shake them, or scatter the hospitable

embers on the hearth For this was Carlow County, and he was co horay chin-beard was

sitting on a sack of oats in a seatless wagon, waiting for the train to

pass Harkless seized his companion excitedly by the elbow

"Tommy!" he cried "It's Kim Fentriss--look! Did you see that old fellow?"

"I saw a particularly uninterested and uninteresting gentle," replied his friend

"Why, that's old Kie of the county"