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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth
+Woodbridge
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+Title: More Jonathan Papers
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+Author: Elisabeth Woodbridge
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+Release Date: December 19, 2006 [Ebook #20141]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORE JONATHAN PAPERS***
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+
+
+
+                          More Jonathan Papers
+
+                                   By
+                          Elisabeth Woodbridge
+
+BOSTON AND NEW YORK
+HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
+The Riverside Press Cambridge
+1915
+
+
+
+
+
+             COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY ELISABETH WOODBRIDGE MORRIS
+
+                           ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                        _Published November 1915_
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   TO
+                                 JONATHAN
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CONTENTS
+
+
+I. The Searchings of Jonathan
+II. Sap-Time
+III. Evenings on the Farm
+IV. After Frost
+V. The Joys of Garden Stewardship
+VI. Trout and Arbutus
+VII. Without the Time of Day
+VIII. The Ways of Griselda
+IX. A Rowboat Pilgrimage
+Colophon
+Appendix A: Extra Front Pages
+Errata
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                           More Jonathan Papers
+
+
+                                    I
+
+
+                        The Searchings of Jonathan
+
+
+“What I find it hard to understand is, why a person who can see a spray of
+fringed gentian in the middle of a meadow can’t see a book on the
+sitting-room table.”
+
+“The reason why I can see the gentian,” said Jonathan, “is because the
+gentian is there.”
+
+“So is the book,” I responded.
+
+“Which table?” he asked.
+
+“The one with the lamp on it. It’s a red book, about _so_ big.”
+
+“It isn’t there; but, just to satisfy you, I’ll look again.”
+
+He returned in a moment with an argumentative expression of countenance.
+“It isn’t there,” he said firmly. “Will anything else do instead?”
+
+“No, I wanted you to read that special thing. Oh, dear! And I have all
+these things in my lap! And I know it _is_ there.”
+
+“And I _know_ it isn’t.” He stretched himself out in the hammock and
+watched me as I rather ostentatiously laid down thimble, scissors, needle,
+cotton, and material and set out for the sitting-room table. There were a
+number of books on it, to be sure. I glanced rapidly through the piles,
+fingered the lower books, pushed aside a magazine, and pulled out from
+beneath it the book I wanted. I returned to the hammock and handed it
+over. Then, after possessing myself, again rather ostentatiously, of
+material, cotton, needle, scissors, and thimble, I sat down.
+
+“It’s the second essay I specially thought we’d like,” I said.
+
+“Just for curiosity,” said Jonathan, with an impersonal air, “where did
+you find it?”
+
+“Find what?” I asked innocently.
+
+“The book.”
+
+“Oh! On the table.”
+
+“Which table?”
+
+“The one with the lamp on it.”
+
+“I should like to know where.”
+
+“Why—just there—on the table. There was an ‘Atlantic’ on top of it, to be
+sure.”
+
+“I saw the ‘Atlantic.’ Blest if it looked as though it had anything under
+it! Besides, I was looking for it on top of things. You said you laid it
+down there just before luncheon, and I didn’t think it could have crawled
+in under so quick.”
+
+“When you’re looking for a thing,” I said, “you mustn’t think, you must
+look. Now go ahead and read.”
+
+If this were a single instance, or even if it were one of many
+illustrating a common human frailty, it would hardly be worth setting
+down. But the frailty under consideration has come to seem to me rather
+particularly masculine. Are not all the Jonathans in the world continually
+being sent to some sitting-room table for something, and coming back to
+assert, with more or less pleasantness, according to their temperament,
+that it is not there? The incident, then, is not isolated; it is typical
+of a vast group. For Jonathan, read Everyman; for the red book, read any
+particular thing that you want Him to bring; for the sitting-room table,
+read the place where you know it is and Everyman says it isn’t.
+
+This, at least, is my thesis. It is not, however, unchallenged. Jonathan
+has challenged it when, from time to time, as occasion offered, I have
+lightly sketched it out for him. Sometimes he argues that my instances are
+really isolated cases and that their evidence is not cumulative, at others
+he takes refuge in a _tu quoque_—in itself a confession of weakness—and
+alludes darkly to “top shelves” and “bottom drawers.” But let us have no
+mysteries. These phrases, considered as arguments, have their origin in
+certain incidents which, that all the evidence may be in, I will here set
+down.
+
+Once upon a time I asked Jonathan to get me something from the top shelf
+in the closet. He went, and failed to find it. Then I went, and took it
+down. Jonathan, watching over my shoulder, said, “But that wasn’t the top
+shelf, I suppose you will admit.”
+
+Sure enough! There was a shelf above. “Oh, yes; but I don’t count that
+shelf. We never use it, because nobody can reach it.”
+
+“How do you expect me to know which shelves you count and which you
+don’t?”
+
+“Of course, anatomically—structurally—it is one, but functionally it isn’t
+there at all.”
+
+“I see,” said Jonathan, so contentedly that I knew he was filing this
+affair away for future use.
+
+On another occasion I asked him to get something for me from the top
+drawer of the old “high-boy” in the dining-room. He was gone a long while,
+and at last, growing impatient, I followed. I found him standing on an old
+wooden-seated chair, screw-driver in hand. A drawer on a level with his
+head was open, and he had hanging over his arm a gaudy collection of
+ancient table-covers and embroidered scarfs, mostly in shades of magenta.
+
+“She stuck, but I’ve got her open now. I don’t see any pillow-cases,
+though. It’s all full of these things.” He pumped his laden arm up and
+down, and the table-covers wagged gayly.
+
+I sank into the chair and laughed. “Oh! Have you been prying at that all
+this time? Of _course_ there’s nothing in _that_ drawer.”
+
+“There’s where you’re wrong. There’s a great deal in it; I haven’t taken
+out half. If you want to see—”
+
+“I _don’t_ want to see! There’s nothing I want less! What I mean is—I
+never put anything there.”
+
+“It’s the top drawer.” He was beginning to lay back the table-covers.
+
+“But I can’t reach it. And it’s been stuck for ever so long.”
+
+“You said the top drawer.”
+
+“Yes, I suppose I did. Of course what I meant was the top one of the ones
+I use.”
+
+“I see, my dear. When you say top shelf you don’t mean top shelf, and when
+you say top drawer you don’t mean top drawer; in fact, when you say top
+you don’t mean top at all—you mean the height of your head. Everything
+above that doesn’t count.”
+
+Jonathan was so pleased with this formulation of my attitude that he was
+not in the least irritated to have put out unnecessary work. And his
+satisfaction was deepened by one more incident. I had sent him to the
+bottom drawer of my bureau to get a shawl. He returned without it, and I
+was puzzled. “Now, Jonathan, it’s there, and it’s the top thing.”
+
+“The real top,” murmured Jonathan, “or just what you call top?”
+
+“It’s right in front,” I went on; “and I don’t see how even a man could
+fail to find it.”
+
+He proceeded to enumerate the contents of the drawer in such strange
+fashion that I began to wonder where he had been.
+
+“I said my bureau.”
+
+“I went to your bureau.”
+
+“The bottom drawer.”
+
+“The bottom drawer. There was nothing but a lot of little boxes and—”
+
+“Oh, _I_ know what you did! You went to the secret drawer.”
+
+“Isn’t that the bottom one?”
+
+“Why, yes, in a way—of course it is; but it doesn’t exactly count—it’s not
+one of the regular drawers—it hasn’t any knobs, or anything—”
+
+“But it’s a perfectly good drawer.”
+
+“Yes. But nobody is supposed to know it’s there; it looks like a molding—”
+
+“But I know it’s there.”
+
+“Yes, of course.”
+
+“And you know I know it’s there.”
+
+“Yes, yes; but I just don’t think about that one in counting up. I see
+what you mean, of course.”
+
+“And I see what you mean. You mean that your shawl is in the bottom one of
+the regular drawers—with knobs—that can be alluded to in general
+conversation. Now I think I can find it.”
+
+He did. And in addition he amused himself by working out phrases about
+“when is a bottom drawer not a bottom drawer?” and “when is a top shelf
+not a top shelf?”
+
+It is to these incidents—which I regard as isolated and negligible, and he
+regards as typical and significant—that he alludes on the occasions when
+he is unable to find a red book on the sitting-room table. In vain do I
+point out that when language is variable and fluid it is alive, and that
+there may be two opinions about the structural top and the functional top,
+whereas there can be but one as to the book being or not being on the
+table. He maintains a quiet cheerfulness, as of one who is conscious of
+being, if not invulnerable, at least well armed.
+
+For a time he even tried to make believe that he was invulnerable as
+well—to set up the thesis that if the book was really on the table he
+could find it. But in this he suffered so many reverses that only strong
+natural pertinacity kept him from capitulation.
+
+Is it necessary to recount instances? Every family can furnish them. As I
+allow myself to float off into a reminiscent dream I find my mind
+possessed by a continuous series of dissolving views in which Jonathan is
+always coming to me saying, “It isn’t there,” and I am always saying,
+“Please look again.”
+
+Though everything in the house seems to be in a conspiracy against him, it
+is perhaps with the fishing-tackle that he has most constant difficulties.
+
+“My dear, have you any idea where my rod is? No, don’t get up—I’ll look if
+you’ll just tell me where—”
+
+“Probably in the corner behind the chest in the orchard room.”
+
+“I’ve looked there.”
+
+“Well, then, did you take it in from the wagon last night?”
+
+“Yes, I remember doing it.”
+
+“What about the little attic? You might have put it up there to dry out.”
+
+“No. I took my wading boots up, but that was all.”
+
+“The dining-room? You came in that way.”
+
+He goes and returns. “Not there.” I reflect deeply.
+
+“Jonathan, are you _sure_ it’s not in that corner of the orchard room?”
+
+“Yes, I’m sure; but I’ll look again.” He disappears, but in a moment I
+hear his voice calling, “No! Yours is here, but not mine.”
+
+I perceive that it is a case for me, and I get up. “You go and harness.
+I’ll find it,” I call.
+
+There was a time when, under such conditions, I should have begun by
+hunting in all the unlikely places I could think of. Now I know better. I
+go straight to the corner of the orchard room. Then I call to Jonathan,
+just to relieve his mind.
+
+“All right! I’ve found it.”
+
+“Where?”
+
+“Here, in the orchard room.”
+
+“_Where_ in the orchard room?”
+
+“In the corner.”
+
+“What corner?”
+
+“The usual corner—back of the chest.”
+
+“The devil!” Then he comes back to put his head in at the door. “What are
+you laughing at?”
+
+“Nothing. What are you talking about the devil for? Anyway, it isn’t the
+devil; it’s the brownie.”
+
+For there seems no doubt that the things he hunts for are possessed of
+supernatural powers; and the theory of a brownie in the house, with a
+special grudge against Jonathan, would perhaps best account for the way in
+which they elude his search but leap into sight at my approach. There is,
+to be sure, one other explanation, but it is one that does not suggest
+itself to him, or appeal to him when suggested by me, so there is no need
+to dwell upon it.
+
+If it isn’t the rod, it is the landing-net, which has hung itself on a
+nail a little to the left or right of the one he had expected to see it
+on; or his reel, which has crept into a corner of the tackle drawer and
+held a ball of string in front of itself to distract his vision; or a
+bunch of snell hooks, which, aware of its protective coloring, has
+snuggled up against the shady side of the drawer and tucked its
+pink-papered head underneath a gay pickerel-spoon.
+
+Fishing-tackle is, clearly, “possessed,” but in other fields Jonathan is
+not free from trouble. Finding anything on a bureau seems to offer
+peculiar obstacles. It is perhaps a big, black-headed pin that I want. “On
+the pincushion, Jonathan.”
+
+He goes, and returns with two sizes of safety-pins and one long hat-pin.
+
+“No, dear, those won’t do. A small, black-headed one—at least small
+compared with a hat-pin, large compared with an ordinary pin.”
+
+“Common or house pin?” he murmurs, quoting a friend’s phrase.
+
+“Do look again! I hate to drop this to go myself.”
+
+“When a man does a job, he gets his tools together first.”
+
+“Yes; but they say women shouldn’t copy men, they should develop along
+their own lines. Please go.”
+
+He goes, and comes back. “You don’t want fancy gold pins, I suppose?”
+
+“No, no! Here, you hold this, and I’ll go.” I dash to the bureau. Sure
+enough, he is right about the cushion. I glance hastily about. There, in a
+little saucer, are a half-dozen of the sort I want. I snatch some and run
+back.
+
+“Well, it wasn’t in the cushion, I bet.”
+
+“No,” I admit; “it was in a saucer just behind the cushion.”
+
+“You said cushion.”
+
+“I know. It’s all right.”
+
+“Now, if you had said simply ‘bureau,’ I’d have looked in other places on
+it.”
+
+“Yes, you’d have _looked_ in other places!” I could not forbear
+responding. There is, I grant, another side to this question. One evening
+when I went upstairs I found a partial presentation of it, in the form of
+a little newspaper clipping, pinned on my cushion. It read as follows:—
+
+
+    “My dear,” said she, “please run and bring me the needle from the
+    haystack.”
+
+    “Oh, I don’t know which haystack.”
+
+    “Look in all the haystacks—you can’t miss it; there’s only one
+    needle.”
+
+
+Jonathan was in the cellar at the moment. When he came up, he said, “Did I
+hear any one laughing?”
+
+“I don’t know. Did you?”
+
+“I thought maybe it was you.”
+
+“It might have been. Something amused me—I forget what.”
+
+I accused Jonathan of having written it himself, but he denied it. Some
+other Jonathan, then; for, as I said, this is not a personal matter, it is
+a world matter. Let us grant, then, a certain allowance for those who hunt
+in woman-made haystacks. But what about pockets? Is not a man lord over
+his own pockets? And are they not nevertheless as so many haystacks piled
+high for his confusion? Certain it is that Jonathan has nearly as much
+trouble with his pockets as he does with the corners and cupboards and
+shelves and drawers of his house. It usually happens over our late supper,
+after his day in town. He sets down his teacup, struck with a sudden
+memory. He feels in his vest pockets—first the right, then the left. He
+proceeds to search himself, murmuring, “I thought something came to-day
+that I wanted to show you—oh, here! no, that isn’t it. I thought I put
+it—no, those are to be—what’s this? No, that’s a memorandum. Now, where
+in—” He runs through the papers in his pockets twice over, and in the
+second round I watch him narrowly, and perhaps see a corner of an envelope
+that does not look like office work. “There, Jonathan! What’s that? No,
+not that—that!”
+
+He pulls it out with an air of immense relief. “There! I knew I had
+something. That’s it.”
+
+When we travel, the same thing happens with the tickets, especially if
+they chance to be costly and complicated ones, with all the shifts and
+changes of our journey printed thick upon their faces. The conductor
+appears at the other end of the car. Jonathan begins vaguely to fumble
+without lowering his paper. Pocket after pocket is browsed through in this
+way. Then the paper slides to his knee and he begins a more thorough
+investigation, with all the characteristic clapping and diving motions
+that seem to be necessary. Some pockets must always be clapped and others
+dived into to discover their contents.
+
+No tickets. The conductor is halfway up the car. Jonathan’s face begins to
+grow serious. He rises and looks on the seat and under it. He sits down
+and takes out packet after packet of papers and goes over them with
+scrupulous care. At this point I used to become really anxious—to make
+hasty calculations as to our financial resources, immediate and
+ultimate—to wonder if conductors ever really put nice people like us off
+trains. But that was long ago. I know now that Jonathan has never lost a
+ticket in his life. So I glance through the paper that he has dropped or
+watch the landscape until he reaches a certain stage of calm and definite
+pessimism, when he says, “I must have pulled them out when I took out
+those postcards in the other car. Yes, that’s just what has happened.”
+Then, the conductor being only a few seats away, I beg Jonathan to look
+once more in his vest pocket, where he always puts them. To oblige me he
+looks, though without faith, and lo! this time the tickets fairly fling
+themselves upon him, with smiles almost curling up their corners. Does the
+brownie travel with us, then?
+
+I begin to suspect that some of the good men who have been blamed for
+forgetting to mail letters in their pockets have been, not indeed
+blameless, but at least misunderstood. Probably they do not forget.
+Probably they hunt for the letters and cannot find them, and conclude that
+they have already mailed them.
+
+In the matter of the home haystacks Jonathan’s confidence in himself has
+at last been shaken. For a long time, when he returned to me after some
+futile search, he used to say, “Of course you can look for it if you like,
+but it is _not_ there.” But man is a reasoning, if not altogether a
+reasonable, being, and with a sufficient accumulation of evidence,
+especially when there is some one constantly at hand to interpret its
+teachings, almost any set of opinions, however fixed, may be shaken. So
+here.
+
+Once when we shut up the farm for the winter I left my fountain pen
+behind. This was little short of a tragedy, but I comforted myself with
+the knowledge that Jonathan was going back that week-end for a day’s hunt.
+
+“Be sure to get the pen first of all,” I said, “and put it in your
+pocket.”
+
+“Where is it?” he asked.
+
+“In the little medicine cupboard over the fireplace in the orchard room,
+standing up at the side of the first shelf.”
+
+“Why not on your desk?” he asked.
+
+“Because I was writing tags in there, and set it up so it would be out of
+the way.”
+
+“And it _was_ out of the way. All right. I’ll collect it.”
+
+He went, and on his return I met him with eager hand—“My pen!”
+
+“I’m sorry,” he began.
+
+“You didn’t forget!” I exclaimed.
+
+“No. But it wasn’t there.”
+
+“But—did you look?”
+
+“Yes, I looked.”
+
+“Thoroughly?”
+
+“Yes. I lit three matches.”
+
+“Matches! Then you didn’t get it when you first got there!”
+
+“Why—no—I had the dog to attend to—and—but I had plenty of time when I got
+back, and it _wasn’t_ there.”
+
+“Well—Dear me! Did you look anywhere else? I suppose I may be mistaken.
+Perhaps I did take it back to the desk.”
+
+“That’s just what I thought myself,” said Jonathan. “So I went there, and
+looked, and then I looked on all the mantelpieces and your bureau. You
+must have put it in your bag the last minute—bet it’s there now!”
+
+“Bet it isn’t.”
+
+It wasn’t. For two weeks more I was driven to using other pens—strange and
+distracting to the fingers and the eyes and the mind. Then Jonathan was to
+go up again.
+
+“Please look once more,” I begged, “and don’t expect not to see it. I can
+fairly see it myself, this minute, standing up there on the right-hand
+side, just behind the machine oil can.”
+
+“Oh, I’ll look,” he promised. “If it’s there, I’ll find it.”
+
+He returned penless. I considered buying another. But we were planning to
+go up together the last week of the hunting season, and I thought I would
+wait on the chance.
+
+We got off at the little station and hunted our way up, making great
+sweeps and jogs, as hunters must, to take in certain spots we thought
+promising—certain ravines and swamp edges where we are always sure of
+hearing the thunderous whir of partridge wings, or the soft, shrill
+whistle of woodcock. At noon we broiled chops and rested in the lee of the
+wood edge, where, even in the late fall, one can usually find spots that
+are warm and still. It was dusk by the time we came over the crest of the
+farm ledges and saw the huddle of the home buildings below us, and quite
+dark when we reached the house. Fires had been made and coals smouldered
+on the hearth in the sitting-room.
+
+“You light the lamp,” I said, “and I’ll just take a match and go through
+to see if that pen _should_ happen to be there.”
+
+“No use doing anything to-night,” said Jonathan. “To-morrow morning you
+can have a thorough hunt.”
+
+But I took my match, felt my way into the next room, past the fireplace,
+up to the cupboard, then struck my match. In its first flare-up I glanced
+in. Then I chuckled.
+
+Jonathan had gone out to the dining-room, but he has perfectly good ears.
+
+“NO!” he roared, and his tone of dismay, incredulity, rage, sent me off
+into gales of unscrupulous laughter. He was striding in, candle in hand,
+shouting, “It was _not there!_”
+
+“Look yourself,” I managed to gasp.
+
+This time, somehow, he could see it.
+
+“You planted it! You brought it up and planted it!”
+
+“I never! Oh, dear me! It pays for going without it for weeks!”
+
+“_Nothing_ will ever make me believe that that pen was standing there when
+I looked for it!” said Jonathan, with vehement finality.
+
+“All right,” I sighed happily. “You don’t have to believe it.”
+
+But in his heart perhaps he does believe it. At any rate, since that time
+he has adopted a new formula: “My dear, it may be there, of course, but I
+don’t see it.” And this position I regard as unassailable.
+
+One triumph he has had. I wanted something that was stored away in the
+shut-up town house.
+
+“Do you suppose you could find it?” I said, as gently as possible.
+
+“I can try,” he said.
+
+“I think it is in a box about this shape—see?—a gray box, in the attic
+closet, the farthest-in corner.”
+
+“Are you sure it’s in the house? If it’s in the house, I think I can find
+it.”
+
+“Yes, I’m sure of that.”
+
+When he returned that night, his face wore a look of satisfaction very
+imperfectly concealed beneath a mask of nonchalance.
+
+“_Good_ for you! Was it where I said?”
+
+“No.”
+
+“Was it in a different corner?”
+
+“No.”
+
+“Where was it?”
+
+“It wasn’t in a corner at all. It wasn’t in that closet.”
+
+“It wasn’t! Where, then?”
+
+“Downstairs in the hall closet.” He paused, then could not forbear adding,
+“And it wasn’t in a gray box; it was in a big hat-box with violets all
+over it.”
+
+“Why, _Jonathan!_ Aren’t you grand! How did you ever find it? I couldn’t
+have done better myself.”
+
+Under such praise he expanded. “The fact is,” he said confidentially, “I
+had given it up. And then suddenly I changed my mind. I said to myself,
+‘Jonathan, don’t be a man! Think what she’d do if she were here now.’ And
+then I got busy and found it.”
+
+“Jonathan!” I could almost have wept if I had not been laughing.
+
+“Well,” he said, proud, yet rather sheepish, “what is there so funny about
+that? I gave up half a day to it.”
+
+“Funny! It isn’t funny—exactly. You don’t mind my laughing a little? Why,
+you’ve lived down the fountain pen—we’ll forget the pen—”
+
+“Oh, no, you won’t forget the pen either,” he said, with a certain
+pleasant grimness.
+
+“Well, perhaps not—of course it would be a pity to forget that. Suppose I
+say, then, that we’ll always regard the pen in the light of the violet
+hat-box?”
+
+“I think that might do.” Then he had an alarming afterthought. “But, see
+here—you won’t expect me to do things like that often?”
+
+“Dear me, no! People can’t live always on their highest levels. Perhaps
+you’ll _never_ do it again.” Jonathan looked distinctly relieved. “I’ll
+accept it as a unique effort—like Dante’s angel and Raphael’s sonnet.”
+
+“Jonathan,” I said that evening, “what do you know about St. Anthony of
+Padua?”
+
+“Not much.”
+
+“Well, you ought to. He helped you to-day. He’s the saint who helps people
+to find lost articles. Every man ought to take him as a patron saint.”
+
+“And do you know which saint it is who helps people to find lost
+virtues—like humility, for instance?”
+
+“No. I don’t, really.”
+
+“I didn’t suppose you did,” said Jonathan.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    II
+
+
+                                 Sap-Time
+
+
+It was a little tree-toad that began it. In a careless moment he had come
+down to the bench that connects the big maple tree with the old locust
+stump, and when I went out at dusk to wait for Jonathan, there he sat, in
+plain sight. A few experimental pokes sent him back to the tree, and I
+studied him there, marveling at the way he assimilated with its bark. As
+Jonathan came across the grass I called softly, and pointed to the tree.
+
+“Well?” he said.
+
+“Don’t you see?”
+
+“No. What?”
+
+“Look—I thought you had eyes!”
+
+“Oh, what a little beauty!”
+
+“And isn’t his back just like bark and lichens! And what are those things
+in the tree beside him?”
+
+“Plugs, I suppose.”
+
+“Plugs?”
+
+“Yes. After tapping. Uncle Ben used to tap these trees, I believe.”
+
+“You mean for sap? Maple syrup?”
+
+“Yes.”
+
+“Jonathan! I didn’t know these were sugar maples.”
+
+“Oh, yes. These on the road.”
+
+“The whole row? Why, there are ten or fifteen of them! And you never told
+me!”
+
+“I thought you knew.”
+
+“Knew! I don’t know anything—I should think you’d know that, by this time.
+Do you suppose, if I had known, I should have let all these years go
+by—oh, dear—think of all the fun we’ve missed! And syrup!”
+
+“You’d have to come up in February.”
+
+“Well, then, I’ll _come_ in February. Who’s afraid of February?”
+
+“All right. Try it next year.”
+
+I did. But not in February. Things happened, as things do, and it was
+early April before I got to the farm. But it had been a wintry March, and
+the farmers told me that the sap had not been running except for a few
+days in a February thaw. Anyway, it was worth trying.
+
+Jonathan could not come with me. He was to join me later. But Hiram found
+a bundle of elder spouts in the attic, and with these and an auger we went
+out along the snowy, muddy road. The hole was bored—a pair of them—in the
+first tree, and the spouts driven in. I knelt, watching—in fact, peering
+up the spout-hole to see what might happen. Suddenly a drop, dim with
+sawdust, appeared—gathered, hesitated, then ran down gayly and leapt off
+the end.
+
+“Look! Hiram! It’s running!” I called.
+
+Hiram, boring the next tree, made no response. He evidently expected it to
+run. Jonathan would have acted just like that, too, I felt sure. Is it a
+masculine quality, I wonder, to be unmoved when the theoretically expected
+becomes actual? Or is it that some temperaments have naturally a certain
+large confidence in the sway of law, and refuse to wonder at its
+individual workings? To me the individual workings give an ever fresh
+thrill because they bring a new realization of the mighty powers behind
+them. It seems to depend on which end you begin at.
+
+But though the little drops thrilled me, I was not beyond setting a pail
+underneath to catch them. And as Hiram went on boring, I followed with my
+pails. Pails, did I say? Pails by courtesy. There were, indeed, a few real
+pails—berry-pails, lard-pails, and water-pails—but for the most part the
+sap fell into pitchers, or tin saucepans, stew-kettles of aluminum or
+agate ware, blue and gray and white and mottled, or big yellow earthenware
+bowls. It was a strange collection of receptacles that lined the roadside
+when we had finished our progress. As I looked along the row, I laughed,
+and even Hiram smiled.
+
+But what next? Every utensil in the house was out there, sitting in the
+road. There was nothing left but the wash-boiler. Now, I had heard tales
+of amateur syrup-boilings, and I felt that the wash-boiler would not do.
+Besides, I meant to work outdoors—no kitchen stove for me! I must have a
+pan, a big, flat pan. I flew to the telephone, and called up the village
+plumber, three miles away. Could he build me a pan? Oh, say, two feet by
+three feet, and five inches high—yes, right away. Yes, Hiram would call
+for it in the afternoon.
+
+I felt better. And now for a fireplace! Oh, Jonathan! Why did you have to
+be away! For Jonathan loves a stone and knows how to put stones together,
+as witness the stone “Eyrie” and the stile in the lane. However, there
+Jonathan wasn’t. So I went out into the swampy orchard behind the house
+and looked about—no lack of stones, at any rate. I began to collect
+material, and Hiram, seeing my purpose, helped with the big stones.
+Somehow my fireplace got made—two side walls, one end wall, the other end
+left open for stoking. It was not as pretty as if Jonathan had done it,
+but “’t was enough, ’t would serve.” I collected fire-wood, and there I
+was, ready for my pan, and the afternoon was yet young, and the sap was
+drip-drip-dripping from all the spouts. I could begin to boil next day. I
+felt that I was being borne along on the providential wave that so often
+floats the inexperienced to success.
+
+That night I emptied all my vessels into the boiler and set them out once
+more. A neighbor drove by and pulled up to comment benevolently on my
+work.
+
+“Will it run to-night?” I asked him.
+
+“No—no—’t won’t run to-night. Too cold. ’T won’t run any to-night. You can
+sleep all right.”
+
+This was pleasant to hear. There was a moon, to be sure, but it was
+growing colder, and at the idea of crawling along that road in the middle
+of the night even my enthusiasm shivered a little.
+
+So I made my rounds at nine, in the white moonlight, and went to sleep.
+
+I was awakened the next morning to a consciousness of flooding sunshine
+and Hiram’s voice outside my window.
+
+“Got anything I can empty sap into? I’ve got everything all filled up.”
+
+“Sap! Why, it isn’t running yet, is it?”
+
+“Pails were flowin’ over when I came out.”
+
+“Flowing over! They said the sap wouldn’t run last night.”
+
+“I guest there don’t nobody know when sap’ll run and when it won’t,” said
+Hiram peacefully, as he tramped off to the barn.
+
+In a few minutes I was outdoors. Sure enough, Hiram had everything
+full—old boilers, feed-pails, water-pails. But we found some three-gallon
+milk-cans and used them. A farm is like a city. There are always things
+enough in it for all purposes. It is only a question of using its
+resources.
+
+Then, in the clear April sunshine, I went out and surveyed the row of
+maples. How they did drip! Some of them almost ran. I felt as if I had
+turned on the faucets of the universe and didn’t know how to turn them off
+again.
+
+However, there was my new pan. I set it over my oven walls and began to
+pour in sap. Hiram helped me. He seemed to think he needed his feed-pails.
+We poured in sap and we poured in sap. Never did I see anything hold so
+much as that pan. Even Hiram was stirred out of his usual calm to remark,
+“It beats all, how much that holds.” Of course Jonathan would have had its
+capacity all calculated the day before, but my methods are empirical, and
+so I was surprised as well as pleased when all my receptacles emptied
+themselves into its shallow breadths and still there was a good inch to
+allow for boiling up. Yes, Providence—my exclusive little fool’s
+Providence—was with me. The pan, and the oven, were a success, and when
+Jonathan came that night I led him out with unconcealed pride and showed
+him the pan—now a heaving, frothing mass of sap-about-to-be-syrup, sending
+clouds of white steam down the wind. As he looked at the oven walls, I
+fancied his fingers ached to get at them, but he offered no criticism,
+seeing that they worked.
+
+The next day began overcast, but Providence was merely preparing for me a
+special little gift in the form of a miniature snowstorm. It was quite
+real while it lasted. It whitened the grass and the road, it piled itself
+softly among the clusters of swelling buds on the apple trees, and made
+the orchard look as though it had burst into bloom in an hour. Then the
+sun came out, there were a few dazzling moments when the world was all
+blue and silver, and then the whiteness faded.
+
+And the sap! How it dripped! Once an hour I had to make the rounds,
+bringing back gallons each time, and the fire under my pan was kept up so
+that the boiling down might keep pace with the new supply.
+
+“They do say snow makes it run,” shouted a passer-by, and another called,
+“You want to keep skimmin’!” Whereupon I seized my long-handled skimmer
+and fell to work. Southern Connecticut does not know much about syrup, but
+by the avenue of the road I was gradually accumulating such wisdom as it
+possessed.
+
+The syrup was made. No worse accident befell than the occasional
+overflowing of a pail too long neglected. The syrup was made, and bottled,
+and distributed to friends, and was the pride of the household through the
+year.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+“This time I will go early,” I said to Jonathan; “they say the late
+running is never quite so good.”
+
+It was early March when I got up there this time—early March after a
+winter whose rigor had known practically no break. Again Jonathan could
+not come, but Cousin Janet could, and we met at the little station, where
+Hiram was waiting with Kit and the surrey. The sun was warm, but the air
+was keen and the woods hardly showed spring at all yet, even in that first
+token of it, the slight thickening of their millions of little tips,
+through the swelling of the buds. The city trees already showed this, but
+the country ones still kept their wintry penciling of vanishing lines.
+
+Spring was in the road, however. “There ain’t no bottom to this road now,
+it’s just dropped clean out,” remarked a fellow teamster as we wallowed
+along companionably through the woods. But, somehow, we reached the farm.
+Again we bored our holes, and again I was thrilled as the first bright
+drops slipped out and jeweled the ends of the spouts. I watched Janet. She
+was interested but calm, classing herself at once with Hiram and Jonathan.
+We unearthed last year’s oven and dug out its inner depths—leaves and dirt
+and apples and ashes—it was like excavating through the seven Troys to get
+to bottom. We brought down the big pan, now clothed in the honors of a
+season’s use, and cleaned off the cobwebs incident to a year’s sojourn in
+the attic. By sunset we had a panful of sap boiling merrily and already
+taking on a distinctly golden tinge. We tasted it. It was very syrupy.
+Letting the fire die down, we went in to get supper in the utmost content
+of spirit.
+
+“It’s so much simpler than last year,” I said, as we sat over our cozy
+“tea,”—“having the pan and the oven ready-made, and all—”
+
+“You don’t suppose anything could happen to it while we’re in here?”
+suggested Janet. “Shan’t I just run out and see?”
+
+“No, sit still. What could happen? The fire’s going out.”
+
+“Yes, I know.” But her voice was uncertain.
+
+“You see, I’ve been all through it once,” I reassured her.
+
+As we rose, Janet said, “Let’s go out before we do the dishes.” And to
+humor her I agreed. We lighted the lantern and stepped out on the back
+porch. It was quite dark, and as we looked off toward the fireplace we saw
+gleams of red.
+
+“How funny!” I murmured. “I didn’t think there was so much fire left.”
+
+We felt our way over, through the yielding mud of the orchard, and as I
+raised the lantern we stared in dazed astonishment. The pan was a
+blackened mass, lit up by winking red eyes of fire. I held the lantern
+more closely. I seized a stick and poked—the crisp black stuff broke and
+crumbled into an empty and blackening pan. A curious odor arose.
+
+“It couldn’t have!” gasped Janet.
+
+“It couldn’t—but it has!” I said.
+
+It was a matter for tears, or rage, or laughter. And laughter won. When we
+recovered a little we took up the black shell of carbon that had once been
+syrup-froth; we laid it gently beside the oven, for a keepsake. Then we
+poured water in the pan, and steam rose hissing to the stars.
+
+“Does it leak?” faltered Janet.
+
+“Leak!” I said. I was on my knees now, watching the water stream through
+the parted seam of the pan bottom, down into the ashes below.
+
+“The question is,” I went on as I got up, “did it boil away because it
+leaked, or did it leak because it boiled away?”
+
+“I don’t see that it matters much,” said Janet. She was showing symptoms
+of depression at this point.
+
+“It matters a great deal,” I said. “Because, you see, we’ve got to tell
+Jonathan, and it makes all the difference how we put it.”
+
+“I see,” said Janet; then she added, experimentally, “Why tell Jonathan?”
+
+“Why, Janet, you know better! I wouldn’t miss telling Jonathan for
+anything. What is Jonathan _for!_”
+
+“Well—of course,” she conceded. “Let’s do dishes.”
+
+We sat before the fire that evening and I read while Janet knitted.
+Between my eyes and the printed page there kept rising a vision—a vision
+of black crust, with winking red embers smoldering along its broken edges.
+I found it distracting in the extreme.…
+
+At some time unknown, out of the blind depths of the night, I was awakened
+by a voice:—
+
+“It’s beginning to rain. I think I’ll just go out and empty what’s near
+the house.”
+
+“Janet!” I murmured, “don’t be absurd.”
+
+“But it will dilute all that sap.”
+
+“There isn’t any sap to dilute. It won’t be running at night.” After a
+while the voice, full of propitiatory intonations, resumed:—
+
+“My dear, you don’t mind if I slip out. It will only take a minute.”
+
+“I do mind. Go to sleep!”
+
+Silence. Then:—
+
+“It’s raining harder. I hate to think of all that sap—”
+
+“You don’t _have_ to think!” I was quite savage. “Just go to sleep—and let
+me!” Another silence. Then a fresh downpour. The voice was pleading:—
+
+“_Please_ let me go! I’ll be back in a minute. And it’s not cold.”
+
+“Oh, well—I’m awake now, anyway. _I’ll_ go.” My voice was tinged with that
+high resignation that is worse than anger. Janet’s tone changed
+instantly:—
+
+“No, no! Don’t! Please don’t! I’m going. I truly don’t mind.”
+
+“_I’m_ going. I don’t mind, either, not at all.”
+
+“Oh, dear! Then let’s not either of us go.”
+
+“That was my idea in the first place.”
+
+“Well, then, we won’t. Go to sleep, and I will too.”
+
+“Not at all! I’ve decided to go.”
+
+“But it’s stopped raining. Probably it won’t rain any more.”
+
+“Then what are you making all this fuss for?”
+
+“I didn’t make a fuss. I just thought I could slip out—”
+
+“Well, you couldn’t. And it’s raining very hard again. And I’m going.”
+
+“Oh, don’t! You’ll get drenched.”
+
+“Of course. But I can’t bear to have all that sap diluted.”
+
+“It doesn’t run at night. You said it didn’t.”
+
+“You said it did.”
+
+“But I don’t really know. You know best.”
+
+“Why didn’t you think of that sooner? Anyway, I’m going.”
+
+“Oh, dear! You make me feel as if I’d stirred you up—”
+
+“You have,” I interrupted, sweetly. “I won’t deny that you _have_ stirred
+me up. But now that you have mentioned it”—I felt for a match—“now that
+you have mentioned it, I see that this was the one thing needed to make my
+evening complete, or perhaps it’s morning—I don’t know.”
+
+We found the dining-room warm, and soon we were equipped in those curious
+compromises of vesture that people adopt under such circumstances, and,
+with lantern and umbrella, we fumbled our way out to the trees. The rain
+was driving in sheets, and we plodded up the road in the yellow circle of
+lantern-light wavering uncertainly over the puddles, while under our feet
+the mud gave and sucked.
+
+“It’s diluted, sure enough,” I said, as we emptied the pails. We crawled
+slowly back, with our heavy milk-can full of sap-and-rain-water, and went
+in.
+
+The warm dining-room was pleasant to return to, and we sat down to cookies
+and milk, feeling almost cozy.
+
+“I’ve always wanted to know how it would be to go out in the middle of the
+night this way,” I remarked, “and now I know.”
+
+“Aren’t you hateful!” said Janet.
+
+“Not at all. Just appreciative. But now, if you haven’t any _other_ plan,
+we’ll go back to bed.”
+
+It was half-past eight when we waked next morning. But there was nothing
+to wake up for. The old house was filled with the rain-noises that only
+such an old house knows. On the little windows the drops pricked sharply;
+in the fireplace with the straight flue they fell, hissing, on the embers.
+On the porch roofs the rain made a dull patter of sound; on the tin roof
+of the “little attic” over the kitchen it beat with flat resonance. In the
+big attic, when we went up to see if all was tight, it filled the place
+with a multitudinous clamor; on the sides of the house it drove with a
+fury that re-echoed dimly within doors.
+
+Outside, everything was afloat. We visited the trees and viewed with
+consternation the torrents of rain-water pouring into the pails. We tried
+fastening pans over the spouts to protect them. The wind blew them merrily
+down the road. It would have been easy enough to cover the pails, but how
+to let the sap drip in and the rain drip out—that was the question.
+
+“It seems as if there was a curse on the syrup this year,” said Janet.
+
+“The trouble is,” I said, “I know just enough to have lost my hold on the
+fool’s Providence, and not enough really to take care of myself.”
+
+“Superstition!” said Janet.
+
+“What do you call your idea of the curse?” I retorted. “Anyway, I have an
+idea! Look, Janet! We’ll just cut up these enamel-cloth table-covers here
+by the sink and everywhere, and tack them around the spouts.”
+
+Janet’s thrifty spirit was doubtful. “Don’t you need them?”
+
+“Not half so much as the trees do. Come on! Pull them off. We’ll have to
+have fresh ones this summer, anyway.”
+
+We stripped the kitchen tables and the pantry and the milk-room. We got
+tacks and a hammer and scissors, and out we went again. We cut a piece for
+each tree, just enough to go over each pair of spouts and protect the
+pail. When tacked on, it had the appearance of a neat bib, and as the
+pattern was a blue and white check, the effect, as one looked down the
+road at the twelve trees, was very fresh and pleasing. It seemed to cheer
+the people who drove by, too.
+
+But the bibs served their purpose, and the sap dripped cozily into the
+pails without any distraction from alien elements. Sap doesn’t run in the
+rain, they say, but this sap did. Probably Hiram was right, and you can’t
+tell. I am glad if you can’t. The physical mysteries of the universe are
+being unveiled so swiftly that one likes to find something that still
+keeps its secret—though, indeed, the spiritual mysteries seem in no danger
+of such enforcement.
+
+The next day the rain stopped, the floods began to subside, and Jonathan
+managed to arrive, though the roads had even less “bottom to ’em” than
+before. The sun blazed out, and the sap ran faster, and, after Jonathan
+had fully enjoyed them, the blue and white bibs were taken off. Somehow in
+the clear March sunshine they looked almost shocking. By the next day we
+had syrup enough to try for sugar.
+
+For on sugar my heart was set. Syrup was all very well for the first year,
+but now it had to be sugar. Moreover, as I explained to Janet, when it
+came to sugar, being absolutely ignorant, I was again in a position to
+expect the aid of the fool’s Providence.
+
+“How much _do_ you know about it?” asked Janet.
+
+“Oh, just what people say. It seems to be partly like fudge and partly
+like molasses candy. You boil it, and then you beat it, and then you pour
+it off.”
+
+“I’ve got more to go on than that,” said Jonathan. “I came up on the train
+with the Judge. He used to see it done.”
+
+“You’ve got to drive Janet over to her train to-night; Hiram can’t,” I
+said.
+
+“All right. There’s time enough.”
+
+We sat down to early supper, and took turns running out to the kitchen to
+“try” the syrup as it boiled down. At least we said we would take turns,
+but usually we all three went. Supper seemed distinctly a side issue.
+
+“I’m going to take it off now,” said Jonathan. “Look out!”
+
+“Do you think it’s time?” I demurred.
+
+“We’ll know soon,” said Jonathan, with his usual composure.
+
+We hung over him. “Now you beat it,” I said. But he was already beating.
+
+“Get some cold water to set it in,” he commanded. We brought the dishpan
+with water from the well, where ice still floated.
+
+“Maybe you oughtn’t to stir so much—do you think?” I suggested, helpfully.
+“Beat it more—up, you know.”
+
+“More the way you would eggs,” said Janet.
+
+“I’ll show you.” I lunged at the spoon.
+
+“Go away! This isn’t eggs,” said Jonathan, beating steadily.
+
+“Your arm must be tired. Let me take it,” pleaded Janet.
+
+“No, me!” I said. “Janet, you’ve got to get your coat and things. You’ll
+have to start in fifteen minutes. Here, Jonathan, you need a fresh arm.”
+
+“I’m fresh enough.”
+
+“And I really don’t think you have the motion.”
+
+“I have motion enough. This is my job. You go and help Janet.”
+
+“Janet’s all right.”
+
+“So am I. See how white it’s getting. The Judge said—”
+
+“Here come Hiram and Kit,” announced Janet, returning with bag and wraps.
+“But you have ten minutes. Can’t I help?”
+
+“He won’t let us. He’s that ‘sot,’” I murmured. “He’ll make you miss your
+train.”
+
+“You _could_ butter the pans,” he counter charged, “and you haven’t.”
+
+We flew to prepare, and the pouring began. It was a thrilling moment. The
+syrup, or sugar, now a pale hay color, poured out thickly, blob-blob-blob,
+into the little pans. Janet moved them up as they were needed, and I
+snatched the spoon, at last, and encouraged the stuff to fall where it
+should. But Jonathan got it from me again, and scraped out the remnant,
+making designs of clovers and polliwogs on the tops of the cakes. Then a
+dash for coats and hats and a rush to the carriage.
+
+When the surrey disappeared around the turn of the road, I went back,
+shivering, to the house. It seemed very empty, as houses will, being
+sensitive things. I went to the kitchen. There on the table sat a huddle
+of little pans, to cheer me, and I fell to work getting things in order to
+be left in the morning. Then I went back to the fire and waited for
+Jonathan. I picked up a book and tried to read, but the stillness of the
+house was too importunate, it had to be listened to. I leaned back and
+watched the fire, and the old house and I held communion together.
+
+Perhaps in no other way is it possible to get quite what I got that
+evening. It was partly my own attitude; I was going away in the morning,
+and I had, in a sense, no duties toward the place. The magazines of last
+fall lay on the tables, the newspapers of last fall lay beside them. The
+dust of last fall was, doubtless, in the closets and on the floors. It did
+not matter. For though I was the mistress of the house, I was for the
+moment even more its guest, and guests do not concern themselves with such
+things as these.
+
+If it had been really an empty house, I should have been obliged to think
+of these things, for in an empty house the dust speaks and the house is
+still, dumbly imprisoned in its own past. On the other hand, when a house
+is filled with life, it is still, too; it is absorbed in its own present.
+But when one sojourns in a house that is merely resting, full of the life
+that has only for a brief season left it, ready for the life that is soon
+to return—then one is in the midst of silences that are not empty and
+hollow, but richly eloquent. The house is the link that joins and
+interprets the living past and the living future.
+
+Something of this I came to feel as I sat there in the wonderful
+stillness. There were no house noises such as generally form the unnoticed
+background of one’s consciousness—the steps overhead, the distant voices,
+the ticking of the clock, the breathing of the dog in the corner. Even the
+mice and the chimney-swallows had not come back, and I missed the
+scurrying in the walls and the flutter of wings in the chimney. The fire
+purred low, now and then the wind sighed gently about the corner of the
+“new part,” and a loose door-latch clicked as the draught shook it. A
+branch drew back and forth across a window-pane with the faintest squeak.
+And little by little the old house opened its heart. All that it told me I
+hardly yet know myself. It gathered up for me all its past, the past that
+I had known and the past that I had not known. Time fell away. My own
+importance dwindled. I seemed a very small part of the life of the
+house—very small, yet wholly belonging to it. I felt that it absorbed me
+as it absorbed the rest—those before and after me—for time was not.
+
+There was the sound of slow wheels outside, the long roll of the
+carriage-house door, and the trampling of hoofs on the flooring within.
+Then the clinking of the lantern and the even tread of feet on the path
+behind the house, a gust of raw snow-air—and the house fell silent so that
+Jonathan might come in.
+
+“Your sugar is hardening nicely, I see,” he said, rubbing his hands before
+the fire.
+
+“Yes,” I said. “You know I _told_ Janet that for this part of the affair
+we could trust to the fool’s Providence.”
+
+“Thank you,” said Jonathan.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   III
+
+
+                           Evenings on the Farm
+
+
+          I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;
+          I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away
+          (And wait to watch the water clear, I may);
+          I shan’t be gone long.—You come too.
+
+          I’m going out to fetch the little calf
+          That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,
+          It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
+          I shan’t be gone long.—You come too.
+
+          ROBERT FROST.
+
+
+When we first planned to take up the farm we looked forward with especial
+pleasure to our evenings. They were to be the quiet rounding-in of our
+days, full of companionship, full of meditation. “We’ll do lots of reading
+aloud,” I said. “And we’ll have long walks. There won’t be much to do
+_but_ walk and read. I can hardly wait.” And I chose our summer books with
+special reference to reading aloud.
+
+“Of course,” I said, as we fell to work at our packing, “we’ll have to do
+all sorts of things first. But the days are so long up there, and the life
+is very simple. And in the evenings you’ll help. We ought to be settled in
+a week.”
+
+“Or two—or three,” suggested Jonathan.
+
+“Three! What is there to do?”
+
+“Farm-life isn’t so blamed simple as you think.”
+
+“But what _is_ there to do? Now, listen! One day for trunks, one day for
+boxes and barrels, one day for closets, that’s three, one for curtains,
+four, one day for—for the garret, that’s five. Well—one day for odds and
+ends that I haven’t thought of. That’s liberal, I’m sure.”
+
+“Better say the rest of your life for the odds and ends you haven’t
+thought of,” said Jonathan, as he drove the last nail in a neatly headed
+barrel.
+
+“Jonathan, why are you such a pessimist?”
+
+“I’m not, except when you’re such an optimist.”
+
+“If I’d begun by saying it would take a month, would you have said a
+week?”
+
+“Can’t tell. Might have.”
+
+“Anyway, there’s nothing bad about odds and ends. They’re about all women
+have much to do with most of their lives.”
+
+“That’s what I said. And you called me a pessimist.”
+
+“I didn’t call you one. I said, why were you one.”
+
+“I’m sorry. My mistake,” said Jonathan with the smile of one who scores.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+And so we went.
+
+One day for trunks was all right. Any one can manage trunks. And the
+second day, the boxes were emptied and sent flying out to the barn.
+Curtains I decided to keep for evening work, while Jonathan read. That
+left the closets and the attic, or rather the attics, for there was one
+over the main house and one over the “new part,”—still “new,” although now
+some seventy years old. They were known as the attic and the little attic.
+I thought I would do the closets first, and I began with the one in the
+parlor. This was built into the chimney, over the fireplace. It was low,
+and as long as the mantelpiece itself. It had two long shelves shut away
+behind three glass doors through which the treasures within were dimly
+visible. When I swung these open it felt like opening a tomb—cold, musty
+air hung about my face. I brushed it aside, and considered where to begin.
+It was a depressing collection. There were photographs and photographs,
+some in frames, the rest of them tied up in packages or lying in piles. A
+few had names or messages written on the back, but most gave no clue; and
+all of them gazed out at me with that expression of complete
+respectability that constitutes so impenetrable a mask for the personality
+behind. Most of us wear such masks, but the older photographers seem to
+have been singularly successful in concentrating attention on them. Then
+there were albums, with more photographs, of people and of “views.” There
+was a big Bible, some prayer-books, and a few other books elaborately
+bound with that heavy fancifulness that we are learning to call Victorian.
+One of these was on “The Wonders of the Great West”; another was about
+“The Female Saints of America.” I took it down and glanced through it, but
+concluded that one had to be a female saint, or at least an aspirant, to
+appreciate it. Then there were things made out of dried flowers, out of
+hair, out of shells, out of pine-cones. There were vases and other
+ornamental bits of china and glass, also Victorian, looking as if they
+were meant to be continually washed or dusted by the worn, busy fingers of
+the female saints. As I came to fuller realization of all these relics, my
+resolution flickered out and there fell upon me a strange numbness of
+spirit. I seemed under a spell of inaction. Everything behind those glass
+doors had been cherished too long to be lightly thrown away, yet was not
+old enough to be valuable nor useful enough to keep. I spent a long
+day—one of the longest days of my life—browsing through the books, trying
+to sort the photographs, and glancing through a few old letters. I did
+nothing in particular with anything, and in the late afternoon I roused
+myself, put them all back, and shut the glass doors. I had nothing to show
+for my day’s experience except a deep little round ache in the back of my
+neck and a faint brassy taste in my mouth. I complained of it to Jonathan
+later.
+
+“It always tasted just that way to me when I was a boy,” he said, “but I
+never thought much about it—I thought it was just a closet-taste.”
+
+“And it isn’t only the taste,” I went on. “It does something to me, to my
+state of mind. I’m afraid to try the garret.”
+
+“Garrets are different,” said Jonathan. “But I’d leave them. They can
+wait.”
+
+“They’ve waited a good while, of course,” I said.
+
+And so we left the garrets. We came back to them later, and were glad we
+had done so. But that is a story by itself.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+Meanwhile, in the evenings, Jonathan helped.
+
+“I’m afraid you were more or less right about the odd jobs,” I admitted
+one night. “They do seem to accumulate.” I was holding a candle while he
+set up a loose latch.
+
+“They’ve been accumulating a good many years,” said Jonathan.
+
+“Yes, that’s it. And so the doors all stick, and the latches won’t latch,
+and the shades are sulky or wild, and the pantry shelves—have you
+noticed?—they’re all warped so they rock when you set a dish on them.”
+
+“And the chairs pull apart,” added Jonathan.
+
+“Yes. Of course after we catch up we’ll be all right.”
+
+“I wouldn’t count too much on catching up.”
+
+“Why not?” I asked.
+
+“The farm has had a long start.”
+
+“But you’re a Yankee,” I argued; “the Yankee nature fairly feeds on such
+jobs—‘putter jobs,’ you know.”
+
+“Yes, I know.”
+
+“Only, of course, you get on faster if you’re not too particular about
+having the exact tool—”
+
+Considered as a Yankee, Jonathan’s only fault is that when he does a job
+he likes to have a very special tool to do it with. Often it is so special
+that I have never heard its name before and then I consider he is going
+too far. He merely thinks I haven’t gone far enough. Perhaps such matters
+must always remain matters of opinion. But even with this handicap we did
+begin to catch up, and we could have done this a good deal faster if it
+had not been for the pump.
+
+The pump was a clear case of new wine in an old bottle. It was large and
+very strong. The people who worked it were strong too. But the walls and
+floor to which it was attached were not strong at all. And so, one night,
+when Jonathan wanted a walk I was obliged instead to suggest the pump.
+
+“What’s the matter there?”
+
+“Why, it seems to have pulled clear of its moorings. You look at it.”
+
+He looked, with that expression of meditative resourcefulness peculiar to
+the true Yankee countenance. “H’m—needs new wood there,—and there; that
+stuff’ll never hold.” And so the old bottle was patched with new skin at
+the points of strain, and in the zest of reconstruction Jonathan almost
+forgot to regret the walk. “We’ll have it to-morrow night,” he said: “the
+moon will be better.”
+
+The next evening I met him below the turn of the road. “Wonderful night
+it’s going to be,” he said, as he pushed his wheel up the last hill.
+
+“Yes—” I said, a little uneasily. I was thinking of the kitchen pump.
+Finally I brought myself to face it.
+
+“There seems to be some trouble—with the pump,” I said apologetically. I
+felt that it was my fault, though I knew it wasn’t.
+
+“More trouble? What sort of trouble?”
+
+“Oh, it wheezes and makes funny sucking noises, and the water spits and
+spits, and then bursts out, and then doesn’t come at all. It sounds a
+little like a cat with a bone in its throat.”
+
+“Probably just that,” said Jonathan: “grain of sand in the valve, very
+likely.”
+
+“Shall I get a plumber?”
+
+“Plumber! I’ll fix it myself in three shakes of a lamb’s tail.”
+
+“Well,” I said, relieved: “you can do that after supper while I see that
+all the chickens are in, and those turkeys, and then we’ll have our walk.”
+
+Accordingly I went off on my tour. When I returned the pale moon-shadows
+were already beginning to show in the lingering dusk of the fading
+daylight. Indoors seemed very dark, but on the kitchen floor a candle sat,
+flaring and dipping.
+
+“Jonathan,” I called, “I’m ready.”
+
+“Well, I’m not,” said a voice at my feet.
+
+“Why, where are you? Oh, there!” I bent down and peered under the sink at
+a shape crouched there. “Haven’t you finished?”
+
+“Finished! I’ve just got the thing apart.”
+
+“I should say you had!” I regarded the various pieces of iron and leather
+and wood as they lay, mere dismembered shapes, about the dim kitchen.
+
+“It doesn’t seem as if it would ever come together again—to be a pump,” I
+said in some depression.
+
+“Oh, that’s easy! It’s just a question of time.”
+
+“How much time?”
+
+“Heaven knows.”
+
+“Was it the valve?”
+
+“It was—several things.”
+
+His tone had the vagueness born of concentration. I could see that this
+was no time to press for information. Besides, in the field of mechanics,
+as Jonathan has occasionally pointed out to me, I am rather like a
+traveler who has learned to ask questions in a foreign tongue, but not to
+understand the answers.
+
+“Well, I’ll bring my sewing out here—or would you rather have me read to
+you? There’s something in the last number of—”
+
+“No—get your sewing—blast that screw! Why doesn’t it start?”
+
+Evidently sewing was better than the last number of anything. I settled
+myself under a lamp, while Jonathan, in the twilight beneath the sink,
+continued his mystic rites, with an accompaniment of mildly vituperative
+or persuasive language, addressed sometimes to his tools, sometimes to the
+screws and nuts and other parts, sometimes against the men who made them
+or the plumbers who put them in. Now and then I held a candle, or steadied
+some perverse bit of metal while he worked his will upon it. And at last
+the phœnix did indeed rise, the pump was again a pump,—at least it looked
+like one.
+
+“Suppose it doesn’t work,” I suggested.
+
+“Suppose it does,” said Jonathan.
+
+He began to pump furiously. “Pour in water there!” he directed. “Keep on
+pouring—don’t stop—never mind if she does spout.” I poured and he pumped,
+and there were the usual sounds of a pump resuming activity: gurglings and
+spittings, suckings and sudden spoutings; but at last it seemed to get its
+breath—a few more long strokes of the handle, and the water poured.
+
+“What time is it?” he asked.
+
+“Oh, fairly late—about ten—ten minutes past.”
+
+Instead of our walk, we stood for a moment under the big maples before the
+house and looked out into a sea of moonlight. It silvered the sides of the
+old gray barns and washed over the blossoming apple trees beyond the
+house. Is there anything more sweetly still than the stillness of
+moonlight over apple blossoms! As we went out to the barns to lock up,
+even the little hencoops looked poetic. Passing one of them, we half
+roused the feathered family within and heard muffled peepings and a
+smothered _clk-clk_. Jonathan was by this time so serene that I felt I
+could ask him a question that had occurred to me.
+
+“Jonathan, how long _is_ three shakes of a lamb’s tail?”
+
+“Apparently, my dear, it is the whole evening,” he answered unruffled.
+
+The next night was drizzly. Well, we would have books instead of a walk.
+We lighted a fire, May though it was, and settled down before it. “What
+shall we read?” I asked, feeling very cozy.
+
+Jonathan was filling his pipe with a leisurely deliberation good to look
+upon. With the match in his hand he paused—“Oh, I meant to tell you—those
+young turkeys of yours—they were still out when I came through the yard. I
+wonder if they went in all right.”
+
+I have always noticed that if the turkeys grow up very fat and strutty and
+suggestive of Thanksgiving, Jonathan calls them “our turkeys,” but in the
+spring, when they are committing all the naughtinesses of wild and silly
+youth, he is apt to allude to them as “those young turkeys of yours.”
+
+I rose wearily. “No. They never go in all right when they get out at this
+time—especially on wet nights. I’ll have to find them and stow them.”
+
+Jonathan got up, too, and laid down his pipe. “You’ll need the lantern,”
+he said.
+
+We went out together into the May drizzle—a good thing to be out in, too,
+if you are out for the fun of it. But when you are hunting silly little
+turkeys who literally don’t know enough to go in when it rains, and when
+you expected and wanted to be doing something else, then it seems
+different, the drizzle seems peculiarly drizzly, the silliness of the
+turkeys seems particularly and unendurably silly.
+
+We waded through the drenched grass and the tall, dripping weeds,
+listening for the faint, foolish peeping of the wanderers. Some we found
+under piled fence rails, some under burdock leaves, some under nothing
+more protective than a plantain leaf. By ones and twos we collected them,
+half drowned yet shrilly remonstrant, and dropped them into the dry shed
+where they belonged. Then we returned to the house, very wet, feeling the
+kind of discouragement that usually besets those who are forced to furnish
+prudence to fools.
+
+“Nine o’clock,” said Jonathan, “and we’re too wet to sit down. If you
+could just shut in those turkeys on wet days—”
+
+“Shut them in! Didn’t I shut them in! They must have got out since four
+o’clock.”
+
+“Isn’t the shed tight?” he asked.
+
+“Chicken-tight, but not turkey-tight, apparently. Nothing is
+turkey-tight.”
+
+“They’re bigger than chickens.”
+
+“Not in any one spot they aren’t. They’re like coiled wire—when they
+stretch out to get through a crack they have _no_ dimension except length,
+their bodies are mere imaginary points to hang feathers on. You don’t know
+little turkeys.”
+
+It might be said that, having undertaken to raise turkeys, we had to
+expect them to act like turkeys. But there were other interruptions in our
+evenings where our share of responsibility was not so plain. For example,
+one wet evening in early June we had kindled a little fire and I had
+brought the lamp forward. The pump was quiescent, the little turkeys were
+all tucked up in the turkey equivalent for bed, the farm seemed to be
+cuddling down into itself for the night. We sat for a moment luxuriously
+regarding the flames, listening to the sighing of the wind, feeling the
+sweet damp air as it blew in through the open windows. I was considering
+which book it should be and at last rose to possess myself of two or
+three.
+
+“Sh—h—h!” said Jonathan, a warning finger raised.
+
+I stood listening.
+
+“I don’t hear anything,” I said.
+
+“Sh—h!” he repeated. “There!”
+
+This time, indeed, I heard faint bird-notes.
+
+“Young robins!” He sprang up and made for the back door with long strides.
+
+I peered out through the window of the orchard room, but saw only the
+reflection of the firelight and the lamp. Suddenly I heard Jonathan
+whistle and I ran to the back porch. Blackness pressed against my eyes.
+
+“Where are you?” I called into it.
+
+The whistle again, quite near me, apparently out of the air.
+
+“Bring a lantern,” came a whisper.
+
+I got it and came back and down the steps to the path, holding up my light
+and peering about in search of the voice.
+
+“Where are you? I can’t see you at all.”
+
+“Right here—look—here—up!” The voice was almost over my head.
+
+I searched the dark masses of the tree—oh, yes! the lantern revealed the
+heel of a shoe in a crotch, and above,—yes, undoubtedly, the rest of
+Jonathan, stretched out along a limb.
+
+“Oh! What are you doing up there?”
+
+“Get me a long stick—hoe—clothes-pole—anything I can poke with. Quick! The
+cat’s up here. I can hear her, but I can’t see her.”
+
+I found the rake and reached it up to him. From the dark beyond him came a
+distressed mew.
+
+“Now the lantern. Hang it on the teeth.” He drew it up to him, then, rake
+in one hand and lantern in the other, proceeded to squirm out along the
+limb.
+
+“Now I see her.”
+
+I saw her too—a huddle of yellow, crouched close.
+
+“I’ll have her in a minute. She’ll either have to drop or be caught.”
+
+And in fact this distressing dilemma was already becoming plain to the
+marauder herself. Her mewings grew louder and more frequent. A few more
+contortions brought the climber nearer his victim. A little judicious
+urging with the rake and she was within reach. The rake came down to me,
+and a long, wild mew announced that Jonathan had clutched.
+
+“I don’t see how you’re going to get down,” I said, mopping the rain-mist
+out of my eyes.
+
+“Watch me,” panted the contortionist.
+
+I watched a curious mass descend the tree, the lantern, swinging and
+jerking, fitfully illumined the pair, and I could see, now a knee and an
+ear, now a hand and a yellow furry shape, now a white collar, nose, and
+chin. There was a last, long, scratching slide. I snatched the lantern,
+and Jonathan stood beside me, holding by the scruff of her neck a very
+much frazzled yellow cat. We returned to the porch where her victims
+were—one alive, in a basket, two dead, beside it, and Jonathan, kneeling,
+held the cat’s nose close to the little bodies while he boxed her
+ears—once, twice; remonstrant mews rose wild, and with a desperate twist
+the culprit backed out under his arm and leaped into the blackness.
+
+“Don’t believe she’ll eat young robin for a day or two,” said Jonathan.
+
+“Is that what they were? Where were they?”
+
+“Under the tree. She’d knocked them out.”
+
+“Could you put this one back? He seems all right—only sort of naked in
+spots.”
+
+“We’ll half cover the basket and hang it in the tree. His folks’ll take
+care of him.”
+
+Next morning early there began the greatest to-do among the robins in the
+orchard. They shrieked their comments on the affair at the top of their
+lungs. They screamed abusively at Jonathan and me as we stood watching.
+“They say we did it!” said Jonathan. “I call that gratitude!”
+
+I wish I could record that from that evening the cat was a reformed
+character. An impression had indeed been made. All next day she stayed
+under the porch, two glowing eyes in the dark. The second day she came
+out, walking indifferent and debonair, as cats do. But when Jonathan took
+down the basket from the tree and made her smell of it, she flattened her
+ears against her head and shot under the porch again.
+
+But lessons grow dim and temptation is freshly importunate. It was not two
+weeks before Jonathan was up another tree on the same errand, and when I
+considered the number of nests in our orchard, and the number of cats—none
+of them really our cats—on the place, I felt that the position of
+overruling Providence was almost more than we could undertake, if we hoped
+to do anything else.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+These things—tinkering of latches and chairs, pump-mending, rescue work in
+the orchard and among the poultry—filled our evenings fairly full. Yet
+these are only samples, and not particularly representative samples
+either. They were the sort of things that happened oftenest, the common
+emergencies incidental to the life. But there were also the uncommon
+emergencies, each occurring seldom but each adding its own touch of
+variety to the tale of our evenings.
+
+For instance, there was the time of the great drought, when Jonathan,
+coming in from a tour of the farm at dusk, said, “I’ve got to go up and
+dig out the spring-hole across the swamp. Everything else is dry, and the
+cattle are getting crazy.”
+
+“Can I help?” I asked, not without regrets for our books and our
+evening—it was a black night, and I had had hopes.
+
+“Yes. Come and hold the lantern.”
+
+We went. The spring-hole had been trodden by the poor, eager creatures
+into a useless jelly of mud. Jonathan fell to work, while I held the
+lantern high. But soon it became more than a mere matter of holding the
+lantern. There was a crashing in the blackness about us and a huge horned
+head emerged behind my shoulder, another loomed beyond Jonathan’s stooping
+bulk.
+
+“Keep ’em back,” he said. “They’ll have it all trodden up again—Hi! You!
+Ge’ back ’ere!” There is as special a lingo for talking to cattle as there
+is for talking to babies. I used it as well as I could. I swung the
+lantern in their faces, I brandished the hoe-handle at them, I jabbed at
+them recklessly. They snorted and backed and closed in again,—crazy, poor
+things, with the smell of the water. It was an evening’s battle for us.
+Jonathan dug and dug, and then laid rails, and the precious water filled
+in slowly, grew to a dark pool, and the thirsty creatures panted and
+snuffed in the dark just outside the radius of the hoe-handle, until at
+last we could let them in. I had forgotten my books, for we had come close
+to the earth and the creatures of the earth. The cows were our sisters and
+the steers our brothers that night.
+
+Sometimes the emergency was in the barn—a broken halter and trouble among
+the horses, or perhaps a new calf. Sometimes a stray creature,—cow or
+horse,—grazing along the roadside, got into our yard and threatened our
+corn and squashes and my poor, struggling flower-beds. Once it was a break
+in the wire fence around Jonathan’s muskmelon patch in the barn meadow.
+The cows had just been turned in, and if it wasn’t mended that evening it
+meant no melons that season, also melon-tainted cream for days.
+
+Once or twice each year it was the drainpipe from the sink. The drain,
+like the pump, was an innovation. Our ancestors had always carried out
+whatever they couldn’t use or burn, and dumped it on the far edge of the
+orchard. In a thinly settled community, there is much to be said for this
+method: you know just where you are. But we had the drain, and
+occasionally we didn’t know just where we were.
+
+“Coffee grounds,” Jonathan would suggest, with a touch of sternness.
+
+“No,” I would reply firmly; “coffee grounds are always burned.”
+
+“What then?”
+
+“Don’t know. I’ve poked and poked.”
+
+A gleam in the corner of Jonathan’s eye—“What with?”
+
+“Oh, everything.”
+
+“Yes, I suppose so. For instance what?”
+
+“Why—hair-pin first, of course, and then scissors, and then
+button-hook—you needn’t smile. Button-hooks are wonderful for cleaning out
+pipes. And then I took a pail-handle and straightened it out—” Jonathan
+was laughing by this time—“Well, I have to use what I have, don’t I?”
+
+“Yes, of course. And after the pail-handle?”
+
+“After that—oh, yes. I tried your cleaning-rod.”
+
+“The devil you did!”
+
+“Not at all. It wasn’t hurt a bit. It just wouldn’t go down, that’s all.
+So then I thought I’d wait for you.”
+
+“And now what do you expect?”
+
+“I expect you to fix it.”
+
+Of course, after that, there was nothing for Jonathan to do but fix it.
+Usually it did not take long. Sometimes it did. Once it took a whole
+evening, and required the services of a young tree, which Jonathan went
+out and cut and trimmed and forced through a section of the pipe which he
+had taken up and laid out for the operation on the kitchen floor. It was a
+warm evening, too, and friends had driven over to visit us. We received
+them warmly in the kitchen. We explained that we believed in making them
+members of the family, and that members of the family always helped in
+whatever was being done. So they helped. They took turns gripping the pipe
+while Jonathan and I persuaded the young tree through it. It required
+great strength and some skill because it was necessary to make the tree
+and the pipe perform spirally rotatory movements each antagonistic and
+complementary to the other. We were all rather tired and very hot before
+anything began to happen. Then it happened all at once: the tree burst
+through—and not alone. A good deal came with it. The kitchen floor was a
+sight, and there was—undoubtedly there was—a strong smell of coffee.
+Jonathan smiled. Then he went down cellar and restored the pipe to its
+position, while the rest of us cleared up the kitchen,—it’s astonishing
+what a little job like that can make a kitchen look like,—and as our
+friends started to go a voice from beneath us, like the ghost in “Hamlet,”
+shouted, “Hold ’em! There’s half a freezer of ice-cream down here we can
+finish.” Sure enough there was! And then he wouldn’t have to pack it down.
+We had it up. We looted the pantry as only irresponsible adults can loot,
+in their own pantry, and the evening ended in luxurious ease. Some time in
+the black of the night our friends left, and I suppose the sound of their
+carriage-wheels along the empty road set many a neighbor wondering,
+through his sleep, “Who’s sick now?” How could they know it was only a
+plumbing party?
+
+As I look back on this evening it seems one of the pleasantest of the
+year. It isn’t so much what you do, of course, as the way you feel about
+it, that makes the difference between pleasant and unpleasant. Shall we
+say of that evening that we meant to read aloud? Or that we meant to have
+a quiet evening with friends? Not at all. We say, with all the conviction
+in the world, that we meant, on that particular evening, to have a
+plumbing party, with the drain as the _pièce de résistance_. Toward this
+our lives had been yearning, and lo! they had arrived!
+
+Some few things, however, are hard to meet in that spirit. When the pigs
+broke out of the pen, about nine o’clock, and Hiram was away, and Mrs.
+Hiram needed our help to get them in—there was no use in pretending that
+we meant to do it. Moreover, the labor of rounding up pigs is one of
+mingled arduousness and delicacy. Pigs in clover was once a popular game,
+but pigs in a dark orchard is not a game at all, and it will, I am firmly
+convinced, never be popular. It is, I repeat, not a game, yet probably the
+only way to keep one’s temper at all is to regard it, for the time being,
+as a major sport, like football and deep-sea fishing and
+mountain-climbing, where you are expected to take some risks and not think
+too much about results as such. On this basis it has, perhaps, its own
+rewards. But the attitude is difficult to maintain, especially late at
+night.
+
+On that particular evening, as we returned, breathless and worn, to the
+house, I could not refrain from saying, with some edge, “I never wanted to
+keep pigs anyway.”
+
+“Who says we’re keeping them?” remarked Jonathan; and then we laughed and
+laughed.
+
+“You needn’t think I’m laughing because you said anything specially
+funny,” I said. “It’s only because I’m tired enough to laugh at anything.”
+
+The pump, too, tried my philosophy now and then. One evening when I had
+worn my hands to the bone cutting out thick leather washers for Jonathan
+to insert somewhere in the circulatory system of that same monster, I
+finally broke out, “Oh, dear! I hate the pump! I wanted a moonlight walk!”
+
+“I’ll have the thing together now in a jiffy,” said Jonathan.
+
+“Jiffy! There’s no use talking about jiffies at half-past ten at night,” I
+snarled. I was determined anyway to be as cross as I liked. “Why can’t we
+find a really simple way of living? This isn’t simple. It’s highly complex
+and very difficult.”
+
+“You cut those washers very well,” suggested Jonathan soothingly, but I
+was not prepared to be soothed.
+
+“It was hateful work, though. Now, look what we’ve done this evening!
+We’ve shut up a setting hen, and housed the little turkeys, and driven
+that cow back into the road, and mended a window-shade and the dog’s
+chain, and now we’ve fixed the pump—and it won’t stay fixed at that!”
+
+“Fair evening’s work,” murmured Jonathan as he rapidly assembled the pump.
+
+“Yes, as work. But all I mean is—it isn’t _simple_. Farm life has a
+reputation for simplicity that I begin to think is overdone. It doesn’t
+seem to me that my evening has been any more simple than if we had dressed
+for dinner and gone to the opera or played bridge. In fact, at this
+distance, that, compared with this, has the simplicity of a—I don’t know
+what!”
+
+“I like your climaxes,” said Jonathan, and we both laughed. “There! I’m
+done. Now suppose we go, in our simple way, and lock up the barns and
+chicken-houses.”
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+And so the evenings came and went, each offering a prospect of fair and
+quiet things—books and firelight and moonlight and talk; many in
+retrospect full of things quite different—drains and latches and
+fledglings and cows and pigs. Many, but not all. For the evenings did now
+and then come when the pump ceased from troubling and the “critters” were
+at rest. Evenings when we sat under the lamp and read, when we walked and
+walked along moonlit roads or lay on the slopes of moon-washed meadows. It
+was on such an evening that we faced the vagaries of farm life and
+searched for a philosophy to cover them.
+
+“I’m beginning to see that it will never be any better,” I said.
+
+“Probably not,” said Jonathan, talking around his pipe.
+
+“You seem contented enough about it.”
+
+“I am.”
+
+“I don’t know that I’m contented, but perhaps I’m resigned. I believe it’s
+necessary.”
+
+“Of course it’s necessary.”
+
+Jonathan often has the air of having known since infancy the great truths
+about life that I have just discovered. I overlooked this, and went on,
+“You see, we’re right down close to the earth that is the ultimate basis
+of everything, and all the caprices of things touch us immediately and we
+have to make immediate adjustments to them.”
+
+“And that knocks the bottom out of our evenings.”
+
+“Now if we’re in the city, playing bridge, somebody else is making those
+adjustments for us. We’re like the princess with seventeen mattresses
+between her and the pea.”
+
+“She felt it, though,” said Jonathan. “It kept her awake.”
+
+“I know. She had a poor night. But even she would hardly have maintained
+that she felt it as she would have done if the mattresses hadn’t been
+there.”
+
+“True,” said Jonathan.
+
+“Farm life is the pea without the mattresses—” I went on.
+
+“Sounds a little cheerless,” said Jonathan.
+
+“Well—of course, it isn’t really cheerless at all. But neither is it easy.
+It’s full of remorseless demands for immediate adjustment.”
+
+“That was the way the princess felt about her pea.”
+
+“The princess was a snippy little thing. But after all, probably her life
+was full of adjustments of other sorts. She couldn’t call her soul her own
+a minute, I suppose.”
+
+“Perhaps that was why she ran away,” suggested Jonathan.
+
+“Of course it was. She ran away to find the simple life and didn’t find
+it.”
+
+“No. She found the pea—even with all those mattresses.”
+
+“And we’ve run away, and found several peas, and fewer mattresses,” said
+Jonathan.
+
+“Let’s not get confused—”
+
+“I’m not confused,” said Jonathan.
+
+“Well, I shall be in a minute if I don’t look out. You can’t follow a
+parallel too far. What I mean is, that if you run away from one kind of
+complexity you run into another kind.”
+
+“What are you going to do about it?”
+
+“I’m going to like it all,” I answered, “and make believe I meant to do
+it.”
+
+After that we were silent awhile. Then I tried again. “You know your trick
+of waltzing with a glass of water on your head?”
+
+“Yes.”
+
+“Well, I wonder if we couldn’t do that with our souls.”
+
+“That suggests to me a rather curious picture,” said Jonathan.
+
+“Well—you know what I mean. When you do that, your body takes up all the
+jolts and jiggles before they get to the top of your head, so the glass
+stays quiet.”
+
+“Well—”
+
+“Well, I don’t see why—only, of course, our souls aren’t really anything
+like glasses of water, and it would be perfectly detestable to think of
+carrying them around carefully like that.”
+
+“Perhaps you’d better back out of that figure of speech,” suggested
+Jonathan. “Go back to your princess. Say, ‘every man his own mattress.’ ”
+
+“No. Any figure is wrong. The trouble with all of them is that as soon as
+you use one it begins to get in your way, and say all sorts of things for
+you that you never meant at all. And then if you notice it, it bothers
+you, and if you don’t notice it, you get drawn into crooked thinking.”
+
+“And yet you can’t think without them.”
+
+“No, you can’t think without them.”
+
+“Well—where are we, anyway?” he asked placidly.
+
+“I don’t know at all. Only I feel sure that leading the simple life
+doesn’t depend on the things you do it _with_. Feeding your own cows and
+pigs and using pumps and candles brings you no nearer to it than marketing
+by telephone and using city water supply and electric lighting. I don’t
+know what does bring you nearer, but I’m sure it must be something inside
+you.”
+
+“That sounds rather reasonable,” said Jonathan; “almost scriptural—”
+
+“Yes, I know,” I said.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    IV
+
+
+                               After Frost
+
+
+It is late afternoon in mid-September. I stand in my garden sniffing the
+raw air, and wondering, as always at this season, _will_ there be frost
+to-night or will there not? Of course if I were a woodchuck or a muskrat,
+or any other really intelligent creature, I should know at once and act
+accordingly, but being only a stupid human being, I am thrown back on
+conjecture, assisted by the thermometer, and an appeal to Jonathan.
+
+“Too much wind for frost,” says he.
+
+“Sure? I’d hate to lose my nasturtiums quite so early.”
+
+“You won’t lose ’em. Look at the thermometer if you don’t believe me. If
+it’s above forty you’re safe.”
+
+I look, and try to feel reassured. But I am not quite easy in my mind
+until next morning when, running out before breakfast, I make the rounds
+and find everything untouched.
+
+But a few days later the alarm comes again. There is no wind this time,
+and, what is worse, an ominous silence falls at dusk over the orchard and
+meadow. “Why is everything so still?” I ask myself. “Oh, of course—the
+katydids aren’t talking—and the crickets, and all the other whirr-y
+things. Ah! That means business! My poor garden!”
+
+“Jonathan!” I call, as I feel rather than see his shape whirling
+noiselessly in at the big gate after his ride up from the station. “Help
+me cover my nasturtiums. There’ll be frost to-night.”
+
+“Maybe,” says Jonathan’s voice.
+
+“Not maybe at all—surely. Listen to the katydids!”
+
+“You mean, listen to the absence of katydids.”
+
+“Very well. The point is, I want newspapers.”
+
+“No. The point is, I am to bring newspapers.”
+
+“Exactly.”
+
+“And tuck up your nasturtiums for the night in your peculiarly ridiculous
+fashion—”
+
+“I know it looks ridiculous, but really it’s sensible. There may be weeks
+of summer after this.”
+
+And so the nasturtiums are tucked up, cozily hidden under the big layers
+of sheets, whose corners we fasten down with stones. To be sure, the
+garden _is_ rather a funny sight, with these pale shapes sprawling over
+its beds. But it pays. For in the morning, though over in the vegetable
+garden the squash leaves and lima beans are blackened and limp, my
+nasturtiums are still pert and crisp. I pull off the papers, wondering
+what the passers-by have thought, and lo! my gay garden, good for perhaps
+two weeks more!
+
+But a day arrives when even newspaper coddling is of no avail. Sometimes
+it is in late September, sometimes not until October, but when it comes
+there is no resisting.
+
+The sun goes down, leaving a clear sky paling to green at the horizon. A
+still cold falls upon the world, and I feel that it is the end. Shears in
+hand, I cut everything I can—nasturtiums down to the ground,—leaves, buds,
+and all,—feathery sprays of cosmos, asters by the armful. Those last
+bouquets that I bring into the house are always the most beautiful, for I
+do not have to save buds for later cutting. There will, alas, be no later
+cutting.
+
+So I fill my bowls and vases, and next morning I go out, well knowing what
+I shall see. It is a beautiful sight, too, if one can forget its meaning.
+The whole golden-green world of autumn has been touched with silver. In
+the low-lying swamp beyond the orchard it is almost like a light snowfall.
+The meadows rising beyond the barns are silvered over wherever the long
+tree-shadows still lie. And in my garden, too, where the shadows linger,
+every leaf is frosted, but as soon as the sun warms them through, leaf and
+twig turn dark and droop to the ground. It is the end.
+
+Except, indeed, for my brave marigolds and calendulas and little button
+asters. It is for this reason that I have given them space all summer,
+nipping them back when they tried to blossom early, for they seem a bit
+crude compared with the other flowers. But now that frost is here, my
+feelings warm to them. I cannot criticize their color and texture, so
+grateful am I to them for not giving up. And when last night’s cuttings
+have faded, I shall be very glad of a glowing mass of marigold beside my
+fireplace, and of the yellow stars of calendula, like embodied sunshine,
+on my dining-table.
+
+Well, then, the frost has come! And after the first pang of realization, I
+find that, curiously enough, the worst is over. Since it has come, let it
+come! And now—hurrah for the garden house-cleaning! The garden is dead—the
+garden of yesterday! Long live the garden—the garden of to-morrow! For
+suddenly my mind has leaped ahead to spring.
+
+I can hardly wait for breakfast to be over, before I am out in working
+clothes, pulling up things—not weeds now, but flowers, or what were
+flowers. Nasturtiums, asters, cosmos, snapdragon, stock, late-blooming
+cornflowers—up they all come, all the annuals, and the biennials that have
+had their season. I fling them together in piles, and soon have small
+haystacks all along my grass paths, and—there I am! Down again to the good
+brown earth!
+
+It is with positive satisfaction that I stand and survey my beds, great
+bare patches of earth, glorified here and there by low clumps of calendula
+and great bushes of marigold. Now, then! I can do anything! I can dig, and
+fertilize, and transplant. Best of all, I can plan and plan! The crisp
+wind stings my cheeks, but as I work I feel the sun hot on the back of my
+neck. I get the smell of the earth as I turn it over, mingled with the
+pungent tang of marigold blossoms, very pleasant out of doors, though
+almost too strong for the house except near a fireplace. I believe the
+most characteristic fall odors are to me this of marigold, mingled with
+the fragrance of apples piled in the orchard, the good smell of earth
+newly turned up, and the flavor of burning leaves, borne now and then on
+the wind, from the outdoor house-cleaning of the world.
+
+There is perhaps no season of all the garden year that brings more real
+delight to the gardener, no time so stimulating to the imagination. This
+year in the garden has been good, but next year shall be better. All the
+failures, or near-failures, shall of course be turned into successes, and
+the successes shall be bettered. Last year there were not quite enough
+hollyhocks, but next year there shall be such glories! There are seedlings
+that I have been saving, over on the edge of the phlox. I dash across to
+look them up—yes, here they are, splendid little fellows, leaves only a
+bit crumpled by the frost. I dig them up carefully, keeping earth packed
+about their roots, and one by one I convey them across and set them out in
+a beautiful row where I want them to grow next year. Their place is beside
+the old stone-flagged path, and I picture them rising tall against the
+side of the woodshed, whose barrenness I have besides more than half
+covered with honeysuckle.
+
+Then, there are my foxgloves. Some of them I have already transplanted,
+but not all. There is a little corner full of stocky yearlings that I must
+change now. And that same corner can be used for poppies. I have kept
+seeds of this year’s poppies—funny little brown pepper-shakers, with tiny
+holes at the end through which I shake out the fine seed dust. Doubtless
+they would attend to all this without my help, but I like to be sure that
+even my self-seeding annuals come up where I most want them.
+
+Biennials, like the foxglove and canterbury bells, are of course, the
+difficult children of the garden, because you have to plan not only for
+next year but for the year after. Next year’s bloom is secured—unless they
+winter-kill—in this year’s young plants, growing since spring, or even
+since the fall before. These I transplant for next summer’s beauty. But
+for the year after I like to take double precautions. Already I have tiny
+seedlings, started since August, but besides these I sow seed, too late to
+start before spring. For a severe winter may do havoc, and I shall then
+need the early start given by fall sowing.
+
+As I work on, I discover all sorts of treasures—young plants, seedlings
+from all the big-folk of my garden. Young larkspurs surround the bushy
+parent clumps, and the ground near the forget-me-nots is fairly carpeted
+with little new ones. I have found that, though the old forget-me-nots
+will live through, it pays to pull out the most ragged of them and trust
+to the youngsters to fill their places. These, and English daisies, I let
+grow together about as they will. They are pretty together, with their
+mingling of pink, white, and blue, they never run out, and all I need is
+to keep them from spreading too far, or from crowding each other too much.
+
+When my back aches from this kind of sorting and shifting, I straighten up
+and look about me again. Ah! The phlox! Time now to attend to that!
+
+My white phlox is really the most distinguished thing in my garden. I have
+pink and lavender, too, but any one can have pink and lavender by ordering
+them from a florist. They can have white, too, but not my white. For mine
+never saw a florist; it is an inheritance.
+
+Sixty or seventy years ago there was a beautiful little garden north of
+the old house tended and loved by a beautiful lady. The lady died, and the
+garden did not long outlive her. Its place was taken by a crab-apple
+orchard, which flourished, bore blossom and fruit, until in its turn it
+grew old, while the garden had faded to a dim tradition. But one day in
+August, a few years ago, I discovered under the shade of an old crab tree,
+two slender sprays of white phlox, trying to blossom. In memory of that
+old garden and its lady, I took them up and cherished them. And the
+miracle of life was again made manifest. For from those two little
+half-starved roots has come the most splendid part of my garden. All
+summer it makes a thick green wall on the garden’s edge, beside the
+flagged path. In the other beds it rises in luxuriant masses, giving
+background and body with its wonderful deep green foliage, which is
+greener and thicker than any other phlox I know. And when its season to
+bloom arrives—a long month, from early August to mid-September—it is a
+glory of whiteness, the tallest sprays on a level with my eyes, the
+shortest shoulder high, except when rain weighs down the heavy heads and
+they lean across the paths barring my passage with their fragrant wetness.
+
+Here and there I have let the pink and lavender phlox come in, for they
+begin to bloom two weeks earlier, when the garden needs color. But always
+my white must dominate. And it does. Most wonderful of all is it on
+moonlight nights of late August, when it broods over the garden like a
+white cloud, and the night moths come crowding to its fragrant feast, with
+their intermittent burring of furry wings.
+
+Ah, well! the phlox has passed now, and its trim green leaves are brown
+and crackly. I can do what I like with it after this. So when my other
+transplanting grows tiresome, I fall upon my phlox. Every year some of it
+needs thinning, so quickly does it spread. I take the spading-fork, and,
+with what seems like utter ruthlessness, I pry out from the thickest
+centers enough good roots to give the rest breathing and growing space.
+Along the path edges I always have to cut out encroaching roots each year,
+or else soon there would be no path. But all that I take out is precious,
+either to give to friends for their gardens, or to enlarge the edges of my
+own. For this phlox needs almost no care, and will fight grass and weeds
+for itself.
+
+There are phlox seedlings, too, all over the garden, but I have no way of
+telling what color they are, though usually I can detect the white by its
+foliage. I take them up and set them out near the main phlox masses, and
+wait for the next season’s blossoming before I give them their final
+place.
+
+This is the time of year, too, when I give some attention to the rocks in
+my garden. Of course, in order to have a garden at all, it was necessary
+to take out enough rock to build quite a respectable stone wall. But that
+was not the end. There never will be an end. A Connecticut garden grows
+rocks like weeds, and one must expect to keep on taking them out each
+fall. The rest of the year I try to ignore them, but after frost I like to
+make a fresh raid, and get rid of another wheelbarrow load or so. And I
+always notice that for one barrow load of stones that go out, it takes at
+least two barrow loads of earth to fill in. Thus an excellent circulation
+is maintained, and the garden does not stagnate. Moreover, I take great
+pleasure in showing my friends—especially friends from the more earthy
+sections of New York and farther west—the piles of rock and the parts of
+certain stone walls about the place that have been literally made out of
+the cullings of my garden. They never believe me.
+
+As I am thus occupied,—digging, planting, thinning, sowing,—I find it one
+of the happiest seasons of the year. It is partly the stimulus of the
+autumn air, partly the pleasure of getting at the ground. I think there
+are some of us, city folk though we be, who must have the giant Antæus
+for ancestor. We still need to get in close touch with the earth now and
+then. Children have a true instinct with their love of barefoot play in
+the dirt, and there are grown folks who still love it—but we call it
+gardening. The sight and the feel and the smell of my brown garden beds
+gives me a pleasure that is very deep and probably very primitive.
+
+But there is another source of pleasure in my fall gardening—a pleasure
+not of the senses but of the imagination.
+
+For as I do my work my fancy is active. As I transplant my young
+hollyhocks, I see them, not little round-leaved bunches in my hand, but
+tall and stately, aflare with colors—yellows, whites, pinks. As I dig
+about my larkspur and stake out its seedlings, they spire above me in
+heavenly blues. As I arrange the clumps of coarse-leaved young foxgloves,
+I seem to see their rich tower-like clusters of old-pink bells bending
+always a little towards the southeast, where most sun comes from. As I
+thin my forget-me-not I see it—in my mind’s eye—in a blue mist of spring
+bloom. Thus, a garden rises in my fancy, a garden where neither beetle,
+borer, nor cutworm doth corrupt, and where the mole doth not break in or
+steal, where gentle rain and blessed sun come as they are needed, where
+all the flowers bloom unceasingly in colors of heavenly light—a garden
+such as never yet existed nor ever shall, till the tales of fairyland come
+true. I shall never see that garden, yet every year it blooms for me
+afresh—after frost.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    V
+
+
+                      The Joys of Garden Stewardship
+
+
+I sometimes think I am coming to classify my friends according to the way
+they act when I talk about my garden. On this basis, there are three sorts
+of people.
+
+First there are those who are obviously not interested. Such as these feel
+no answering thrill, even at the sight of a florist’s spring catalogue. A
+weed inspires in them no desire to pull it. They may, however, be really
+nice people if they are still young; for, except by special grace, no one
+under thirty need be expected to care about gardens—it is a mature taste.
+But in the mean time I turn our talk in other channels.
+
+Then there are the people who, when I approach the subject, brighten up,
+look intelligent, even eager, but in a moment make it clear that what they
+are eager for is a chance to talk about their own gardens. Mine is merely
+the stepping-stone, the bridge, the handle. This is better than
+indifference, yet it is sometimes trying. One of my dearest friends thus
+tests my love now and then when she walks in my garden.
+
+“Aren’t those peonies lovely?” I suggest.
+
+“Yes,” dreamily; “you know I can’t have that shade in my garden because—”
+and she trails off into a disquisition that I could, just at that moment,
+do without.
+
+“Look at the height of that larkspur!” I say.
+
+“Yes—but, you know, it wouldn’t do for me to have larkspur when I go away
+so early. What I need is things for April and May.”
+
+“Well, I am not trying to _sell_ you any,” I am sometimes goaded into
+protesting. “I only wanted you to say they are pretty—pretty right here in
+_my_ garden.”
+
+“Yes—yes—of course they are pretty—they’re lovely—you have a lovely
+garden, you know.” She pulls herself up to give this tribute, but soon her
+eyes get the faraway look in them again, and she is murmuring, “Oh, I must
+write Edward to see about that hedge. Tell me, my dear, if you had a brick
+wall, would you have vines on it or wall-fruit?”
+
+It is of no use. I cannot hold her long. I sometimes think she was nicer
+when she had no garden of her own. Perhaps she thinks I was nicer when I
+had none.
+
+But there is another kind of garden manners—a kind that subtly soothes,
+cheers, perhaps inebriates. It is the manner of the friend who may,
+indeed, have a garden, but who looks at mine with the eye of adoption,
+temporarily at least. She walks down its paths, singling out this or that
+for notice. She suggests, she even criticizes, tenderly, as one who tells
+you an “even _more_ becoming way” to arrange your little daughter’s hair.
+She offers you roots and seeds and seedlings from her garden, and—last
+touch of flattery—she begs seeds and seedlings from yours.
+
+For garden purposes, give me the manners of this third class. And, indeed,
+not for garden purposes alone. They are useful as applied to many
+things—children, particularly, and houses.
+
+Undoubtedly the demand that I make upon my friends is a form of vanity,
+yet I cannot seem to feel ashamed of it. I admit at once that not the
+least part of my pleasure in my flowers is the attention they get from
+others. Moreover, it is not only from friends that I seek this, but from
+every passer-by along my country road. There are gardens and gardens.
+Some, set about with hedges tall and thick, offer the delights of
+exclusiveness and solitude. But exclusiveness and solitude are easily had
+on a Connecticut farm, and my garden will none of them; it flings forth
+its appeal to every wayfarer. And I like it. I like my garden to “get
+notice.” As people drive by I hope they enjoy my phlox. I furtively glance
+to see if they have an eye for the foxglove. I wonder if the calendulas
+are so tall that they hide the asters. And if, as I bend over my weeding,
+an automobile whirling past lets fly an appreciative phrase—“lovely
+flowers—” “wonderful yellow of—” “garden there,”—my ears are quick to
+receive it and I forgive the eddies of gasolene and dust that are also
+left by the vanishing visitant.
+
+About few things can one be so brazen in one’s enjoyment of recognition.
+One’s house, one’s clothes, one’s work, one’s children, all these demand a
+certain modesty of demeanor, however the inner spirit may puff. Not so
+one’s garden. I fancy this is because, while I have a strong sense of
+ownership in it, I also have a strong sense of stewardship. As owner I
+must be modest, but as steward I may admire as openly as I will. Did I
+make my phlox? Did I fashion my asters? Am I the artificer of my fringed
+larkspur? Nay, truly, I am but their caretaker, and may glory in them as
+well as another, only with the added touch of joy that I, even I, have
+given them their opportunity. Like Paul I plant, like Apollos I water, but
+before the power that giveth the increase I stand back and wonder.
+
+But it is not alone the results of my stewardship that give me joy. Its
+very processes are good. Delight in the earth is a primitive instinct.
+Digging is naturally pleasant, hoeing is pleasant, raking is pleasant, and
+then there is the weeding. For I am not the only one who sows seeds in my
+garden. One of my friends remarked cheerfully that he had planted
+twenty-seven different vegetables in his garden, and the Lord had planted
+two hundred and twenty-seven other kinds of things.
+
+This is where the weeding comes in. Now a good deal has been said about
+the labor of weeding, but little about the gratifications of weeding. I
+don’t mean weeding with a hoe. I mean yanking up, with movements suited to
+the occasion, each individual growing thing that doesn’t belong. Surely I
+am not the only one to have felt the pleasure of this. They come up so
+nicely, and leave such soft earth behind! And intellect is needed, too,
+for each weed demands its own way of handling: the adherent plantain
+needing a slow, firm, drawing motion, but very satisfactory when it comes;
+the evasive clover requiring that all its sprawling runners shall be
+gathered up in one gentle, tactful pull; the tender shepherd’s purse
+coming easily on a straight twitch; the tough ragweed that yields to
+almost any kind of jerk. Even witch-grass, the bane of the farmer, has its
+rewarding side, when one really does get out its handful of
+wicked-looking, crawly, white tubers.
+
+Weeding is most fun when the weeds are not too small. Yes, from the aspect
+of a sport there is something to be said for letting weeds grow. Pulling
+out little tender ones is poor work compared with the satisfaction of
+hauling up a spreading treelet of ragweed or a far-flaunting wild
+buckwheat. You seem to get so much for your effort, and it stirs up the
+ground so, and no other weeds have grown under the shade of the big one,
+so its departure leaves a good bit of empty brown earth.
+
+Surely, weeding is good fun. If faults could be yanked out of children in
+the same entertaining way, the orphan asylums would soon be emptied
+through the craze for adoption as a major sport.
+
+One of the pleasantest mornings of my life was spent weeding, in the rain,
+a long-neglected corner of my garden, while a young friend stood around
+the edges and explained the current political situation to me, and carted
+away armfuls of green stuff as I handed them out to him. The rain
+drizzled, and the air was fragrant with the smell of wet earth and bruised
+stems. Ideally, of course, weeds should never reach this state of sportive
+rankness. But most of my friends admit, under pressure, that there are
+corners where such things do happen.
+
+Naturally, all this is assuming that one is one’s own gardener. There may
+be pleasure in having a garden kept up by a real gardener, but that always
+seems to me a little like having a doll and letting somebody else dress
+and undress it. My garden must never grow so big that I cannot take care
+of it—and neglect it—myself.
+
+In saying this, however, I don’t count rocks. When it comes to rocks, I
+call in Jonathan. And it often comes to rocks.
+
+For mine is a Connecticut garden. Now in the beginning Connecticut was
+composed entirely of rocks. Then the little earth gnomes, fearing that no
+one would ever come there to give them sport, sprinkled a little earth
+amongst the rocks, partly covered some, wholly covered others, and then
+hid to see what the gardeners would do about it. And ever since the
+gardeners have been patiently, or impatiently, tucking in their seeds and
+plants in the thimblefuls of earth left by the gnomes. They have been
+picking out the rocks, or blowing them up, or burying them, or working
+around them; and every winter the little gnomes gather and push up a new
+lot from the dark storehouses of the underworld. In the spring the
+gardeners begin again, and the little gnomes hold their sides with still
+laughter to watch the work go on.
+
+“Rocks?” my friends say. “Do you mind the rocks? But they are a special
+beauty! Why, I have a rock in my garden that I have treated—”
+
+“Very well,” I interrupt rudely. “_A rock_ is all very well. If I had _a
+rock_ in my garden I could treat it, too. But how about a garden that is
+all rocks?”
+
+“Oh—why—choose another spot.”
+
+Whereupon I reply, “You don’t know Connecticut.”
+
+Ever since I began having a garden I have had my troubles with the rocks,
+but the worst time came when, in a mood of enthusiastic and absolutely
+unintelligent optimism, I decided to have a bit of smooth grass in the
+middle of my garden. I wanted it very much. The place was too restless;
+you couldn’t sit down anywhere. I felt that I had to have a clear green
+spot where I could take a chair and a book. I selected the spot, marked it
+off with string, and began to loosen up the earth for a late summer
+planting of grass seed. Calendulas and poppies and cornflowers had bloomed
+there before, self-sown and able to look out for themselves, so I had
+never investigated the depths of the bed to see what the little gnomes had
+prepared for me. Now I found out. The spading-fork gave a familiar dull
+clink as it struck rock. I felt about for the edge; it was a big one. I
+got the crowbar and dropped it, in testing prods; it was a _very_ big one,
+and only four inches below the surface. Grass would never grow there in a
+dry season. I moved to another part. Another rock, big too! I prodded all
+over the allotted space, and found six big fellows lurking just below the
+top of the soil. Evidently it was a case for calling in Jonathan.
+
+He came, grumbling a little, as a man should, but very efficient, armed
+with two crowbars and equipped with a natural genius for manipulating
+rocks. He made a few well-placed remarks about queer people who choose to
+have grass where flowers would grow, and flowers where grass would grow,
+also about Connecticut being intended for a quarry and not for a garden
+anyhow. But all this was only the necessary accompaniment of the
+crowbar-play. Soon, under the insistent and canny urgency of the bars, a
+big rock began to heave its shoulder into sight above the soil. I hovered
+about, chucking in stones and earth underneath, placing little rocks under
+the bar for fulcrums, pulling them out again when they were no longer
+needed, standing guard over the flowers in the rest of the garden, with
+repeated warnings. “Please, Jonathan, don’t step back any farther; you’ll
+trample the forget-me-nots!” “_Could_ you manage to roll this fellow out
+along that path and not across the mangled bodies of the marigolds?”
+Jonathan grumbled a little about being expected to pick a half-ton pebble
+out of the garden with his fingers, or lead it out with a string.
+
+“Oh, well, of course, if you _can’t_ do it I’ll have to let the marigolds
+go this year. But you do such wonderful things with a crowbar, I thought
+you could probably just guide it a little.” And Jonathan responds nobly to
+the flattery of this remark, and does indeed guide the huge thing, eases
+it along the narrow path, grazes the marigolds but leaves them unhurt,
+until at last, with a careful arrangement of stone fulcrums and a skillful
+twist of the bars, the great rock makes its last response and lunges
+heavily past the last flower bed on to the grass beyond.
+
+When the work was done, the edge of the garden looked like Stonehenge, and
+the spot where my grass was to be was nothing but a yawning pit, crying to
+be filled. We surveyed it with interest. “If we had a water-supply, I
+wouldn’t make a grass-plot,” I said; “I’d make a swimming-pool. It’s deep
+enough.”
+
+“And sit in the middle with your book?” asked Jonathan.
+
+But there was no water-supply, so we filled it in with earth. Thirty
+wheelbarrow loads went in where those rocks came out. And the little
+gnomes perched on Stonehenge and jeered the while. I photographed it, and
+the rocks “took” well, but as regards the gnomes, the film was
+underexposed.
+
+Thus the grass seed was planted. And we reminded each other of the version
+of “America” once given, with unconscious inspiration, by a little friend
+of ours:—
+
+
+    “Land where our father died,
+    Land where the pilgrims pried.”
+
+
+It seemed to us to suit the adventure.
+
+As I have said, I love to have my friends love my garden. But there is one
+thing about it that I find does not always appeal to them pleasantly, and
+that is its color-schemes. Yet this is not my doing. For in nothing do I
+feel more keenly the fact of my mere stewardship than in this matter of
+color-scheme.
+
+I set out with a very rigid one. I was quite decided in my own mind that
+what I wanted was white and salmon-pink and lavender. Asters, phlox, sweet
+peas, hollyhocks, all were to bend themselves to my rules. At first
+affairs went very well. White was easy. White phlox I had, and have—an
+inheritance—which from a few roots is spreading and spreading in waves of
+whiteness that grow more luxuriant every year. But I bought roots of
+salmon-pink and lavender, and then my troubles commenced. About the third
+season strange things began to happen. The pink phlox had the strength of
+ten. It spread amazingly; but it forgot all about my rules. It
+degenerated, some of it—reverted toward that magenta shade that nature
+seems so naturally to adore in the vegetable world. To my horror I found
+my garden blossoming into magenta pink, blue pink, crimson, cardinal—all
+the colors I had determined not under any circumstances to admit. On the
+other hand, the lavender phlox, which I particularly wanted, was most
+lovely, but frail. It refused to spread. It effaced itself before the
+rampant pink and its magenta-tainted brood. I vowed I would pull out the
+magentas, but each year my courage failed. They bloomed so bravely; I
+would wait till they were through. But by that time I was not quite sure
+which was which; I might pull out the wrong ones. And so I hesitated.
+
+Moreover, I discovered, lingering among the flowers at dusk, that there
+were certain colors, most unpleasant by daylight, which at that time took
+on a new shade, and, for perhaps half an hour before night fell, were
+richly lovely. This is true of some of the magentas, which at dusk turn
+suddenly to royal purples and deep lavender-blues that are wonderfully
+satisfying.
+
+For that half-hour of beauty I spare them. While the sun shines I try to
+look the other way, and at twilight I linger near them and enjoy their
+strange, dim glories, born literally of the magic hour. But I have trouble
+explaining them, by daylight, to some of my visitors who like
+color-schemes.
+
+Insubordination is contagious. And I found after a while that my asters
+were not running true; queer things were happening among the sweet peas,
+and in the ranks of the hollyhocks all was not as it should be. And the
+last charge was made upon me by the children’s gardens. Children know not
+color-schemes. What they demand is flowers, flowers—flowers to pick and
+pick, flowers to do things with. Snapdragon, for instance, is a jolly
+playmate, and little fingers love to pinch its cheeks and see its jaws
+yawn wide. But snapdragon tends dangerously toward the magenta. Then there
+was the calendula—a delight to the young, because it blooms incessantly
+long past the early frosts, and has brittle stems that yield themselves to
+the clumsiest plucking by small hands. But calendula ranges from a faded
+yellow, through really pretty primrose shades, to a deep red-orange
+touched with maroon.
+
+And, finally, there was the portulaca. Children love it, perhaps, best of
+all. It offers them fresh blossoms and new colors each morning, and it is
+even more easy to pick than the calendula. Who would deny them portulaca?
+Yet if this be admitted, one may as well give up the battle. For, as we
+all know, there is absolutely no color, except green, that portulaca does
+not perpetrate in its blossoms. It knows no shame.
+
+In short, I am giving up. I am beginning to say with conviction that
+color-schemes are the mark of a narrow and rigid taste—that they are born
+of convention and are meant not for living things but for wall-papers and
+portières and clothes. Moreover, I am really growing callous—or is it,
+rather, broad? Colors in my garden that would once have made my teeth ache
+now leave them feeling perfectly comfortable. I find myself looking with
+unmoved flesh—no creeps nor withdrawals—upon a bed of mixed magentas,
+scarlets, rose-pinks, and yellow-pinks. I even look with pleasure. I begin
+to think there may be a point beyond which discord achieves a higher
+harmony. At least, this sounds well. But, again, I find it hard to explain
+to some of my friends.
+
+Indoors, it is another story. When I bring in the spoils of the garden I
+am again mistress and bend all to my will. Here I’ll have no tricks of
+color played on me. Sunshine and sky, perhaps, work some spell, for as
+soon as I get within four walls my prejudices return; scarlets and
+crimsons and pinks have to live in different rooms. I must have my
+color-schemes again, and perhaps I am as narrow as the worst. Except,
+indeed, for the children’s bowls; here the pink and the magenta, the lamb
+and the lion, may lie down together. But it takes a little child to lead
+them.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+Out in my garden I feel myself less and less owner, more and more merely
+steward. I decree certain paths, and the phlox says, “Paths? Did you say
+paths?” and obliterates them in a season’s growth, so that children walk
+by faith and not by sight. I decree iris in one corner, and the primroses
+say, “Iris? Not at all. This is our bed. Iris indeed!” And I submit, and
+move the iris elsewhere.
+
+And yet this slipping of responsibility is pleasant, too. So long as my
+garden will let me dig in it and weed it and pick it, so long as it
+entertains my friends for me, so long as it tosses up an occasional rock
+so that Jonathan does not lose all interest in it, so long as it plays
+prettily with the children and flings gay greetings to every passer-by, I
+can find no fault with it.
+
+The joys of stewardship are great and I am well content.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    VI
+
+
+                            Trout and Arbutus
+
+
+Every year, toward the end of March, I find Jonathan poking about in my
+sewing-box. And, unless I am very absent-minded, I know what he is after.
+
+“No use looking there,” I remark; “I keep my silks put away.”
+
+“I want red, and as strong as there is.”
+
+“I know what you want. Here.” and I hand him a spool of red buttonhole
+twist.
+
+“Ah! Just right!” And for the rest of the evening his fingers are busy.
+
+Over what? Mending our trout-rods, of course. It is pretty work, calling
+for strength and precision of grasp, and as he winds and winds, adjusting
+all the little brass leading-rings, or supplying new ones, and staying
+points in the bamboo where he suspects weakness, we talk over last year’s
+trout-pools, and wonder what they will be like this year.
+
+But beyond wonder we do not get, often for weeks after the trout season
+is, legislatively, “open.” Jonathan is “busy.” I am “busy.” We know that,
+if April passes, there is still May and June, and so, if at the end of
+April, or early May, we do at last pick up our rods,—all new-bedight with
+red silk windings, and shiny with fresh varnish,—it is not alone the call
+of the trout that decides us, but another call which is to me at least
+more imperious, because, if we neglect it now, there is no May and June in
+which to heed it. It is the call of the arbutus.
+
+Any one with New England traditions knows what this call is. Its appeal is
+to something far deeper than the love of a pretty flower. For it is the
+flower that, to our fathers and our grandfathers, and to their fathers and
+grandfathers, meant spring; and not spring in its prettiness and ease,
+appealing to the idler in us, nor spring in its melancholy, appealing
+to—shall I say the poet in us? But spring in its blessedness of
+opportunity, its joyously triumphant life, appealing to the worker in us.
+Here, of course, we touch hands with all the races of the world for whom
+winter has been the supreme menace, spring the supreme and saving miracle.
+But each race has its own symbols, and to the New Englander the symbol is
+the arbutus.
+
+This may seem a bit of sentimentality. And, indeed, we need not expect to
+find it expressed by any New England farmer. New England does not go out
+in gay companies to bring back the first blossoms. But New England does
+nothing in gay companies. It has been taught to distrust ceremonies and
+expression of any sort. It rejoices with reticence, it appreciates with a
+reservation. And yet I have seen a sprig of arbutus in rough and clumsy
+buttonholes on weather-faded lapels which, the rest of the twelve-month
+through, know no other flower. And when, in unfamiliar country, I have
+interrupted the ploughing to ask for guidance, I usually get it:—“Arbutus?
+Yaas. The’s a lot of it up along that hillside and in the woods over
+beyond—’t was out last week, some of it, I happened to notice”—this in the
+apologetic tone of one who admits a weakness—“guess you’ll find all you
+want.” I venture to say that of no other wild flower, except those which
+work specific harm or good, could I get such information.
+
+To many of us, city-bred, the tradition comes through inheritance. It
+means, perhaps, the shy, poetic side of our father’s boyhood, only half
+acknowledged, after the New England fashion, but none the less real and
+none the less our possession. It means rare days, when the city—whose
+chiefest signs of spring were the flare of dandelions in yards and parks
+and the chatter of English sparrows on ivy-clad church walls—was left
+behind, and we were “in the country.” It was a country excitingly
+different from the country of the summer vacation, a country not deeply
+green, but warmly brown, and sweet with the smell of moist, living earth.
+Green enough, indeed, in the spring-fed meadows and folds of the hills,
+where the early grass flashes into vividest emerald, but in the woods the
+soft mist-colored mazes of multitudinous twigs still show through their
+veilings and dustings of color—palest green of birches, gray-green of
+poplar, yellow-green of willows, and redder tones of the maples; and along
+the fence-lines and roadsides—blessed, untidy fence-lines and roadsides of
+New England—a fine penciling of red stems—the cut-back maple bushes and
+tangled vines alive to their tips and just bursting into leaf. And
+everywhere in the woods, on fence-lines and roadsides, the white blossoms
+of the “shad-blow,” daintiest of spring trees,—too slight for a tree,
+indeed, though too tall for a bush and looking less like a tree in blossom
+than like floating blossoms caught for a moment among the twigs. A moment
+only, for the first gust loosens them again and carpets the woods with
+their petals, but while they last their whiteness shimmers everywhere.
+
+Such rare days were all blown through with the wonderful wind of spring.
+Spring wind is really different from any other. It is not a finished
+thing, like the mellow winds of summer and the cold blasts of winter. It
+is an imperfect blend of shivering reminiscence and eager promise. One
+moment it breathes sun and stirring earth, the next it reminds us of old
+snow in the hollows, and bleak northern slopes.
+
+When, on these days, the wind blew to us, almost before we saw it, the
+first greeting of the arbutus, it always seemed that the day had found its
+complete and satisfying expression. Every one comes to realize, at some
+time in his life, the power of suggestion possessed by odors. Does not
+half the power of the Church lie in its incense? An odor, just because it
+is at once concrete and formless, can carry an appeal overwhelmingly
+strong and searching, superseding all other expression. This is the appeal
+made to me by the arbutus. It can never be quite precipitated into words,
+but it holds in solution all the things it has come to mean—dear human
+tradition and beloved companionship, the poetry of the land and the
+miracle of new birth.
+
+In late March or early April I am likely to see the first blossom on some
+friend’s table—I try not to see it first in a florist’s display! To my
+startled question she gives reassuring answer, “Oh, no, not from around
+here. This came from Virginia.”
+
+Days pass, and, perhaps, the mail brings some to me, this time from
+Pennsylvania or New Jersey, and soon I can no longer ignore the trays of
+tight, leafless bunches for sale on street corners and behind plate-glass
+windows. “From York State,” they tell me. I grow restive.
+
+“Jonathan,” I say, holding up a spray for him to smell, “we’ve got to go.
+You can’t resist that. We’ll take a day and go for it—and trout, too.”
+
+It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day
+off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd. But, coupled with
+trout—all is well. Trout is food. One must eat. The search for food needs
+no defense, and yet, the curious fact is, that if you go for trout and
+don’t get any, it doesn’t make so much difference as you might suppose,
+but if you go for arbutus and don’t get any, it makes all the difference
+in the world. And so Jonathan knows that in choosing his brook for that
+particular day, he must have regard primarily to the arbutus it will give
+us and only secondarily to the trout.
+
+Every one knows the kind of brook that is, for every one knows the kind of
+country arbutus loves—hilly country, with slopes toward the north; bits of
+woodland, preferably with pine in it, to give shade, but not too deep
+shade; a scrub undergrowth of laurel and huckleberry and bay; and always,
+somewhere within sight or hearing, water. It is curious how arbutus, which
+never grows in wet places, yet seems to like the neighborhood of water. It
+loves the slopes above a brook or the shaggy hillsides overlooking a
+little pond or river.
+
+Fortunately, there is such a brook, in just such country, on our list.
+There are not so many trout as in other brooks, but enough to justify our
+rods; and not so much arbutus as I could find elsewhere, but enough—oh,
+enough!
+
+To this brook we go. We tie Kit at the bridge, Jonathan slings on a
+fish-basket, to do for both, and I take a box or two for the flowers. But
+from this moment on our interests are somewhat at variance. The fact is,
+Jonathan cares a little more about the trout than about the arbutus, while
+I care a little more about the arbutus than about the trout. His eye is
+keenly on the brook, mine is, yearningly, on the ragged hillsides that
+roll up above it.
+
+Jonathan feels this. “There isn’t any for two fields yet—might as well
+stick to the brook.”
+
+“I know. I thought perhaps I’d go on down and let you fish this part. Then
+I’d meet you beyond the second fence—”
+
+“Oh, no, that won’t do at all. Why, there’s a rock just below here—down by
+that wild cherry—where I took out a beauty last year, and left another. I
+want you to go down and get him.”
+
+“You get him. I don’t mind.”
+
+“Oh, but I mind. Here, I’ve got it all planned: there’s a bit of
+brush-fishing just below—”
+
+“No brush-fishing for me, please!”
+
+“That’s what I’m saying, if you’ll only give me time. I’ll take that—there
+are always two or three in there—and when you’ve finished here you can go
+around me and fish the bend, under the hemlocks, and then the first
+arbutus is just beside that, and I’ll join you there.”
+
+“Well”—I assent grudgingly—“only, really, I’d be just as happy if you’d
+fish the whole thing and let me go right on down—”
+
+“No, you wouldn’t. Now, remember to sneak before you get to that rock.
+Drop in six feet above it and let the current do the rest. They’re awfully
+shy. I expect you to get at least one there, and two down at the bend.” He
+trudges off to his brush-fishing and leaves me bound in honor to extract a
+trout from under that rock. I deposit my boxes in the meadow above it, and
+“sneak” down. The sneak of a trout fisherman is like no other form of
+locomotion, and I am convinced that the human frame was not evolved with
+it in mind. But I resort to it in deference to Jonathan’s prejudices—in
+deference, also, to the fact that when I do not the trout seldom bite. And
+Jonathan is so trustfully counting on my getting that trout!
+
+I did get him. I dropped in my line, as per directions, and let the
+current do the rest; had the thrill of feeling the line suddenly caught
+and drawn under the rock, held, then wiggled slightly; I struck, felt the
+weight, drew back steadily, and in a few moments there was a flopping in
+the grass behind me.
+
+So that was off my mind.
+
+I strung him on a twig of wild cherry, gathered up my boxes, and wandered
+along the faint path, back of the patch of brush where, I knew, Jonathan
+was cheerfully threading his line through tangles of twig, briar, and
+vine, compared with which the needle’s eye is as a yawning barn door.
+Jonathan’s attitude toward brush-fishing is something which I respect
+without understanding. Down one long field I went, where the brook ran in
+shallow gayety, and there, ahead, was the bend, a sudden curve of water,
+deepening under the roots of an overhanging hemlock. I climbed the stone
+wall beside, glanced at the water—very trouty water indeed—glanced at the
+hill-pasture above—very arbutusy indeed—laid down my rod and my trout and
+my box, and ran up the low bank to a clump of bay and berry-bushes that I
+thought I remembered.… Yes! There it was! I had remembered! Ah! The dear
+things!
+
+When you first find arbutus, there is only one thing to do:—lie right down
+beside it. Its fragrance as it grows is different from what it is after it
+is picked, because with the sweetness of the blossoms is mingled the good
+smell of the earth and of the woody twigs and of the dried grass and
+leaves. And there are other rewards one gets by lying down. It is all very
+well to talk proudly about man’s walking with his head erect and his face
+to the heavens, but if we keep that posture all the time we miss a good
+deal. The attitude of the toad and the lizard is not to be scorned, though
+when the needs of locomotion convert it into the fisherman’s “sneak,” it
+is, as I have suggested, to be sparingly indulged in. But if we could only
+nibble now and then from “the other side” of Alice’s mushroom, what a new
+outlook we should get on the world that now lies about our feet! What new
+aspects of its beauty would be revealed to us: the forest grandeurs of the
+grass, the architecture of its slim shafts with their pillared aisles and
+pointed arches of interlocking and upspringing curves, their ceiling
+traceries of spraying tops against a far-away background of sky!
+
+To know arbutus, you must stoop to its level, and look across the fine,
+frosty fur of its stiff little leaves, and feel the nestle of its stems to
+the ground, the little up-fling of their tips toward the sun, and the neat
+radiance of its flower clusters, with their blessed fragrance and their
+pure, babyish color.
+
+But after that? You want to pick it. Yes, you really want to pick it!
+
+In this it is different from other flowers. Most of them I am well content
+to leave where they grow. In fact, the love of picking things—flowers or
+anything else—is a youthful taste: we lose it as we grow older; we become
+more and more willing to appreciate without acquiring, or rather,
+appreciation becomes to us a finer and more spiritual form of acquiring.
+Is it possible that, after all, the old idea of heaven as a state of
+enraptured contemplation is in harmony with the trend of our development?
+
+But if there is arbutus in heaven, I shall need to develop a good deal
+further not to want to pick it. It suggests picking; it almost invites it.
+There is something about the way it nestles and hides, that makes you want
+to see it better. Here is a spray of pure white, living under a green tent
+of overlapping leaves; one must raise it, and nip off just one leaf, so
+that the blossoms can see out. There is another, a pink cluster, showing
+faintly through the dry, matted grass. You feel for the stem, pull it
+gently, and, lo, it is many stems, which have crept their way under the
+tangle, and every one is tipped with a cluster of stars or round little
+buds each on its long stem, fairly begging to be picked. It gets picked.
+
+Yet sometimes its very beauty has stayed my hand. I shall never forget one
+clump I found, growing out of a bank of deep green moss, partly shaded by
+a great hemlock. The soft pink blossoms—luxuriant leafy sprays of
+them—were lying out on the moss in a pagan carelessness of beauty, as
+though some god had willed it there for his pleasure. I sat beside it a
+long time, and in the end I left it without picking it.
+
+On this particular day, Jonathan being still lost in the brush patch, I
+had risen from my visit with the first-discovered blossoms and wandered
+on, from clump to clump, wherever the glimpse of a leaf attracted me,
+picking the choicest here and there and dropping them into my box. After I
+do not know how long, I was roused by Jonathan’s whistle. I was some
+distance up the hillside by this time, and he was beside the brook, at the
+bend.
+
+“What luck?” he called.
+
+“Good luck! I’ve found lots. Come up!”
+
+He took a few steps up toward me, so that conversation could drop from
+shouting to speaking levels. “How many did you get?” he asked.
+
+“How many?… Oh … why … Oh, I got one up there where you showed me—under
+the rock, you know.”
+
+“Good one?”
+
+“Eight inches. He’s down there by the bars.”
+
+“Good! And what about the bend?”
+
+“The bend? Oh, I didn’t fish there—look at these! Aren’t they beauties?” I
+came down the hill to hold my open box up to his face. But my casual word
+almost effaced the scent of the flowers.
+
+“Ah—yes—delicious—didn’t fish there? Why not? Did they see you?”
+
+“Who? The trout? I don’t know. But I saw this. And I just had to pick it.”
+
+“Well! You’re a great fisherman! And with that water right there beside
+you! Lord!”
+
+“With the arbutus right here beside me! Lord!”
+
+“But the arbutus would wait.”
+
+“But the trout would wait. They’re waiting for you now, don’t you hear
+them? Go and fish there!”
+
+“No. That’s your pool.” Jonathan has a way of bestowing a trout-pool on me
+as if it were a bouquet. To refuse its opportunities is almost like
+throwing his flowers back in his face.
+
+“Well—of course it’s a beautiful pool—”
+
+“Best on the brook,” murmured Jonathan.
+
+“But, truly, I’d enjoy it just as much to have you fish it.”
+
+“Nobody can fish it now for a while. I thought you’d be there, of course,
+and I came stamping along down, close by the bank. They wouldn’t bite
+now—not for half an hour, anyway.”
+
+“Well, then, that’s just right. We’ll go on up the hillside for half an
+hour, and then come back and fish it. Set your rod up against the bayberry
+here, and come along—look there! you’re almost stepping on some!”
+
+Jonathan, gradually adjusting himself to the turn of things, stood his rod
+up against the bush with the meticulous care of the true sportsman. “Where
+did you leave yours?” he asked, with a suspiciousness born of a deep
+knowledge of my character.
+
+“Oh, down by the bars.”
+
+“Standing up or lying down?”
+
+“Lying down, I think. It’s all right.”
+
+“It’s not all right if it’s lying down. Anything might trample on it.”
+
+“For instance, what?—birds or crickets?”
+
+“For instance, people or cows.” He strode down the hill, and I saw him
+stoop. As he returned I could read disapproval in his gait. “Will you
+never learn how to treat a rod! It was lying just beyond the bars. I must
+have landed within two feet of it when I jumped over.”
+
+“I’m sorry. I meant to go back. I know perfectly how to treat a rod. My
+trouble comes in knowing when to apply my knowledge.… Well, let’s go up
+there. Near those big hemlocks there’s some, I remember.” And we wandered
+on, separating a little to scan the ground more widely.
+
+Once having pried his mind away from the trout, Jonathan was as keen for
+arbutus as I could wish, and soon I heard an exclamation, and saw him
+kneel. “Oh, come over!” he called; “you really ought to see this growing!”
+
+“But there’s some I want, right here, that’s lovely—”
+
+“Never mind. Come and see this—oh, come!”
+
+Of course I come, and of course I am glad I came, and of course soon I am
+obliged to call Jonathan to see some I have found—“Jonathan, it is truly
+the loveliest _yet!_ It’s the way it grows—with the moss and all—please
+come!” And of course he comes.
+
+We had been on the hillside a long half-hour, much nearer an hour, when
+Jonathan began to grow restive. “Don’t you think you have enough?” he
+suggested several times. Finally, he spoke plainly of the trout.
+
+“Oh, yes, of course,” I said, “you go down and I’ll follow just as soon as
+I’ve gone along that upper path.”
+
+Not at all. That was not what was wanted. So I turned and we went down the
+hill, back to the bend, whose seductions I had been so puzzlingly able to
+resist. I am sure Jonathan has never yet quite understood how I could
+leave that bit of water at my left hand and turn away to the right.
+
+“Now—sneak!”
+
+We sneaked, and I sank down just back of the edge of the bank. Jonathan
+crouched some feet behind, coaching me:—“Now—draw out a little more
+line—not too much—there—and have some slack in your hand. Now, up-stream
+fifteen feet—allow for the wind—wait till that gust passes—now! Good!
+First-rate! Now let her drift—there—what did I tell you? Give him line!
+_Give_ him line! Now, feel of him—careful! You’ll know when to strike …
+there!… Oh! too bad!”
+
+For as I struck, my line held fast.
+
+“Snagged, by gummy! Can’t you pull clear?”
+
+“Not without stirring up the whole pool. You’ll have to do the fishing,
+after all.”
+
+“Oh! _too_ bad! That’s hard luck!”
+
+“Not a bit. I like to watch you do it.”
+
+And so indeed I did. Once having realized that I was temporarily laid by,
+Jonathan put his whole mind on the pool, while I, being honorably released
+from all responsibility, except that of keeping my line taut, could put my
+whole mind on his performance. There is a little the same sort of pleasure
+in watching the skillful handling of a rod that there is in watching the
+bow-action of a violinist. Both things demand the utmost nicety of
+adjustment: body, arm, wrist, fingers uniting in an interplay of
+efficiency exactly adapted to the intricately shifting needs of each
+moment.
+
+Thus I watched, through the typical stages of the sport: the delicate flip
+of the bait into the current at just the right spot; its swift descent,
+imperceptibly guided by the rod’s quivering tip; its slower drift toward
+deep water; its sudden vanishing, and the whir of the reel as the line
+goes out; then the pause, the critical moments of “feeling for him”; at
+last the strike … and then, a flopping in the grass behind me, and
+Jonathan crawling back to kill and unhook him.
+
+“Don’t get up. There’s probably another one,” he said; and soon, by the
+same reptilian methods, was back for another try. There was another one,
+and yet another, and then a little fellow, barely hooked. “That’s all,”
+said Jonathan, as he rose to put him back into the pool, and we watched
+the pretty spotted creature fling himself upstream with a wild flourish of
+his gleaming body.
+
+“Now I’ll get you clear,” said Jonathan, wading out into the water, and,
+with sleeves rolled high, feeling deep, deep down under the opposite bank.
+“He had you all right—it’s wound round a root and then jabbed deep into it
+… hard luck! I wanted you to get those fellows!” And to this day I am sure
+he remembers those trout with a tinge of regret.
+
+I had intended leaving him to fish the rest of the brook, while I went
+back to that upper path to look up two or three special arbutus clumps
+that I knew, but seeing his depression over the snag incident, I could not
+suggest this. Instead I followed the stream with him, accepting his urgent
+offer of all the best pools, while he, taking what was left, drew out
+perfectly good trout from the most unhopeful-looking bits of water. And at
+the end, there was time to return along the upper path and visit my old
+friends, so both of us were satisfied.
+
+On such days, however, there is always one person who is not satisfied,
+and that is, Kit the horse. Kit has borne with our vagaries for many
+years, but she has never come to understand them. She never fails to greet
+our return, as our voices come within the range of her pricked-up ears, by
+a prolonged and reproachful whinny, which says as plainly as is necessary,
+“Back? Well—I should _think_ it was time! _I should think it was TIME!_”
+Now and then we have thought it would be pleasant to have a little
+motor-car that could be tucked away at any roadside, without reference to
+a good hitching-place, but if we had it, I am sure we should miss that
+ungracious welcoming whinny. We should miss, too, the exasperated violence
+of Kit’s pace on the first bit of the home road—a violence expressing in
+the most ostentatious manner her opinion of folks who keep a respectable
+horse hitched by the roadside, far from the delights of the dim, sweet
+stable and the dusty, sneezy, munchy hay.
+
+But leaving out this little matter of Kit’s preference, and also the other
+little matter of the trout’s preference, I feel sure that an
+arbutus-trouting is peculiarly satisfying. It meets every human need—the
+need of food and beauty, the need of feeling strong and skillful, the need
+of becoming deeply aware of nature as living and kind. Moreover, it is
+very satisfying afterwards. As we sat that evening, over a late supper,
+with a shallow dish of arbutus beside us, I remarked, “The advantage of
+getting arbutus is, that you bring the whole day home with you and have it
+at your elbow.”
+
+“The advantage of getting trout,” remarked Jonathan dreamily, as if to
+himself, “is, that you bring your whole day home with you, and have it for
+breakfast.”
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   VII
+
+
+                         Without the Time of Day
+
+
+“Jonathan, did you ever live without a clock,—whole days, I mean,—days and
+days—”
+
+“When I was a boy—most of the time, I suppose. But the family didn’t like
+it.”
+
+“Of course. But did you like it?”
+
+“Yes, I liked it all. I seem to remember getting pretty hungry sometimes,
+but it’s all rather good as I look back on it.”
+
+“Let’s do it!”
+
+“Now?”
+
+“No. Society is an enlarged family, and wouldn’t like it. But this summer,
+when we camp.”
+
+“How do you know we’re going to camp?”
+
+“The things we know best we don’t always know how we know.”
+
+“Well, then,—_if_ we camp—”
+
+“_When_ we camp—let’s live without a watch.”
+
+“You’d need one to get there.”
+
+“Take one, and let it run down.”
+
+As it turned out, my “when” was truer than Jonathan’s “if.” We did camp.
+We did, however, use watches to get there: when we expressed our baggage,
+when we sent our canoe, when we took the trolley car and the train; and
+the watch was still going as our laden craft nosed gently against the bank
+of the river-island that was to be our home for two weeks. It was late
+afternoon, and the shadows of the steep woods on the western bank had
+already turned the rocks in midstream from silver to gray, and dimmed the
+brightness of the swift water, almost to the eastern shore.
+
+“Will there be time to get settled before dark?” I asked, as we stepped
+out into the shallow water and drew up the canoe to unload.
+
+“Shall I look at my watch to see?” asked Jonathan, with a note of amiable
+derision in his voice.
+
+“Well, I _should_ rather like to know what time it is. We won’t begin till
+to-morrow.”
+
+“You mean, we won’t begin to stop watching. All right. It’s just seventeen
+and a half minutes after five. I’ll give you the seconds if you like.”
+
+“Minutes will do nicely, thank you.”
+
+“Lots of time. You collect firewood while I get the tent ready. Then it’ll
+need us both to set it up.”
+
+We worked busily, happily. Ah! The joyous elation of the first night in
+camp! Is there anything like it? With days and days ahead, and not even
+one counted off the shining number! All the good things of childhood and
+maturity seem pressed into one mood of flawless, abounding happiness.
+
+By dark the tent was up, the baggage stowed, the canoe secured, the fire
+glowing in a bed of embers, and we sat beside it, looking out past the
+glooms of the hemlocks across the moonlit river,—sat and ate city-cooked
+chicken and sandwiches and drank thermos-bottled tea.
+
+“To-morrow we’ll cook,” I said. “To-night it’s rather nice not to have to.
+Look at the moonlight on that rock! How black it makes the eddy below!”
+
+“Good bass under there,” said Jonathan. “We’ll get some to-morrow.”
+
+“Maybe.”
+
+“Well, of course, it’s always maybe, with bass. Well—I’m done—and it’s
+quarter to ten—late! Oh! Excuse me! Maybe you’d rather I hadn’t told you.
+By the way, do I wind my watch to-night or not?”
+
+“Not.”
+
+“Not it is, then. Sure you wouldn’t rather have it wound, though? We can
+leave it hanging in the tent. It won’t break loose and bite you.”
+
+“Yes, it would. There would be a something—a taint—”
+
+“Oh, _all_ right!”
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+We slept with the murmur of the river running through our dreams,—a murmur
+of many voices: deep voices, high voices, grumbling voices as the stones
+go grinding and rolling along the ever-changing bottom,—and only half
+roused when the dawn chorus of the birds filled the air. That dawn chorus
+was something we should have been loath to miss. Through the first gray of
+the morning there comes a stir in the woods, an expectant tremor; a bird
+peeps softly and is still; then another, and another, “softly conferring
+together.” As the light grows warmer, comes a clearer note from some
+leader, then a full, complete song; another, and the woods are awake,
+flinging out their wonderful song-greeting to the morning. There is in it
+a prodigality of swift-changing beauty like ocean surf: a continuous and
+intricate interweaving of rhythms, pulses and ebbings of clear tone,
+beautiful phrases rising antiphonal, showerings of bright notes, moments
+of subsidence, almost of pause. As the light grows and sharpens, the music
+reaches a crescendo of exuberance, and at last dies down as real day
+comes, bringing with it the day’s work. On our island the leader of the
+chorus was almost always a song sparrow, though once or twice a wood
+thrush came over from the shore woods and filled the hemlock shadows with
+the limpid splendors of his song.
+
+Hearing the chorus through our dreams, we slept again, and when I really
+waked the sun was high, flecking the eastern V of our tent with dazzling
+patches. I heard Jonathan moving about outside, and the crackling of a
+new-made fire. I went to the front of the tent and looked out. Yes, there
+they were, the fire and Jonathan, in a quiet space of shade where the
+early coolness still hung. Beyond them, half shut out from view by the
+low-spreading hemlock boughs, was the open river—such gayety of swift
+water! Such dazzle of midsummer morning! I drew back, eager to be out in
+it.
+
+“Bacon and eggs, is it?” called Jonathan, “or shall I run down and try for
+a bass?”
+
+“Don’t!” I called. I knew that if he once got out after bass he was lost
+to me for the day. And now we had cut loose from even the mild tyranny of
+his watch. As I thought of this I went over to the many-forked tree, whose
+close-trimmed branches served our tent as hat-rack, clothes-rack,
+everything-that-can-hang-or-perch-rack, and opened Jonathan’s watch.
+
+“Well, what time is it?” Jonathan was peering in between the tent-flaps.
+
+“Twenty-two minutes before five.”
+
+“A.M., I judge. Sorry you didn’t let me wind it?”
+
+“Not a bit. I was just curious to see when it stopped, that was all.”
+
+“Well, now you know. Hereafter the official time for the camp is 4:38—A.M.
+or P.M., according to taste. Come along. The bacon’s done, and I’m blest
+if I want to drop in the eggs.”
+
+Dropping an egg will never, I fear, be one of Jonathan’s most finished
+performances. He watched me do it with generous admiration. “If you could
+just get over being scared of them,” I suggested, as the last one plumped
+into the pan and set up its gentle sizzle.
+
+“No use. I _am_ scared of the things. I tap and tap, and nothing happens,
+and then I get mad and tap hard, and they’re all over the place.”
+
+By the time breakfast was over, even the coolness under the hemlocks was
+beginning to grow warm and aromatic. The birds in the shore woods were
+quieter, though out at the sunny end of our island, where the hemlocks
+gave place to low scrub growth, the song sparrow sang gayly now and then.
+
+“Now,” said Jonathan, “what about fishing?”
+
+“Well—let’s fish!”
+
+“One up stream and one down, or keep together?”
+
+“Together,” I decided. “If we go two ways there’s no telling when I’ll
+ever see you again.”
+
+“Yes, there is: when I’m hungry.”
+
+“No; some time after you’ve noticed you’re hungry.”
+
+“Now, if we had watches it would be so much simpler: we could meet here
+at, say, one o’clock.”
+
+“Simple, indeed! When did you ever look at a watch when you were fishing,
+unless I made you? No, my way is simple, but we stay together.”
+
+Of course, in river fishing, “together” means simply not absolutely out of
+sight of each other. Jonathan may be up to his arm-pits in mid-current, or
+marooned on a rock above a swirling eddy, while I am in a similar
+situation beyond calling distance, but so long as a bend in the river does
+not cut us off, we are “together,” and very companionable togetherness it
+is, too. When I see Jonathan wildly waving to attract my attention, I know
+he has either just caught a big bass or else just lost one, and this gives
+me something to smile over as I wonder which it is. After a time, if I am
+catching shiners and no bass, and Jonathan doesn’t seem to be moving, I
+infer that his luck is better than mine, and drift along toward him. Or it
+may be the other way around, and he comes to look me up. Bass are the most
+uncertain of fish, and no one can predict when they will elect to bite, or
+where. Sometimes they are in the still water, deep or shallow according to
+their caprice; sometimes they hang on the edges of the rapids; sometimes
+they are in the dark, smooth eddies below the great boulders; sometimes in
+the clear depths around the rocks near shore. Each day afresh,—indeed,
+each morning and each afternoon,—the fisherman must try, and try, and try,
+until he discovers what their choice has been for that special time. Yet
+no fisherman who has once drawn out a good bass from a certain bit of
+water can help feeling, next time, that there is another waiting for him
+there. That is one of the reasons why he is always hopeful, and so always
+happy. The fish he has caught, at this well-remembered spot and that, rise
+up out of the past and flick their tails at him; and all the stretches
+between—stretches of water that have never for him held anything but
+shiners, stretches of time diversified by not even a nibble—sink into
+pleasant insignificance.
+
+We banked our fire, stowed everything in the tent that a thunderstorm
+would hurt, and splashed out into the river. There it lay in all its
+bright, swift beauty, and we stood a moment, looking, feeling the push of
+the water about our knees and the warmth of the sun on our shoulders.
+
+“It makes a difference, sleeping out in it all,” I said. “You feel as if
+it belonged to you so much more. I quite own the river this morning, don’t
+you?”
+
+“Quite. But not the bass in it. Bet you don’t catch one!”
+
+“Bet I beat you!”
+
+“Bass, mind you. Sunfish don’t count. You’re always catching sunfish.”
+
+“They count in the pan. But I’ll beat you on bass. I know some places—”
+
+“Who doesn’t? All right, go ahead!”
+
+We were off; Jonathan, as usual, wading up to his chest or perched on a
+bit of boulder above some dark, slick rapid; I preferring water not more
+than waist-deep, and not too far from shore to miss the responses of the
+wood-folk to my passing: soft flurries of wings; shy, half-suppressed
+peepings; quick warning notes; light footfalls, hopping or running or
+galloping; the snapping of twigs and the crushing of leaves. Some sounds
+tell me who the creature is,—the warning of the blue jay, the whirr of the
+big ruffed grouse, the thud of the bounding rabbit,—but many others leave
+me guessing, which is almost better. When a very big stick snaps, I always
+feel sure a deer is stealing away, though Jonathan assures me that a
+chewink can break twigs and “kick up a row generally,” so that you’d swear
+it was nothing smaller than a wild bull.
+
+So we fished that day. When I caught a bass, which was seldom, I whooped
+and waved it at Jonathan, and when I caught a shiner, which was rather
+often, I waved it too, just to keep his mind occupied. Hours passed, and
+we met at a bend in the river where the deep water glides close to shore.
+
+“Hungry?” I asked.
+
+“Now you speak of it, yes.”
+
+“Shall we go back?”
+
+“How can I tell? Now, if we only had that watch we’d know whether we ought
+to be hungry or not.”
+
+“What does that matter, if we _are_ hungry? Besides, if you’d had a watch,
+you’d have had to carry it in your teeth. You know perfectly well you
+wouldn’t have brought it, anyway.”
+
+“Well—then, at least when we got back, we should have known whether we
+ought to have been hungry or not. Now we shall never know.”
+
+“Never! Oh! Look there, Jonathan! We’re going to catch it!” A sense of
+growing shadow in the air had made me look up, and there, back of the
+steep-rising woods, hung a blue-black cloud, with ragged edges crawling
+out into the brightness of the sky.
+
+“Sure enough! The bass’ll bite now, if it really comes. Wait till the
+first drops, and see what you see.”
+
+We had not long to wait. There came that sudden expectancy in the air and
+the trees, the strange pallor in the light, the chill sweep of wind gusts
+with warm pauses between. Then a few big drops splashed on the dusty,
+sun-baked stones about us.
+
+“Now! Wade right out there, to the edge of that ledge—don’t slip over,
+it’s deep. I’ll go down a little way.”
+
+I waded out carefully, and cast, in the smooth, dark water already
+beginning to be rain-pocked. It was surprisingly shivery, that storm wind!
+I glanced toward shore to look for shelter—I remembered an overhanging
+ledge of rock—then my line went taut! I forgot about shelter, forgot about
+being chilly; I knew it was a good bass.
+
+I got him in—too big to go through the hole in my creel—cast for
+another—and another—and yet another. The rain began to fall in sheets, and
+the wind nearly blew me over, but who could run away from such fishing?
+The surface of the river, deep blue-gray, seemed rising everywhere in
+little jets to meet the rain. Rapids, eddies, still waters, weedy edges,
+all looked alike; there were neither waves nor swirls nor glassy slicks,
+but all were roughly furry under the multitudinous assaults of the fierce
+rain-drops. The sky was mottled lead-color, the wind blew less strongly,
+but cold—cold. And under that water the bass were biting, my rod was
+bending double, my reel softly screaming as I gave line, and one after
+another I drew the fish alongside and dipped them out with my landing net.
+
+Then, as suddenly as they had begun, they stopped biting. I waited long
+minutes; nothing happened, and all at once I realized that I was very wet
+and very cold. Wading ashore, I saw Jonathan shivering along up the narrow
+beach toward me, his shoulders drawn in to half their natural spread, neck
+tucked in between his collar-bones, knees slightly bent.
+
+“You can’t be cold?” I questioned as soon as he was near enough to hear me
+through the slash of the rain and wind.
+
+“No, of course not; are you?”
+
+We didn’t discuss it, but ran up the bank to the rock-ledge and crouched
+under it, our teeth literally chattering.
+
+“Did you ever see such fishing?” I managed to stammer.
+
+“Great! But oh, _why_ didn’t I bring the whiskey bottle?”
+
+“Let’s run for camp! We can’t be wetter.”
+
+We crawled out into the rain again, and first sprinted and then
+dog-trotted along the river edge. No bird notes now in the woods beside
+us, no whirring of wings; only the rain sounds: soft swishings and
+drippings and gusty showerings, very different from the flat, flicking
+sounds when rain first starts in dry woods.
+
+Camp looked a little cheerless, but a blazing fire, started with dry stuff
+we had stowed inside the tent, changed things, and dry clothes changed
+them still more, and we sat within the tent flaps and ate ginger-snaps in
+great contentment of spirit while we waited for the rain to stop.
+
+It did stop, and very soon the fish were sizzling in the pan.
+
+“Of course, if we had a watch, now—” suggested Jonathan, as he carefully
+tucked under the pan little sticks of just the right length.
+
+“What should we know more than we do now—that we’re hungry?” I asked.
+
+“Well, for one thing, we’d know what time it is,” replied Jonathan
+tranquilly.
+
+“And for another we’d know whether it’s dinner or supper I’m cooking,” I
+supplemented. “But does it matter? You won’t get anything different, no
+matter which it is—just fish is what you’ll get. And pretty soon the sun
+will be out, and you can set up a stick and watch the shadow and make a
+sundial for yourself.”
+
+“Oh, I don’t really care which it is.”
+
+“Do you suppose I don’t know that! And meanwhile, you might cut the bread
+and make some toast,—there are some good embers on your side under the
+pan,—and I’ll get the butter, and there we’ll be.”
+
+By the time the toast was made and the fish curling brownly away from the
+pan, the sun had indeed come out, at first pale and watery, then clear,
+and still high enough in the heavens to set the soaked earth steaming
+fragrantly with its heat. Odors of hemlock and wet earth mingled with
+odors of toast and fried fish.
+
+“Um-m! Smell it all!” I said. “What a lot we should miss if we didn’t eat
+in the kitchen!”
+
+“Or cook in the dining-room—which?”
+
+“And hear that song sparrow! Doesn’t it sound as if the rain had washed
+his song a little cleaner and clearer?”
+
+There followed the wonderful afterlight that a short, drenching rain
+leaves behind it—a hush of light, deeply pervasive and friendly. The
+sunshine slanted across the gleaming wet rocks in the river, lit up the
+rain-darkened trunks of the hemlocks, glinted on the low-hanging leaves,
+and flashed through the dripping edges of sagging fern fronds. As twilight
+came on, we canoed across to the side of the river where the road lay—the
+other side was steep and pathless woods—and walked down to the nearest
+farmhouse to buy eggs for the morning. Back again by the light of a
+low-hung moon, and across the dim water to our own island and the embers
+of our fire.
+
+“Oh, Jonathan! We never asked them what time it was!” I said. “I meant
+to—for your sake—I thought you’d sleep better if you knew.”
+
+“Too bad! Probably I should have. I thought of it, of course, but was
+afraid that if I asked it would spoil your day.”
+
+“It would take something pretty bad to spoil a day like this one,” I said.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+Two days later the weather turned still and warm, the bass refused to
+bite, and even the sunfish lay, shy or wary or indifferent, in their
+shallow, sunny pools, so we resolved to walk down the river to the
+post-office, four miles away, for possible mail. As we sat on the steps of
+the little store, looking it over,—“Here’s news,” said Jonathan; “Jack and
+Molly say they’ll run up if we want them, day after to-morrow—up on the
+morning train, and back on the evening.”
+
+“Good! Tell them to come along.”
+
+“No—it’s to-morrow—letter’s been here since yesterday. I’ll telegraph.”
+
+As we tramped home we planned the day. “We’ll meet them and all walk up
+together,” said Jonathan.
+
+“We’d better catch some bass and leave them all hooked in a pool, ready
+for them to pull out,” I added; “otherwise they may not catch any. And
+maybe you’d better meet them and I’ll have dinner ready when you get
+back.”
+
+“Nonsense! You come, and we’ll all get dinner when we get back. That’s
+what they’re coming for—to see the whole thing.”
+
+“But if it’s late—they’ve got to get back for that down train.”
+
+“Well—time enough.”
+
+“Oh, Jonathan! What about catching that train?”
+
+“They’ll have watches—watches that go.”
+
+“But what about our meeting them? The train arrives at 10:15, they said.
+What does 10:15 look like in the sky, I wonder!”
+
+“Or rather, what does 8.45 look like? It takes an hour and a half to get
+there, counting crossing the river.”
+
+“Yes—dear me! Well, Jonathan, we’ll just have to get up early and go, and
+then wait.”
+
+“Or else take our watch to the farmhouse and set it.”
+
+“Jonathan, I will not! I’d rather start at daylight.”
+
+Which was very nearly what we did. The morning opened with a sun obscured,
+and I felt sure it was stealing a march on us and would suddenly burst out
+upon us from a noonday sky. We breakfasted hastily, ferried across to
+shore, and set a swinging pace down the road. As we walked, the sun burned
+through the mist, and our shadows came out, dim, long things, striding
+with the exaggerated gait that shadows have, over the grassy banks to our
+right.
+
+“I think,” said Jonathan, “it may be as late as seven o’clock, but perhaps
+it’s only six.”
+
+When we reached the station, the official clock registered 8.30. We
+strolled over to the store-and-post-office and got more letters—one from
+Molly and Jack saying thank you they’d come. “They don’t entirely
+understand our mail system up here,” said Jonathan. We got some
+ginger-cookies and some milk and had a second breakfast, and finally
+wandered back to the station to wait for the train. It came, bearing the
+expected two, and much friendliness. “Get our letter? There, Jack! He said
+you wouldn’t, but I said you would. I made him send it … four miles to
+walk? What fun!”
+
+It was fun, indeed, and all went well until after dinner, when
+Jack—saying, “Well, maybe we’d better be starting back for that
+train”—drew out his watch. He opened it, muttered something, put it to his
+ear, then began to wind it rapidly. He wound and wound. We all laughed.
+
+“Looks as if you hadn’t remembered to wind it last night,” said Jonathan,
+glancing at me.
+
+“I haven’t done that in months, hang it! Give me the time, will you,
+Jonathan?” said Jack.
+
+“Sorry!” Jonathan was smiling genially. “Mine’s run down too. It stopped
+at twenty-two minutes before five—A. M., I think.”
+
+“What luck! And Molly didn’t bring hers.”
+
+“You told me not to,” Molly flicked in.
+
+“So here we are,” said Jonathan, “entirely without the time of day.”
+
+“But plenty of real time all round us,” I said. “Let’s use it, and start.”
+I avoided Jonathan’s eye.
+
+We reached the station with an hour and ten minutes to spare—bought more
+ginger-cookies and more milk. As we sat eating them in the midst of the
+preternatural calm that marks a country railroad station outside of train
+times, Molly remarked brightly,—
+
+“Well, I don’t see but we got on just as well without a watch, didn’t we,
+Jack? Why do we need watches, anyway? Do _you_ see?” she turned to us.
+“Jack does everything by his watch—eats and breathes and sleeps by it—”
+
+Jack returned, watch in hand—he had been getting railroad time from the
+telegraph operator. “Want to set yours while you think of it?” he asked
+Jonathan.
+
+“Sorry—thank you—didn’t bring it,” said Jonathan.
+
+“By George, man, what’ll you do?” Real consternation sounded in Jack’s
+tones.
+
+“Oh, we’ll get along somehow,” said Jonathan. “You see, we don’t have many
+engagements, except with the bass, and they never meet theirs, anyhow.”
+
+When the train had gone, I said, “Jonathan, why didn’t you tell them it
+was my whim?”
+
+“Oh, I just didn’t,” said Jonathan.
+
+As Jonathan had predicted, we did get along somehow—got along rather well,
+on the whole. There are, of course, some drawbacks to an unwatched life.
+You never want to start the next meal till you are hungry, and after that
+it takes one or two or three hours, as the case may be, to go back to camp
+and get the meal ready, and by that time you are almost hungrier than you
+like being. But except for this, and the little matter of meeting trains,
+it is rather pleasant to break away from the habit of watching the watch,
+and it was with real regret that, on the last night of our camp, we took
+our watch to the farmhouse to set it.
+
+“Run down, did it? Guess you forgot to wind it. Well—we do forget things
+sometimes, all of us do,” the farmer’s wife said comfortingly as she went
+to look at the clock. “Twenty minutes to seven, our clock says. It’s apt
+to be fast, so I guess you won’t miss any trains. Father he says he’d
+rather have a clock fast than slow any day, but it don’t often get more
+than ten minutes wrong either way.”
+
+And to us, after our two weeks of camp, ten minutes’ error in a clock
+seemed indeed slight.
+
+“Jonathan,” I said, as we walked back along the road, “I hate to go back
+to clock time. I like real time better.”
+
+“You couldn’t do so many things in a day,” said Jonathan.
+
+“No—maybe not.”
+
+“But maybe that wouldn’t matter.”
+
+“Maybe it wouldn’t,” I said.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   VIII
+
+
+                           The Ways of Griselda
+
+
+“Of course you don’t know what her name is,” I said, as we stood examining
+the sleek little black mare Jonathan had just brought up from the city.
+
+“No. Forgot to ask. Don’t believe they’d have known anyway—one of a
+hundred or so.”
+
+“Well, we’ll name her again. Dear me—she’s rather plain! Probably she’s
+useful.”
+
+“Hope so,” said Jonathan. Then, stepping back a little, in a slightly
+grieved tone, “But I don’t call her plain. Wait till she’s groomed up—”
+
+“It’s that droop of her neck—sort of patient—and the way she drops one of
+her hips—if they are hips.”
+
+“But we want a horse to be patient.”
+
+“Yes. I don’t know that I care about having her _look_ so terribly much so
+as this. I think I’ll call her Griselda.”
+
+“Now, why Griselda?”
+
+“Why, don’t you know? She was that patient creature, with the horrid
+husband who had to keep trying to see just how patient she was. It’s a
+hateful story—enough to turn any one who brooded on it into a militant
+suffragette.”
+
+“But you can’t call a horse Griselda—not for common stable use, you know.”
+
+“Call her ‘Griz’ for short. It does very well.”
+
+Jonathan jeered a little, but in the family the name held. Our man Hiram
+said nothing, but I think in private he called her “Fan” or “Beauty” or
+“Lady,” or some such regulation stable name.
+
+Called by any name, she pleased us, and she _was_ patient. She trotted
+peacefully up hill and down, she did her best at ploughing and haymaking
+and all the odd jobs that the farm supplied. She stood when we left her,
+with that same demure, almost overdone droop of the neck that I had first
+noticed. When I met Jonathan at the station, she stood with her nose
+against a snorting train, looking as if nothing could rouse her.
+
+“Good little horse you got there,” remarked the station agent. “Where’d
+you find her?”
+
+“Oh, I picked her out of a bunch down in the city,” said Jonathan
+casually. “I didn’t think I knew much about horses, but I guess I was in
+luck this time.”
+
+“Guess you know more about horses than you’re sayin’.” And Jonathan, thus
+pressed, admitted with suitable reluctance that he _had_ now and then been
+able to detect a good horse by his own observation.
+
+On the way home he openly congratulated himself on his find. “I really
+wasn’t sure I knew how to pick out a horse,” he remarked, in a glow of
+retrospective modesty, “but I certainly got a treasure this time.”
+
+Griz had been with us about two weeks, and all went well. Then another
+horse was needed for farm work, and one was sent up—one Kit by name—a big,
+pleasant, rather stupid brown mare.
+
+“They do say two mares don’t git on so well together as a mare ’n a
+horse,” remarked Hiram.
+
+“But these are both such quiet creatures,” I protested, to which Hiram
+made no answer. Hiram seldom made an answer unless fairly cornered into
+it.
+
+For two or three days after the new arrival nothing happened, so far as we
+knew, except that Griz always laid her ears back, and looked queer about
+her under lip, whenever Kit was led in or out of the stall next her, while
+Kit always huddled up close to her manger whenever Griz was led past her
+heels. Once or twice Griz slipped her halter in the stall, and Hiram said
+there was a place on Kit that looked as if she had been kicked, but when
+we scrutinized Griz, neck a-droop and eyes a-blink, we found it hard to
+think ill of her. Besides, Jonathan was now fairly committed to the
+opinion that he had “got a treasure this time.” “Kit may have hurt herself
+lying down,” he suggested, and again Hiram made no answer.
+
+Then one night, sometime during the very small, very dark, and very sleepy
+hours, we were awakened by awful sounds. “What is it? What _is_ it?” I
+gasped.
+
+Crash! Bang! Boom! The trampling of hoofs!—heavy, hollow pounding!—the
+tearing and splintering of wood!—all coming from the barn, though loud
+enough, indeed, to have come from the next room.
+
+Jonathan was up in an instant muttering, “Where are my rubber boots?—and
+my coat?”
+
+“Jonathan! _what_ a combination!”
+
+But he was gone, and I heard the snap of the lantern and the slam of the
+back door almost before the rocking-chair in the sitting-room that he had
+hit—and talked to—had stopped rocking. Then I heard him calling outside
+Hiram’s window and then he ran past our window, out to the barn. I wished
+he had waited for Hiram, but I had an undercurrent of pleasure in hearing
+him run. Jonathan’s theory is that there is never any hurry, and now and
+then I like to have this notion jolted up a little.
+
+Meanwhile the awful sounds had ceased. There was the rumble of the stable
+door, a pause, and Jonathan’s voice in conversational tones. Next came the
+flashing of Hiram’s lantern, and the _tromp, tromp, tromp_, in much
+quicker tempo than usual, of Hiram’s heavy boots. Hiram’s theory was a
+good deal like Jonathan’s, so this also gave me pleasure. Finally, there
+came the flash of another lantern, and I recognized the quick, short step
+of Mrs. Hiram. I smiled to myself, picturing the meeting between her and
+Jonathan, for I knew just how Jonathan was costumed. In two minutes I
+heard her steps repassing, and in five minutes Jonathan returned. He was
+chuckling quietly.
+
+“I guess Griz got all she needed—didn’t know either of ’em had so much
+spunk in ’em.”
+
+“What happened?”
+
+“Don’t know, exactly, but when I opened that door, there was Griz, just
+inside, no halter on, head down, meek as Moses, as far away from Kit’s
+heels as she could get—she’s got the mark of them on her leg and her
+flank.”
+
+“Is she hurt?—or Kit?”
+
+“No, not so far as we can see, not to amount to anything—except maybe
+Griz’s feelings.”
+
+“And what about Mrs. Hiram’s feelings?”
+
+Jonathan laughed aloud. “I was inside with Kit, and she called out to know
+if she could help.”
+
+“And what did you say?”
+
+“I said, ‘Not on your life.’ ”
+
+“So that was why she came back. Did you really say,‘Not on your life,’ or
+did you only imply it in your tone, while you actually said, ‘No, thank
+you very much’?”
+
+“I really said it. At least, I don’t remember conversations the way you
+do, but I didn’t feel a bit like thanking anybody, and I don’t believe I
+did.”
+
+“Well, I wish I’d heard you. One misses a good deal—”
+
+“You can see the stable to-morrow. That’ll keep. They must have had a time
+of it! The walls are marked and splintered as high as I can reach. And I
+don’t believe Kit’ll cringe when Griz passes her any more.”
+
+“Of course you remember Hiram _said_ two mares didn’t usually get on very
+well, and even when they’re chosen by a good judge of horses—”
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+After that the two did get along peaceably enough, and Jonathan assured me
+that all horses had these little affairs. One day we drove over to the
+main street of the village on an errand.
+
+“Will she stand?” I questioned.
+
+“Better hitch her, perhaps,” said Jonathan, getting out the rope. He
+snapped it into her bit-ring, then threw the other end around a post and
+started to make a half-hitch. But as he drew up the rope it was suddenly
+jerked out of his hand. He looked up and saw Griselda’s patient head
+waving high above him on the end of an erect and rebellious neck, the
+hitch-rope waggling in loops and spirals in the air, and the whole outfit
+backing away from him with speed and decision. He was so astonished that
+he did nothing, and in a moment Griz had stopped backing and stood still,
+her head sagging gently, the rope dangling.
+
+“Well—I’ll—be—” I didn’t try to remember just what Jonathan said he would
+be, because it doesn’t really matter. We both stared at Griz as if we had
+never seen her before. Griz looked at nothing in particular, she blinked
+long lashes over drowsy, dark eyes, and sagged one hip.
+
+“She’s trying to make believe she didn’t do it—but she did,” I said.
+
+“Something must have startled her,” said Jonathan, peering up and down the
+deserted street. Two roosters were crowing antiphonally in near-by yards,
+and a dog was barking somewhere far off.
+
+“What?” I said.
+
+“You never can tell, with a horse.”
+
+“No, apparently not,” I said, smiling to myself; and I added hastily, as I
+saw Jonathan go forward to her head, “_Don’t_ try it again, please! I’ll
+stay by her while you go in. _Please!_” For I had detected on Jonathan’s
+face a look that I very well knew. It was the same expression he had worn
+that Sunday he led the calf to pasture. He made no answer, but stood
+examining the hitch-rope.
+
+“No use,” he said, quietly releasing it and tossing its coil into the
+carriage, “It’s too rotten. If it snapped, she’d be ruined.”
+
+I breathed freer. I privately hoped that all the hitch-ropes at the farm
+were rotten.
+
+“Griz stands perfectly well without hitching,” I said as we drove home,
+“Why do you force an issue?”
+
+“I didn’t. She did. She’s beaten me. If I don’t hitch her now, she’ll know
+she’s master.”
+
+“Oh, dear!” I sighed. “Let her _be_ master! Where’s the harm? It’s just
+your vanity.”
+
+“Perhaps so,” said Jonathan.
+
+When he agrees with me like that I know it’s hopeless.
+
+The next night he wheeled in at the big gate bearing about his shoulders a
+coil of heavy rope.
+
+“It looks like a ship’s cable,” I said.
+
+“Yes,” he responded, leaning his bicycle against his side, and swinging
+the coil over his head. “I want it for mooring purposes. Think it’ll moor
+Griz?”
+
+“Jonathan!” I exclaimed, “you won’t!”
+
+“Watch me,” said Jonathan, and he proceeded to explain to me the working
+of the tackle.
+
+One end had a ring in it, and as nearly as I remember, the plan was to put
+the rope around her body, under what would be her arm-pits if she had
+arm-pits,—horses’ joints are never called what one would expect, of
+course,—run the end through the ring, then forward between her legs and
+through the bit-ring.
+
+“Then, when she sets back, it cuts her in two,” he concluded cheerfully.
+
+“But you don’t _want_ her in two,” I protested.
+
+“She won’t set back,” he responded; “at least, not more than once.
+To-morrow’s Sunday; I’ll have to hitch her at church.”
+
+I hoped it would rain, so we needn’t go, but we were having a drought and
+the morning dawned cloudless. We reached the church just on the last
+stroke of the bell. The women were all within; the men and boys lounging
+in the vestibule were turning reluctant feet to follow them.
+
+“You go right in,” said Jonathan, “I’ll be in soon.”
+
+I turned to protest, but he was already driving round to the side, and a
+hush had fallen over the congregation within that made it embarrassing to
+call. Besides, one of the deacons stood holding open the door for me.
+
+I slipped into a pew near the back, with the apologetic feeling one often
+has in an old country church—a feeling that one is making the ghosts move
+along a little. They did move, of course,—probably ghosts are always
+polite when one really meets them,—and I sat down. Indeed, I was thinking
+very little of ghosts that day, or of the minister either. My ears were
+cocked to catch and interpret all the noises that came in through the open
+windows on my left. My eyes wandered in that direction, too, though the
+clear panes revealed nothing more exciting than flickering maple leaves
+and a sky filmed over by veils of cloud.
+
+The moralists tell us that what we get out of any experience depends upon
+what we bring to it. What I brought to it that morning was a mind agog,
+attuned to receive these expected outside sounds. To all such sounds the
+service within was merely a background—a background which didn’t know its
+place, since it kept pushing itself more or less importunately into the
+foreground. I sat there, of course, with perfect propriety of demeanor,
+but my reactions were something like this:—
+
+_Hymn 912_ … seven stanzas! horrors! oh! _omit the 3d, 5th, and 6th_—well,
+I should hope so!… I can’t hear a thing while this is going on!… He hasn’t
+come in yet! _Scripture reading for to-day_—why can’t he give us the
+passage and let us read it for ourselves?—well, his voice is rather high
+and uneven, I think I could make out Jonathan’s through the loopholes in
+it.… There! What was that, I wonder! Sounded like shouting,—oh, why can’t
+he talk softly! _Let us unite in prayer._ Ah! now we’ll have a long, quiet
+time, anyway!… if only he wouldn’t pray quite so loud! Why pray aloud at
+all, anyway? I like the Quaker way best: a good long strip of silence,
+where your thoughts can wash around in any fashion that—There!
+No—yes—no—it’s just people going by on the road.… Maybe he’s in the back
+of the church now, waiting for the close of the prayer. Seems as if I had
+to look.… Well, he isn’t.… _For thy name’s sake, amen._
+
+And then the collection, with an organ voluntary the while—now why an
+organ voluntary? Why not leave people to their thoughts some of the time?
+
+And at last, the sermon:—_The text to which I wish to call your attention
+this morning_—my attention, forsooth! My attention was otherwise occupied.
+Ah! A puff of warm, sweet air from behind me, and the soft, padding noise
+of the swinging doors, apprised me of an incomer. A cautious tread in the
+aisle—I moved along a little to make room.
+
+In a city church probably I should have thrown propriety to the winds and
+had the gist of the story out of him at once, but in a country church
+there are always such listening spaces,—the very pew-backs and cushions
+seem attentive, the hymnals creak in their racks, and the little stools
+cry out nervously when one barely touches them. It was too much for me. I
+was coerced into an outer semblance of decorum. However, I snatched a
+hasty glance at Jonathan’s face. It was quite red and hot-looking, but
+calm, very calm, and I judged it to be the calm, not of defeat nor yet of
+settled militancy, but of triumph. I even thought I detected the flicker
+of a grin,—the mere atmospheric suggestion of a grin,—as if he felt the
+urgent if furtive appeal in my glance. At any rate, Jonathan was all
+right, that was clear. And as to Griz—whether she was still one mare or
+two half-mares—it didn’t so much matter. And now for the sermon! I
+gathered myself to attend.
+
+As we stood up for the last hymn, I whispered, “How did it go?”
+
+“All right. She’s hitched,” was the answer.
+
+After church there was the usual stir of sociability, and when I emerged
+into the glare of the church steps, I saw Jonathan driving slowly around
+from the rear. Griz walked meekly, her head sagged, her eyes blinked.
+
+“Good quiet little horse you’ve got there,” said a deacon over my
+shoulder; “don’t get restless standing, the way some horses do.”
+
+“Yes, she’s very quiet,” I said.
+
+I got in, and at last, as we drove off, the flood-gates of my impatience
+broke:—
+
+“Well?” I said,—“well?”
+
+“Well—” said Jonathan.
+
+“_Well? Tell_ me about it!”
+
+“I’ve told you. I hitched her.”
+
+“How did you hitch her?”
+
+“Just the way I said I would.”
+
+“Didn’t she mind?”
+
+“Don’t know.”
+
+“Did she make a fuss?”
+
+“Not much.”
+
+“What do you mean by much?”
+
+“Oh, she set back a little.”
+
+“Do any harm?”
+
+“No.”
+
+“Hurt herself?”
+
+“Guess not.”
+
+“Jonathan, you drive me distracted—you have no more sense for a story—”
+
+“But there was nothing in particular—”
+
+“Now, Jonathan, if there was nothing in particular, _why_ didn’t you get
+into church till the sermon was begun, and why were you so red and hot?”
+
+Jonathan smiled indulgently. “Why, of course, she didn’t care about being
+hitched. I thought you knew that. But it was perfectly easy.”
+
+And that was about all I could extract by the most artful questions. I
+took my revenge by telling Jonathan the deacon’s compliment to Griz. “He
+said she didn’t get restless standing, the way so many horses did. I
+thought of mentioning that you were a rather good judge of horses, in an
+amateur way, but then I thought it might seem like boasting, so I didn’t.”
+
+After that, of course, I didn’t really deserve to hear the whole story,
+but the next night I happened to be in the hammock while Jonathan was
+talking to a neighbor at the front gate, and he was relating the incident
+with detail enough to have satisfied the most hungry gossip. Only thus did
+I learn that Bill Howard, who had wound the rope twice round the post to
+give himself a little leeway, was drawn right up to the post when she set
+back; that they had been afraid the headstall would tear off; that they
+had been rather nervous about the post, and other such little points,
+which I had not been clever enough to elicit by my questions.
+
+Now, why? Probably a man likes to tell a story when he likes to tell it. I
+find myself wondering how much Odysseus told Penelope about his adventures
+when she got him to herself for a good talk. Is it significant that his
+really long story was told to the King of the Phæacians?
+
+As to Griz:—it would perhaps not be worth while to recount her subsequent
+history. It was a curious one, consisting of long stretches of continuous
+and ostentatious meekness, broken by sudden flare-ups which, after their
+occurrence, always seemed incredible. She never again “set back” when
+Jonathan was the one to hitch her, but this was a concession made to him
+personally, and had no effect on her general habits. We talked of changing
+her name, but could never manage it. We thought of selling her, but she
+was too valuable—most of the time. And when we finally parted from her our
+relief was deeply tinged with regret.
+
+I have sometimes wondered whether such flare-ups were not the natural and
+necessary means of recuperation from such depths of meekness. I have even
+wondered whether the original Griselda may not have—but this is not a
+dissertation on early Italian poetry, nor on the nature of women.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    IX
+
+
+                           A Rowboat Pilgrimage
+
+
+We were glad that the plan of the rowboat cruise dawned upon us almost a
+year before it came to pass. We were the gainers by just that rich length
+of expectancy.
+
+For the joy that one gets from any cherished plan is always threefold:
+there is the joy of looking forward, the joy of the very doing, and the
+joy of remembering. They are all good, but only the last is eternal. The
+doing is hedged between limits, and its pleasures are often confused,
+overlaid with alien or accidental impressions. The joy of the forward look
+is pure and keen, but its bounds, too, are set. It begins at the moment
+when the first ray of the plan-idea dawns on one’s mind, and it ends with
+the day of fulfillment. If the dawn begins long before the day, so much
+the better.
+
+It was early fall, and we had come in from a day by the river, where we
+had tramped miles up, to one of its infrequent bridges, and miles down on
+the other bank. Now we sat before the fire, talking it over.
+
+“If we only had a boat!” I said.
+
+“Boat! What do you want a boat for? You wouldn’t want to sit in a boat all
+day.”
+
+“Who said I would? But I want to get into it, and float off, and get out
+again somewhere else. That’s my idea of a boat.”
+
+“Oh, of course, a boat would be handy—”
+
+“Handy! You talk as if it was a buttonhook!”
+
+“Well?”
+
+“Well—of course it _is_ handy—as you call it—but a boat means such a lot
+of things—adventure, romance. When you’re in a boat—a little boat—anything
+might happen.”
+
+“Yes,” said Jonathan, drawing the logs together, “that’s just the way your
+family feels about it when you’re young.”
+
+Then we both laughed, and there was a reminiscent pause.
+
+“What became of your boat?” I asked finally.
+
+“Sold. You kept yours.”
+
+“Yes. It’s in the cellar, there at Nantucket. I could have it sent on.”
+
+“Cost as much as to buy a new one.”
+
+“A new one wouldn’t be as good.” I bristled a little. Any one who has
+owned a boat is very sensitive about its virtues.
+
+“How big?”
+
+“How should I know? A little boat—maybe twelve feet.”
+
+“Two oars?”
+
+“Four.”
+
+“Round bottom?”
+
+“Yes. She’d ride anything.”
+
+“Well”—Jonathan suddenly expanded—“here’s an idea now! How would you like
+to have it sent on to the mainland, and then row it the rest of the
+way—along the Rhode Island and Connecticut shores?”
+
+I sat straight up. “Jonathan! Let’s do it now!”
+
+Jonathan chuckled. “My! What a hurry she’s in!”
+
+“Well, let’s!”
+
+“We couldn’t. The boat will have to be overhauled first.”
+
+“Oh, dear! I suppose so.”
+
+“We could do it next spring, and go up the trout streams.”
+
+“Think of that!” I murmured.
+
+“Or in September and get the shore hunting—the salt marshes.”
+
+“Oh, which?—which?” Already I was following our course along curving
+beaches and amongst the yellow marshlands. But Jonathan’s mind was working
+on more practical details.
+
+“Twelve feet, you said?”
+
+“About that.”
+
+“Pretty close stowing for our dunnage—still—let’s see—two guns—”
+
+“Or the rods, if we went in the spring.”
+
+“And rubber coats, and blankets—”
+
+“Jonathan! Should we camp?”
+
+“Might have to.”
+
+“Let’s, anyway.”
+
+“How does that coast-line run? Where’s a map?”
+
+All we had were some railroad maps and an old school geography—just enough
+to tantalize us—but we fell upon them eagerly. It is curious what a change
+comes over these dumb bits of colored paper at such times. Every curve of
+the shore, every bay and headland came to life and spoke to us—called to
+us.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+We decided on the September plan, and for the next eleven months our
+casual talk was starred with inapropos remarks like these:—
+
+“Jonathan, I know we shall forget a can-opener.”
+
+“Better write it down while you think of it. And have you put down a
+hatchet?”
+
+“The camera! It isn’t on the list!”
+
+“Hang it! Those charts haven’t come yet!”
+
+“What can we take to look respectable in when we go ashore?”
+
+Meanwhile the little boat was stirred out of its long sleep in the cellar,
+overhauled, and painted, and shipped to a port up in Narragansett Bay. And
+on the last day of August we found ourselves walking down through the
+little town. Following the instructions of wondering small boys, we came
+to a gate in a board fence, opened it and let ourselves into a typical New
+England seaport scene—a tiny garden, ablaze with sunshine and gorgeous
+with the yellows and lavenders of fall flowers, and a narrow brick path,
+under a grape-vine arch, leading down to the sand and the wharf and the
+sparkling blue waters of the bay. As we passed down through the garden, we
+saw a little boat, bottom up, dazzling white in the sun.
+
+“There it is!” I said, with a surge of reminiscent affection.
+
+“That little thing!” said Jonathan. “I thought you said twelve feet.”
+
+“Well, isn’t it? Anyway, I said _about_. And it’s big enough.”
+
+He was spanning its length with his hands.
+
+“Eleven foot six. Oh, I suppose she’ll do. My boat was fourteen.”
+
+“Now, don’t be so patronizing about your boat. Wait till you see how mine
+behaves.”
+
+He dropped the discussion and got her launched. Is there anything prettier
+than a pretty boat floating beside a dock!
+
+The next morning when we came down we found her half full of water.
+“She’ll be all right now she’s soaked up,” said Jonathan, and we baled her
+dry and went off to get our stuff.
+
+I delayed to buy provisions, and when I came back I found Jonathan
+standing on the float surrounded by plunder of all sorts. He answered my
+hail rather solemnly.
+
+“See here! When this stuff’s all stowed, where are we going to sit? That’s
+what’s worrying me.”
+
+“Why, won’t it go in?”
+
+“Go! It wouldn’t go in two boats.”
+
+I came down the plank. “Well, let’s eliminate.”
+
+We eliminated. We took out extra shoes and coats and “town clothes,” we
+cut down as far as we dared, and expressed a big bundle home. The rest we
+got into two sailor’s dunnage bags, one waterproof, the other nearly so,
+and one big water-tight metal box. Then there were the guns, and the
+provisions, and the charts in a long tin tube, and there was a lantern—a
+clumsy thing, which we lashed to a seat. It was always in the way and
+proved of very little use, but we thought we ought to take it.
+
+While we worked, some loungers gathered on the wharf above and watched us
+with that tolerant curiosity that loungers know so well how to assume. As
+we got in and took up our oars, one of them called out, “Now, if you only
+had a little motor there in the stern, you’d be all right.”
+
+“Don’t want one,” said Jonathan.
+
+“What? Why not?”
+
+“Go too fast.”
+
+“Eh? What say?”
+
+“Go—too—fast.”
+
+“He heard you,” I said, “but he can’t believe you really said it.”
+
+The oars fell into unison, there was the dip of their blades, the grating
+chunk of the rowlocks—_dip-ke-chunk, dip-ke-chunk_. As we fell into our
+stroke the little boat began to respond, the water swished at her bows and
+gurgled under her stern. The wharf fell away behind us, the houses back of
+it came into sight, then the wooded hills behind. The whole town began to
+draw together, with its church steeples as its centers.
+
+“She does go!” remarked Jonathan.
+
+“I told you! Look at us now! Look at that buoy!”
+
+_Dip-ke-chunk, dip-ke-chunk_—the red buoy swept by us and dropped into the
+blue background of dancing waves.
+
+“Are we really off? Is it really happening?” I said joyously.
+
+“Do you like it?” said Jonathan over his shoulder.
+
+“No. Do you?” To such unwisdom of speech do people come when they are
+happy.
+
+But there were circumstances to steady us.
+
+“What I’m wondering,” said Jonathan, “is, what’s going to happen next—when
+we get out there.” He tilted his head toward the open bay, broad and
+windy, ahead of us. “There’s some pretty interesting water out there
+beyond this lee.”
+
+“Oh, she’ll take it all right. It’s no worse than Nantucket water. It
+couldn’t be. You’ll see.”
+
+We did see. In half an hour we were in the middle of upper Narragansett
+Bay, trying to make a diagonal across it to the southwest, while the long
+rollers came in steadily from the south, broken by a nasty chop of peaked,
+whitecapped waves. We rowed carefully, our heads over our right shoulders,
+watching each wave as it came on, with broken comments:—
+
+“That’s a good one coming—bring her up now—there—all right, now let her
+off again—hold her so—there’s another coming—see?—that big one, the fifth,
+the fourth, away—row, now—we beat it—there it goes off astern—see it
+break! Here’s another—look out for your oar—we can’t afford to miss a
+stroke—oh, me! Did that wet you too? My right shoulder is soaked—my left
+isn’t—now it is!”
+
+But half an hour of this sort of thing brought about two
+results—confidence in the little boat, which rode well in spite of her
+load, and confidence in each other’s rowing. We found that the four oars
+worked together, our early training told, and we instinctively did the
+same things in each of the varied emergencies created by wind and wave.
+There was no need for orders, and our talk died down to an exclamation now
+and then at some especially big wave, or a laugh as one of us got a
+drenching from the white top of a foaming crest.
+
+It was not an easy day, that first one.… It seems, sometimes, as if there
+were little imps of malignity that hovered over one at the beginning of an
+undertaking—little brownies, using all their charms to try to turn one
+back, discouraged. If there be such, they had a good time with us that
+long afternoon. First they had said that we shouldn’t load our boat. Then
+they sent us rough water. Then they set the boat a-leak.
+
+For leak it did. The soaking over night had done no good. It had, indeed,
+been “thoroughly overhauled” and pronounced seaworthy, but there was the
+water, too much to be accounted for as spray, swashing over the bottom
+boards, growing undeniably and most uncomfortably deeper. The imps made no
+offer to bale for us, so we had to do it ourselves, losing the much-needed
+power at the oars, while one of us set to work at the dip-and-toss,
+dip-and-toss motion so familiar to any one who has kept company with a
+small boat.
+
+“I wish my mother could see me now—” hummed Jonathan.
+
+“I wouldn’t wish that.”
+
+“Why not?”
+
+“What would they all think of us if they could see us this minute?”
+
+“Just what they have thought for a long time.”
+
+I laughed. “How true that is, teacher!” I said.
+
+Finding us still cheerful, the imps tried again.
+
+“Jonathan—do you know—I do believe—my rowlock socket is working loose.”
+
+He cast a quick look over his shoulder without breaking stroke. Then he
+said a few words, explicit and powerful, about the man who had
+“overhauled” the boat. “He ought to be put out in it, in a sea like this,
+and left to row himself home.”
+
+“Yes, of course, but instead, here we are. It won’t last half an hour
+longer.”
+
+It did not last ten minutes. There it hung, one screw pulled loose, the
+other barely holding.
+
+“Take my knife—you can get it out of my hip pocket—and try to set up that
+screw with the big blade.”
+
+I did so, and pulled a few strokes. Then—“It’s come out again. It’s no
+use.”
+
+“We make blamed poor headway with one pair of oars,” said Jonathan.
+
+He meditated.
+
+“Where are the screw-eyes?” he said after a moment.
+
+“Oh, good for you! They’re in the metal box. I’ll get them.”
+
+I drew in my useless oars, turned about and cautiously wriggled up into
+the bow seat.
+
+“Look out for yourself! Don’t bullfrog out over the bow. I can’t hold her
+any steadier than this.”
+
+“Oh, I’m all right.”
+
+With one hand I gripped the gunwale, with the other I felt down into the
+box and finally fished out the required treasures. I worked my way back
+into my own seat and tried a screw-eye in the empty, rusted-out hole.
+
+“Does it bite?”
+
+“I don’t know about biting, but it’s going in beautifully—now it goes
+hard.”
+
+“Perhaps I can give it a turn.”
+
+“Perhaps you can’t! Don’t you stop rowing. If this boat wasn’t held
+steady, she’d—I don’t know what she wouldn’t do.”
+
+“If you stick something through the eye you can turn it.”
+
+“Yes. I’ll find something. Here’s the can-opener. Grand! There! It’s
+solid. Now I’ll do the other one the same way. Hurrah for the screw-eyes!”
+
+“You thought of bringing them,” said Jonathan magnanimously.
+
+“You thought of using them,” said I, not to be outdone.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+And so again the imps were foiled. But they hung over us, they slapped us
+with spray, they tossed the whitecaps, jeering, at our heads, over our
+shoulders, into our laps. They put up the tides to tricks of eddies and
+back-currents, so that they hindered instead of helping, as by calculation
+they should have done. They laid invisible hands on our oars and dragged
+them down, or held them up as the wave raced by, so that we missed a
+stroke. Once, in the lee of an island, we paused to rest and unroll our
+chart and get our bearings, while the smooth rise and fall of the ground
+swell was all there was to remind us of the riot of water just outside.
+Then we were off again, and the imps had us. They were busy, those imps,
+all that long, windy, wave-tossed, wonderful day.
+
+For it was wonderful, and the imps were indeed frustrate, wholly
+frustrate. We pulled toward the quiet harbor that evening with aching
+muscles, hair and clothes matted with salt water, but spirits undaunted.
+Hungry, too, for we had not been able to do more than munch a few ship’s
+biscuit while we rowed. Wind, tide, waves, all against us, boat leaking,
+oars disabled—and still—“Isn’t it great!” we said, “great—great!”
+
+Dusk was closing in and lights began to blink along the western shore. We
+beached on a sandy point and asked our way,—where could we put up for the
+night? Children, barelegged, waded out around the boat, looking at us and
+our funny, laden craft, with curious eyes. Yes, they said, there was an
+inn, farther up the harbor, where we saw those lights—ten minutes’ row,
+perhaps. We pulled off again, stiffly.
+
+“Tired?” said Jonathan. “I’ll take her in.”
+
+“Indeed you won’t! Of course I’m tired, but I’ve got to do something to
+keep warm. And I want to get in. I want supper. They’ll all be in bed if
+we don’t hurry.”
+
+Our tired muscles lent themselves mechanically to their work and the boat
+slid across the quiet waters of the moonlit harbor. The town lights grew
+bigger, wharves loomed above us, and soon we were gliding along under
+their shadow. The eddies from our oars went _lap-lap-lapping_ off among
+the great dark spiles and stirred up the keen smell of salt-soaked timbers
+and seaweed. Blindly groping, we found a rickety ladder, tied our boat and
+climbed stiffly up, and there we were on our feet again, feeling rather
+queer and stretchy after seven hours in our cramped quarters.
+
+Half an hour later we were sitting in the warm, clean kitchen of the old
+inn, and a kindly but mystified hostess was mothering us with eggs and ham
+and tea and pie and doughnuts and other things that a New England kitchen
+always contains. While we ate she sat and rocked energetically,
+questioning us with friendly curiosity and watching us with keen though
+benevolent eyes.
+
+“Rowed, did you? Jim!” calling back over her shoulder through a half-open
+door, “did you hear that? These folks have rowed all the way across the
+bay this afternoon—yes—rowed. What say? Yes, _she_ rowed, too. They say
+they’re goin’ on to-morrow, round Judith.”
+
+“Say, now,” she finally appealed to us in frank perplexity, “what’re you
+doin’ it for?”
+
+“We like it,” said Jonathan peacefully.
+
+“Like it, do you? Well, now, if that don’t beat all! Say—you know? I
+wouldn’t do that, what you’re doin’, not if you paid me. Have another cup
+o’ tea, do.”
+
+The next morning she bade us good-bye with the air of entrusting us to
+that Providence which is known to have a special care for children and
+fools.
+
+In fact, through all the varying experiences of our cruise, one thing
+never varied. That was, the expression on the faces of the people we met.
+Wind and water and coast and birds all greeted us differently with each
+new day, but no matter how many new faces we met, we found in them always
+the same look—a look at once friendly and quizzical, the look one casts
+upon nice children for whose antics one is not responsible, the look one
+casts upon very small dogs. Why? Is it so odd a thing to like to row a
+little boat? If it had been a yacht, now, or even a motor-boat, the
+expression would have been different. Apparently the oars were what did
+it.
+
+On that particular morning, word of our doings must have got abroad, for
+as we stepped out on the brick sidewalk of the shady main street a little
+crowd was waiting for us. It was a funny procession:—Jonathan first, with
+the guns and the water-jug, then a boy with a wheelbarrow, on which were
+piled the two dunnage bags, the metal box, the lantern, the axe, the chart
+tube, and a few other things. An old man and some boys followed curiously,
+then I came, with two big baking-powder cans, very gorgeous because the
+red paper was not yet off them, full of provisions pressed on us by our
+friendly hostess. Tagging behind me, came an old woman, a big girl, and a
+half-dozen children. It was the kind of escort that usually attends the
+hand-organ and monkey on their infrequent visits.
+
+We loaded up the boat and pulled off, a little stiff but fairly fit after
+all. The group waved us off and then stood obviously talking us over. One
+of the men called after us, with a sudden inspiration, “Pity ye’ hevn’t
+got a _motor_ in there!”
+
+Though we didn’t want to be a motor-boat, we were not above receiving
+courtesies from one, and when the Providence tacitly invoked by our
+hostess sent one chugging along up to us, with the proposal to take us in
+tow, we accepted with great contentment. The morning was not half over
+when we made our next landing, and looked up the captain who was to tow us
+“around Judith.”
+
+For in the matter of Point Judith our friends and advisers had been
+unanimously firm. There should be a limit, they said, even to the
+foolishness of a holiday plan. With a light boat, we might have braved
+their disapproval, but loaded as we were, we decided to be prudent.
+
+“I’d hate to lose the guns,” said Jonathan.
+
+“Yes, and the camera,” I added.
+
+So we accepted the offer of a good friend’s knockabout, and sailed around
+the dreaded Point with our little boat tailing behind at the end of her
+rope. We saw no water that we could not have met in her, but, as our
+friends did not fail to point out, that proved nothing whatever.
+
+At Stonington we were left once more to our little boat and our four oars,
+and there we pulled her up and caulked her.
+
+Strange, how we are always trying to avoid mishaps, and yet when they come
+we are so often glad of them! A leaky boat had not been in our plans, but
+if we could change that first wild row across the big bay, if we could cut
+out that leakiness, that puddling bottom, the difficult shifts of baling
+and rowing, would we? We would not. Again, as we look back over the days
+of our cruise, we could ill spare those hours of labor on the hot stretch
+of sunny beach between the wharves, where we bent half-blinded over the
+dazzling white boat, our spirits irritated, our fingers aching as they
+worked at the _push-push-push_ of the cotton waste between the strakes. We
+said hard words of the man who thought he had put our boat in order for
+us, and yet—if we could cut out those hours of grumbling toil, would we?
+We would not. For one thing, we should perhaps have missed the precious
+word of advice given us by a man who sat and watched us. He recommended us
+to put a little motor in the stern. He pointed out to us that rowing was
+pretty hard work. We said we liked it. His face wore the expression I have
+already described.
+
+We launched her again at dusk. Next morning Jonathan was a moment ahead of
+me on the wharf.
+
+“Any water in her?” I called, following hard.
+
+“Dry as a bone,” he shouted back, exultant; but as I came up he added,
+with his usual conservatism, “of course we can’t tell what she may do when
+she’s loaded.”
+
+But our work held. For the rest of the trip we had a dry boat, except for
+what came in over the sides.
+
+Now that we were in the home State, we got out our guns and hugged the
+shore closely, on the lookout for plover. We drifted sometimes, while we
+studied our maps for the location of the salt marshes. If we were lucky,
+we had broiled birds for luncheon or supper; if we were not, we had tinned
+stuff, which is distinctly inferior. When we spent the night at an inn, we
+breakfasted there, but most of our meals were eaten along the shore, or,
+best of all, on some island.
+
+“Can we find an island for lunch to-day, do you suppose?” I usually asked,
+as we dipped our oars in the morning.
+
+“Do you have to have an island for lunch?”
+
+“I love an island!” choosing to ignore the jest. “That’s one of the best
+things about a boat—that it takes you to islands.”
+
+“Now, why an island?”
+
+“You know as well as I do. An island means—oh, it means remoteness, it
+means quiet—possession; while you’re on it, it’s yours—you don’t have
+every passer-by looking over your shoulder—you have a little world all to
+yourself.”
+
+I could feel Jonathan’s indulgent smile through the back of his head as he
+rowed.
+
+“Well, you know yourself,” I argued. “Even a tiny bit of stone and earth,
+with moss on it, and a flower, out in the middle of a brook, looks
+different, somehow, from the same things on the bank. It _is_
+different—it’s an island.”
+
+And so we sought islands—sometimes little ones, all rocks, too little even
+to have collected driftwood for a fire, too little to have grown anything
+but wisps of beach-grass, low enough to be covered, perhaps, by the
+highest tides. Sometimes it was a larger island, big enough to have bushes
+on it, and beaches round its edges. One of these we remember as best of
+all. It lay a mile off shore, a long island, rocky at its ocean end and at
+its land end running out to a long slim line of curving beach. In the
+middle it rose to a plateau, thick-set with grass and goldenrod and bay
+bushes, from which floated the gay, sweet voices of song sparrows. Ah!
+There was an island for you! And we made a fire of driftwood, and cooked
+our luncheon, and lay back on the sand and drowsed, while the sea-gulls,
+millions of them, circled curiously over our heads, mewing and screaming
+as they dived and swooped, and behind us the notes of the song sparrows
+rose sweet.
+
+If we had had water enough in our jug, we should have camped there. We
+rowed away at last, slowly, loving it, and in our thoughts we still
+possess it. As it dropped astern I pulled in my oars and stood up to take
+its picture—no easy task, with the boat mounting and plunging among the
+swells. But I have my picture, its horizon line at a noticeable slant,
+reminiscent of my unsteady balance. It means little to other people, but
+to us it means the sweetness of sunshine and wind and water, the sweetness
+of grass and bird-notes, all breathed over by the spirit of solitude.
+
+Then it melted away—our island—into the waste of waters, and we turned to
+look toward the misty headlands beyond our bow. Where the marshlands were,
+we followed them closely, but where the shore was rocky, or, worse still,
+built up with summer cottages, we often made a straight course from
+headland to headland, keeping well out, often a mile or two, to avoid tide
+eddies. We liked the feeling of being far out, the shore a dark blue, the
+cottages little dots. But we liked it, too, when the headland before us
+grew large, its rocks and bushes stood out, and we could see the white rip
+off its point—a rip to be taken with some caution if we hoped to keep our
+cargo dry. And then, the rip passed, if the bay beyond curved in quiet and
+uninhabited, how we loved to turn and pull along close to shore, watching
+its beaches and sand-cliffs draw smoothly away beside our stern, or, best
+of all, pulling about and running in till our bow grated and we jumped to
+the wet beach and ran up the cliff to look about. Such moments bring in a
+peculiar way the thrill of discovery. It is one thing to go along a coast
+by land, and learn its ways so. It is a good thing. But it is quite
+another to fare over its waters and turn in upon it from without,
+surprising its secrets as from another world.
+
+But to do this, your boat must be a little one. As soon as you have a real
+keel, the case is altered. For a keel demands a special landing-place—a
+wharf—and a wharf means human habitation, and then—where is your thrill of
+discovery? Ah, no!—a little boat! And you can land anywhere, among rocks
+or in sandy shallows; you can explore the tide creeks and marshes and the
+little rivers; you can beach wherever you like, wherever the rippling
+waves themselves can go. A little boat for romance!
+
+A little boat, but a long cruise, as long as may be. To be sure, a boat
+and a bit of water anywhere is good. Even an errand across the pond and
+back may be a joy. But if you can, now and then, free yourself from the
+there-and-back habit, the reward is great. The joy of pilgrimage—of going,
+not there and back, but on, and on, and yet on—is a joy by itself. The
+thought that each night brings sleep in a new and unforeseen spot, with a
+new journey on the morrow, gives special flavor to the journeying.
+
+Not the least among the pleasures of the cruise were the night-camps. When
+the shore looked inviting, and harborage at an inn seemed doubtful, we
+pulled our boat above tide-water, turned her over and tilted her up on her
+side for a wind-break, and there we spent the night. The half-emptied
+dunnage bags were our pillows, the sand was our bed. Sand, to sleep on, is
+harder than one might suppose, but it is better than earth in being easily
+scooped out to suit one’s needs. Indeed, even on a pneumatic mattress, I
+should hardly have slept much that first night. It was a new experience.
+The great world of waters was so close that it seemed, all night long,
+like a wonderful but ever importunate presence. The wind blew that night,
+too, and there was a low-scudding rack, and a half-smothered moon. As we
+rolled ourselves up in our blankets and rubber sheets and settled down, I
+looked out over the restless water.
+
+“The bay seems very full to-night—brimming,” I said.
+
+“Not brimming over, though,” said Jonathan.
+
+“I should hope not! But it does seem to me there are very few inches
+between it and our feet.”
+
+“And the tide is still rising, of course,” said Jonathan, by way of
+comfort.
+
+“Jonathan, I know just where high-tide mark is, and we’re fully twelve
+inches above it.”
+
+Silence.
+
+“Aren’t we?”
+
+“Oh, was that a question?” murmured Jonathan. “Why, yes, I think we are at
+least that.”
+
+“Of course, there are extra high tides sometimes.”
+
+Silence.
+
+“Jonathan, do you know when they come?”
+
+“Not exactly.”
+
+“Well, I don’t care. I love it, anyway. Only it seems so much bigger and
+colder at night, the water does.”
+
+At last I drowsed, waking now and then to raise my head and just glance
+down at those waves—they certainly sounded as if they were lapping the
+sand close by my ear. No, there they were, quite within bounds, fully
+twenty feet away from my toes. Of course it was all right. I slept again,
+and dreamed that the tide rose and rose; the waves ran merrily up the
+beach, ran up on both sides of us, closed in behind us. We were lying on a
+little sand island, and the waves nibbled at its edges—nibbled and nibbled
+and nibbled—the island was being nibbled up. This would never do! We must
+move! And I woke. _Ripple, ripple, swash!_ _ripple, ripple, swash!_ went
+the unconscious waves. As I raised my head I saw the pale beach stretching
+off under the moon-washed mists of middle night. Reassured, I sank back,
+and when I waked again the big sun was well above the rim of the waters
+and all the little waves were dancing and the wet curves of the beach were
+gleaming in the new day.
+
+The water was not always restless at night. The next time we camped we
+found a little harbor within a harbor, a crescent curve of fine white sand
+ending in a point of rock. In one of its clefts we made our fire and
+broiled our plover, ranging them on spits of bay so that they hung over
+the two edges of rock like people looking down into a miniature Grand
+Cañon. There were nine of them, fat and sputtering, and while they
+cooked, we made toast and arranged the camp. Then we had supper, and
+watched the red coals smouldering and the white moonlight filling the
+world with a radiance that put out the stars and brought the blue back to
+the sky. The little basin of the bay was quiet as a pool, the air was full
+of stillness, with now and then the hushed _flip-flip_ of a tiny wave that
+had somehow strayed in from the tumbling crowd outside.
+
+We slept well, but once Jonathan waked me. “Look!” he whispered, “White
+heron.”
+
+I raised my head. There, quite near us in the shallow water, stood a great
+pale bird, motionless, on one long, slim leg, his oval body, long neck,
+head and bill clearly outlined against the bright water beyond. The mirror
+of the water reflected perfectly the soft outline, making a double
+creature, one above and one below, with that slim stem of leg between.
+
+I watched him until my neck grew tired. He never moved. Out beyond him,
+more dim, stood his mate, motionless too. Now and then they called to each
+other, with queer, harsh talk that made the stillness all the stiller when
+it closed in again.
+
+When we awoke, they were gone, but we found the heronry that morning on
+one of the oak-covered knolls that rise like islands out of the heart of
+the great salt marshes.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+All through the cruise, the big winds were with us more than we had
+expected. They gave us, for the most part, a right good time. For even in
+the partly protected Sound it is possible to stir up a sea rough enough to
+keep one busy. Each wave, as it came galloping up, was an antagonist to be
+dealt with. If we met it successfully, it galloped on, and left us none
+the worse for it. If we did not, it meant, perhaps, that its foaming white
+mane brushed our shoulders, or swept across our laps, or, worse still,
+drowned our guns. Once, indeed, we were threatened with something a little
+more serious. We were running down out of the Connecticut River, gliding
+smoothly over sleek water. It was delicious rowing, and the boat shot
+along swiftly. As we turned westward, it grew rougher, but we were paying
+no special heed to this when suddenly I became conscious of something dark
+over my right shoulder. I turned my head, and found myself looking up into
+the evil heart of a dull green breaker. I gasped, “Look out!” and dug my
+oar. Jonathan glanced, pulled, there was a moment of doubt, then the huge
+dark bulk was shouldering heavily away, off our starboard quarter. It was
+only the first of its ugly company. Through sheer carelessness, we had
+run, as it were, into an ambush—one of the worst bits of water on the
+Sound, where tide and river currents meet and wrangle. All around us were
+rearing, white-maned breakers, though the impression we got was less of
+their white manes than of their dark sides as they rose over us. Our
+problem was to meet each one fairly, and yet snatch every moment of
+respite to slant off toward the harborage inside the breakwaters. It took
+all our strength and all our skill, and all the resources of the good
+little boat. But we made it, after perhaps half an hour of stiff work.
+Then we rested, breathed, and went on. We did not talk much about it until
+we made camp that night. Then, as we sat looking out over the quiet water,
+I told Jonathan about the shadow over my shoulder.
+
+“It was like seeing a ghost,” I said,—“no—more like feeling the hand of an
+enemy on your shoulder.”
+
+“The Black Douglas,” suggested Jonathan.
+
+“Yes. Talk about the scientific attitude—you’ve just got to personify
+things when they come at you like that. That wave had an expression—an
+ugly one. I don’t wonder the Northmen felt as they did about the sea and
+the waves. They took it all personally—they had to!”
+
+“Were you frightened?” asked Jonathan.
+
+“No, of course not,” I said, almost too promptly. Then I meditated—“I
+don’t know what you’d call it—but I believe I understand now what people
+mean when they talk about their hearts going down into their boots.”
+
+“Did yours?”
+
+“Why, not exactly—but—well—it certainly did feel suddenly very thick and
+heavy—as if it had dropped—perhaps an inch or two.”
+
+“I believe,” said Jonathan gently, “you might almost call that being
+frightened.”
+
+“Yes, perhaps you might. Tell me—were you?”
+
+“I didn’t like it—yes, I was anxious—and it made me tired to have been
+such a fool—the whole thing was absolutely unnecessary, if we’d looked up
+the charts carefully.”
+
+“Or asked a few questions. But you know you hate to ask questions.”
+
+“You could have asked them.”
+
+“Well, anyway, aren’t you glad it happened?”
+
+“Oh, of course; it was an experience.”
+
+“Do you want to do it again?”
+
+“No”—he was emphatic—“not with that load.”
+
+“Neither do I.”
+
+If the winds sometimes wearied us a little, they helped us, too. We can
+never forget the evening we turned into the Thames River, making for the
+shelter of a friend’s hospitable roof. We had battled most of that day
+with the diagonal onslaughts of a southeast gale, bringing with it the
+full swing of the ocean swell. It was easier than a southwester would have
+been, but that was the best that could be said for it.
+
+We passed the last buoy and turned our bow north. And suddenly, the great
+waves that had all day kept us on the defensive became our strong helpers.
+They took us up and swung us forward on our course with great sweeping
+rushes of motion. The tide was setting in, too, and with that and our oars
+we were going almost as fast as the waves themselves, so that when one
+picked us up, it swung us a long way before it left us. We learned to
+watch for each roller, wait till one came up astern, then pull with all
+our might so that we went swooping down its long slope, its crest at first
+just behind our stern, but drawing more and more under us, until it passed
+beyond our bow and dropped us in the trough to wait for the next giant. It
+was like going in a swing, but with the downward rush very long and swift,
+and the upward rise short and slow. How long it took us to make the two
+miles to our friend’s dock we shall never know. Probably only a few
+minutes. But it was not an experience in time. We had a sense of being at
+one with the great primal forces of wind and water, and at one with them,
+not in their moments of poise, but in their moments of resistless power.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+After all, the only drawback to the cruise was that it was over too soon.
+When, in the quiet afternoon light of the last day, a familiar headland
+floated into view, my first feeling was one of joy; for beyond that
+headland, what friendly faces waited for us—faces turned even now,
+perhaps, toward the east for a first glimpse of our little boat. But hard
+after this, came a pang of regret—it was over, our water-pilgrimage, and I
+wanted it to go on.
+
+It was over. And yet, not really over after all. I sometimes think that
+pleasures ought to be valued according to whether they are over when they
+_are_ over, or not. “You cannot eat your cake and have it too.” True, but
+that is because it is cake. There are other things which you can eat, and
+still have. And our rowboat cruise is one of these. It is over, and yet it
+is not over. It never will be. I can shut my eyes—indeed, I do not need
+even to shut them—and again I am under the open sky, I am afloat in the
+sun and the wind, with the waters all around me. I see again the
+surf-edged curves of the beaches, the lines of the sand-cliffs, the ragged
+horizon edge, cut and jagged by the waves. I feel the boat, I feel the
+oars, I am aware of the damp, pure night air, and the sounds of the waves
+ceaselessly breaking on the sand.
+
+It is not over. Its best things are still ours, and those things which
+were hardly pleasures then have become such now. As we remember our aching
+muscles and blistered hands, we smile. As we recall times of intense
+weariness, of irritation, of anxiety, we find ourselves lingering over
+them with enjoyment. For memory does something wonderful with experience.
+It is a poet, and life is its raw material. I know that our cruise was
+made up of minutes, of oar-strokes, so many that to count them would be
+weariness unending. But in my memory, these things are re-created. I see a
+boundless stretch of windy or peaceful waters. I see the endless line of
+misty coast. I see lovely islands, sleeping alone, waiting to be possessed
+by those who come. And I see a little, little boat, faring along the
+coast-lands, out to the islands, over the waters—going on, and on, and on.
+
+
+
+                                 THE END
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 COLOPHON
+
+
+                           The Riverside Press
+
+                        CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS
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+                                U . S . A
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+
+
+
+
+                      APPENDIX A: EXTRA FRONT PAGES
+
+
+                         By Elisabeth Woodbridge
+
+                                 -------
+
+                          MORE JONATHAN PAPERS.
+                           THE JONATHAN PAPERS.
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+                        HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
+                           BOSTON AND NEW YORK
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+                           More Jonathan Papers
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+
+
+
+
+                                  ERRATA
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+
+      Chapter VII
+      Changed camp is *4.38*—A.M. to camp is *4:38*—A.M.
+
+      Chapter VII
+      Changed arrives at *10.15*, they to arrives at *10:15*, they
+
+      Chapter VII
+      Changed What does *10.15* look to What does *10:15* look
+
+      Chapter VIII
+      Changed “Does it bite?  to “Does it bite?*”*
+
+      Chapter VIIII
+      Changed find something*,* Here’s to find something*.* Here’s
+
+      Chapter VIIII
+      Changed no matter *now* many to no matter *how* many
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth
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+Title: More Jonathan Papers
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+Author: Elisabeth Woodbridge
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORE JONATHAN PAPERS***
+
+
+
+
+
+                          More Jonathan Papers
+
+                                   By
+                          Elisabeth Woodbridge
+
+BOSTON AND NEW YORK
+HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
+The Riverside Press Cambridge
+1915
+
+
+
+
+
+             COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY ELISABETH WOODBRIDGE MORRIS
+
+                           ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                        _Published November 1915_
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   TO
+                                 JONATHAN
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CONTENTS
+
+
+I. The Searchings of Jonathan
+II. Sap-Time
+III. Evenings on the Farm
+IV. After Frost
+V. The Joys of Garden Stewardship
+VI. Trout and Arbutus
+VII. Without the Time of Day
+VIII. The Ways of Griselda
+IX. A Rowboat Pilgrimage
+Colophon
+Appendix A: Extra Front Pages
+Errata
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                           More Jonathan Papers
+
+
+                                    I
+
+
+                        The Searchings of Jonathan
+
+
+"What I find it hard to understand is, why a person who can see a spray of
+fringed gentian in the middle of a meadow can't see a book on the
+sitting-room table."
+
+"The reason why I can see the gentian," said Jonathan, "is because the
+gentian is there."
+
+"So is the book," I responded.
+
+"Which table?" he asked.
+
+"The one with the lamp on it. It's a red book, about _so_ big."
+
+"It isn't there; but, just to satisfy you, I'll look again."
+
+He returned in a moment with an argumentative expression of countenance.
+"It isn't there," he said firmly. "Will anything else do instead?"
+
+"No, I wanted you to read that special thing. Oh, dear! And I have all
+these things in my lap! And I know it _is_ there."
+
+"And I _know_ it isn't." He stretched himself out in the hammock and
+watched me as I rather ostentatiously laid down thimble, scissors, needle,
+cotton, and material and set out for the sitting-room table. There were a
+number of books on it, to be sure. I glanced rapidly through the piles,
+fingered the lower books, pushed aside a magazine, and pulled out from
+beneath it the book I wanted. I returned to the hammock and handed it
+over. Then, after possessing myself, again rather ostentatiously, of
+material, cotton, needle, scissors, and thimble, I sat down.
+
+"It's the second essay I specially thought we'd like," I said.
+
+"Just for curiosity," said Jonathan, with an impersonal air, "where did
+you find it?"
+
+"Find what?" I asked innocently.
+
+"The book."
+
+"Oh! On the table."
+
+"Which table?"
+
+"The one with the lamp on it."
+
+"I should like to know where."
+
+"Why--just there--on the table. There was an 'Atlantic' on top of it, to be
+sure."
+
+"I saw the 'Atlantic.' Blest if it looked as though it had anything under
+it! Besides, I was looking for it on top of things. You said you laid it
+down there just before luncheon, and I didn't think it could have crawled
+in under so quick."
+
+"When you're looking for a thing," I said, "you mustn't think, you must
+look. Now go ahead and read."
+
+If this were a single instance, or even if it were one of many
+illustrating a common human frailty, it would hardly be worth setting
+down. But the frailty under consideration has come to seem to me rather
+particularly masculine. Are not all the Jonathans in the world continually
+being sent to some sitting-room table for something, and coming back to
+assert, with more or less pleasantness, according to their temperament,
+that it is not there? The incident, then, is not isolated; it is typical
+of a vast group. For Jonathan, read Everyman; for the red book, read any
+particular thing that you want Him to bring; for the sitting-room table,
+read the place where you know it is and Everyman says it isn't.
+
+This, at least, is my thesis. It is not, however, unchallenged. Jonathan
+has challenged it when, from time to time, as occasion offered, I have
+lightly sketched it out for him. Sometimes he argues that my instances are
+really isolated cases and that their evidence is not cumulative, at others
+he takes refuge in a _tu quoque_--in itself a confession of weakness--and
+alludes darkly to "top shelves" and "bottom drawers." But let us have no
+mysteries. These phrases, considered as arguments, have their origin in
+certain incidents which, that all the evidence may be in, I will here set
+down.
+
+Once upon a time I asked Jonathan to get me something from the top shelf
+in the closet. He went, and failed to find it. Then I went, and took it
+down. Jonathan, watching over my shoulder, said, "But that wasn't the top
+shelf, I suppose you will admit."
+
+Sure enough! There was a shelf above. "Oh, yes; but I don't count that
+shelf. We never use it, because nobody can reach it."
+
+"How do you expect me to know which shelves you count and which you
+don't?"
+
+"Of course, anatomically--structurally--it is one, but functionally it isn't
+there at all."
+
+"I see," said Jonathan, so contentedly that I knew he was filing this
+affair away for future use.
+
+On another occasion I asked him to get something for me from the top
+drawer of the old "high-boy" in the dining-room. He was gone a long while,
+and at last, growing impatient, I followed. I found him standing on an old
+wooden-seated chair, screw-driver in hand. A drawer on a level with his
+head was open, and he had hanging over his arm a gaudy collection of
+ancient table-covers and embroidered scarfs, mostly in shades of magenta.
+
+"She stuck, but I've got her open now. I don't see any pillow-cases,
+though. It's all full of these things." He pumped his laden arm up and
+down, and the table-covers wagged gayly.
+
+I sank into the chair and laughed. "Oh! Have you been prying at that all
+this time? Of _course_ there's nothing in _that_ drawer."
+
+"There's where you're wrong. There's a great deal in it; I haven't taken
+out half. If you want to see--"
+
+"I _don't_ want to see! There's nothing I want less! What I mean is--I
+never put anything there."
+
+"It's the top drawer." He was beginning to lay back the table-covers.
+
+"But I can't reach it. And it's been stuck for ever so long."
+
+"You said the top drawer."
+
+"Yes, I suppose I did. Of course what I meant was the top one of the ones
+I use."
+
+"I see, my dear. When you say top shelf you don't mean top shelf, and when
+you say top drawer you don't mean top drawer; in fact, when you say top
+you don't mean top at all--you mean the height of your head. Everything
+above that doesn't count."
+
+Jonathan was so pleased with this formulation of my attitude that he was
+not in the least irritated to have put out unnecessary work. And his
+satisfaction was deepened by one more incident. I had sent him to the
+bottom drawer of my bureau to get a shawl. He returned without it, and I
+was puzzled. "Now, Jonathan, it's there, and it's the top thing."
+
+"The real top," murmured Jonathan, "or just what you call top?"
+
+"It's right in front," I went on; "and I don't see how even a man could
+fail to find it."
+
+He proceeded to enumerate the contents of the drawer in such strange
+fashion that I began to wonder where he had been.
+
+"I said my bureau."
+
+"I went to your bureau."
+
+"The bottom drawer."
+
+"The bottom drawer. There was nothing but a lot of little boxes and--"
+
+"Oh, _I_ know what you did! You went to the secret drawer."
+
+"Isn't that the bottom one?"
+
+"Why, yes, in a way--of course it is; but it doesn't exactly count--it's not
+one of the regular drawers--it hasn't any knobs, or anything--"
+
+"But it's a perfectly good drawer."
+
+"Yes. But nobody is supposed to know it's there; it looks like a molding--"
+
+"But I know it's there."
+
+"Yes, of course."
+
+"And you know I know it's there."
+
+"Yes, yes; but I just don't think about that one in counting up. I see
+what you mean, of course."
+
+"And I see what you mean. You mean that your shawl is in the bottom one of
+the regular drawers--with knobs--that can be alluded to in general
+conversation. Now I think I can find it."
+
+He did. And in addition he amused himself by working out phrases about
+"when is a bottom drawer not a bottom drawer?" and "when is a top shelf
+not a top shelf?"
+
+It is to these incidents--which I regard as isolated and negligible, and he
+regards as typical and significant--that he alludes on the occasions when
+he is unable to find a red book on the sitting-room table. In vain do I
+point out that when language is variable and fluid it is alive, and that
+there may be two opinions about the structural top and the functional top,
+whereas there can be but one as to the book being or not being on the
+table. He maintains a quiet cheerfulness, as of one who is conscious of
+being, if not invulnerable, at least well armed.
+
+For a time he even tried to make believe that he was invulnerable as
+well--to set up the thesis that if the book was really on the table he
+could find it. But in this he suffered so many reverses that only strong
+natural pertinacity kept him from capitulation.
+
+Is it necessary to recount instances? Every family can furnish them. As I
+allow myself to float off into a reminiscent dream I find my mind
+possessed by a continuous series of dissolving views in which Jonathan is
+always coming to me saying, "It isn't there," and I am always saying,
+"Please look again."
+
+Though everything in the house seems to be in a conspiracy against him, it
+is perhaps with the fishing-tackle that he has most constant difficulties.
+
+"My dear, have you any idea where my rod is? No, don't get up--I'll look if
+you'll just tell me where--"
+
+"Probably in the corner behind the chest in the orchard room."
+
+"I've looked there."
+
+"Well, then, did you take it in from the wagon last night?"
+
+"Yes, I remember doing it."
+
+"What about the little attic? You might have put it up there to dry out."
+
+"No. I took my wading boots up, but that was all."
+
+"The dining-room? You came in that way."
+
+He goes and returns. "Not there." I reflect deeply.
+
+"Jonathan, are you _sure_ it's not in that corner of the orchard room?"
+
+"Yes, I'm sure; but I'll look again." He disappears, but in a moment I
+hear his voice calling, "No! Yours is here, but not mine."
+
+I perceive that it is a case for me, and I get up. "You go and harness.
+I'll find it," I call.
+
+There was a time when, under such conditions, I should have begun by
+hunting in all the unlikely places I could think of. Now I know better. I
+go straight to the corner of the orchard room. Then I call to Jonathan,
+just to relieve his mind.
+
+"All right! I've found it."
+
+"Where?"
+
+"Here, in the orchard room."
+
+"_Where_ in the orchard room?"
+
+"In the corner."
+
+"What corner?"
+
+"The usual corner--back of the chest."
+
+"The devil!" Then he comes back to put his head in at the door. "What are
+you laughing at?"
+
+"Nothing. What are you talking about the devil for? Anyway, it isn't the
+devil; it's the brownie."
+
+For there seems no doubt that the things he hunts for are possessed of
+supernatural powers; and the theory of a brownie in the house, with a
+special grudge against Jonathan, would perhaps best account for the way in
+which they elude his search but leap into sight at my approach. There is,
+to be sure, one other explanation, but it is one that does not suggest
+itself to him, or appeal to him when suggested by me, so there is no need
+to dwell upon it.
+
+If it isn't the rod, it is the landing-net, which has hung itself on a
+nail a little to the left or right of the one he had expected to see it
+on; or his reel, which has crept into a corner of the tackle drawer and
+held a ball of string in front of itself to distract his vision; or a
+bunch of snell hooks, which, aware of its protective coloring, has
+snuggled up against the shady side of the drawer and tucked its
+pink-papered head underneath a gay pickerel-spoon.
+
+Fishing-tackle is, clearly, "possessed," but in other fields Jonathan is
+not free from trouble. Finding anything on a bureau seems to offer
+peculiar obstacles. It is perhaps a big, black-headed pin that I want. "On
+the pincushion, Jonathan."
+
+He goes, and returns with two sizes of safety-pins and one long hat-pin.
+
+"No, dear, those won't do. A small, black-headed one--at least small
+compared with a hat-pin, large compared with an ordinary pin."
+
+"Common or house pin?" he murmurs, quoting a friend's phrase.
+
+"Do look again! I hate to drop this to go myself."
+
+"When a man does a job, he gets his tools together first."
+
+"Yes; but they say women shouldn't copy men, they should develop along
+their own lines. Please go."
+
+He goes, and comes back. "You don't want fancy gold pins, I suppose?"
+
+"No, no! Here, you hold this, and I'll go." I dash to the bureau. Sure
+enough, he is right about the cushion. I glance hastily about. There, in a
+little saucer, are a half-dozen of the sort I want. I snatch some and run
+back.
+
+"Well, it wasn't in the cushion, I bet."
+
+"No," I admit; "it was in a saucer just behind the cushion."
+
+"You said cushion."
+
+"I know. It's all right."
+
+"Now, if you had said simply 'bureau,' I'd have looked in other places on
+it."
+
+"Yes, you'd have _looked_ in other places!" I could not forbear
+responding. There is, I grant, another side to this question. One evening
+when I went upstairs I found a partial presentation of it, in the form of
+a little newspaper clipping, pinned on my cushion. It read as follows:--
+
+
+    "My dear," said she, "please run and bring me the needle from the
+    haystack."
+
+    "Oh, I don't know which haystack."
+
+    "Look in all the haystacks--you can't miss it; there's only one
+    needle."
+
+
+Jonathan was in the cellar at the moment. When he came up, he said, "Did I
+hear any one laughing?"
+
+"I don't know. Did you?"
+
+"I thought maybe it was you."
+
+"It might have been. Something amused me--I forget what."
+
+I accused Jonathan of having written it himself, but he denied it. Some
+other Jonathan, then; for, as I said, this is not a personal matter, it is
+a world matter. Let us grant, then, a certain allowance for those who hunt
+in woman-made haystacks. But what about pockets? Is not a man lord over
+his own pockets? And are they not nevertheless as so many haystacks piled
+high for his confusion? Certain it is that Jonathan has nearly as much
+trouble with his pockets as he does with the corners and cupboards and
+shelves and drawers of his house. It usually happens over our late supper,
+after his day in town. He sets down his teacup, struck with a sudden
+memory. He feels in his vest pockets--first the right, then the left. He
+proceeds to search himself, murmuring, "I thought something came to-day
+that I wanted to show you--oh, here! no, that isn't it. I thought I put
+it--no, those are to be--what's this? No, that's a memorandum. Now, where
+in--" He runs through the papers in his pockets twice over, and in the
+second round I watch him narrowly, and perhaps see a corner of an envelope
+that does not look like office work. "There, Jonathan! What's that? No,
+not that--that!"
+
+He pulls it out with an air of immense relief. "There! I knew I had
+something. That's it."
+
+When we travel, the same thing happens with the tickets, especially if
+they chance to be costly and complicated ones, with all the shifts and
+changes of our journey printed thick upon their faces. The conductor
+appears at the other end of the car. Jonathan begins vaguely to fumble
+without lowering his paper. Pocket after pocket is browsed through in this
+way. Then the paper slides to his knee and he begins a more thorough
+investigation, with all the characteristic clapping and diving motions
+that seem to be necessary. Some pockets must always be clapped and others
+dived into to discover their contents.
+
+No tickets. The conductor is halfway up the car. Jonathan's face begins to
+grow serious. He rises and looks on the seat and under it. He sits down
+and takes out packet after packet of papers and goes over them with
+scrupulous care. At this point I used to become really anxious--to make
+hasty calculations as to our financial resources, immediate and
+ultimate--to wonder if conductors ever really put nice people like us off
+trains. But that was long ago. I know now that Jonathan has never lost a
+ticket in his life. So I glance through the paper that he has dropped or
+watch the landscape until he reaches a certain stage of calm and definite
+pessimism, when he says, "I must have pulled them out when I took out
+those postcards in the other car. Yes, that's just what has happened."
+Then, the conductor being only a few seats away, I beg Jonathan to look
+once more in his vest pocket, where he always puts them. To oblige me he
+looks, though without faith, and lo! this time the tickets fairly fling
+themselves upon him, with smiles almost curling up their corners. Does the
+brownie travel with us, then?
+
+I begin to suspect that some of the good men who have been blamed for
+forgetting to mail letters in their pockets have been, not indeed
+blameless, but at least misunderstood. Probably they do not forget.
+Probably they hunt for the letters and cannot find them, and conclude that
+they have already mailed them.
+
+In the matter of the home haystacks Jonathan's confidence in himself has
+at last been shaken. For a long time, when he returned to me after some
+futile search, he used to say, "Of course you can look for it if you like,
+but it is _not_ there." But man is a reasoning, if not altogether a
+reasonable, being, and with a sufficient accumulation of evidence,
+especially when there is some one constantly at hand to interpret its
+teachings, almost any set of opinions, however fixed, may be shaken. So
+here.
+
+Once when we shut up the farm for the winter I left my fountain pen
+behind. This was little short of a tragedy, but I comforted myself with
+the knowledge that Jonathan was going back that week-end for a day's hunt.
+
+"Be sure to get the pen first of all," I said, "and put it in your
+pocket."
+
+"Where is it?" he asked.
+
+"In the little medicine cupboard over the fireplace in the orchard room,
+standing up at the side of the first shelf."
+
+"Why not on your desk?" he asked.
+
+"Because I was writing tags in there, and set it up so it would be out of
+the way."
+
+"And it _was_ out of the way. All right. I'll collect it."
+
+He went, and on his return I met him with eager hand--"My pen!"
+
+"I'm sorry," he began.
+
+"You didn't forget!" I exclaimed.
+
+"No. But it wasn't there."
+
+"But--did you look?"
+
+"Yes, I looked."
+
+"Thoroughly?"
+
+"Yes. I lit three matches."
+
+"Matches! Then you didn't get it when you first got there!"
+
+"Why--no--I had the dog to attend to--and--but I had plenty of time when I got
+back, and it _wasn't_ there."
+
+"Well--Dear me! Did you look anywhere else? I suppose I may be mistaken.
+Perhaps I did take it back to the desk."
+
+"That's just what I thought myself," said Jonathan. "So I went there, and
+looked, and then I looked on all the mantelpieces and your bureau. You
+must have put it in your bag the last minute--bet it's there now!"
+
+"Bet it isn't."
+
+It wasn't. For two weeks more I was driven to using other pens--strange and
+distracting to the fingers and the eyes and the mind. Then Jonathan was to
+go up again.
+
+"Please look once more," I begged, "and don't expect not to see it. I can
+fairly see it myself, this minute, standing up there on the right-hand
+side, just behind the machine oil can."
+
+"Oh, I'll look," he promised. "If it's there, I'll find it."
+
+He returned penless. I considered buying another. But we were planning to
+go up together the last week of the hunting season, and I thought I would
+wait on the chance.
+
+We got off at the little station and hunted our way up, making great
+sweeps and jogs, as hunters must, to take in certain spots we thought
+promising--certain ravines and swamp edges where we are always sure of
+hearing the thunderous whir of partridge wings, or the soft, shrill
+whistle of woodcock. At noon we broiled chops and rested in the lee of the
+wood edge, where, even in the late fall, one can usually find spots that
+are warm and still. It was dusk by the time we came over the crest of the
+farm ledges and saw the huddle of the home buildings below us, and quite
+dark when we reached the house. Fires had been made and coals smouldered
+on the hearth in the sitting-room.
+
+"You light the lamp," I said, "and I'll just take a match and go through
+to see if that pen _should_ happen to be there."
+
+"No use doing anything to-night," said Jonathan. "To-morrow morning you
+can have a thorough hunt."
+
+But I took my match, felt my way into the next room, past the fireplace,
+up to the cupboard, then struck my match. In its first flare-up I glanced
+in. Then I chuckled.
+
+Jonathan had gone out to the dining-room, but he has perfectly good ears.
+
+"NO!" he roared, and his tone of dismay, incredulity, rage, sent me off
+into gales of unscrupulous laughter. He was striding in, candle in hand,
+shouting, "It was _not there!_"
+
+"Look yourself," I managed to gasp.
+
+This time, somehow, he could see it.
+
+"You planted it! You brought it up and planted it!"
+
+"I never! Oh, dear me! It pays for going without it for weeks!"
+
+"_Nothing_ will ever make me believe that that pen was standing there when
+I looked for it!" said Jonathan, with vehement finality.
+
+"All right," I sighed happily. "You don't have to believe it."
+
+But in his heart perhaps he does believe it. At any rate, since that time
+he has adopted a new formula: "My dear, it may be there, of course, but I
+don't see it." And this position I regard as unassailable.
+
+One triumph he has had. I wanted something that was stored away in the
+shut-up town house.
+
+"Do you suppose you could find it?" I said, as gently as possible.
+
+"I can try," he said.
+
+"I think it is in a box about this shape--see?--a gray box, in the attic
+closet, the farthest-in corner."
+
+"Are you sure it's in the house? If it's in the house, I think I can find
+it."
+
+"Yes, I'm sure of that."
+
+When he returned that night, his face wore a look of satisfaction very
+imperfectly concealed beneath a mask of nonchalance.
+
+"_Good_ for you! Was it where I said?"
+
+"No."
+
+"Was it in a different corner?"
+
+"No."
+
+"Where was it?"
+
+"It wasn't in a corner at all. It wasn't in that closet."
+
+"It wasn't! Where, then?"
+
+"Downstairs in the hall closet." He paused, then could not forbear adding,
+"And it wasn't in a gray box; it was in a big hat-box with violets all
+over it."
+
+"Why, _Jonathan!_ Aren't you grand! How did you ever find it? I couldn't
+have done better myself."
+
+Under such praise he expanded. "The fact is," he said confidentially, "I
+had given it up. And then suddenly I changed my mind. I said to myself,
+'Jonathan, don't be a man! Think what she'd do if she were here now.' And
+then I got busy and found it."
+
+"Jonathan!" I could almost have wept if I had not been laughing.
+
+"Well," he said, proud, yet rather sheepish, "what is there so funny about
+that? I gave up half a day to it."
+
+"Funny! It isn't funny--exactly. You don't mind my laughing a little? Why,
+you've lived down the fountain pen--we'll forget the pen--"
+
+"Oh, no, you won't forget the pen either," he said, with a certain
+pleasant grimness.
+
+"Well, perhaps not--of course it would be a pity to forget that. Suppose I
+say, then, that we'll always regard the pen in the light of the violet
+hat-box?"
+
+"I think that might do." Then he had an alarming afterthought. "But, see
+here--you won't expect me to do things like that often?"
+
+"Dear me, no! People can't live always on their highest levels. Perhaps
+you'll _never_ do it again." Jonathan looked distinctly relieved. "I'll
+accept it as a unique effort--like Dante's angel and Raphael's sonnet."
+
+"Jonathan," I said that evening, "what do you know about St. Anthony of
+Padua?"
+
+"Not much."
+
+"Well, you ought to. He helped you to-day. He's the saint who helps people
+to find lost articles. Every man ought to take him as a patron saint."
+
+"And do you know which saint it is who helps people to find lost
+virtues--like humility, for instance?"
+
+"No. I don't, really."
+
+"I didn't suppose you did," said Jonathan.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    II
+
+
+                                 Sap-Time
+
+
+It was a little tree-toad that began it. In a careless moment he had come
+down to the bench that connects the big maple tree with the old locust
+stump, and when I went out at dusk to wait for Jonathan, there he sat, in
+plain sight. A few experimental pokes sent him back to the tree, and I
+studied him there, marveling at the way he assimilated with its bark. As
+Jonathan came across the grass I called softly, and pointed to the tree.
+
+"Well?" he said.
+
+"Don't you see?"
+
+"No. What?"
+
+"Look--I thought you had eyes!"
+
+"Oh, what a little beauty!"
+
+"And isn't his back just like bark and lichens! And what are those things
+in the tree beside him?"
+
+"Plugs, I suppose."
+
+"Plugs?"
+
+"Yes. After tapping. Uncle Ben used to tap these trees, I believe."
+
+"You mean for sap? Maple syrup?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Jonathan! I didn't know these were sugar maples."
+
+"Oh, yes. These on the road."
+
+"The whole row? Why, there are ten or fifteen of them! And you never told
+me!"
+
+"I thought you knew."
+
+"Knew! I don't know anything--I should think you'd know that, by this time.
+Do you suppose, if I had known, I should have let all these years go
+by--oh, dear--think of all the fun we've missed! And syrup!"
+
+"You'd have to come up in February."
+
+"Well, then, I'll _come_ in February. Who's afraid of February?"
+
+"All right. Try it next year."
+
+I did. But not in February. Things happened, as things do, and it was
+early April before I got to the farm. But it had been a wintry March, and
+the farmers told me that the sap had not been running except for a few
+days in a February thaw. Anyway, it was worth trying.
+
+Jonathan could not come with me. He was to join me later. But Hiram found
+a bundle of elder spouts in the attic, and with these and an auger we went
+out along the snowy, muddy road. The hole was bored--a pair of them--in the
+first tree, and the spouts driven in. I knelt, watching--in fact, peering
+up the spout-hole to see what might happen. Suddenly a drop, dim with
+sawdust, appeared--gathered, hesitated, then ran down gayly and leapt off
+the end.
+
+"Look! Hiram! It's running!" I called.
+
+Hiram, boring the next tree, made no response. He evidently expected it to
+run. Jonathan would have acted just like that, too, I felt sure. Is it a
+masculine quality, I wonder, to be unmoved when the theoretically expected
+becomes actual? Or is it that some temperaments have naturally a certain
+large confidence in the sway of law, and refuse to wonder at its
+individual workings? To me the individual workings give an ever fresh
+thrill because they bring a new realization of the mighty powers behind
+them. It seems to depend on which end you begin at.
+
+But though the little drops thrilled me, I was not beyond setting a pail
+underneath to catch them. And as Hiram went on boring, I followed with my
+pails. Pails, did I say? Pails by courtesy. There were, indeed, a few real
+pails--berry-pails, lard-pails, and water-pails--but for the most part the
+sap fell into pitchers, or tin saucepans, stew-kettles of aluminum or
+agate ware, blue and gray and white and mottled, or big yellow earthenware
+bowls. It was a strange collection of receptacles that lined the roadside
+when we had finished our progress. As I looked along the row, I laughed,
+and even Hiram smiled.
+
+But what next? Every utensil in the house was out there, sitting in the
+road. There was nothing left but the wash-boiler. Now, I had heard tales
+of amateur syrup-boilings, and I felt that the wash-boiler would not do.
+Besides, I meant to work outdoors--no kitchen stove for me! I must have a
+pan, a big, flat pan. I flew to the telephone, and called up the village
+plumber, three miles away. Could he build me a pan? Oh, say, two feet by
+three feet, and five inches high--yes, right away. Yes, Hiram would call
+for it in the afternoon.
+
+I felt better. And now for a fireplace! Oh, Jonathan! Why did you have to
+be away! For Jonathan loves a stone and knows how to put stones together,
+as witness the stone "Eyrie" and the stile in the lane. However, there
+Jonathan wasn't. So I went out into the swampy orchard behind the house
+and looked about--no lack of stones, at any rate. I began to collect
+material, and Hiram, seeing my purpose, helped with the big stones.
+Somehow my fireplace got made--two side walls, one end wall, the other end
+left open for stoking. It was not as pretty as if Jonathan had done it,
+but "'t was enough, 't would serve." I collected fire-wood, and there I
+was, ready for my pan, and the afternoon was yet young, and the sap was
+drip-drip-dripping from all the spouts. I could begin to boil next day. I
+felt that I was being borne along on the providential wave that so often
+floats the inexperienced to success.
+
+That night I emptied all my vessels into the boiler and set them out once
+more. A neighbor drove by and pulled up to comment benevolently on my
+work.
+
+"Will it run to-night?" I asked him.
+
+"No--no--'t won't run to-night. Too cold. 'T won't run any to-night. You can
+sleep all right."
+
+This was pleasant to hear. There was a moon, to be sure, but it was
+growing colder, and at the idea of crawling along that road in the middle
+of the night even my enthusiasm shivered a little.
+
+So I made my rounds at nine, in the white moonlight, and went to sleep.
+
+I was awakened the next morning to a consciousness of flooding sunshine
+and Hiram's voice outside my window.
+
+"Got anything I can empty sap into? I've got everything all filled up."
+
+"Sap! Why, it isn't running yet, is it?"
+
+"Pails were flowin' over when I came out."
+
+"Flowing over! They said the sap wouldn't run last night."
+
+"I guest there don't nobody know when sap'll run and when it won't," said
+Hiram peacefully, as he tramped off to the barn.
+
+In a few minutes I was outdoors. Sure enough, Hiram had everything
+full--old boilers, feed-pails, water-pails. But we found some three-gallon
+milk-cans and used them. A farm is like a city. There are always things
+enough in it for all purposes. It is only a question of using its
+resources.
+
+Then, in the clear April sunshine, I went out and surveyed the row of
+maples. How they did drip! Some of them almost ran. I felt as if I had
+turned on the faucets of the universe and didn't know how to turn them off
+again.
+
+However, there was my new pan. I set it over my oven walls and began to
+pour in sap. Hiram helped me. He seemed to think he needed his feed-pails.
+We poured in sap and we poured in sap. Never did I see anything hold so
+much as that pan. Even Hiram was stirred out of his usual calm to remark,
+"It beats all, how much that holds." Of course Jonathan would have had its
+capacity all calculated the day before, but my methods are empirical, and
+so I was surprised as well as pleased when all my receptacles emptied
+themselves into its shallow breadths and still there was a good inch to
+allow for boiling up. Yes, Providence--my exclusive little fool's
+Providence--was with me. The pan, and the oven, were a success, and when
+Jonathan came that night I led him out with unconcealed pride and showed
+him the pan--now a heaving, frothing mass of sap-about-to-be-syrup, sending
+clouds of white steam down the wind. As he looked at the oven walls, I
+fancied his fingers ached to get at them, but he offered no criticism,
+seeing that they worked.
+
+The next day began overcast, but Providence was merely preparing for me a
+special little gift in the form of a miniature snowstorm. It was quite
+real while it lasted. It whitened the grass and the road, it piled itself
+softly among the clusters of swelling buds on the apple trees, and made
+the orchard look as though it had burst into bloom in an hour. Then the
+sun came out, there were a few dazzling moments when the world was all
+blue and silver, and then the whiteness faded.
+
+And the sap! How it dripped! Once an hour I had to make the rounds,
+bringing back gallons each time, and the fire under my pan was kept up so
+that the boiling down might keep pace with the new supply.
+
+"They do say snow makes it run," shouted a passer-by, and another called,
+"You want to keep skimmin'!" Whereupon I seized my long-handled skimmer
+and fell to work. Southern Connecticut does not know much about syrup, but
+by the avenue of the road I was gradually accumulating such wisdom as it
+possessed.
+
+The syrup was made. No worse accident befell than the occasional
+overflowing of a pail too long neglected. The syrup was made, and bottled,
+and distributed to friends, and was the pride of the household through the
+year.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+"This time I will go early," I said to Jonathan; "they say the late
+running is never quite so good."
+
+It was early March when I got up there this time--early March after a
+winter whose rigor had known practically no break. Again Jonathan could
+not come, but Cousin Janet could, and we met at the little station, where
+Hiram was waiting with Kit and the surrey. The sun was warm, but the air
+was keen and the woods hardly showed spring at all yet, even in that first
+token of it, the slight thickening of their millions of little tips,
+through the swelling of the buds. The city trees already showed this, but
+the country ones still kept their wintry penciling of vanishing lines.
+
+Spring was in the road, however. "There ain't no bottom to this road now,
+it's just dropped clean out," remarked a fellow teamster as we wallowed
+along companionably through the woods. But, somehow, we reached the farm.
+Again we bored our holes, and again I was thrilled as the first bright
+drops slipped out and jeweled the ends of the spouts. I watched Janet. She
+was interested but calm, classing herself at once with Hiram and Jonathan.
+We unearthed last year's oven and dug out its inner depths--leaves and dirt
+and apples and ashes--it was like excavating through the seven Troys to get
+to bottom. We brought down the big pan, now clothed in the honors of a
+season's use, and cleaned off the cobwebs incident to a year's sojourn in
+the attic. By sunset we had a panful of sap boiling merrily and already
+taking on a distinctly golden tinge. We tasted it. It was very syrupy.
+Letting the fire die down, we went in to get supper in the utmost content
+of spirit.
+
+"It's so much simpler than last year," I said, as we sat over our cozy
+"tea,"--"having the pan and the oven ready-made, and all--"
+
+"You don't suppose anything could happen to it while we're in here?"
+suggested Janet. "Shan't I just run out and see?"
+
+"No, sit still. What could happen? The fire's going out."
+
+"Yes, I know." But her voice was uncertain.
+
+"You see, I've been all through it once," I reassured her.
+
+As we rose, Janet said, "Let's go out before we do the dishes." And to
+humor her I agreed. We lighted the lantern and stepped out on the back
+porch. It was quite dark, and as we looked off toward the fireplace we saw
+gleams of red.
+
+"How funny!" I murmured. "I didn't think there was so much fire left."
+
+We felt our way over, through the yielding mud of the orchard, and as I
+raised the lantern we stared in dazed astonishment. The pan was a
+blackened mass, lit up by winking red eyes of fire. I held the lantern
+more closely. I seized a stick and poked--the crisp black stuff broke and
+crumbled into an empty and blackening pan. A curious odor arose.
+
+"It couldn't have!" gasped Janet.
+
+"It couldn't--but it has!" I said.
+
+It was a matter for tears, or rage, or laughter. And laughter won. When we
+recovered a little we took up the black shell of carbon that had once been
+syrup-froth; we laid it gently beside the oven, for a keepsake. Then we
+poured water in the pan, and steam rose hissing to the stars.
+
+"Does it leak?" faltered Janet.
+
+"Leak!" I said. I was on my knees now, watching the water stream through
+the parted seam of the pan bottom, down into the ashes below.
+
+"The question is," I went on as I got up, "did it boil away because it
+leaked, or did it leak because it boiled away?"
+
+"I don't see that it matters much," said Janet. She was showing symptoms
+of depression at this point.
+
+"It matters a great deal," I said. "Because, you see, we've got to tell
+Jonathan, and it makes all the difference how we put it."
+
+"I see," said Janet; then she added, experimentally, "Why tell Jonathan?"
+
+"Why, Janet, you know better! I wouldn't miss telling Jonathan for
+anything. What is Jonathan _for!_"
+
+"Well--of course," she conceded. "Let's do dishes."
+
+We sat before the fire that evening and I read while Janet knitted.
+Between my eyes and the printed page there kept rising a vision--a vision
+of black crust, with winking red embers smoldering along its broken edges.
+I found it distracting in the extreme....
+
+At some time unknown, out of the blind depths of the night, I was awakened
+by a voice:--
+
+"It's beginning to rain. I think I'll just go out and empty what's near
+the house."
+
+"Janet!" I murmured, "don't be absurd."
+
+"But it will dilute all that sap."
+
+"There isn't any sap to dilute. It won't be running at night." After a
+while the voice, full of propitiatory intonations, resumed:--
+
+"My dear, you don't mind if I slip out. It will only take a minute."
+
+"I do mind. Go to sleep!"
+
+Silence. Then:--
+
+"It's raining harder. I hate to think of all that sap--"
+
+"You don't _have_ to think!" I was quite savage. "Just go to sleep--and let
+me!" Another silence. Then a fresh downpour. The voice was pleading:--
+
+"_Please_ let me go! I'll be back in a minute. And it's not cold."
+
+"Oh, well--I'm awake now, anyway. _I'll_ go." My voice was tinged with that
+high resignation that is worse than anger. Janet's tone changed
+instantly:--
+
+"No, no! Don't! Please don't! I'm going. I truly don't mind."
+
+"_I'm_ going. I don't mind, either, not at all."
+
+"Oh, dear! Then let's not either of us go."
+
+"That was my idea in the first place."
+
+"Well, then, we won't. Go to sleep, and I will too."
+
+"Not at all! I've decided to go."
+
+"But it's stopped raining. Probably it won't rain any more."
+
+"Then what are you making all this fuss for?"
+
+"I didn't make a fuss. I just thought I could slip out--"
+
+"Well, you couldn't. And it's raining very hard again. And I'm going."
+
+"Oh, don't! You'll get drenched."
+
+"Of course. But I can't bear to have all that sap diluted."
+
+"It doesn't run at night. You said it didn't."
+
+"You said it did."
+
+"But I don't really know. You know best."
+
+"Why didn't you think of that sooner? Anyway, I'm going."
+
+"Oh, dear! You make me feel as if I'd stirred you up--"
+
+"You have," I interrupted, sweetly. "I won't deny that you _have_ stirred
+me up. But now that you have mentioned it"--I felt for a match--"now that
+you have mentioned it, I see that this was the one thing needed to make my
+evening complete, or perhaps it's morning--I don't know."
+
+We found the dining-room warm, and soon we were equipped in those curious
+compromises of vesture that people adopt under such circumstances, and,
+with lantern and umbrella, we fumbled our way out to the trees. The rain
+was driving in sheets, and we plodded up the road in the yellow circle of
+lantern-light wavering uncertainly over the puddles, while under our feet
+the mud gave and sucked.
+
+"It's diluted, sure enough," I said, as we emptied the pails. We crawled
+slowly back, with our heavy milk-can full of sap-and-rain-water, and went
+in.
+
+The warm dining-room was pleasant to return to, and we sat down to cookies
+and milk, feeling almost cozy.
+
+"I've always wanted to know how it would be to go out in the middle of the
+night this way," I remarked, "and now I know."
+
+"Aren't you hateful!" said Janet.
+
+"Not at all. Just appreciative. But now, if you haven't any _other_ plan,
+we'll go back to bed."
+
+It was half-past eight when we waked next morning. But there was nothing
+to wake up for. The old house was filled with the rain-noises that only
+such an old house knows. On the little windows the drops pricked sharply;
+in the fireplace with the straight flue they fell, hissing, on the embers.
+On the porch roofs the rain made a dull patter of sound; on the tin roof
+of the "little attic" over the kitchen it beat with flat resonance. In the
+big attic, when we went up to see if all was tight, it filled the place
+with a multitudinous clamor; on the sides of the house it drove with a
+fury that re-echoed dimly within doors.
+
+Outside, everything was afloat. We visited the trees and viewed with
+consternation the torrents of rain-water pouring into the pails. We tried
+fastening pans over the spouts to protect them. The wind blew them merrily
+down the road. It would have been easy enough to cover the pails, but how
+to let the sap drip in and the rain drip out--that was the question.
+
+"It seems as if there was a curse on the syrup this year," said Janet.
+
+"The trouble is," I said, "I know just enough to have lost my hold on the
+fool's Providence, and not enough really to take care of myself."
+
+"Superstition!" said Janet.
+
+"What do you call your idea of the curse?" I retorted. "Anyway, I have an
+idea! Look, Janet! We'll just cut up these enamel-cloth table-covers here
+by the sink and everywhere, and tack them around the spouts."
+
+Janet's thrifty spirit was doubtful. "Don't you need them?"
+
+"Not half so much as the trees do. Come on! Pull them off. We'll have to
+have fresh ones this summer, anyway."
+
+We stripped the kitchen tables and the pantry and the milk-room. We got
+tacks and a hammer and scissors, and out we went again. We cut a piece for
+each tree, just enough to go over each pair of spouts and protect the
+pail. When tacked on, it had the appearance of a neat bib, and as the
+pattern was a blue and white check, the effect, as one looked down the
+road at the twelve trees, was very fresh and pleasing. It seemed to cheer
+the people who drove by, too.
+
+But the bibs served their purpose, and the sap dripped cozily into the
+pails without any distraction from alien elements. Sap doesn't run in the
+rain, they say, but this sap did. Probably Hiram was right, and you can't
+tell. I am glad if you can't. The physical mysteries of the universe are
+being unveiled so swiftly that one likes to find something that still
+keeps its secret--though, indeed, the spiritual mysteries seem in no danger
+of such enforcement.
+
+The next day the rain stopped, the floods began to subside, and Jonathan
+managed to arrive, though the roads had even less "bottom to 'em" than
+before. The sun blazed out, and the sap ran faster, and, after Jonathan
+had fully enjoyed them, the blue and white bibs were taken off. Somehow in
+the clear March sunshine they looked almost shocking. By the next day we
+had syrup enough to try for sugar.
+
+For on sugar my heart was set. Syrup was all very well for the first year,
+but now it had to be sugar. Moreover, as I explained to Janet, when it
+came to sugar, being absolutely ignorant, I was again in a position to
+expect the aid of the fool's Providence.
+
+"How much _do_ you know about it?" asked Janet.
+
+"Oh, just what people say. It seems to be partly like fudge and partly
+like molasses candy. You boil it, and then you beat it, and then you pour
+it off."
+
+"I've got more to go on than that," said Jonathan. "I came up on the train
+with the Judge. He used to see it done."
+
+"You've got to drive Janet over to her train to-night; Hiram can't," I
+said.
+
+"All right. There's time enough."
+
+We sat down to early supper, and took turns running out to the kitchen to
+"try" the syrup as it boiled down. At least we said we would take turns,
+but usually we all three went. Supper seemed distinctly a side issue.
+
+"I'm going to take it off now," said Jonathan. "Look out!"
+
+"Do you think it's time?" I demurred.
+
+"We'll know soon," said Jonathan, with his usual composure.
+
+We hung over him. "Now you beat it," I said. But he was already beating.
+
+"Get some cold water to set it in," he commanded. We brought the dishpan
+with water from the well, where ice still floated.
+
+"Maybe you oughtn't to stir so much--do you think?" I suggested, helpfully.
+"Beat it more--up, you know."
+
+"More the way you would eggs," said Janet.
+
+"I'll show you." I lunged at the spoon.
+
+"Go away! This isn't eggs," said Jonathan, beating steadily.
+
+"Your arm must be tired. Let me take it," pleaded Janet.
+
+"No, me!" I said. "Janet, you've got to get your coat and things. You'll
+have to start in fifteen minutes. Here, Jonathan, you need a fresh arm."
+
+"I'm fresh enough."
+
+"And I really don't think you have the motion."
+
+"I have motion enough. This is my job. You go and help Janet."
+
+"Janet's all right."
+
+"So am I. See how white it's getting. The Judge said--"
+
+"Here come Hiram and Kit," announced Janet, returning with bag and wraps.
+"But you have ten minutes. Can't I help?"
+
+"He won't let us. He's that 'sot,'" I murmured. "He'll make you miss your
+train."
+
+"You _could_ butter the pans," he counter charged, "and you haven't."
+
+We flew to prepare, and the pouring began. It was a thrilling moment. The
+syrup, or sugar, now a pale hay color, poured out thickly, blob-blob-blob,
+into the little pans. Janet moved them up as they were needed, and I
+snatched the spoon, at last, and encouraged the stuff to fall where it
+should. But Jonathan got it from me again, and scraped out the remnant,
+making designs of clovers and polliwogs on the tops of the cakes. Then a
+dash for coats and hats and a rush to the carriage.
+
+When the surrey disappeared around the turn of the road, I went back,
+shivering, to the house. It seemed very empty, as houses will, being
+sensitive things. I went to the kitchen. There on the table sat a huddle
+of little pans, to cheer me, and I fell to work getting things in order to
+be left in the morning. Then I went back to the fire and waited for
+Jonathan. I picked up a book and tried to read, but the stillness of the
+house was too importunate, it had to be listened to. I leaned back and
+watched the fire, and the old house and I held communion together.
+
+Perhaps in no other way is it possible to get quite what I got that
+evening. It was partly my own attitude; I was going away in the morning,
+and I had, in a sense, no duties toward the place. The magazines of last
+fall lay on the tables, the newspapers of last fall lay beside them. The
+dust of last fall was, doubtless, in the closets and on the floors. It did
+not matter. For though I was the mistress of the house, I was for the
+moment even more its guest, and guests do not concern themselves with such
+things as these.
+
+If it had been really an empty house, I should have been obliged to think
+of these things, for in an empty house the dust speaks and the house is
+still, dumbly imprisoned in its own past. On the other hand, when a house
+is filled with life, it is still, too; it is absorbed in its own present.
+But when one sojourns in a house that is merely resting, full of the life
+that has only for a brief season left it, ready for the life that is soon
+to return--then one is in the midst of silences that are not empty and
+hollow, but richly eloquent. The house is the link that joins and
+interprets the living past and the living future.
+
+Something of this I came to feel as I sat there in the wonderful
+stillness. There were no house noises such as generally form the unnoticed
+background of one's consciousness--the steps overhead, the distant voices,
+the ticking of the clock, the breathing of the dog in the corner. Even the
+mice and the chimney-swallows had not come back, and I missed the
+scurrying in the walls and the flutter of wings in the chimney. The fire
+purred low, now and then the wind sighed gently about the corner of the
+"new part," and a loose door-latch clicked as the draught shook it. A
+branch drew back and forth across a window-pane with the faintest squeak.
+And little by little the old house opened its heart. All that it told me I
+hardly yet know myself. It gathered up for me all its past, the past that
+I had known and the past that I had not known. Time fell away. My own
+importance dwindled. I seemed a very small part of the life of the
+house--very small, yet wholly belonging to it. I felt that it absorbed me
+as it absorbed the rest--those before and after me--for time was not.
+
+There was the sound of slow wheels outside, the long roll of the
+carriage-house door, and the trampling of hoofs on the flooring within.
+Then the clinking of the lantern and the even tread of feet on the path
+behind the house, a gust of raw snow-air--and the house fell silent so that
+Jonathan might come in.
+
+"Your sugar is hardening nicely, I see," he said, rubbing his hands before
+the fire.
+
+"Yes," I said. "You know I _told_ Janet that for this part of the affair
+we could trust to the fool's Providence."
+
+"Thank you," said Jonathan.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   III
+
+
+                           Evenings on the Farm
+
+
+          I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
+          I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
+          (And wait to watch the water clear, I may);
+          I shan't be gone long.--You come too.
+
+          I'm going out to fetch the little calf
+          That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
+          It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
+          I shan't be gone long.--You come too.
+
+          ROBERT FROST.
+
+
+When we first planned to take up the farm we looked forward with especial
+pleasure to our evenings. They were to be the quiet rounding-in of our
+days, full of companionship, full of meditation. "We'll do lots of reading
+aloud," I said. "And we'll have long walks. There won't be much to do
+_but_ walk and read. I can hardly wait." And I chose our summer books with
+special reference to reading aloud.
+
+"Of course," I said, as we fell to work at our packing, "we'll have to do
+all sorts of things first. But the days are so long up there, and the life
+is very simple. And in the evenings you'll help. We ought to be settled in
+a week."
+
+"Or two--or three," suggested Jonathan.
+
+"Three! What is there to do?"
+
+"Farm-life isn't so blamed simple as you think."
+
+"But what _is_ there to do? Now, listen! One day for trunks, one day for
+boxes and barrels, one day for closets, that's three, one for curtains,
+four, one day for--for the garret, that's five. Well--one day for odds and
+ends that I haven't thought of. That's liberal, I'm sure."
+
+"Better say the rest of your life for the odds and ends you haven't
+thought of," said Jonathan, as he drove the last nail in a neatly headed
+barrel.
+
+"Jonathan, why are you such a pessimist?"
+
+"I'm not, except when you're such an optimist."
+
+"If I'd begun by saying it would take a month, would you have said a
+week?"
+
+"Can't tell. Might have."
+
+"Anyway, there's nothing bad about odds and ends. They're about all women
+have much to do with most of their lives."
+
+"That's what I said. And you called me a pessimist."
+
+"I didn't call you one. I said, why were you one."
+
+"I'm sorry. My mistake," said Jonathan with the smile of one who scores.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+And so we went.
+
+One day for trunks was all right. Any one can manage trunks. And the
+second day, the boxes were emptied and sent flying out to the barn.
+Curtains I decided to keep for evening work, while Jonathan read. That
+left the closets and the attic, or rather the attics, for there was one
+over the main house and one over the "new part,"--still "new," although now
+some seventy years old. They were known as the attic and the little attic.
+I thought I would do the closets first, and I began with the one in the
+parlor. This was built into the chimney, over the fireplace. It was low,
+and as long as the mantelpiece itself. It had two long shelves shut away
+behind three glass doors through which the treasures within were dimly
+visible. When I swung these open it felt like opening a tomb--cold, musty
+air hung about my face. I brushed it aside, and considered where to begin.
+It was a depressing collection. There were photographs and photographs,
+some in frames, the rest of them tied up in packages or lying in piles. A
+few had names or messages written on the back, but most gave no clue; and
+all of them gazed out at me with that expression of complete
+respectability that constitutes so impenetrable a mask for the personality
+behind. Most of us wear such masks, but the older photographers seem to
+have been singularly successful in concentrating attention on them. Then
+there were albums, with more photographs, of people and of "views." There
+was a big Bible, some prayer-books, and a few other books elaborately
+bound with that heavy fancifulness that we are learning to call Victorian.
+One of these was on "The Wonders of the Great West"; another was about
+"The Female Saints of America." I took it down and glanced through it, but
+concluded that one had to be a female saint, or at least an aspirant, to
+appreciate it. Then there were things made out of dried flowers, out of
+hair, out of shells, out of pine-cones. There were vases and other
+ornamental bits of china and glass, also Victorian, looking as if they
+were meant to be continually washed or dusted by the worn, busy fingers of
+the female saints. As I came to fuller realization of all these relics, my
+resolution flickered out and there fell upon me a strange numbness of
+spirit. I seemed under a spell of inaction. Everything behind those glass
+doors had been cherished too long to be lightly thrown away, yet was not
+old enough to be valuable nor useful enough to keep. I spent a long
+day--one of the longest days of my life--browsing through the books, trying
+to sort the photographs, and glancing through a few old letters. I did
+nothing in particular with anything, and in the late afternoon I roused
+myself, put them all back, and shut the glass doors. I had nothing to show
+for my day's experience except a deep little round ache in the back of my
+neck and a faint brassy taste in my mouth. I complained of it to Jonathan
+later.
+
+"It always tasted just that way to me when I was a boy," he said, "but I
+never thought much about it--I thought it was just a closet-taste."
+
+"And it isn't only the taste," I went on. "It does something to me, to my
+state of mind. I'm afraid to try the garret."
+
+"Garrets are different," said Jonathan. "But I'd leave them. They can
+wait."
+
+"They've waited a good while, of course," I said.
+
+And so we left the garrets. We came back to them later, and were glad we
+had done so. But that is a story by itself.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+Meanwhile, in the evenings, Jonathan helped.
+
+"I'm afraid you were more or less right about the odd jobs," I admitted
+one night. "They do seem to accumulate." I was holding a candle while he
+set up a loose latch.
+
+"They've been accumulating a good many years," said Jonathan.
+
+"Yes, that's it. And so the doors all stick, and the latches won't latch,
+and the shades are sulky or wild, and the pantry shelves--have you
+noticed?--they're all warped so they rock when you set a dish on them."
+
+"And the chairs pull apart," added Jonathan.
+
+"Yes. Of course after we catch up we'll be all right."
+
+"I wouldn't count too much on catching up."
+
+"Why not?" I asked.
+
+"The farm has had a long start."
+
+"But you're a Yankee," I argued; "the Yankee nature fairly feeds on such
+jobs--'putter jobs,' you know."
+
+"Yes, I know."
+
+"Only, of course, you get on faster if you're not too particular about
+having the exact tool--"
+
+Considered as a Yankee, Jonathan's only fault is that when he does a job
+he likes to have a very special tool to do it with. Often it is so special
+that I have never heard its name before and then I consider he is going
+too far. He merely thinks I haven't gone far enough. Perhaps such matters
+must always remain matters of opinion. But even with this handicap we did
+begin to catch up, and we could have done this a good deal faster if it
+had not been for the pump.
+
+The pump was a clear case of new wine in an old bottle. It was large and
+very strong. The people who worked it were strong too. But the walls and
+floor to which it was attached were not strong at all. And so, one night,
+when Jonathan wanted a walk I was obliged instead to suggest the pump.
+
+"What's the matter there?"
+
+"Why, it seems to have pulled clear of its moorings. You look at it."
+
+He looked, with that expression of meditative resourcefulness peculiar to
+the true Yankee countenance. "H'm--needs new wood there,--and there; that
+stuff'll never hold." And so the old bottle was patched with new skin at
+the points of strain, and in the zest of reconstruction Jonathan almost
+forgot to regret the walk. "We'll have it to-morrow night," he said: "the
+moon will be better."
+
+The next evening I met him below the turn of the road. "Wonderful night
+it's going to be," he said, as he pushed his wheel up the last hill.
+
+"Yes--" I said, a little uneasily. I was thinking of the kitchen pump.
+Finally I brought myself to face it.
+
+"There seems to be some trouble--with the pump," I said apologetically. I
+felt that it was my fault, though I knew it wasn't.
+
+"More trouble? What sort of trouble?"
+
+"Oh, it wheezes and makes funny sucking noises, and the water spits and
+spits, and then bursts out, and then doesn't come at all. It sounds a
+little like a cat with a bone in its throat."
+
+"Probably just that," said Jonathan: "grain of sand in the valve, very
+likely."
+
+"Shall I get a plumber?"
+
+"Plumber! I'll fix it myself in three shakes of a lamb's tail."
+
+"Well," I said, relieved: "you can do that after supper while I see that
+all the chickens are in, and those turkeys, and then we'll have our walk."
+
+Accordingly I went off on my tour. When I returned the pale moon-shadows
+were already beginning to show in the lingering dusk of the fading
+daylight. Indoors seemed very dark, but on the kitchen floor a candle sat,
+flaring and dipping.
+
+"Jonathan," I called, "I'm ready."
+
+"Well, I'm not," said a voice at my feet.
+
+"Why, where are you? Oh, there!" I bent down and peered under the sink at
+a shape crouched there. "Haven't you finished?"
+
+"Finished! I've just got the thing apart."
+
+"I should say you had!" I regarded the various pieces of iron and leather
+and wood as they lay, mere dismembered shapes, about the dim kitchen.
+
+"It doesn't seem as if it would ever come together again--to be a pump," I
+said in some depression.
+
+"Oh, that's easy! It's just a question of time."
+
+"How much time?"
+
+"Heaven knows."
+
+"Was it the valve?"
+
+"It was--several things."
+
+His tone had the vagueness born of concentration. I could see that this
+was no time to press for information. Besides, in the field of mechanics,
+as Jonathan has occasionally pointed out to me, I am rather like a
+traveler who has learned to ask questions in a foreign tongue, but not to
+understand the answers.
+
+"Well, I'll bring my sewing out here--or would you rather have me read to
+you? There's something in the last number of--"
+
+"No--get your sewing--blast that screw! Why doesn't it start?"
+
+Evidently sewing was better than the last number of anything. I settled
+myself under a lamp, while Jonathan, in the twilight beneath the sink,
+continued his mystic rites, with an accompaniment of mildly vituperative
+or persuasive language, addressed sometimes to his tools, sometimes to the
+screws and nuts and other parts, sometimes against the men who made them
+or the plumbers who put them in. Now and then I held a candle, or steadied
+some perverse bit of metal while he worked his will upon it. And at last
+the phoenix did indeed rise, the pump was again a pump,--at least it looked
+like one.
+
+"Suppose it doesn't work," I suggested.
+
+"Suppose it does," said Jonathan.
+
+He began to pump furiously. "Pour in water there!" he directed. "Keep on
+pouring--don't stop--never mind if she does spout." I poured and he pumped,
+and there were the usual sounds of a pump resuming activity: gurglings and
+spittings, suckings and sudden spoutings; but at last it seemed to get its
+breath--a few more long strokes of the handle, and the water poured.
+
+"What time is it?" he asked.
+
+"Oh, fairly late--about ten--ten minutes past."
+
+Instead of our walk, we stood for a moment under the big maples before the
+house and looked out into a sea of moonlight. It silvered the sides of the
+old gray barns and washed over the blossoming apple trees beyond the
+house. Is there anything more sweetly still than the stillness of
+moonlight over apple blossoms! As we went out to the barns to lock up,
+even the little hencoops looked poetic. Passing one of them, we half
+roused the feathered family within and heard muffled peepings and a
+smothered _clk-clk_. Jonathan was by this time so serene that I felt I
+could ask him a question that had occurred to me.
+
+"Jonathan, how long _is_ three shakes of a lamb's tail?"
+
+"Apparently, my dear, it is the whole evening," he answered unruffled.
+
+The next night was drizzly. Well, we would have books instead of a walk.
+We lighted a fire, May though it was, and settled down before it. "What
+shall we read?" I asked, feeling very cozy.
+
+Jonathan was filling his pipe with a leisurely deliberation good to look
+upon. With the match in his hand he paused--"Oh, I meant to tell you--those
+young turkeys of yours--they were still out when I came through the yard. I
+wonder if they went in all right."
+
+I have always noticed that if the turkeys grow up very fat and strutty and
+suggestive of Thanksgiving, Jonathan calls them "our turkeys," but in the
+spring, when they are committing all the naughtinesses of wild and silly
+youth, he is apt to allude to them as "those young turkeys of yours."
+
+I rose wearily. "No. They never go in all right when they get out at this
+time--especially on wet nights. I'll have to find them and stow them."
+
+Jonathan got up, too, and laid down his pipe. "You'll need the lantern,"
+he said.
+
+We went out together into the May drizzle--a good thing to be out in, too,
+if you are out for the fun of it. But when you are hunting silly little
+turkeys who literally don't know enough to go in when it rains, and when
+you expected and wanted to be doing something else, then it seems
+different, the drizzle seems peculiarly drizzly, the silliness of the
+turkeys seems particularly and unendurably silly.
+
+We waded through the drenched grass and the tall, dripping weeds,
+listening for the faint, foolish peeping of the wanderers. Some we found
+under piled fence rails, some under burdock leaves, some under nothing
+more protective than a plantain leaf. By ones and twos we collected them,
+half drowned yet shrilly remonstrant, and dropped them into the dry shed
+where they belonged. Then we returned to the house, very wet, feeling the
+kind of discouragement that usually besets those who are forced to furnish
+prudence to fools.
+
+"Nine o'clock," said Jonathan, "and we're too wet to sit down. If you
+could just shut in those turkeys on wet days--"
+
+"Shut them in! Didn't I shut them in! They must have got out since four
+o'clock."
+
+"Isn't the shed tight?" he asked.
+
+"Chicken-tight, but not turkey-tight, apparently. Nothing is
+turkey-tight."
+
+"They're bigger than chickens."
+
+"Not in any one spot they aren't. They're like coiled wire--when they
+stretch out to get through a crack they have _no_ dimension except length,
+their bodies are mere imaginary points to hang feathers on. You don't know
+little turkeys."
+
+It might be said that, having undertaken to raise turkeys, we had to
+expect them to act like turkeys. But there were other interruptions in our
+evenings where our share of responsibility was not so plain. For example,
+one wet evening in early June we had kindled a little fire and I had
+brought the lamp forward. The pump was quiescent, the little turkeys were
+all tucked up in the turkey equivalent for bed, the farm seemed to be
+cuddling down into itself for the night. We sat for a moment luxuriously
+regarding the flames, listening to the sighing of the wind, feeling the
+sweet damp air as it blew in through the open windows. I was considering
+which book it should be and at last rose to possess myself of two or
+three.
+
+"Sh--h--h!" said Jonathan, a warning finger raised.
+
+I stood listening.
+
+"I don't hear anything," I said.
+
+"Sh--h!" he repeated. "There!"
+
+This time, indeed, I heard faint bird-notes.
+
+"Young robins!" He sprang up and made for the back door with long strides.
+
+I peered out through the window of the orchard room, but saw only the
+reflection of the firelight and the lamp. Suddenly I heard Jonathan
+whistle and I ran to the back porch. Blackness pressed against my eyes.
+
+"Where are you?" I called into it.
+
+The whistle again, quite near me, apparently out of the air.
+
+"Bring a lantern," came a whisper.
+
+I got it and came back and down the steps to the path, holding up my light
+and peering about in search of the voice.
+
+"Where are you? I can't see you at all."
+
+"Right here--look--here--up!" The voice was almost over my head.
+
+I searched the dark masses of the tree--oh, yes! the lantern revealed the
+heel of a shoe in a crotch, and above,--yes, undoubtedly, the rest of
+Jonathan, stretched out along a limb.
+
+"Oh! What are you doing up there?"
+
+"Get me a long stick--hoe--clothes-pole--anything I can poke with. Quick! The
+cat's up here. I can hear her, but I can't see her."
+
+I found the rake and reached it up to him. From the dark beyond him came a
+distressed mew.
+
+"Now the lantern. Hang it on the teeth." He drew it up to him, then, rake
+in one hand and lantern in the other, proceeded to squirm out along the
+limb.
+
+"Now I see her."
+
+I saw her too--a huddle of yellow, crouched close.
+
+"I'll have her in a minute. She'll either have to drop or be caught."
+
+And in fact this distressing dilemma was already becoming plain to the
+marauder herself. Her mewings grew louder and more frequent. A few more
+contortions brought the climber nearer his victim. A little judicious
+urging with the rake and she was within reach. The rake came down to me,
+and a long, wild mew announced that Jonathan had clutched.
+
+"I don't see how you're going to get down," I said, mopping the rain-mist
+out of my eyes.
+
+"Watch me," panted the contortionist.
+
+I watched a curious mass descend the tree, the lantern, swinging and
+jerking, fitfully illumined the pair, and I could see, now a knee and an
+ear, now a hand and a yellow furry shape, now a white collar, nose, and
+chin. There was a last, long, scratching slide. I snatched the lantern,
+and Jonathan stood beside me, holding by the scruff of her neck a very
+much frazzled yellow cat. We returned to the porch where her victims
+were--one alive, in a basket, two dead, beside it, and Jonathan, kneeling,
+held the cat's nose close to the little bodies while he boxed her
+ears--once, twice; remonstrant mews rose wild, and with a desperate twist
+the culprit backed out under his arm and leaped into the blackness.
+
+"Don't believe she'll eat young robin for a day or two," said Jonathan.
+
+"Is that what they were? Where were they?"
+
+"Under the tree. She'd knocked them out."
+
+"Could you put this one back? He seems all right--only sort of naked in
+spots."
+
+"We'll half cover the basket and hang it in the tree. His folks'll take
+care of him."
+
+Next morning early there began the greatest to-do among the robins in the
+orchard. They shrieked their comments on the affair at the top of their
+lungs. They screamed abusively at Jonathan and me as we stood watching.
+"They say we did it!" said Jonathan. "I call that gratitude!"
+
+I wish I could record that from that evening the cat was a reformed
+character. An impression had indeed been made. All next day she stayed
+under the porch, two glowing eyes in the dark. The second day she came
+out, walking indifferent and debonair, as cats do. But when Jonathan took
+down the basket from the tree and made her smell of it, she flattened her
+ears against her head and shot under the porch again.
+
+But lessons grow dim and temptation is freshly importunate. It was not two
+weeks before Jonathan was up another tree on the same errand, and when I
+considered the number of nests in our orchard, and the number of cats--none
+of them really our cats--on the place, I felt that the position of
+overruling Providence was almost more than we could undertake, if we hoped
+to do anything else.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+These things--tinkering of latches and chairs, pump-mending, rescue work in
+the orchard and among the poultry--filled our evenings fairly full. Yet
+these are only samples, and not particularly representative samples
+either. They were the sort of things that happened oftenest, the common
+emergencies incidental to the life. But there were also the uncommon
+emergencies, each occurring seldom but each adding its own touch of
+variety to the tale of our evenings.
+
+For instance, there was the time of the great drought, when Jonathan,
+coming in from a tour of the farm at dusk, said, "I've got to go up and
+dig out the spring-hole across the swamp. Everything else is dry, and the
+cattle are getting crazy."
+
+"Can I help?" I asked, not without regrets for our books and our
+evening--it was a black night, and I had had hopes.
+
+"Yes. Come and hold the lantern."
+
+We went. The spring-hole had been trodden by the poor, eager creatures
+into a useless jelly of mud. Jonathan fell to work, while I held the
+lantern high. But soon it became more than a mere matter of holding the
+lantern. There was a crashing in the blackness about us and a huge horned
+head emerged behind my shoulder, another loomed beyond Jonathan's stooping
+bulk.
+
+"Keep 'em back," he said. "They'll have it all trodden up again--Hi! You!
+Ge' back 'ere!" There is as special a lingo for talking to cattle as there
+is for talking to babies. I used it as well as I could. I swung the
+lantern in their faces, I brandished the hoe-handle at them, I jabbed at
+them recklessly. They snorted and backed and closed in again,--crazy, poor
+things, with the smell of the water. It was an evening's battle for us.
+Jonathan dug and dug, and then laid rails, and the precious water filled
+in slowly, grew to a dark pool, and the thirsty creatures panted and
+snuffed in the dark just outside the radius of the hoe-handle, until at
+last we could let them in. I had forgotten my books, for we had come close
+to the earth and the creatures of the earth. The cows were our sisters and
+the steers our brothers that night.
+
+Sometimes the emergency was in the barn--a broken halter and trouble among
+the horses, or perhaps a new calf. Sometimes a stray creature,--cow or
+horse,--grazing along the roadside, got into our yard and threatened our
+corn and squashes and my poor, struggling flower-beds. Once it was a break
+in the wire fence around Jonathan's muskmelon patch in the barn meadow.
+The cows had just been turned in, and if it wasn't mended that evening it
+meant no melons that season, also melon-tainted cream for days.
+
+Once or twice each year it was the drainpipe from the sink. The drain,
+like the pump, was an innovation. Our ancestors had always carried out
+whatever they couldn't use or burn, and dumped it on the far edge of the
+orchard. In a thinly settled community, there is much to be said for this
+method: you know just where you are. But we had the drain, and
+occasionally we didn't know just where we were.
+
+"Coffee grounds," Jonathan would suggest, with a touch of sternness.
+
+"No," I would reply firmly; "coffee grounds are always burned."
+
+"What then?"
+
+"Don't know. I've poked and poked."
+
+A gleam in the corner of Jonathan's eye--"What with?"
+
+"Oh, everything."
+
+"Yes, I suppose so. For instance what?"
+
+"Why--hair-pin first, of course, and then scissors, and then
+button-hook--you needn't smile. Button-hooks are wonderful for cleaning out
+pipes. And then I took a pail-handle and straightened it out--" Jonathan
+was laughing by this time--"Well, I have to use what I have, don't I?"
+
+"Yes, of course. And after the pail-handle?"
+
+"After that--oh, yes. I tried your cleaning-rod."
+
+"The devil you did!"
+
+"Not at all. It wasn't hurt a bit. It just wouldn't go down, that's all.
+So then I thought I'd wait for you."
+
+"And now what do you expect?"
+
+"I expect you to fix it."
+
+Of course, after that, there was nothing for Jonathan to do but fix it.
+Usually it did not take long. Sometimes it did. Once it took a whole
+evening, and required the services of a young tree, which Jonathan went
+out and cut and trimmed and forced through a section of the pipe which he
+had taken up and laid out for the operation on the kitchen floor. It was a
+warm evening, too, and friends had driven over to visit us. We received
+them warmly in the kitchen. We explained that we believed in making them
+members of the family, and that members of the family always helped in
+whatever was being done. So they helped. They took turns gripping the pipe
+while Jonathan and I persuaded the young tree through it. It required
+great strength and some skill because it was necessary to make the tree
+and the pipe perform spirally rotatory movements each antagonistic and
+complementary to the other. We were all rather tired and very hot before
+anything began to happen. Then it happened all at once: the tree burst
+through--and not alone. A good deal came with it. The kitchen floor was a
+sight, and there was--undoubtedly there was--a strong smell of coffee.
+Jonathan smiled. Then he went down cellar and restored the pipe to its
+position, while the rest of us cleared up the kitchen,--it's astonishing
+what a little job like that can make a kitchen look like,--and as our
+friends started to go a voice from beneath us, like the ghost in "Hamlet,"
+shouted, "Hold 'em! There's half a freezer of ice-cream down here we can
+finish." Sure enough there was! And then he wouldn't have to pack it down.
+We had it up. We looted the pantry as only irresponsible adults can loot,
+in their own pantry, and the evening ended in luxurious ease. Some time in
+the black of the night our friends left, and I suppose the sound of their
+carriage-wheels along the empty road set many a neighbor wondering,
+through his sleep, "Who's sick now?" How could they know it was only a
+plumbing party?
+
+As I look back on this evening it seems one of the pleasantest of the
+year. It isn't so much what you do, of course, as the way you feel about
+it, that makes the difference between pleasant and unpleasant. Shall we
+say of that evening that we meant to read aloud? Or that we meant to have
+a quiet evening with friends? Not at all. We say, with all the conviction
+in the world, that we meant, on that particular evening, to have a
+plumbing party, with the drain as the _pièce de résistance_. Toward this
+our lives had been yearning, and lo! they had arrived!
+
+Some few things, however, are hard to meet in that spirit. When the pigs
+broke out of the pen, about nine o'clock, and Hiram was away, and Mrs.
+Hiram needed our help to get them in--there was no use in pretending that
+we meant to do it. Moreover, the labor of rounding up pigs is one of
+mingled arduousness and delicacy. Pigs in clover was once a popular game,
+but pigs in a dark orchard is not a game at all, and it will, I am firmly
+convinced, never be popular. It is, I repeat, not a game, yet probably the
+only way to keep one's temper at all is to regard it, for the time being,
+as a major sport, like football and deep-sea fishing and
+mountain-climbing, where you are expected to take some risks and not think
+too much about results as such. On this basis it has, perhaps, its own
+rewards. But the attitude is difficult to maintain, especially late at
+night.
+
+On that particular evening, as we returned, breathless and worn, to the
+house, I could not refrain from saying, with some edge, "I never wanted to
+keep pigs anyway."
+
+"Who says we're keeping them?" remarked Jonathan; and then we laughed and
+laughed.
+
+"You needn't think I'm laughing because you said anything specially
+funny," I said. "It's only because I'm tired enough to laugh at anything."
+
+The pump, too, tried my philosophy now and then. One evening when I had
+worn my hands to the bone cutting out thick leather washers for Jonathan
+to insert somewhere in the circulatory system of that same monster, I
+finally broke out, "Oh, dear! I hate the pump! I wanted a moonlight walk!"
+
+"I'll have the thing together now in a jiffy," said Jonathan.
+
+"Jiffy! There's no use talking about jiffies at half-past ten at night," I
+snarled. I was determined anyway to be as cross as I liked. "Why can't we
+find a really simple way of living? This isn't simple. It's highly complex
+and very difficult."
+
+"You cut those washers very well," suggested Jonathan soothingly, but I
+was not prepared to be soothed.
+
+"It was hateful work, though. Now, look what we've done this evening!
+We've shut up a setting hen, and housed the little turkeys, and driven
+that cow back into the road, and mended a window-shade and the dog's
+chain, and now we've fixed the pump--and it won't stay fixed at that!"
+
+"Fair evening's work," murmured Jonathan as he rapidly assembled the pump.
+
+"Yes, as work. But all I mean is--it isn't _simple_. Farm life has a
+reputation for simplicity that I begin to think is overdone. It doesn't
+seem to me that my evening has been any more simple than if we had dressed
+for dinner and gone to the opera or played bridge. In fact, at this
+distance, that, compared with this, has the simplicity of a--I don't know
+what!"
+
+"I like your climaxes," said Jonathan, and we both laughed. "There! I'm
+done. Now suppose we go, in our simple way, and lock up the barns and
+chicken-houses."
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+And so the evenings came and went, each offering a prospect of fair and
+quiet things--books and firelight and moonlight and talk; many in
+retrospect full of things quite different--drains and latches and
+fledglings and cows and pigs. Many, but not all. For the evenings did now
+and then come when the pump ceased from troubling and the "critters" were
+at rest. Evenings when we sat under the lamp and read, when we walked and
+walked along moonlit roads or lay on the slopes of moon-washed meadows. It
+was on such an evening that we faced the vagaries of farm life and
+searched for a philosophy to cover them.
+
+"I'm beginning to see that it will never be any better," I said.
+
+"Probably not," said Jonathan, talking around his pipe.
+
+"You seem contented enough about it."
+
+"I am."
+
+"I don't know that I'm contented, but perhaps I'm resigned. I believe it's
+necessary."
+
+"Of course it's necessary."
+
+Jonathan often has the air of having known since infancy the great truths
+about life that I have just discovered. I overlooked this, and went on,
+"You see, we're right down close to the earth that is the ultimate basis
+of everything, and all the caprices of things touch us immediately and we
+have to make immediate adjustments to them."
+
+"And that knocks the bottom out of our evenings."
+
+"Now if we're in the city, playing bridge, somebody else is making those
+adjustments for us. We're like the princess with seventeen mattresses
+between her and the pea."
+
+"She felt it, though," said Jonathan. "It kept her awake."
+
+"I know. She had a poor night. But even she would hardly have maintained
+that she felt it as she would have done if the mattresses hadn't been
+there."
+
+"True," said Jonathan.
+
+"Farm life is the pea without the mattresses--" I went on.
+
+"Sounds a little cheerless," said Jonathan.
+
+"Well--of course, it isn't really cheerless at all. But neither is it easy.
+It's full of remorseless demands for immediate adjustment."
+
+"That was the way the princess felt about her pea."
+
+"The princess was a snippy little thing. But after all, probably her life
+was full of adjustments of other sorts. She couldn't call her soul her own
+a minute, I suppose."
+
+"Perhaps that was why she ran away," suggested Jonathan.
+
+"Of course it was. She ran away to find the simple life and didn't find
+it."
+
+"No. She found the pea--even with all those mattresses."
+
+"And we've run away, and found several peas, and fewer mattresses," said
+Jonathan.
+
+"Let's not get confused--"
+
+"I'm not confused," said Jonathan.
+
+"Well, I shall be in a minute if I don't look out. You can't follow a
+parallel too far. What I mean is, that if you run away from one kind of
+complexity you run into another kind."
+
+"What are you going to do about it?"
+
+"I'm going to like it all," I answered, "and make believe I meant to do
+it."
+
+After that we were silent awhile. Then I tried again. "You know your trick
+of waltzing with a glass of water on your head?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Well, I wonder if we couldn't do that with our souls."
+
+"That suggests to me a rather curious picture," said Jonathan.
+
+"Well--you know what I mean. When you do that, your body takes up all the
+jolts and jiggles before they get to the top of your head, so the glass
+stays quiet."
+
+"Well--"
+
+"Well, I don't see why--only, of course, our souls aren't really anything
+like glasses of water, and it would be perfectly detestable to think of
+carrying them around carefully like that."
+
+"Perhaps you'd better back out of that figure of speech," suggested
+Jonathan. "Go back to your princess. Say, 'every man his own mattress.' "
+
+"No. Any figure is wrong. The trouble with all of them is that as soon as
+you use one it begins to get in your way, and say all sorts of things for
+you that you never meant at all. And then if you notice it, it bothers
+you, and if you don't notice it, you get drawn into crooked thinking."
+
+"And yet you can't think without them."
+
+"No, you can't think without them."
+
+"Well--where are we, anyway?" he asked placidly.
+
+"I don't know at all. Only I feel sure that leading the simple life
+doesn't depend on the things you do it _with_. Feeding your own cows and
+pigs and using pumps and candles brings you no nearer to it than marketing
+by telephone and using city water supply and electric lighting. I don't
+know what does bring you nearer, but I'm sure it must be something inside
+you."
+
+"That sounds rather reasonable," said Jonathan; "almost scriptural--"
+
+"Yes, I know," I said.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    IV
+
+
+                               After Frost
+
+
+It is late afternoon in mid-September. I stand in my garden sniffing the
+raw air, and wondering, as always at this season, _will_ there be frost
+to-night or will there not? Of course if I were a woodchuck or a muskrat,
+or any other really intelligent creature, I should know at once and act
+accordingly, but being only a stupid human being, I am thrown back on
+conjecture, assisted by the thermometer, and an appeal to Jonathan.
+
+"Too much wind for frost," says he.
+
+"Sure? I'd hate to lose my nasturtiums quite so early."
+
+"You won't lose 'em. Look at the thermometer if you don't believe me. If
+it's above forty you're safe."
+
+I look, and try to feel reassured. But I am not quite easy in my mind
+until next morning when, running out before breakfast, I make the rounds
+and find everything untouched.
+
+But a few days later the alarm comes again. There is no wind this time,
+and, what is worse, an ominous silence falls at dusk over the orchard and
+meadow. "Why is everything so still?" I ask myself. "Oh, of course--the
+katydids aren't talking--and the crickets, and all the other whirr-y
+things. Ah! That means business! My poor garden!"
+
+"Jonathan!" I call, as I feel rather than see his shape whirling
+noiselessly in at the big gate after his ride up from the station. "Help
+me cover my nasturtiums. There'll be frost to-night."
+
+"Maybe," says Jonathan's voice.
+
+"Not maybe at all--surely. Listen to the katydids!"
+
+"You mean, listen to the absence of katydids."
+
+"Very well. The point is, I want newspapers."
+
+"No. The point is, I am to bring newspapers."
+
+"Exactly."
+
+"And tuck up your nasturtiums for the night in your peculiarly ridiculous
+fashion--"
+
+"I know it looks ridiculous, but really it's sensible. There may be weeks
+of summer after this."
+
+And so the nasturtiums are tucked up, cozily hidden under the big layers
+of sheets, whose corners we fasten down with stones. To be sure, the
+garden _is_ rather a funny sight, with these pale shapes sprawling over
+its beds. But it pays. For in the morning, though over in the vegetable
+garden the squash leaves and lima beans are blackened and limp, my
+nasturtiums are still pert and crisp. I pull off the papers, wondering
+what the passers-by have thought, and lo! my gay garden, good for perhaps
+two weeks more!
+
+But a day arrives when even newspaper coddling is of no avail. Sometimes
+it is in late September, sometimes not until October, but when it comes
+there is no resisting.
+
+The sun goes down, leaving a clear sky paling to green at the horizon. A
+still cold falls upon the world, and I feel that it is the end. Shears in
+hand, I cut everything I can--nasturtiums down to the ground,--leaves, buds,
+and all,--feathery sprays of cosmos, asters by the armful. Those last
+bouquets that I bring into the house are always the most beautiful, for I
+do not have to save buds for later cutting. There will, alas, be no later
+cutting.
+
+So I fill my bowls and vases, and next morning I go out, well knowing what
+I shall see. It is a beautiful sight, too, if one can forget its meaning.
+The whole golden-green world of autumn has been touched with silver. In
+the low-lying swamp beyond the orchard it is almost like a light snowfall.
+The meadows rising beyond the barns are silvered over wherever the long
+tree-shadows still lie. And in my garden, too, where the shadows linger,
+every leaf is frosted, but as soon as the sun warms them through, leaf and
+twig turn dark and droop to the ground. It is the end.
+
+Except, indeed, for my brave marigolds and calendulas and little button
+asters. It is for this reason that I have given them space all summer,
+nipping them back when they tried to blossom early, for they seem a bit
+crude compared with the other flowers. But now that frost is here, my
+feelings warm to them. I cannot criticize their color and texture, so
+grateful am I to them for not giving up. And when last night's cuttings
+have faded, I shall be very glad of a glowing mass of marigold beside my
+fireplace, and of the yellow stars of calendula, like embodied sunshine,
+on my dining-table.
+
+Well, then, the frost has come! And after the first pang of realization, I
+find that, curiously enough, the worst is over. Since it has come, let it
+come! And now--hurrah for the garden house-cleaning! The garden is dead--the
+garden of yesterday! Long live the garden--the garden of to-morrow! For
+suddenly my mind has leaped ahead to spring.
+
+I can hardly wait for breakfast to be over, before I am out in working
+clothes, pulling up things--not weeds now, but flowers, or what were
+flowers. Nasturtiums, asters, cosmos, snapdragon, stock, late-blooming
+cornflowers--up they all come, all the annuals, and the biennials that have
+had their season. I fling them together in piles, and soon have small
+haystacks all along my grass paths, and--there I am! Down again to the good
+brown earth!
+
+It is with positive satisfaction that I stand and survey my beds, great
+bare patches of earth, glorified here and there by low clumps of calendula
+and great bushes of marigold. Now, then! I can do anything! I can dig, and
+fertilize, and transplant. Best of all, I can plan and plan! The crisp
+wind stings my cheeks, but as I work I feel the sun hot on the back of my
+neck. I get the smell of the earth as I turn it over, mingled with the
+pungent tang of marigold blossoms, very pleasant out of doors, though
+almost too strong for the house except near a fireplace. I believe the
+most characteristic fall odors are to me this of marigold, mingled with
+the fragrance of apples piled in the orchard, the good smell of earth
+newly turned up, and the flavor of burning leaves, borne now and then on
+the wind, from the outdoor house-cleaning of the world.
+
+There is perhaps no season of all the garden year that brings more real
+delight to the gardener, no time so stimulating to the imagination. This
+year in the garden has been good, but next year shall be better. All the
+failures, or near-failures, shall of course be turned into successes, and
+the successes shall be bettered. Last year there were not quite enough
+hollyhocks, but next year there shall be such glories! There are seedlings
+that I have been saving, over on the edge of the phlox. I dash across to
+look them up--yes, here they are, splendid little fellows, leaves only a
+bit crumpled by the frost. I dig them up carefully, keeping earth packed
+about their roots, and one by one I convey them across and set them out in
+a beautiful row where I want them to grow next year. Their place is beside
+the old stone-flagged path, and I picture them rising tall against the
+side of the woodshed, whose barrenness I have besides more than half
+covered with honeysuckle.
+
+Then, there are my foxgloves. Some of them I have already transplanted,
+but not all. There is a little corner full of stocky yearlings that I must
+change now. And that same corner can be used for poppies. I have kept
+seeds of this year's poppies--funny little brown pepper-shakers, with tiny
+holes at the end through which I shake out the fine seed dust. Doubtless
+they would attend to all this without my help, but I like to be sure that
+even my self-seeding annuals come up where I most want them.
+
+Biennials, like the foxglove and canterbury bells, are of course, the
+difficult children of the garden, because you have to plan not only for
+next year but for the year after. Next year's bloom is secured--unless they
+winter-kill--in this year's young plants, growing since spring, or even
+since the fall before. These I transplant for next summer's beauty. But
+for the year after I like to take double precautions. Already I have tiny
+seedlings, started since August, but besides these I sow seed, too late to
+start before spring. For a severe winter may do havoc, and I shall then
+need the early start given by fall sowing.
+
+As I work on, I discover all sorts of treasures--young plants, seedlings
+from all the big-folk of my garden. Young larkspurs surround the bushy
+parent clumps, and the ground near the forget-me-nots is fairly carpeted
+with little new ones. I have found that, though the old forget-me-nots
+will live through, it pays to pull out the most ragged of them and trust
+to the youngsters to fill their places. These, and English daisies, I let
+grow together about as they will. They are pretty together, with their
+mingling of pink, white, and blue, they never run out, and all I need is
+to keep them from spreading too far, or from crowding each other too much.
+
+When my back aches from this kind of sorting and shifting, I straighten up
+and look about me again. Ah! The phlox! Time now to attend to that!
+
+My white phlox is really the most distinguished thing in my garden. I have
+pink and lavender, too, but any one can have pink and lavender by ordering
+them from a florist. They can have white, too, but not my white. For mine
+never saw a florist; it is an inheritance.
+
+Sixty or seventy years ago there was a beautiful little garden north of
+the old house tended and loved by a beautiful lady. The lady died, and the
+garden did not long outlive her. Its place was taken by a crab-apple
+orchard, which flourished, bore blossom and fruit, until in its turn it
+grew old, while the garden had faded to a dim tradition. But one day in
+August, a few years ago, I discovered under the shade of an old crab tree,
+two slender sprays of white phlox, trying to blossom. In memory of that
+old garden and its lady, I took them up and cherished them. And the
+miracle of life was again made manifest. For from those two little
+half-starved roots has come the most splendid part of my garden. All
+summer it makes a thick green wall on the garden's edge, beside the
+flagged path. In the other beds it rises in luxuriant masses, giving
+background and body with its wonderful deep green foliage, which is
+greener and thicker than any other phlox I know. And when its season to
+bloom arrives--a long month, from early August to mid-September--it is a
+glory of whiteness, the tallest sprays on a level with my eyes, the
+shortest shoulder high, except when rain weighs down the heavy heads and
+they lean across the paths barring my passage with their fragrant wetness.
+
+Here and there I have let the pink and lavender phlox come in, for they
+begin to bloom two weeks earlier, when the garden needs color. But always
+my white must dominate. And it does. Most wonderful of all is it on
+moonlight nights of late August, when it broods over the garden like a
+white cloud, and the night moths come crowding to its fragrant feast, with
+their intermittent burring of furry wings.
+
+Ah, well! the phlox has passed now, and its trim green leaves are brown
+and crackly. I can do what I like with it after this. So when my other
+transplanting grows tiresome, I fall upon my phlox. Every year some of it
+needs thinning, so quickly does it spread. I take the spading-fork, and,
+with what seems like utter ruthlessness, I pry out from the thickest
+centers enough good roots to give the rest breathing and growing space.
+Along the path edges I always have to cut out encroaching roots each year,
+or else soon there would be no path. But all that I take out is precious,
+either to give to friends for their gardens, or to enlarge the edges of my
+own. For this phlox needs almost no care, and will fight grass and weeds
+for itself.
+
+There are phlox seedlings, too, all over the garden, but I have no way of
+telling what color they are, though usually I can detect the white by its
+foliage. I take them up and set them out near the main phlox masses, and
+wait for the next season's blossoming before I give them their final
+place.
+
+This is the time of year, too, when I give some attention to the rocks in
+my garden. Of course, in order to have a garden at all, it was necessary
+to take out enough rock to build quite a respectable stone wall. But that
+was not the end. There never will be an end. A Connecticut garden grows
+rocks like weeds, and one must expect to keep on taking them out each
+fall. The rest of the year I try to ignore them, but after frost I like to
+make a fresh raid, and get rid of another wheelbarrow load or so. And I
+always notice that for one barrow load of stones that go out, it takes at
+least two barrow loads of earth to fill in. Thus an excellent circulation
+is maintained, and the garden does not stagnate. Moreover, I take great
+pleasure in showing my friends--especially friends from the more earthy
+sections of New York and farther west--the piles of rock and the parts of
+certain stone walls about the place that have been literally made out of
+the cullings of my garden. They never believe me.
+
+As I am thus occupied,--digging, planting, thinning, sowing,--I find it one
+of the happiest seasons of the year. It is partly the stimulus of the
+autumn air, partly the pleasure of getting at the ground. I think there
+are some of us, city folk though we be, who must have the giant Antæus
+for ancestor. We still need to get in close touch with the earth now and
+then. Children have a true instinct with their love of barefoot play in
+the dirt, and there are grown folks who still love it--but we call it
+gardening. The sight and the feel and the smell of my brown garden beds
+gives me a pleasure that is very deep and probably very primitive.
+
+But there is another source of pleasure in my fall gardening--a pleasure
+not of the senses but of the imagination.
+
+For as I do my work my fancy is active. As I transplant my young
+hollyhocks, I see them, not little round-leaved bunches in my hand, but
+tall and stately, aflare with colors--yellows, whites, pinks. As I dig
+about my larkspur and stake out its seedlings, they spire above me in
+heavenly blues. As I arrange the clumps of coarse-leaved young foxgloves,
+I seem to see their rich tower-like clusters of old-pink bells bending
+always a little towards the southeast, where most sun comes from. As I
+thin my forget-me-not I see it--in my mind's eye--in a blue mist of spring
+bloom. Thus, a garden rises in my fancy, a garden where neither beetle,
+borer, nor cutworm doth corrupt, and where the mole doth not break in or
+steal, where gentle rain and blessed sun come as they are needed, where
+all the flowers bloom unceasingly in colors of heavenly light--a garden
+such as never yet existed nor ever shall, till the tales of fairyland come
+true. I shall never see that garden, yet every year it blooms for me
+afresh--after frost.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    V
+
+
+                      The Joys of Garden Stewardship
+
+
+I sometimes think I am coming to classify my friends according to the way
+they act when I talk about my garden. On this basis, there are three sorts
+of people.
+
+First there are those who are obviously not interested. Such as these feel
+no answering thrill, even at the sight of a florist's spring catalogue. A
+weed inspires in them no desire to pull it. They may, however, be really
+nice people if they are still young; for, except by special grace, no one
+under thirty need be expected to care about gardens--it is a mature taste.
+But in the mean time I turn our talk in other channels.
+
+Then there are the people who, when I approach the subject, brighten up,
+look intelligent, even eager, but in a moment make it clear that what they
+are eager for is a chance to talk about their own gardens. Mine is merely
+the stepping-stone, the bridge, the handle. This is better than
+indifference, yet it is sometimes trying. One of my dearest friends thus
+tests my love now and then when she walks in my garden.
+
+"Aren't those peonies lovely?" I suggest.
+
+"Yes," dreamily; "you know I can't have that shade in my garden because--"
+and she trails off into a disquisition that I could, just at that moment,
+do without.
+
+"Look at the height of that larkspur!" I say.
+
+"Yes--but, you know, it wouldn't do for me to have larkspur when I go away
+so early. What I need is things for April and May."
+
+"Well, I am not trying to _sell_ you any," I am sometimes goaded into
+protesting. "I only wanted you to say they are pretty--pretty right here in
+_my_ garden."
+
+"Yes--yes--of course they are pretty--they're lovely--you have a lovely
+garden, you know." She pulls herself up to give this tribute, but soon her
+eyes get the faraway look in them again, and she is murmuring, "Oh, I must
+write Edward to see about that hedge. Tell me, my dear, if you had a brick
+wall, would you have vines on it or wall-fruit?"
+
+It is of no use. I cannot hold her long. I sometimes think she was nicer
+when she had no garden of her own. Perhaps she thinks I was nicer when I
+had none.
+
+But there is another kind of garden manners--a kind that subtly soothes,
+cheers, perhaps inebriates. It is the manner of the friend who may,
+indeed, have a garden, but who looks at mine with the eye of adoption,
+temporarily at least. She walks down its paths, singling out this or that
+for notice. She suggests, she even criticizes, tenderly, as one who tells
+you an "even _more_ becoming way" to arrange your little daughter's hair.
+She offers you roots and seeds and seedlings from her garden, and--last
+touch of flattery--she begs seeds and seedlings from yours.
+
+For garden purposes, give me the manners of this third class. And, indeed,
+not for garden purposes alone. They are useful as applied to many
+things--children, particularly, and houses.
+
+Undoubtedly the demand that I make upon my friends is a form of vanity,
+yet I cannot seem to feel ashamed of it. I admit at once that not the
+least part of my pleasure in my flowers is the attention they get from
+others. Moreover, it is not only from friends that I seek this, but from
+every passer-by along my country road. There are gardens and gardens.
+Some, set about with hedges tall and thick, offer the delights of
+exclusiveness and solitude. But exclusiveness and solitude are easily had
+on a Connecticut farm, and my garden will none of them; it flings forth
+its appeal to every wayfarer. And I like it. I like my garden to "get
+notice." As people drive by I hope they enjoy my phlox. I furtively glance
+to see if they have an eye for the foxglove. I wonder if the calendulas
+are so tall that they hide the asters. And if, as I bend over my weeding,
+an automobile whirling past lets fly an appreciative phrase--"lovely
+flowers--" "wonderful yellow of--" "garden there,"--my ears are quick to
+receive it and I forgive the eddies of gasolene and dust that are also
+left by the vanishing visitant.
+
+About few things can one be so brazen in one's enjoyment of recognition.
+One's house, one's clothes, one's work, one's children, all these demand a
+certain modesty of demeanor, however the inner spirit may puff. Not so
+one's garden. I fancy this is because, while I have a strong sense of
+ownership in it, I also have a strong sense of stewardship. As owner I
+must be modest, but as steward I may admire as openly as I will. Did I
+make my phlox? Did I fashion my asters? Am I the artificer of my fringed
+larkspur? Nay, truly, I am but their caretaker, and may glory in them as
+well as another, only with the added touch of joy that I, even I, have
+given them their opportunity. Like Paul I plant, like Apollos I water, but
+before the power that giveth the increase I stand back and wonder.
+
+But it is not alone the results of my stewardship that give me joy. Its
+very processes are good. Delight in the earth is a primitive instinct.
+Digging is naturally pleasant, hoeing is pleasant, raking is pleasant, and
+then there is the weeding. For I am not the only one who sows seeds in my
+garden. One of my friends remarked cheerfully that he had planted
+twenty-seven different vegetables in his garden, and the Lord had planted
+two hundred and twenty-seven other kinds of things.
+
+This is where the weeding comes in. Now a good deal has been said about
+the labor of weeding, but little about the gratifications of weeding. I
+don't mean weeding with a hoe. I mean yanking up, with movements suited to
+the occasion, each individual growing thing that doesn't belong. Surely I
+am not the only one to have felt the pleasure of this. They come up so
+nicely, and leave such soft earth behind! And intellect is needed, too,
+for each weed demands its own way of handling: the adherent plantain
+needing a slow, firm, drawing motion, but very satisfactory when it comes;
+the evasive clover requiring that all its sprawling runners shall be
+gathered up in one gentle, tactful pull; the tender shepherd's purse
+coming easily on a straight twitch; the tough ragweed that yields to
+almost any kind of jerk. Even witch-grass, the bane of the farmer, has its
+rewarding side, when one really does get out its handful of
+wicked-looking, crawly, white tubers.
+
+Weeding is most fun when the weeds are not too small. Yes, from the aspect
+of a sport there is something to be said for letting weeds grow. Pulling
+out little tender ones is poor work compared with the satisfaction of
+hauling up a spreading treelet of ragweed or a far-flaunting wild
+buckwheat. You seem to get so much for your effort, and it stirs up the
+ground so, and no other weeds have grown under the shade of the big one,
+so its departure leaves a good bit of empty brown earth.
+
+Surely, weeding is good fun. If faults could be yanked out of children in
+the same entertaining way, the orphan asylums would soon be emptied
+through the craze for adoption as a major sport.
+
+One of the pleasantest mornings of my life was spent weeding, in the rain,
+a long-neglected corner of my garden, while a young friend stood around
+the edges and explained the current political situation to me, and carted
+away armfuls of green stuff as I handed them out to him. The rain
+drizzled, and the air was fragrant with the smell of wet earth and bruised
+stems. Ideally, of course, weeds should never reach this state of sportive
+rankness. But most of my friends admit, under pressure, that there are
+corners where such things do happen.
+
+Naturally, all this is assuming that one is one's own gardener. There may
+be pleasure in having a garden kept up by a real gardener, but that always
+seems to me a little like having a doll and letting somebody else dress
+and undress it. My garden must never grow so big that I cannot take care
+of it--and neglect it--myself.
+
+In saying this, however, I don't count rocks. When it comes to rocks, I
+call in Jonathan. And it often comes to rocks.
+
+For mine is a Connecticut garden. Now in the beginning Connecticut was
+composed entirely of rocks. Then the little earth gnomes, fearing that no
+one would ever come there to give them sport, sprinkled a little earth
+amongst the rocks, partly covered some, wholly covered others, and then
+hid to see what the gardeners would do about it. And ever since the
+gardeners have been patiently, or impatiently, tucking in their seeds and
+plants in the thimblefuls of earth left by the gnomes. They have been
+picking out the rocks, or blowing them up, or burying them, or working
+around them; and every winter the little gnomes gather and push up a new
+lot from the dark storehouses of the underworld. In the spring the
+gardeners begin again, and the little gnomes hold their sides with still
+laughter to watch the work go on.
+
+"Rocks?" my friends say. "Do you mind the rocks? But they are a special
+beauty! Why, I have a rock in my garden that I have treated--"
+
+"Very well," I interrupt rudely. "_A rock_ is all very well. If I had _a
+rock_ in my garden I could treat it, too. But how about a garden that is
+all rocks?"
+
+"Oh--why--choose another spot."
+
+Whereupon I reply, "You don't know Connecticut."
+
+Ever since I began having a garden I have had my troubles with the rocks,
+but the worst time came when, in a mood of enthusiastic and absolutely
+unintelligent optimism, I decided to have a bit of smooth grass in the
+middle of my garden. I wanted it very much. The place was too restless;
+you couldn't sit down anywhere. I felt that I had to have a clear green
+spot where I could take a chair and a book. I selected the spot, marked it
+off with string, and began to loosen up the earth for a late summer
+planting of grass seed. Calendulas and poppies and cornflowers had bloomed
+there before, self-sown and able to look out for themselves, so I had
+never investigated the depths of the bed to see what the little gnomes had
+prepared for me. Now I found out. The spading-fork gave a familiar dull
+clink as it struck rock. I felt about for the edge; it was a big one. I
+got the crowbar and dropped it, in testing prods; it was a _very_ big one,
+and only four inches below the surface. Grass would never grow there in a
+dry season. I moved to another part. Another rock, big too! I prodded all
+over the allotted space, and found six big fellows lurking just below the
+top of the soil. Evidently it was a case for calling in Jonathan.
+
+He came, grumbling a little, as a man should, but very efficient, armed
+with two crowbars and equipped with a natural genius for manipulating
+rocks. He made a few well-placed remarks about queer people who choose to
+have grass where flowers would grow, and flowers where grass would grow,
+also about Connecticut being intended for a quarry and not for a garden
+anyhow. But all this was only the necessary accompaniment of the
+crowbar-play. Soon, under the insistent and canny urgency of the bars, a
+big rock began to heave its shoulder into sight above the soil. I hovered
+about, chucking in stones and earth underneath, placing little rocks under
+the bar for fulcrums, pulling them out again when they were no longer
+needed, standing guard over the flowers in the rest of the garden, with
+repeated warnings. "Please, Jonathan, don't step back any farther; you'll
+trample the forget-me-nots!" "_Could_ you manage to roll this fellow out
+along that path and not across the mangled bodies of the marigolds?"
+Jonathan grumbled a little about being expected to pick a half-ton pebble
+out of the garden with his fingers, or lead it out with a string.
+
+"Oh, well, of course, if you _can't_ do it I'll have to let the marigolds
+go this year. But you do such wonderful things with a crowbar, I thought
+you could probably just guide it a little." And Jonathan responds nobly to
+the flattery of this remark, and does indeed guide the huge thing, eases
+it along the narrow path, grazes the marigolds but leaves them unhurt,
+until at last, with a careful arrangement of stone fulcrums and a skillful
+twist of the bars, the great rock makes its last response and lunges
+heavily past the last flower bed on to the grass beyond.
+
+When the work was done, the edge of the garden looked like Stonehenge, and
+the spot where my grass was to be was nothing but a yawning pit, crying to
+be filled. We surveyed it with interest. "If we had a water-supply, I
+wouldn't make a grass-plot," I said; "I'd make a swimming-pool. It's deep
+enough."
+
+"And sit in the middle with your book?" asked Jonathan.
+
+But there was no water-supply, so we filled it in with earth. Thirty
+wheelbarrow loads went in where those rocks came out. And the little
+gnomes perched on Stonehenge and jeered the while. I photographed it, and
+the rocks "took" well, but as regards the gnomes, the film was
+underexposed.
+
+Thus the grass seed was planted. And we reminded each other of the version
+of "America" once given, with unconscious inspiration, by a little friend
+of ours:--
+
+
+    "Land where our father died,
+    Land where the pilgrims pried."
+
+
+It seemed to us to suit the adventure.
+
+As I have said, I love to have my friends love my garden. But there is one
+thing about it that I find does not always appeal to them pleasantly, and
+that is its color-schemes. Yet this is not my doing. For in nothing do I
+feel more keenly the fact of my mere stewardship than in this matter of
+color-scheme.
+
+I set out with a very rigid one. I was quite decided in my own mind that
+what I wanted was white and salmon-pink and lavender. Asters, phlox, sweet
+peas, hollyhocks, all were to bend themselves to my rules. At first
+affairs went very well. White was easy. White phlox I had, and have--an
+inheritance--which from a few roots is spreading and spreading in waves of
+whiteness that grow more luxuriant every year. But I bought roots of
+salmon-pink and lavender, and then my troubles commenced. About the third
+season strange things began to happen. The pink phlox had the strength of
+ten. It spread amazingly; but it forgot all about my rules. It
+degenerated, some of it--reverted toward that magenta shade that nature
+seems so naturally to adore in the vegetable world. To my horror I found
+my garden blossoming into magenta pink, blue pink, crimson, cardinal--all
+the colors I had determined not under any circumstances to admit. On the
+other hand, the lavender phlox, which I particularly wanted, was most
+lovely, but frail. It refused to spread. It effaced itself before the
+rampant pink and its magenta-tainted brood. I vowed I would pull out the
+magentas, but each year my courage failed. They bloomed so bravely; I
+would wait till they were through. But by that time I was not quite sure
+which was which; I might pull out the wrong ones. And so I hesitated.
+
+Moreover, I discovered, lingering among the flowers at dusk, that there
+were certain colors, most unpleasant by daylight, which at that time took
+on a new shade, and, for perhaps half an hour before night fell, were
+richly lovely. This is true of some of the magentas, which at dusk turn
+suddenly to royal purples and deep lavender-blues that are wonderfully
+satisfying.
+
+For that half-hour of beauty I spare them. While the sun shines I try to
+look the other way, and at twilight I linger near them and enjoy their
+strange, dim glories, born literally of the magic hour. But I have trouble
+explaining them, by daylight, to some of my visitors who like
+color-schemes.
+
+Insubordination is contagious. And I found after a while that my asters
+were not running true; queer things were happening among the sweet peas,
+and in the ranks of the hollyhocks all was not as it should be. And the
+last charge was made upon me by the children's gardens. Children know not
+color-schemes. What they demand is flowers, flowers--flowers to pick and
+pick, flowers to do things with. Snapdragon, for instance, is a jolly
+playmate, and little fingers love to pinch its cheeks and see its jaws
+yawn wide. But snapdragon tends dangerously toward the magenta. Then there
+was the calendula--a delight to the young, because it blooms incessantly
+long past the early frosts, and has brittle stems that yield themselves to
+the clumsiest plucking by small hands. But calendula ranges from a faded
+yellow, through really pretty primrose shades, to a deep red-orange
+touched with maroon.
+
+And, finally, there was the portulaca. Children love it, perhaps, best of
+all. It offers them fresh blossoms and new colors each morning, and it is
+even more easy to pick than the calendula. Who would deny them portulaca?
+Yet if this be admitted, one may as well give up the battle. For, as we
+all know, there is absolutely no color, except green, that portulaca does
+not perpetrate in its blossoms. It knows no shame.
+
+In short, I am giving up. I am beginning to say with conviction that
+color-schemes are the mark of a narrow and rigid taste--that they are born
+of convention and are meant not for living things but for wall-papers and
+portières and clothes. Moreover, I am really growing callous--or is it,
+rather, broad? Colors in my garden that would once have made my teeth ache
+now leave them feeling perfectly comfortable. I find myself looking with
+unmoved flesh--no creeps nor withdrawals--upon a bed of mixed magentas,
+scarlets, rose-pinks, and yellow-pinks. I even look with pleasure. I begin
+to think there may be a point beyond which discord achieves a higher
+harmony. At least, this sounds well. But, again, I find it hard to explain
+to some of my friends.
+
+Indoors, it is another story. When I bring in the spoils of the garden I
+am again mistress and bend all to my will. Here I'll have no tricks of
+color played on me. Sunshine and sky, perhaps, work some spell, for as
+soon as I get within four walls my prejudices return; scarlets and
+crimsons and pinks have to live in different rooms. I must have my
+color-schemes again, and perhaps I am as narrow as the worst. Except,
+indeed, for the children's bowls; here the pink and the magenta, the lamb
+and the lion, may lie down together. But it takes a little child to lead
+them.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+Out in my garden I feel myself less and less owner, more and more merely
+steward. I decree certain paths, and the phlox says, "Paths? Did you say
+paths?" and obliterates them in a season's growth, so that children walk
+by faith and not by sight. I decree iris in one corner, and the primroses
+say, "Iris? Not at all. This is our bed. Iris indeed!" And I submit, and
+move the iris elsewhere.
+
+And yet this slipping of responsibility is pleasant, too. So long as my
+garden will let me dig in it and weed it and pick it, so long as it
+entertains my friends for me, so long as it tosses up an occasional rock
+so that Jonathan does not lose all interest in it, so long as it plays
+prettily with the children and flings gay greetings to every passer-by, I
+can find no fault with it.
+
+The joys of stewardship are great and I am well content.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    VI
+
+
+                            Trout and Arbutus
+
+
+Every year, toward the end of March, I find Jonathan poking about in my
+sewing-box. And, unless I am very absent-minded, I know what he is after.
+
+"No use looking there," I remark; "I keep my silks put away."
+
+"I want red, and as strong as there is."
+
+"I know what you want. Here." and I hand him a spool of red buttonhole
+twist.
+
+"Ah! Just right!" And for the rest of the evening his fingers are busy.
+
+Over what? Mending our trout-rods, of course. It is pretty work, calling
+for strength and precision of grasp, and as he winds and winds, adjusting
+all the little brass leading-rings, or supplying new ones, and staying
+points in the bamboo where he suspects weakness, we talk over last year's
+trout-pools, and wonder what they will be like this year.
+
+But beyond wonder we do not get, often for weeks after the trout season
+is, legislatively, "open." Jonathan is "busy." I am "busy." We know that,
+if April passes, there is still May and June, and so, if at the end of
+April, or early May, we do at last pick up our rods,--all new-bedight with
+red silk windings, and shiny with fresh varnish,--it is not alone the call
+of the trout that decides us, but another call which is to me at least
+more imperious, because, if we neglect it now, there is no May and June in
+which to heed it. It is the call of the arbutus.
+
+Any one with New England traditions knows what this call is. Its appeal is
+to something far deeper than the love of a pretty flower. For it is the
+flower that, to our fathers and our grandfathers, and to their fathers and
+grandfathers, meant spring; and not spring in its prettiness and ease,
+appealing to the idler in us, nor spring in its melancholy, appealing
+to--shall I say the poet in us? But spring in its blessedness of
+opportunity, its joyously triumphant life, appealing to the worker in us.
+Here, of course, we touch hands with all the races of the world for whom
+winter has been the supreme menace, spring the supreme and saving miracle.
+But each race has its own symbols, and to the New Englander the symbol is
+the arbutus.
+
+This may seem a bit of sentimentality. And, indeed, we need not expect to
+find it expressed by any New England farmer. New England does not go out
+in gay companies to bring back the first blossoms. But New England does
+nothing in gay companies. It has been taught to distrust ceremonies and
+expression of any sort. It rejoices with reticence, it appreciates with a
+reservation. And yet I have seen a sprig of arbutus in rough and clumsy
+buttonholes on weather-faded lapels which, the rest of the twelve-month
+through, know no other flower. And when, in unfamiliar country, I have
+interrupted the ploughing to ask for guidance, I usually get it:--"Arbutus?
+Yaas. The's a lot of it up along that hillside and in the woods over
+beyond--'t was out last week, some of it, I happened to notice"--this in the
+apologetic tone of one who admits a weakness--"guess you'll find all you
+want." I venture to say that of no other wild flower, except those which
+work specific harm or good, could I get such information.
+
+To many of us, city-bred, the tradition comes through inheritance. It
+means, perhaps, the shy, poetic side of our father's boyhood, only half
+acknowledged, after the New England fashion, but none the less real and
+none the less our possession. It means rare days, when the city--whose
+chiefest signs of spring were the flare of dandelions in yards and parks
+and the chatter of English sparrows on ivy-clad church walls--was left
+behind, and we were "in the country." It was a country excitingly
+different from the country of the summer vacation, a country not deeply
+green, but warmly brown, and sweet with the smell of moist, living earth.
+Green enough, indeed, in the spring-fed meadows and folds of the hills,
+where the early grass flashes into vividest emerald, but in the woods the
+soft mist-colored mazes of multitudinous twigs still show through their
+veilings and dustings of color--palest green of birches, gray-green of
+poplar, yellow-green of willows, and redder tones of the maples; and along
+the fence-lines and roadsides--blessed, untidy fence-lines and roadsides of
+New England--a fine penciling of red stems--the cut-back maple bushes and
+tangled vines alive to their tips and just bursting into leaf. And
+everywhere in the woods, on fence-lines and roadsides, the white blossoms
+of the "shad-blow," daintiest of spring trees,--too slight for a tree,
+indeed, though too tall for a bush and looking less like a tree in blossom
+than like floating blossoms caught for a moment among the twigs. A moment
+only, for the first gust loosens them again and carpets the woods with
+their petals, but while they last their whiteness shimmers everywhere.
+
+Such rare days were all blown through with the wonderful wind of spring.
+Spring wind is really different from any other. It is not a finished
+thing, like the mellow winds of summer and the cold blasts of winter. It
+is an imperfect blend of shivering reminiscence and eager promise. One
+moment it breathes sun and stirring earth, the next it reminds us of old
+snow in the hollows, and bleak northern slopes.
+
+When, on these days, the wind blew to us, almost before we saw it, the
+first greeting of the arbutus, it always seemed that the day had found its
+complete and satisfying expression. Every one comes to realize, at some
+time in his life, the power of suggestion possessed by odors. Does not
+half the power of the Church lie in its incense? An odor, just because it
+is at once concrete and formless, can carry an appeal overwhelmingly
+strong and searching, superseding all other expression. This is the appeal
+made to me by the arbutus. It can never be quite precipitated into words,
+but it holds in solution all the things it has come to mean--dear human
+tradition and beloved companionship, the poetry of the land and the
+miracle of new birth.
+
+In late March or early April I am likely to see the first blossom on some
+friend's table--I try not to see it first in a florist's display! To my
+startled question she gives reassuring answer, "Oh, no, not from around
+here. This came from Virginia."
+
+Days pass, and, perhaps, the mail brings some to me, this time from
+Pennsylvania or New Jersey, and soon I can no longer ignore the trays of
+tight, leafless bunches for sale on street corners and behind plate-glass
+windows. "From York State," they tell me. I grow restive.
+
+"Jonathan," I say, holding up a spray for him to smell, "we've got to go.
+You can't resist that. We'll take a day and go for it--and trout, too."
+
+It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day
+off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd. But, coupled with
+trout--all is well. Trout is food. One must eat. The search for food needs
+no defense, and yet, the curious fact is, that if you go for trout and
+don't get any, it doesn't make so much difference as you might suppose,
+but if you go for arbutus and don't get any, it makes all the difference
+in the world. And so Jonathan knows that in choosing his brook for that
+particular day, he must have regard primarily to the arbutus it will give
+us and only secondarily to the trout.
+
+Every one knows the kind of brook that is, for every one knows the kind of
+country arbutus loves--hilly country, with slopes toward the north; bits of
+woodland, preferably with pine in it, to give shade, but not too deep
+shade; a scrub undergrowth of laurel and huckleberry and bay; and always,
+somewhere within sight or hearing, water. It is curious how arbutus, which
+never grows in wet places, yet seems to like the neighborhood of water. It
+loves the slopes above a brook or the shaggy hillsides overlooking a
+little pond or river.
+
+Fortunately, there is such a brook, in just such country, on our list.
+There are not so many trout as in other brooks, but enough to justify our
+rods; and not so much arbutus as I could find elsewhere, but enough--oh,
+enough!
+
+To this brook we go. We tie Kit at the bridge, Jonathan slings on a
+fish-basket, to do for both, and I take a box or two for the flowers. But
+from this moment on our interests are somewhat at variance. The fact is,
+Jonathan cares a little more about the trout than about the arbutus, while
+I care a little more about the arbutus than about the trout. His eye is
+keenly on the brook, mine is, yearningly, on the ragged hillsides that
+roll up above it.
+
+Jonathan feels this. "There isn't any for two fields yet--might as well
+stick to the brook."
+
+"I know. I thought perhaps I'd go on down and let you fish this part. Then
+I'd meet you beyond the second fence--"
+
+"Oh, no, that won't do at all. Why, there's a rock just below here--down by
+that wild cherry--where I took out a beauty last year, and left another. I
+want you to go down and get him."
+
+"You get him. I don't mind."
+
+"Oh, but I mind. Here, I've got it all planned: there's a bit of
+brush-fishing just below--"
+
+"No brush-fishing for me, please!"
+
+"That's what I'm saying, if you'll only give me time. I'll take that--there
+are always two or three in there--and when you've finished here you can go
+around me and fish the bend, under the hemlocks, and then the first
+arbutus is just beside that, and I'll join you there."
+
+"Well"--I assent grudgingly--"only, really, I'd be just as happy if you'd
+fish the whole thing and let me go right on down--"
+
+"No, you wouldn't. Now, remember to sneak before you get to that rock.
+Drop in six feet above it and let the current do the rest. They're awfully
+shy. I expect you to get at least one there, and two down at the bend." He
+trudges off to his brush-fishing and leaves me bound in honor to extract a
+trout from under that rock. I deposit my boxes in the meadow above it, and
+"sneak" down. The sneak of a trout fisherman is like no other form of
+locomotion, and I am convinced that the human frame was not evolved with
+it in mind. But I resort to it in deference to Jonathan's prejudices--in
+deference, also, to the fact that when I do not the trout seldom bite. And
+Jonathan is so trustfully counting on my getting that trout!
+
+I did get him. I dropped in my line, as per directions, and let the
+current do the rest; had the thrill of feeling the line suddenly caught
+and drawn under the rock, held, then wiggled slightly; I struck, felt the
+weight, drew back steadily, and in a few moments there was a flopping in
+the grass behind me.
+
+So that was off my mind.
+
+I strung him on a twig of wild cherry, gathered up my boxes, and wandered
+along the faint path, back of the patch of brush where, I knew, Jonathan
+was cheerfully threading his line through tangles of twig, briar, and
+vine, compared with which the needle's eye is as a yawning barn door.
+Jonathan's attitude toward brush-fishing is something which I respect
+without understanding. Down one long field I went, where the brook ran in
+shallow gayety, and there, ahead, was the bend, a sudden curve of water,
+deepening under the roots of an overhanging hemlock. I climbed the stone
+wall beside, glanced at the water--very trouty water indeed--glanced at the
+hill-pasture above--very arbutusy indeed--laid down my rod and my trout and
+my box, and ran up the low bank to a clump of bay and berry-bushes that I
+thought I remembered.... Yes! There it was! I had remembered! Ah! The dear
+things!
+
+When you first find arbutus, there is only one thing to do:--lie right down
+beside it. Its fragrance as it grows is different from what it is after it
+is picked, because with the sweetness of the blossoms is mingled the good
+smell of the earth and of the woody twigs and of the dried grass and
+leaves. And there are other rewards one gets by lying down. It is all very
+well to talk proudly about man's walking with his head erect and his face
+to the heavens, but if we keep that posture all the time we miss a good
+deal. The attitude of the toad and the lizard is not to be scorned, though
+when the needs of locomotion convert it into the fisherman's "sneak," it
+is, as I have suggested, to be sparingly indulged in. But if we could only
+nibble now and then from "the other side" of Alice's mushroom, what a new
+outlook we should get on the world that now lies about our feet! What new
+aspects of its beauty would be revealed to us: the forest grandeurs of the
+grass, the architecture of its slim shafts with their pillared aisles and
+pointed arches of interlocking and upspringing curves, their ceiling
+traceries of spraying tops against a far-away background of sky!
+
+To know arbutus, you must stoop to its level, and look across the fine,
+frosty fur of its stiff little leaves, and feel the nestle of its stems to
+the ground, the little up-fling of their tips toward the sun, and the neat
+radiance of its flower clusters, with their blessed fragrance and their
+pure, babyish color.
+
+But after that? You want to pick it. Yes, you really want to pick it!
+
+In this it is different from other flowers. Most of them I am well content
+to leave where they grow. In fact, the love of picking things--flowers or
+anything else--is a youthful taste: we lose it as we grow older; we become
+more and more willing to appreciate without acquiring, or rather,
+appreciation becomes to us a finer and more spiritual form of acquiring.
+Is it possible that, after all, the old idea of heaven as a state of
+enraptured contemplation is in harmony with the trend of our development?
+
+But if there is arbutus in heaven, I shall need to develop a good deal
+further not to want to pick it. It suggests picking; it almost invites it.
+There is something about the way it nestles and hides, that makes you want
+to see it better. Here is a spray of pure white, living under a green tent
+of overlapping leaves; one must raise it, and nip off just one leaf, so
+that the blossoms can see out. There is another, a pink cluster, showing
+faintly through the dry, matted grass. You feel for the stem, pull it
+gently, and, lo, it is many stems, which have crept their way under the
+tangle, and every one is tipped with a cluster of stars or round little
+buds each on its long stem, fairly begging to be picked. It gets picked.
+
+Yet sometimes its very beauty has stayed my hand. I shall never forget one
+clump I found, growing out of a bank of deep green moss, partly shaded by
+a great hemlock. The soft pink blossoms--luxuriant leafy sprays of
+them--were lying out on the moss in a pagan carelessness of beauty, as
+though some god had willed it there for his pleasure. I sat beside it a
+long time, and in the end I left it without picking it.
+
+On this particular day, Jonathan being still lost in the brush patch, I
+had risen from my visit with the first-discovered blossoms and wandered
+on, from clump to clump, wherever the glimpse of a leaf attracted me,
+picking the choicest here and there and dropping them into my box. After I
+do not know how long, I was roused by Jonathan's whistle. I was some
+distance up the hillside by this time, and he was beside the brook, at the
+bend.
+
+"What luck?" he called.
+
+"Good luck! I've found lots. Come up!"
+
+He took a few steps up toward me, so that conversation could drop from
+shouting to speaking levels. "How many did you get?" he asked.
+
+"How many?... Oh ... why ... Oh, I got one up there where you showed me--under
+the rock, you know."
+
+"Good one?"
+
+"Eight inches. He's down there by the bars."
+
+"Good! And what about the bend?"
+
+"The bend? Oh, I didn't fish there--look at these! Aren't they beauties?" I
+came down the hill to hold my open box up to his face. But my casual word
+almost effaced the scent of the flowers.
+
+"Ah--yes--delicious--didn't fish there? Why not? Did they see you?"
+
+"Who? The trout? I don't know. But I saw this. And I just had to pick it."
+
+"Well! You're a great fisherman! And with that water right there beside
+you! Lord!"
+
+"With the arbutus right here beside me! Lord!"
+
+"But the arbutus would wait."
+
+"But the trout would wait. They're waiting for you now, don't you hear
+them? Go and fish there!"
+
+"No. That's your pool." Jonathan has a way of bestowing a trout-pool on me
+as if it were a bouquet. To refuse its opportunities is almost like
+throwing his flowers back in his face.
+
+"Well--of course it's a beautiful pool--"
+
+"Best on the brook," murmured Jonathan.
+
+"But, truly, I'd enjoy it just as much to have you fish it."
+
+"Nobody can fish it now for a while. I thought you'd be there, of course,
+and I came stamping along down, close by the bank. They wouldn't bite
+now--not for half an hour, anyway."
+
+"Well, then, that's just right. We'll go on up the hillside for half an
+hour, and then come back and fish it. Set your rod up against the bayberry
+here, and come along--look there! you're almost stepping on some!"
+
+Jonathan, gradually adjusting himself to the turn of things, stood his rod
+up against the bush with the meticulous care of the true sportsman. "Where
+did you leave yours?" he asked, with a suspiciousness born of a deep
+knowledge of my character.
+
+"Oh, down by the bars."
+
+"Standing up or lying down?"
+
+"Lying down, I think. It's all right."
+
+"It's not all right if it's lying down. Anything might trample on it."
+
+"For instance, what?--birds or crickets?"
+
+"For instance, people or cows." He strode down the hill, and I saw him
+stoop. As he returned I could read disapproval in his gait. "Will you
+never learn how to treat a rod! It was lying just beyond the bars. I must
+have landed within two feet of it when I jumped over."
+
+"I'm sorry. I meant to go back. I know perfectly how to treat a rod. My
+trouble comes in knowing when to apply my knowledge.... Well, let's go up
+there. Near those big hemlocks there's some, I remember." And we wandered
+on, separating a little to scan the ground more widely.
+
+Once having pried his mind away from the trout, Jonathan was as keen for
+arbutus as I could wish, and soon I heard an exclamation, and saw him
+kneel. "Oh, come over!" he called; "you really ought to see this growing!"
+
+"But there's some I want, right here, that's lovely--"
+
+"Never mind. Come and see this--oh, come!"
+
+Of course I come, and of course I am glad I came, and of course soon I am
+obliged to call Jonathan to see some I have found--"Jonathan, it is truly
+the loveliest _yet!_ It's the way it grows--with the moss and all--please
+come!" And of course he comes.
+
+We had been on the hillside a long half-hour, much nearer an hour, when
+Jonathan began to grow restive. "Don't you think you have enough?" he
+suggested several times. Finally, he spoke plainly of the trout.
+
+"Oh, yes, of course," I said, "you go down and I'll follow just as soon as
+I've gone along that upper path."
+
+Not at all. That was not what was wanted. So I turned and we went down the
+hill, back to the bend, whose seductions I had been so puzzlingly able to
+resist. I am sure Jonathan has never yet quite understood how I could
+leave that bit of water at my left hand and turn away to the right.
+
+"Now--sneak!"
+
+We sneaked, and I sank down just back of the edge of the bank. Jonathan
+crouched some feet behind, coaching me:--"Now--draw out a little more
+line--not too much--there--and have some slack in your hand. Now, up-stream
+fifteen feet--allow for the wind--wait till that gust passes--now! Good!
+First-rate! Now let her drift--there--what did I tell you? Give him line!
+_Give_ him line! Now, feel of him--careful! You'll know when to strike ...
+there!... Oh! too bad!"
+
+For as I struck, my line held fast.
+
+"Snagged, by gummy! Can't you pull clear?"
+
+"Not without stirring up the whole pool. You'll have to do the fishing,
+after all."
+
+"Oh! _too_ bad! That's hard luck!"
+
+"Not a bit. I like to watch you do it."
+
+And so indeed I did. Once having realized that I was temporarily laid by,
+Jonathan put his whole mind on the pool, while I, being honorably released
+from all responsibility, except that of keeping my line taut, could put my
+whole mind on his performance. There is a little the same sort of pleasure
+in watching the skillful handling of a rod that there is in watching the
+bow-action of a violinist. Both things demand the utmost nicety of
+adjustment: body, arm, wrist, fingers uniting in an interplay of
+efficiency exactly adapted to the intricately shifting needs of each
+moment.
+
+Thus I watched, through the typical stages of the sport: the delicate flip
+of the bait into the current at just the right spot; its swift descent,
+imperceptibly guided by the rod's quivering tip; its slower drift toward
+deep water; its sudden vanishing, and the whir of the reel as the line
+goes out; then the pause, the critical moments of "feeling for him"; at
+last the strike ... and then, a flopping in the grass behind me, and
+Jonathan crawling back to kill and unhook him.
+
+"Don't get up. There's probably another one," he said; and soon, by the
+same reptilian methods, was back for another try. There was another one,
+and yet another, and then a little fellow, barely hooked. "That's all,"
+said Jonathan, as he rose to put him back into the pool, and we watched
+the pretty spotted creature fling himself upstream with a wild flourish of
+his gleaming body.
+
+"Now I'll get you clear," said Jonathan, wading out into the water, and,
+with sleeves rolled high, feeling deep, deep down under the opposite bank.
+"He had you all right--it's wound round a root and then jabbed deep into it
+... hard luck! I wanted you to get those fellows!" And to this day I am sure
+he remembers those trout with a tinge of regret.
+
+I had intended leaving him to fish the rest of the brook, while I went
+back to that upper path to look up two or three special arbutus clumps
+that I knew, but seeing his depression over the snag incident, I could not
+suggest this. Instead I followed the stream with him, accepting his urgent
+offer of all the best pools, while he, taking what was left, drew out
+perfectly good trout from the most unhopeful-looking bits of water. And at
+the end, there was time to return along the upper path and visit my old
+friends, so both of us were satisfied.
+
+On such days, however, there is always one person who is not satisfied,
+and that is, Kit the horse. Kit has borne with our vagaries for many
+years, but she has never come to understand them. She never fails to greet
+our return, as our voices come within the range of her pricked-up ears, by
+a prolonged and reproachful whinny, which says as plainly as is necessary,
+"Back? Well--I should _think_ it was time! _I should think it was TIME!_"
+Now and then we have thought it would be pleasant to have a little
+motor-car that could be tucked away at any roadside, without reference to
+a good hitching-place, but if we had it, I am sure we should miss that
+ungracious welcoming whinny. We should miss, too, the exasperated violence
+of Kit's pace on the first bit of the home road--a violence expressing in
+the most ostentatious manner her opinion of folks who keep a respectable
+horse hitched by the roadside, far from the delights of the dim, sweet
+stable and the dusty, sneezy, munchy hay.
+
+But leaving out this little matter of Kit's preference, and also the other
+little matter of the trout's preference, I feel sure that an
+arbutus-trouting is peculiarly satisfying. It meets every human need--the
+need of food and beauty, the need of feeling strong and skillful, the need
+of becoming deeply aware of nature as living and kind. Moreover, it is
+very satisfying afterwards. As we sat that evening, over a late supper,
+with a shallow dish of arbutus beside us, I remarked, "The advantage of
+getting arbutus is, that you bring the whole day home with you and have it
+at your elbow."
+
+"The advantage of getting trout," remarked Jonathan dreamily, as if to
+himself, "is, that you bring your whole day home with you, and have it for
+breakfast."
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   VII
+
+
+                         Without the Time of Day
+
+
+"Jonathan, did you ever live without a clock,--whole days, I mean,--days and
+days--"
+
+"When I was a boy--most of the time, I suppose. But the family didn't like
+it."
+
+"Of course. But did you like it?"
+
+"Yes, I liked it all. I seem to remember getting pretty hungry sometimes,
+but it's all rather good as I look back on it."
+
+"Let's do it!"
+
+"Now?"
+
+"No. Society is an enlarged family, and wouldn't like it. But this summer,
+when we camp."
+
+"How do you know we're going to camp?"
+
+"The things we know best we don't always know how we know."
+
+"Well, then,--_if_ we camp--"
+
+"_When_ we camp--let's live without a watch."
+
+"You'd need one to get there."
+
+"Take one, and let it run down."
+
+As it turned out, my "when" was truer than Jonathan's "if." We did camp.
+We did, however, use watches to get there: when we expressed our baggage,
+when we sent our canoe, when we took the trolley car and the train; and
+the watch was still going as our laden craft nosed gently against the bank
+of the river-island that was to be our home for two weeks. It was late
+afternoon, and the shadows of the steep woods on the western bank had
+already turned the rocks in midstream from silver to gray, and dimmed the
+brightness of the swift water, almost to the eastern shore.
+
+"Will there be time to get settled before dark?" I asked, as we stepped
+out into the shallow water and drew up the canoe to unload.
+
+"Shall I look at my watch to see?" asked Jonathan, with a note of amiable
+derision in his voice.
+
+"Well, I _should_ rather like to know what time it is. We won't begin till
+to-morrow."
+
+"You mean, we won't begin to stop watching. All right. It's just seventeen
+and a half minutes after five. I'll give you the seconds if you like."
+
+"Minutes will do nicely, thank you."
+
+"Lots of time. You collect firewood while I get the tent ready. Then it'll
+need us both to set it up."
+
+We worked busily, happily. Ah! The joyous elation of the first night in
+camp! Is there anything like it? With days and days ahead, and not even
+one counted off the shining number! All the good things of childhood and
+maturity seem pressed into one mood of flawless, abounding happiness.
+
+By dark the tent was up, the baggage stowed, the canoe secured, the fire
+glowing in a bed of embers, and we sat beside it, looking out past the
+glooms of the hemlocks across the moonlit river,--sat and ate city-cooked
+chicken and sandwiches and drank thermos-bottled tea.
+
+"To-morrow we'll cook," I said. "To-night it's rather nice not to have to.
+Look at the moonlight on that rock! How black it makes the eddy below!"
+
+"Good bass under there," said Jonathan. "We'll get some to-morrow."
+
+"Maybe."
+
+"Well, of course, it's always maybe, with bass. Well--I'm done--and it's
+quarter to ten--late! Oh! Excuse me! Maybe you'd rather I hadn't told you.
+By the way, do I wind my watch to-night or not?"
+
+"Not."
+
+"Not it is, then. Sure you wouldn't rather have it wound, though? We can
+leave it hanging in the tent. It won't break loose and bite you."
+
+"Yes, it would. There would be a something--a taint--"
+
+"Oh, _all_ right!"
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+We slept with the murmur of the river running through our dreams,--a murmur
+of many voices: deep voices, high voices, grumbling voices as the stones
+go grinding and rolling along the ever-changing bottom,--and only half
+roused when the dawn chorus of the birds filled the air. That dawn chorus
+was something we should have been loath to miss. Through the first gray of
+the morning there comes a stir in the woods, an expectant tremor; a bird
+peeps softly and is still; then another, and another, "softly conferring
+together." As the light grows warmer, comes a clearer note from some
+leader, then a full, complete song; another, and the woods are awake,
+flinging out their wonderful song-greeting to the morning. There is in it
+a prodigality of swift-changing beauty like ocean surf: a continuous and
+intricate interweaving of rhythms, pulses and ebbings of clear tone,
+beautiful phrases rising antiphonal, showerings of bright notes, moments
+of subsidence, almost of pause. As the light grows and sharpens, the music
+reaches a crescendo of exuberance, and at last dies down as real day
+comes, bringing with it the day's work. On our island the leader of the
+chorus was almost always a song sparrow, though once or twice a wood
+thrush came over from the shore woods and filled the hemlock shadows with
+the limpid splendors of his song.
+
+Hearing the chorus through our dreams, we slept again, and when I really
+waked the sun was high, flecking the eastern V of our tent with dazzling
+patches. I heard Jonathan moving about outside, and the crackling of a
+new-made fire. I went to the front of the tent and looked out. Yes, there
+they were, the fire and Jonathan, in a quiet space of shade where the
+early coolness still hung. Beyond them, half shut out from view by the
+low-spreading hemlock boughs, was the open river--such gayety of swift
+water! Such dazzle of midsummer morning! I drew back, eager to be out in
+it.
+
+"Bacon and eggs, is it?" called Jonathan, "or shall I run down and try for
+a bass?"
+
+"Don't!" I called. I knew that if he once got out after bass he was lost
+to me for the day. And now we had cut loose from even the mild tyranny of
+his watch. As I thought of this I went over to the many-forked tree, whose
+close-trimmed branches served our tent as hat-rack, clothes-rack,
+everything-that-can-hang-or-perch-rack, and opened Jonathan's watch.
+
+"Well, what time is it?" Jonathan was peering in between the tent-flaps.
+
+"Twenty-two minutes before five."
+
+"A.M., I judge. Sorry you didn't let me wind it?"
+
+"Not a bit. I was just curious to see when it stopped, that was all."
+
+"Well, now you know. Hereafter the official time for the camp is 4:38--A.M.
+or P.M., according to taste. Come along. The bacon's done, and I'm blest
+if I want to drop in the eggs."
+
+Dropping an egg will never, I fear, be one of Jonathan's most finished
+performances. He watched me do it with generous admiration. "If you could
+just get over being scared of them," I suggested, as the last one plumped
+into the pan and set up its gentle sizzle.
+
+"No use. I _am_ scared of the things. I tap and tap, and nothing happens,
+and then I get mad and tap hard, and they're all over the place."
+
+By the time breakfast was over, even the coolness under the hemlocks was
+beginning to grow warm and aromatic. The birds in the shore woods were
+quieter, though out at the sunny end of our island, where the hemlocks
+gave place to low scrub growth, the song sparrow sang gayly now and then.
+
+"Now," said Jonathan, "what about fishing?"
+
+"Well--let's fish!"
+
+"One up stream and one down, or keep together?"
+
+"Together," I decided. "If we go two ways there's no telling when I'll
+ever see you again."
+
+"Yes, there is: when I'm hungry."
+
+"No; some time after you've noticed you're hungry."
+
+"Now, if we had watches it would be so much simpler: we could meet here
+at, say, one o'clock."
+
+"Simple, indeed! When did you ever look at a watch when you were fishing,
+unless I made you? No, my way is simple, but we stay together."
+
+Of course, in river fishing, "together" means simply not absolutely out of
+sight of each other. Jonathan may be up to his arm-pits in mid-current, or
+marooned on a rock above a swirling eddy, while I am in a similar
+situation beyond calling distance, but so long as a bend in the river does
+not cut us off, we are "together," and very companionable togetherness it
+is, too. When I see Jonathan wildly waving to attract my attention, I know
+he has either just caught a big bass or else just lost one, and this gives
+me something to smile over as I wonder which it is. After a time, if I am
+catching shiners and no bass, and Jonathan doesn't seem to be moving, I
+infer that his luck is better than mine, and drift along toward him. Or it
+may be the other way around, and he comes to look me up. Bass are the most
+uncertain of fish, and no one can predict when they will elect to bite, or
+where. Sometimes they are in the still water, deep or shallow according to
+their caprice; sometimes they hang on the edges of the rapids; sometimes
+they are in the dark, smooth eddies below the great boulders; sometimes in
+the clear depths around the rocks near shore. Each day afresh,--indeed,
+each morning and each afternoon,--the fisherman must try, and try, and try,
+until he discovers what their choice has been for that special time. Yet
+no fisherman who has once drawn out a good bass from a certain bit of
+water can help feeling, next time, that there is another waiting for him
+there. That is one of the reasons why he is always hopeful, and so always
+happy. The fish he has caught, at this well-remembered spot and that, rise
+up out of the past and flick their tails at him; and all the stretches
+between--stretches of water that have never for him held anything but
+shiners, stretches of time diversified by not even a nibble--sink into
+pleasant insignificance.
+
+We banked our fire, stowed everything in the tent that a thunderstorm
+would hurt, and splashed out into the river. There it lay in all its
+bright, swift beauty, and we stood a moment, looking, feeling the push of
+the water about our knees and the warmth of the sun on our shoulders.
+
+"It makes a difference, sleeping out in it all," I said. "You feel as if
+it belonged to you so much more. I quite own the river this morning, don't
+you?"
+
+"Quite. But not the bass in it. Bet you don't catch one!"
+
+"Bet I beat you!"
+
+"Bass, mind you. Sunfish don't count. You're always catching sunfish."
+
+"They count in the pan. But I'll beat you on bass. I know some places--"
+
+"Who doesn't? All right, go ahead!"
+
+We were off; Jonathan, as usual, wading up to his chest or perched on a
+bit of boulder above some dark, slick rapid; I preferring water not more
+than waist-deep, and not too far from shore to miss the responses of the
+wood-folk to my passing: soft flurries of wings; shy, half-suppressed
+peepings; quick warning notes; light footfalls, hopping or running or
+galloping; the snapping of twigs and the crushing of leaves. Some sounds
+tell me who the creature is,--the warning of the blue jay, the whirr of the
+big ruffed grouse, the thud of the bounding rabbit,--but many others leave
+me guessing, which is almost better. When a very big stick snaps, I always
+feel sure a deer is stealing away, though Jonathan assures me that a
+chewink can break twigs and "kick up a row generally," so that you'd swear
+it was nothing smaller than a wild bull.
+
+So we fished that day. When I caught a bass, which was seldom, I whooped
+and waved it at Jonathan, and when I caught a shiner, which was rather
+often, I waved it too, just to keep his mind occupied. Hours passed, and
+we met at a bend in the river where the deep water glides close to shore.
+
+"Hungry?" I asked.
+
+"Now you speak of it, yes."
+
+"Shall we go back?"
+
+"How can I tell? Now, if we only had that watch we'd know whether we ought
+to be hungry or not."
+
+"What does that matter, if we _are_ hungry? Besides, if you'd had a watch,
+you'd have had to carry it in your teeth. You know perfectly well you
+wouldn't have brought it, anyway."
+
+"Well--then, at least when we got back, we should have known whether we
+ought to have been hungry or not. Now we shall never know."
+
+"Never! Oh! Look there, Jonathan! We're going to catch it!" A sense of
+growing shadow in the air had made me look up, and there, back of the
+steep-rising woods, hung a blue-black cloud, with ragged edges crawling
+out into the brightness of the sky.
+
+"Sure enough! The bass'll bite now, if it really comes. Wait till the
+first drops, and see what you see."
+
+We had not long to wait. There came that sudden expectancy in the air and
+the trees, the strange pallor in the light, the chill sweep of wind gusts
+with warm pauses between. Then a few big drops splashed on the dusty,
+sun-baked stones about us.
+
+"Now! Wade right out there, to the edge of that ledge--don't slip over,
+it's deep. I'll go down a little way."
+
+I waded out carefully, and cast, in the smooth, dark water already
+beginning to be rain-pocked. It was surprisingly shivery, that storm wind!
+I glanced toward shore to look for shelter--I remembered an overhanging
+ledge of rock--then my line went taut! I forgot about shelter, forgot about
+being chilly; I knew it was a good bass.
+
+I got him in--too big to go through the hole in my creel--cast for
+another--and another--and yet another. The rain began to fall in sheets, and
+the wind nearly blew me over, but who could run away from such fishing?
+The surface of the river, deep blue-gray, seemed rising everywhere in
+little jets to meet the rain. Rapids, eddies, still waters, weedy edges,
+all looked alike; there were neither waves nor swirls nor glassy slicks,
+but all were roughly furry under the multitudinous assaults of the fierce
+rain-drops. The sky was mottled lead-color, the wind blew less strongly,
+but cold--cold. And under that water the bass were biting, my rod was
+bending double, my reel softly screaming as I gave line, and one after
+another I drew the fish alongside and dipped them out with my landing net.
+
+Then, as suddenly as they had begun, they stopped biting. I waited long
+minutes; nothing happened, and all at once I realized that I was very wet
+and very cold. Wading ashore, I saw Jonathan shivering along up the narrow
+beach toward me, his shoulders drawn in to half their natural spread, neck
+tucked in between his collar-bones, knees slightly bent.
+
+"You can't be cold?" I questioned as soon as he was near enough to hear me
+through the slash of the rain and wind.
+
+"No, of course not; are you?"
+
+We didn't discuss it, but ran up the bank to the rock-ledge and crouched
+under it, our teeth literally chattering.
+
+"Did you ever see such fishing?" I managed to stammer.
+
+"Great! But oh, _why_ didn't I bring the whiskey bottle?"
+
+"Let's run for camp! We can't be wetter."
+
+We crawled out into the rain again, and first sprinted and then
+dog-trotted along the river edge. No bird notes now in the woods beside
+us, no whirring of wings; only the rain sounds: soft swishings and
+drippings and gusty showerings, very different from the flat, flicking
+sounds when rain first starts in dry woods.
+
+Camp looked a little cheerless, but a blazing fire, started with dry stuff
+we had stowed inside the tent, changed things, and dry clothes changed
+them still more, and we sat within the tent flaps and ate ginger-snaps in
+great contentment of spirit while we waited for the rain to stop.
+
+It did stop, and very soon the fish were sizzling in the pan.
+
+"Of course, if we had a watch, now--" suggested Jonathan, as he carefully
+tucked under the pan little sticks of just the right length.
+
+"What should we know more than we do now--that we're hungry?" I asked.
+
+"Well, for one thing, we'd know what time it is," replied Jonathan
+tranquilly.
+
+"And for another we'd know whether it's dinner or supper I'm cooking," I
+supplemented. "But does it matter? You won't get anything different, no
+matter which it is--just fish is what you'll get. And pretty soon the sun
+will be out, and you can set up a stick and watch the shadow and make a
+sundial for yourself."
+
+"Oh, I don't really care which it is."
+
+"Do you suppose I don't know that! And meanwhile, you might cut the bread
+and make some toast,--there are some good embers on your side under the
+pan,--and I'll get the butter, and there we'll be."
+
+By the time the toast was made and the fish curling brownly away from the
+pan, the sun had indeed come out, at first pale and watery, then clear,
+and still high enough in the heavens to set the soaked earth steaming
+fragrantly with its heat. Odors of hemlock and wet earth mingled with
+odors of toast and fried fish.
+
+"Um-m! Smell it all!" I said. "What a lot we should miss if we didn't eat
+in the kitchen!"
+
+"Or cook in the dining-room--which?"
+
+"And hear that song sparrow! Doesn't it sound as if the rain had washed
+his song a little cleaner and clearer?"
+
+There followed the wonderful afterlight that a short, drenching rain
+leaves behind it--a hush of light, deeply pervasive and friendly. The
+sunshine slanted across the gleaming wet rocks in the river, lit up the
+rain-darkened trunks of the hemlocks, glinted on the low-hanging leaves,
+and flashed through the dripping edges of sagging fern fronds. As twilight
+came on, we canoed across to the side of the river where the road lay--the
+other side was steep and pathless woods--and walked down to the nearest
+farmhouse to buy eggs for the morning. Back again by the light of a
+low-hung moon, and across the dim water to our own island and the embers
+of our fire.
+
+"Oh, Jonathan! We never asked them what time it was!" I said. "I meant
+to--for your sake--I thought you'd sleep better if you knew."
+
+"Too bad! Probably I should have. I thought of it, of course, but was
+afraid that if I asked it would spoil your day."
+
+"It would take something pretty bad to spoil a day like this one," I said.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+Two days later the weather turned still and warm, the bass refused to
+bite, and even the sunfish lay, shy or wary or indifferent, in their
+shallow, sunny pools, so we resolved to walk down the river to the
+post-office, four miles away, for possible mail. As we sat on the steps of
+the little store, looking it over,--"Here's news," said Jonathan; "Jack and
+Molly say they'll run up if we want them, day after to-morrow--up on the
+morning train, and back on the evening."
+
+"Good! Tell them to come along."
+
+"No--it's to-morrow--letter's been here since yesterday. I'll telegraph."
+
+As we tramped home we planned the day. "We'll meet them and all walk up
+together," said Jonathan.
+
+"We'd better catch some bass and leave them all hooked in a pool, ready
+for them to pull out," I added; "otherwise they may not catch any. And
+maybe you'd better meet them and I'll have dinner ready when you get
+back."
+
+"Nonsense! You come, and we'll all get dinner when we get back. That's
+what they're coming for--to see the whole thing."
+
+"But if it's late--they've got to get back for that down train."
+
+"Well--time enough."
+
+"Oh, Jonathan! What about catching that train?"
+
+"They'll have watches--watches that go."
+
+"But what about our meeting them? The train arrives at 10:15, they said.
+What does 10:15 look like in the sky, I wonder!"
+
+"Or rather, what does 8.45 look like? It takes an hour and a half to get
+there, counting crossing the river."
+
+"Yes--dear me! Well, Jonathan, we'll just have to get up early and go, and
+then wait."
+
+"Or else take our watch to the farmhouse and set it."
+
+"Jonathan, I will not! I'd rather start at daylight."
+
+Which was very nearly what we did. The morning opened with a sun obscured,
+and I felt sure it was stealing a march on us and would suddenly burst out
+upon us from a noonday sky. We breakfasted hastily, ferried across to
+shore, and set a swinging pace down the road. As we walked, the sun burned
+through the mist, and our shadows came out, dim, long things, striding
+with the exaggerated gait that shadows have, over the grassy banks to our
+right.
+
+"I think," said Jonathan, "it may be as late as seven o'clock, but perhaps
+it's only six."
+
+When we reached the station, the official clock registered 8.30. We
+strolled over to the store-and-post-office and got more letters--one from
+Molly and Jack saying thank you they'd come. "They don't entirely
+understand our mail system up here," said Jonathan. We got some
+ginger-cookies and some milk and had a second breakfast, and finally
+wandered back to the station to wait for the train. It came, bearing the
+expected two, and much friendliness. "Get our letter? There, Jack! He said
+you wouldn't, but I said you would. I made him send it ... four miles to
+walk? What fun!"
+
+It was fun, indeed, and all went well until after dinner, when
+Jack--saying, "Well, maybe we'd better be starting back for that
+train"--drew out his watch. He opened it, muttered something, put it to his
+ear, then began to wind it rapidly. He wound and wound. We all laughed.
+
+"Looks as if you hadn't remembered to wind it last night," said Jonathan,
+glancing at me.
+
+"I haven't done that in months, hang it! Give me the time, will you,
+Jonathan?" said Jack.
+
+"Sorry!" Jonathan was smiling genially. "Mine's run down too. It stopped
+at twenty-two minutes before five--A. M., I think."
+
+"What luck! And Molly didn't bring hers."
+
+"You told me not to," Molly flicked in.
+
+"So here we are," said Jonathan, "entirely without the time of day."
+
+"But plenty of real time all round us," I said. "Let's use it, and start."
+I avoided Jonathan's eye.
+
+We reached the station with an hour and ten minutes to spare--bought more
+ginger-cookies and more milk. As we sat eating them in the midst of the
+preternatural calm that marks a country railroad station outside of train
+times, Molly remarked brightly,--
+
+"Well, I don't see but we got on just as well without a watch, didn't we,
+Jack? Why do we need watches, anyway? Do _you_ see?" she turned to us.
+"Jack does everything by his watch--eats and breathes and sleeps by it--"
+
+Jack returned, watch in hand--he had been getting railroad time from the
+telegraph operator. "Want to set yours while you think of it?" he asked
+Jonathan.
+
+"Sorry--thank you--didn't bring it," said Jonathan.
+
+"By George, man, what'll you do?" Real consternation sounded in Jack's
+tones.
+
+"Oh, we'll get along somehow," said Jonathan. "You see, we don't have many
+engagements, except with the bass, and they never meet theirs, anyhow."
+
+When the train had gone, I said, "Jonathan, why didn't you tell them it
+was my whim?"
+
+"Oh, I just didn't," said Jonathan.
+
+As Jonathan had predicted, we did get along somehow--got along rather well,
+on the whole. There are, of course, some drawbacks to an unwatched life.
+You never want to start the next meal till you are hungry, and after that
+it takes one or two or three hours, as the case may be, to go back to camp
+and get the meal ready, and by that time you are almost hungrier than you
+like being. But except for this, and the little matter of meeting trains,
+it is rather pleasant to break away from the habit of watching the watch,
+and it was with real regret that, on the last night of our camp, we took
+our watch to the farmhouse to set it.
+
+"Run down, did it? Guess you forgot to wind it. Well--we do forget things
+sometimes, all of us do," the farmer's wife said comfortingly as she went
+to look at the clock. "Twenty minutes to seven, our clock says. It's apt
+to be fast, so I guess you won't miss any trains. Father he says he'd
+rather have a clock fast than slow any day, but it don't often get more
+than ten minutes wrong either way."
+
+And to us, after our two weeks of camp, ten minutes' error in a clock
+seemed indeed slight.
+
+"Jonathan," I said, as we walked back along the road, "I hate to go back
+to clock time. I like real time better."
+
+"You couldn't do so many things in a day," said Jonathan.
+
+"No--maybe not."
+
+"But maybe that wouldn't matter."
+
+"Maybe it wouldn't," I said.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   VIII
+
+
+                           The Ways of Griselda
+
+
+"Of course you don't know what her name is," I said, as we stood examining
+the sleek little black mare Jonathan had just brought up from the city.
+
+"No. Forgot to ask. Don't believe they'd have known anyway--one of a
+hundred or so."
+
+"Well, we'll name her again. Dear me--she's rather plain! Probably she's
+useful."
+
+"Hope so," said Jonathan. Then, stepping back a little, in a slightly
+grieved tone, "But I don't call her plain. Wait till she's groomed up--"
+
+"It's that droop of her neck--sort of patient--and the way she drops one of
+her hips--if they are hips."
+
+"But we want a horse to be patient."
+
+"Yes. I don't know that I care about having her _look_ so terribly much so
+as this. I think I'll call her Griselda."
+
+"Now, why Griselda?"
+
+"Why, don't you know? She was that patient creature, with the horrid
+husband who had to keep trying to see just how patient she was. It's a
+hateful story--enough to turn any one who brooded on it into a militant
+suffragette."
+
+"But you can't call a horse Griselda--not for common stable use, you know."
+
+"Call her 'Griz' for short. It does very well."
+
+Jonathan jeered a little, but in the family the name held. Our man Hiram
+said nothing, but I think in private he called her "Fan" or "Beauty" or
+"Lady," or some such regulation stable name.
+
+Called by any name, she pleased us, and she _was_ patient. She trotted
+peacefully up hill and down, she did her best at ploughing and haymaking
+and all the odd jobs that the farm supplied. She stood when we left her,
+with that same demure, almost overdone droop of the neck that I had first
+noticed. When I met Jonathan at the station, she stood with her nose
+against a snorting train, looking as if nothing could rouse her.
+
+"Good little horse you got there," remarked the station agent. "Where'd
+you find her?"
+
+"Oh, I picked her out of a bunch down in the city," said Jonathan
+casually. "I didn't think I knew much about horses, but I guess I was in
+luck this time."
+
+"Guess you know more about horses than you're sayin'." And Jonathan, thus
+pressed, admitted with suitable reluctance that he _had_ now and then been
+able to detect a good horse by his own observation.
+
+On the way home he openly congratulated himself on his find. "I really
+wasn't sure I knew how to pick out a horse," he remarked, in a glow of
+retrospective modesty, "but I certainly got a treasure this time."
+
+Griz had been with us about two weeks, and all went well. Then another
+horse was needed for farm work, and one was sent up--one Kit by name--a big,
+pleasant, rather stupid brown mare.
+
+"They do say two mares don't git on so well together as a mare 'n a
+horse," remarked Hiram.
+
+"But these are both such quiet creatures," I protested, to which Hiram
+made no answer. Hiram seldom made an answer unless fairly cornered into
+it.
+
+For two or three days after the new arrival nothing happened, so far as we
+knew, except that Griz always laid her ears back, and looked queer about
+her under lip, whenever Kit was led in or out of the stall next her, while
+Kit always huddled up close to her manger whenever Griz was led past her
+heels. Once or twice Griz slipped her halter in the stall, and Hiram said
+there was a place on Kit that looked as if she had been kicked, but when
+we scrutinized Griz, neck a-droop and eyes a-blink, we found it hard to
+think ill of her. Besides, Jonathan was now fairly committed to the
+opinion that he had "got a treasure this time." "Kit may have hurt herself
+lying down," he suggested, and again Hiram made no answer.
+
+Then one night, sometime during the very small, very dark, and very sleepy
+hours, we were awakened by awful sounds. "What is it? What _is_ it?" I
+gasped.
+
+Crash! Bang! Boom! The trampling of hoofs!--heavy, hollow pounding!--the
+tearing and splintering of wood!--all coming from the barn, though loud
+enough, indeed, to have come from the next room.
+
+Jonathan was up in an instant muttering, "Where are my rubber boots?--and
+my coat?"
+
+"Jonathan! _what_ a combination!"
+
+But he was gone, and I heard the snap of the lantern and the slam of the
+back door almost before the rocking-chair in the sitting-room that he had
+hit--and talked to--had stopped rocking. Then I heard him calling outside
+Hiram's window and then he ran past our window, out to the barn. I wished
+he had waited for Hiram, but I had an undercurrent of pleasure in hearing
+him run. Jonathan's theory is that there is never any hurry, and now and
+then I like to have this notion jolted up a little.
+
+Meanwhile the awful sounds had ceased. There was the rumble of the stable
+door, a pause, and Jonathan's voice in conversational tones. Next came the
+flashing of Hiram's lantern, and the _tromp, tromp, tromp_, in much
+quicker tempo than usual, of Hiram's heavy boots. Hiram's theory was a
+good deal like Jonathan's, so this also gave me pleasure. Finally, there
+came the flash of another lantern, and I recognized the quick, short step
+of Mrs. Hiram. I smiled to myself, picturing the meeting between her and
+Jonathan, for I knew just how Jonathan was costumed. In two minutes I
+heard her steps repassing, and in five minutes Jonathan returned. He was
+chuckling quietly.
+
+"I guess Griz got all she needed--didn't know either of 'em had so much
+spunk in 'em."
+
+"What happened?"
+
+"Don't know, exactly, but when I opened that door, there was Griz, just
+inside, no halter on, head down, meek as Moses, as far away from Kit's
+heels as she could get--she's got the mark of them on her leg and her
+flank."
+
+"Is she hurt?--or Kit?"
+
+"No, not so far as we can see, not to amount to anything--except maybe
+Griz's feelings."
+
+"And what about Mrs. Hiram's feelings?"
+
+Jonathan laughed aloud. "I was inside with Kit, and she called out to know
+if she could help."
+
+"And what did you say?"
+
+"I said, 'Not on your life.' "
+
+"So that was why she came back. Did you really say,'Not on your life,' or
+did you only imply it in your tone, while you actually said, 'No, thank
+you very much'?"
+
+"I really said it. At least, I don't remember conversations the way you
+do, but I didn't feel a bit like thanking anybody, and I don't believe I
+did."
+
+"Well, I wish I'd heard you. One misses a good deal--"
+
+"You can see the stable to-morrow. That'll keep. They must have had a time
+of it! The walls are marked and splintered as high as I can reach. And I
+don't believe Kit'll cringe when Griz passes her any more."
+
+"Of course you remember Hiram _said_ two mares didn't usually get on very
+well, and even when they're chosen by a good judge of horses--"
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+After that the two did get along peaceably enough, and Jonathan assured me
+that all horses had these little affairs. One day we drove over to the
+main street of the village on an errand.
+
+"Will she stand?" I questioned.
+
+"Better hitch her, perhaps," said Jonathan, getting out the rope. He
+snapped it into her bit-ring, then threw the other end around a post and
+started to make a half-hitch. But as he drew up the rope it was suddenly
+jerked out of his hand. He looked up and saw Griselda's patient head
+waving high above him on the end of an erect and rebellious neck, the
+hitch-rope waggling in loops and spirals in the air, and the whole outfit
+backing away from him with speed and decision. He was so astonished that
+he did nothing, and in a moment Griz had stopped backing and stood still,
+her head sagging gently, the rope dangling.
+
+"Well--I'll--be--" I didn't try to remember just what Jonathan said he would
+be, because it doesn't really matter. We both stared at Griz as if we had
+never seen her before. Griz looked at nothing in particular, she blinked
+long lashes over drowsy, dark eyes, and sagged one hip.
+
+"She's trying to make believe she didn't do it--but she did," I said.
+
+"Something must have startled her," said Jonathan, peering up and down the
+deserted street. Two roosters were crowing antiphonally in near-by yards,
+and a dog was barking somewhere far off.
+
+"What?" I said.
+
+"You never can tell, with a horse."
+
+"No, apparently not," I said, smiling to myself; and I added hastily, as I
+saw Jonathan go forward to her head, "_Don't_ try it again, please! I'll
+stay by her while you go in. _Please!_" For I had detected on Jonathan's
+face a look that I very well knew. It was the same expression he had worn
+that Sunday he led the calf to pasture. He made no answer, but stood
+examining the hitch-rope.
+
+"No use," he said, quietly releasing it and tossing its coil into the
+carriage, "It's too rotten. If it snapped, she'd be ruined."
+
+I breathed freer. I privately hoped that all the hitch-ropes at the farm
+were rotten.
+
+"Griz stands perfectly well without hitching," I said as we drove home,
+"Why do you force an issue?"
+
+"I didn't. She did. She's beaten me. If I don't hitch her now, she'll know
+she's master."
+
+"Oh, dear!" I sighed. "Let her _be_ master! Where's the harm? It's just
+your vanity."
+
+"Perhaps so," said Jonathan.
+
+When he agrees with me like that I know it's hopeless.
+
+The next night he wheeled in at the big gate bearing about his shoulders a
+coil of heavy rope.
+
+"It looks like a ship's cable," I said.
+
+"Yes," he responded, leaning his bicycle against his side, and swinging
+the coil over his head. "I want it for mooring purposes. Think it'll moor
+Griz?"
+
+"Jonathan!" I exclaimed, "you won't!"
+
+"Watch me," said Jonathan, and he proceeded to explain to me the working
+of the tackle.
+
+One end had a ring in it, and as nearly as I remember, the plan was to put
+the rope around her body, under what would be her arm-pits if she had
+arm-pits,--horses' joints are never called what one would expect, of
+course,--run the end through the ring, then forward between her legs and
+through the bit-ring.
+
+"Then, when she sets back, it cuts her in two," he concluded cheerfully.
+
+"But you don't _want_ her in two," I protested.
+
+"She won't set back," he responded; "at least, not more than once.
+To-morrow's Sunday; I'll have to hitch her at church."
+
+I hoped it would rain, so we needn't go, but we were having a drought and
+the morning dawned cloudless. We reached the church just on the last
+stroke of the bell. The women were all within; the men and boys lounging
+in the vestibule were turning reluctant feet to follow them.
+
+"You go right in," said Jonathan, "I'll be in soon."
+
+I turned to protest, but he was already driving round to the side, and a
+hush had fallen over the congregation within that made it embarrassing to
+call. Besides, one of the deacons stood holding open the door for me.
+
+I slipped into a pew near the back, with the apologetic feeling one often
+has in an old country church--a feeling that one is making the ghosts move
+along a little. They did move, of course,--probably ghosts are always
+polite when one really meets them,--and I sat down. Indeed, I was thinking
+very little of ghosts that day, or of the minister either. My ears were
+cocked to catch and interpret all the noises that came in through the open
+windows on my left. My eyes wandered in that direction, too, though the
+clear panes revealed nothing more exciting than flickering maple leaves
+and a sky filmed over by veils of cloud.
+
+The moralists tell us that what we get out of any experience depends upon
+what we bring to it. What I brought to it that morning was a mind agog,
+attuned to receive these expected outside sounds. To all such sounds the
+service within was merely a background--a background which didn't know its
+place, since it kept pushing itself more or less importunately into the
+foreground. I sat there, of course, with perfect propriety of demeanor,
+but my reactions were something like this:--
+
+_Hymn 912_ ... seven stanzas! horrors! oh! _omit the 3d, 5th, and 6th_--well,
+I should hope so!... I can't hear a thing while this is going on!... He hasn't
+come in yet! _Scripture reading for to-day_--why can't he give us the
+passage and let us read it for ourselves?--well, his voice is rather high
+and uneven, I think I could make out Jonathan's through the loopholes in
+it.... There! What was that, I wonder! Sounded like shouting,--oh, why can't
+he talk softly! _Let us unite in prayer._ Ah! now we'll have a long, quiet
+time, anyway!... if only he wouldn't pray quite so loud! Why pray aloud at
+all, anyway? I like the Quaker way best: a good long strip of silence,
+where your thoughts can wash around in any fashion that--There!
+No--yes--no--it's just people going by on the road.... Maybe he's in the back
+of the church now, waiting for the close of the prayer. Seems as if I had
+to look.... Well, he isn't.... _For thy name's sake, amen._
+
+And then the collection, with an organ voluntary the while--now why an
+organ voluntary? Why not leave people to their thoughts some of the time?
+
+And at last, the sermon:--_The text to which I wish to call your attention
+this morning_--my attention, forsooth! My attention was otherwise occupied.
+Ah! A puff of warm, sweet air from behind me, and the soft, padding noise
+of the swinging doors, apprised me of an incomer. A cautious tread in the
+aisle--I moved along a little to make room.
+
+In a city church probably I should have thrown propriety to the winds and
+had the gist of the story out of him at once, but in a country church
+there are always such listening spaces,--the very pew-backs and cushions
+seem attentive, the hymnals creak in their racks, and the little stools
+cry out nervously when one barely touches them. It was too much for me. I
+was coerced into an outer semblance of decorum. However, I snatched a
+hasty glance at Jonathan's face. It was quite red and hot-looking, but
+calm, very calm, and I judged it to be the calm, not of defeat nor yet of
+settled militancy, but of triumph. I even thought I detected the flicker
+of a grin,--the mere atmospheric suggestion of a grin,--as if he felt the
+urgent if furtive appeal in my glance. At any rate, Jonathan was all
+right, that was clear. And as to Griz--whether she was still one mare or
+two half-mares--it didn't so much matter. And now for the sermon! I
+gathered myself to attend.
+
+As we stood up for the last hymn, I whispered, "How did it go?"
+
+"All right. She's hitched," was the answer.
+
+After church there was the usual stir of sociability, and when I emerged
+into the glare of the church steps, I saw Jonathan driving slowly around
+from the rear. Griz walked meekly, her head sagged, her eyes blinked.
+
+"Good quiet little horse you've got there," said a deacon over my
+shoulder; "don't get restless standing, the way some horses do."
+
+"Yes, she's very quiet," I said.
+
+I got in, and at last, as we drove off, the flood-gates of my impatience
+broke:--
+
+"Well?" I said,--"well?"
+
+"Well--" said Jonathan.
+
+"_Well? Tell_ me about it!"
+
+"I've told you. I hitched her."
+
+"How did you hitch her?"
+
+"Just the way I said I would."
+
+"Didn't she mind?"
+
+"Don't know."
+
+"Did she make a fuss?"
+
+"Not much."
+
+"What do you mean by much?"
+
+"Oh, she set back a little."
+
+"Do any harm?"
+
+"No."
+
+"Hurt herself?"
+
+"Guess not."
+
+"Jonathan, you drive me distracted--you have no more sense for a story--"
+
+"But there was nothing in particular--"
+
+"Now, Jonathan, if there was nothing in particular, _why_ didn't you get
+into church till the sermon was begun, and why were you so red and hot?"
+
+Jonathan smiled indulgently. "Why, of course, she didn't care about being
+hitched. I thought you knew that. But it was perfectly easy."
+
+And that was about all I could extract by the most artful questions. I
+took my revenge by telling Jonathan the deacon's compliment to Griz. "He
+said she didn't get restless standing, the way so many horses did. I
+thought of mentioning that you were a rather good judge of horses, in an
+amateur way, but then I thought it might seem like boasting, so I didn't."
+
+After that, of course, I didn't really deserve to hear the whole story,
+but the next night I happened to be in the hammock while Jonathan was
+talking to a neighbor at the front gate, and he was relating the incident
+with detail enough to have satisfied the most hungry gossip. Only thus did
+I learn that Bill Howard, who had wound the rope twice round the post to
+give himself a little leeway, was drawn right up to the post when she set
+back; that they had been afraid the headstall would tear off; that they
+had been rather nervous about the post, and other such little points,
+which I had not been clever enough to elicit by my questions.
+
+Now, why? Probably a man likes to tell a story when he likes to tell it. I
+find myself wondering how much Odysseus told Penelope about his adventures
+when she got him to herself for a good talk. Is it significant that his
+really long story was told to the King of the Phæacians?
+
+As to Griz:--it would perhaps not be worth while to recount her subsequent
+history. It was a curious one, consisting of long stretches of continuous
+and ostentatious meekness, broken by sudden flare-ups which, after their
+occurrence, always seemed incredible. She never again "set back" when
+Jonathan was the one to hitch her, but this was a concession made to him
+personally, and had no effect on her general habits. We talked of changing
+her name, but could never manage it. We thought of selling her, but she
+was too valuable--most of the time. And when we finally parted from her our
+relief was deeply tinged with regret.
+
+I have sometimes wondered whether such flare-ups were not the natural and
+necessary means of recuperation from such depths of meekness. I have even
+wondered whether the original Griselda may not have--but this is not a
+dissertation on early Italian poetry, nor on the nature of women.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    IX
+
+
+                           A Rowboat Pilgrimage
+
+
+We were glad that the plan of the rowboat cruise dawned upon us almost a
+year before it came to pass. We were the gainers by just that rich length
+of expectancy.
+
+For the joy that one gets from any cherished plan is always threefold:
+there is the joy of looking forward, the joy of the very doing, and the
+joy of remembering. They are all good, but only the last is eternal. The
+doing is hedged between limits, and its pleasures are often confused,
+overlaid with alien or accidental impressions. The joy of the forward look
+is pure and keen, but its bounds, too, are set. It begins at the moment
+when the first ray of the plan-idea dawns on one's mind, and it ends with
+the day of fulfillment. If the dawn begins long before the day, so much
+the better.
+
+It was early fall, and we had come in from a day by the river, where we
+had tramped miles up, to one of its infrequent bridges, and miles down on
+the other bank. Now we sat before the fire, talking it over.
+
+"If we only had a boat!" I said.
+
+"Boat! What do you want a boat for? You wouldn't want to sit in a boat all
+day."
+
+"Who said I would? But I want to get into it, and float off, and get out
+again somewhere else. That's my idea of a boat."
+
+"Oh, of course, a boat would be handy--"
+
+"Handy! You talk as if it was a buttonhook!"
+
+"Well?"
+
+"Well--of course it _is_ handy--as you call it--but a boat means such a lot
+of things--adventure, romance. When you're in a boat--a little boat--anything
+might happen."
+
+"Yes," said Jonathan, drawing the logs together, "that's just the way your
+family feels about it when you're young."
+
+Then we both laughed, and there was a reminiscent pause.
+
+"What became of your boat?" I asked finally.
+
+"Sold. You kept yours."
+
+"Yes. It's in the cellar, there at Nantucket. I could have it sent on."
+
+"Cost as much as to buy a new one."
+
+"A new one wouldn't be as good." I bristled a little. Any one who has
+owned a boat is very sensitive about its virtues.
+
+"How big?"
+
+"How should I know? A little boat--maybe twelve feet."
+
+"Two oars?"
+
+"Four."
+
+"Round bottom?"
+
+"Yes. She'd ride anything."
+
+"Well"--Jonathan suddenly expanded--"here's an idea now! How would you like
+to have it sent on to the mainland, and then row it the rest of the
+way--along the Rhode Island and Connecticut shores?"
+
+I sat straight up. "Jonathan! Let's do it now!"
+
+Jonathan chuckled. "My! What a hurry she's in!"
+
+"Well, let's!"
+
+"We couldn't. The boat will have to be overhauled first."
+
+"Oh, dear! I suppose so."
+
+"We could do it next spring, and go up the trout streams."
+
+"Think of that!" I murmured.
+
+"Or in September and get the shore hunting--the salt marshes."
+
+"Oh, which?--which?" Already I was following our course along curving
+beaches and amongst the yellow marshlands. But Jonathan's mind was working
+on more practical details.
+
+"Twelve feet, you said?"
+
+"About that."
+
+"Pretty close stowing for our dunnage--still--let's see--two guns--"
+
+"Or the rods, if we went in the spring."
+
+"And rubber coats, and blankets--"
+
+"Jonathan! Should we camp?"
+
+"Might have to."
+
+"Let's, anyway."
+
+"How does that coast-line run? Where's a map?"
+
+All we had were some railroad maps and an old school geography--just enough
+to tantalize us--but we fell upon them eagerly. It is curious what a change
+comes over these dumb bits of colored paper at such times. Every curve of
+the shore, every bay and headland came to life and spoke to us--called to
+us.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+We decided on the September plan, and for the next eleven months our
+casual talk was starred with inapropos remarks like these:--
+
+"Jonathan, I know we shall forget a can-opener."
+
+"Better write it down while you think of it. And have you put down a
+hatchet?"
+
+"The camera! It isn't on the list!"
+
+"Hang it! Those charts haven't come yet!"
+
+"What can we take to look respectable in when we go ashore?"
+
+Meanwhile the little boat was stirred out of its long sleep in the cellar,
+overhauled, and painted, and shipped to a port up in Narragansett Bay. And
+on the last day of August we found ourselves walking down through the
+little town. Following the instructions of wondering small boys, we came
+to a gate in a board fence, opened it and let ourselves into a typical New
+England seaport scene--a tiny garden, ablaze with sunshine and gorgeous
+with the yellows and lavenders of fall flowers, and a narrow brick path,
+under a grape-vine arch, leading down to the sand and the wharf and the
+sparkling blue waters of the bay. As we passed down through the garden, we
+saw a little boat, bottom up, dazzling white in the sun.
+
+"There it is!" I said, with a surge of reminiscent affection.
+
+"That little thing!" said Jonathan. "I thought you said twelve feet."
+
+"Well, isn't it? Anyway, I said _about_. And it's big enough."
+
+He was spanning its length with his hands.
+
+"Eleven foot six. Oh, I suppose she'll do. My boat was fourteen."
+
+"Now, don't be so patronizing about your boat. Wait till you see how mine
+behaves."
+
+He dropped the discussion and got her launched. Is there anything prettier
+than a pretty boat floating beside a dock!
+
+The next morning when we came down we found her half full of water.
+"She'll be all right now she's soaked up," said Jonathan, and we baled her
+dry and went off to get our stuff.
+
+I delayed to buy provisions, and when I came back I found Jonathan
+standing on the float surrounded by plunder of all sorts. He answered my
+hail rather solemnly.
+
+"See here! When this stuff's all stowed, where are we going to sit? That's
+what's worrying me."
+
+"Why, won't it go in?"
+
+"Go! It wouldn't go in two boats."
+
+I came down the plank. "Well, let's eliminate."
+
+We eliminated. We took out extra shoes and coats and "town clothes," we
+cut down as far as we dared, and expressed a big bundle home. The rest we
+got into two sailor's dunnage bags, one waterproof, the other nearly so,
+and one big water-tight metal box. Then there were the guns, and the
+provisions, and the charts in a long tin tube, and there was a lantern--a
+clumsy thing, which we lashed to a seat. It was always in the way and
+proved of very little use, but we thought we ought to take it.
+
+While we worked, some loungers gathered on the wharf above and watched us
+with that tolerant curiosity that loungers know so well how to assume. As
+we got in and took up our oars, one of them called out, "Now, if you only
+had a little motor there in the stern, you'd be all right."
+
+"Don't want one," said Jonathan.
+
+"What? Why not?"
+
+"Go too fast."
+
+"Eh? What say?"
+
+"Go--too--fast."
+
+"He heard you," I said, "but he can't believe you really said it."
+
+The oars fell into unison, there was the dip of their blades, the grating
+chunk of the rowlocks--_dip-ke-chunk, dip-ke-chunk_. As we fell into our
+stroke the little boat began to respond, the water swished at her bows and
+gurgled under her stern. The wharf fell away behind us, the houses back of
+it came into sight, then the wooded hills behind. The whole town began to
+draw together, with its church steeples as its centers.
+
+"She does go!" remarked Jonathan.
+
+"I told you! Look at us now! Look at that buoy!"
+
+_Dip-ke-chunk, dip-ke-chunk_--the red buoy swept by us and dropped into the
+blue background of dancing waves.
+
+"Are we really off? Is it really happening?" I said joyously.
+
+"Do you like it?" said Jonathan over his shoulder.
+
+"No. Do you?" To such unwisdom of speech do people come when they are
+happy.
+
+But there were circumstances to steady us.
+
+"What I'm wondering," said Jonathan, "is, what's going to happen next--when
+we get out there." He tilted his head toward the open bay, broad and
+windy, ahead of us. "There's some pretty interesting water out there
+beyond this lee."
+
+"Oh, she'll take it all right. It's no worse than Nantucket water. It
+couldn't be. You'll see."
+
+We did see. In half an hour we were in the middle of upper Narragansett
+Bay, trying to make a diagonal across it to the southwest, while the long
+rollers came in steadily from the south, broken by a nasty chop of peaked,
+whitecapped waves. We rowed carefully, our heads over our right shoulders,
+watching each wave as it came on, with broken comments:--
+
+"That's a good one coming--bring her up now--there--all right, now let her
+off again--hold her so--there's another coming--see?--that big one, the fifth,
+the fourth, away--row, now--we beat it--there it goes off astern--see it
+break! Here's another--look out for your oar--we can't afford to miss a
+stroke--oh, me! Did that wet you too? My right shoulder is soaked--my left
+isn't--now it is!"
+
+But half an hour of this sort of thing brought about two
+results--confidence in the little boat, which rode well in spite of her
+load, and confidence in each other's rowing. We found that the four oars
+worked together, our early training told, and we instinctively did the
+same things in each of the varied emergencies created by wind and wave.
+There was no need for orders, and our talk died down to an exclamation now
+and then at some especially big wave, or a laugh as one of us got a
+drenching from the white top of a foaming crest.
+
+It was not an easy day, that first one.... It seems, sometimes, as if there
+were little imps of malignity that hovered over one at the beginning of an
+undertaking--little brownies, using all their charms to try to turn one
+back, discouraged. If there be such, they had a good time with us that
+long afternoon. First they had said that we shouldn't load our boat. Then
+they sent us rough water. Then they set the boat a-leak.
+
+For leak it did. The soaking over night had done no good. It had, indeed,
+been "thoroughly overhauled" and pronounced seaworthy, but there was the
+water, too much to be accounted for as spray, swashing over the bottom
+boards, growing undeniably and most uncomfortably deeper. The imps made no
+offer to bale for us, so we had to do it ourselves, losing the much-needed
+power at the oars, while one of us set to work at the dip-and-toss,
+dip-and-toss motion so familiar to any one who has kept company with a
+small boat.
+
+"I wish my mother could see me now--" hummed Jonathan.
+
+"I wouldn't wish that."
+
+"Why not?"
+
+"What would they all think of us if they could see us this minute?"
+
+"Just what they have thought for a long time."
+
+I laughed. "How true that is, teacher!" I said.
+
+Finding us still cheerful, the imps tried again.
+
+"Jonathan--do you know--I do believe--my rowlock socket is working loose."
+
+He cast a quick look over his shoulder without breaking stroke. Then he
+said a few words, explicit and powerful, about the man who had
+"overhauled" the boat. "He ought to be put out in it, in a sea like this,
+and left to row himself home."
+
+"Yes, of course, but instead, here we are. It won't last half an hour
+longer."
+
+It did not last ten minutes. There it hung, one screw pulled loose, the
+other barely holding.
+
+"Take my knife--you can get it out of my hip pocket--and try to set up that
+screw with the big blade."
+
+I did so, and pulled a few strokes. Then--"It's come out again. It's no
+use."
+
+"We make blamed poor headway with one pair of oars," said Jonathan.
+
+He meditated.
+
+"Where are the screw-eyes?" he said after a moment.
+
+"Oh, good for you! They're in the metal box. I'll get them."
+
+I drew in my useless oars, turned about and cautiously wriggled up into
+the bow seat.
+
+"Look out for yourself! Don't bullfrog out over the bow. I can't hold her
+any steadier than this."
+
+"Oh, I'm all right."
+
+With one hand I gripped the gunwale, with the other I felt down into the
+box and finally fished out the required treasures. I worked my way back
+into my own seat and tried a screw-eye in the empty, rusted-out hole.
+
+"Does it bite?"
+
+"I don't know about biting, but it's going in beautifully--now it goes
+hard."
+
+"Perhaps I can give it a turn."
+
+"Perhaps you can't! Don't you stop rowing. If this boat wasn't held
+steady, she'd--I don't know what she wouldn't do."
+
+"If you stick something through the eye you can turn it."
+
+"Yes. I'll find something. Here's the can-opener. Grand! There! It's
+solid. Now I'll do the other one the same way. Hurrah for the screw-eyes!"
+
+"You thought of bringing them," said Jonathan magnanimously.
+
+"You thought of using them," said I, not to be outdone.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+And so again the imps were foiled. But they hung over us, they slapped us
+with spray, they tossed the whitecaps, jeering, at our heads, over our
+shoulders, into our laps. They put up the tides to tricks of eddies and
+back-currents, so that they hindered instead of helping, as by calculation
+they should have done. They laid invisible hands on our oars and dragged
+them down, or held them up as the wave raced by, so that we missed a
+stroke. Once, in the lee of an island, we paused to rest and unroll our
+chart and get our bearings, while the smooth rise and fall of the ground
+swell was all there was to remind us of the riot of water just outside.
+Then we were off again, and the imps had us. They were busy, those imps,
+all that long, windy, wave-tossed, wonderful day.
+
+For it was wonderful, and the imps were indeed frustrate, wholly
+frustrate. We pulled toward the quiet harbor that evening with aching
+muscles, hair and clothes matted with salt water, but spirits undaunted.
+Hungry, too, for we had not been able to do more than munch a few ship's
+biscuit while we rowed. Wind, tide, waves, all against us, boat leaking,
+oars disabled--and still--"Isn't it great!" we said, "great--great!"
+
+Dusk was closing in and lights began to blink along the western shore. We
+beached on a sandy point and asked our way,--where could we put up for the
+night? Children, barelegged, waded out around the boat, looking at us and
+our funny, laden craft, with curious eyes. Yes, they said, there was an
+inn, farther up the harbor, where we saw those lights--ten minutes' row,
+perhaps. We pulled off again, stiffly.
+
+"Tired?" said Jonathan. "I'll take her in."
+
+"Indeed you won't! Of course I'm tired, but I've got to do something to
+keep warm. And I want to get in. I want supper. They'll all be in bed if
+we don't hurry."
+
+Our tired muscles lent themselves mechanically to their work and the boat
+slid across the quiet waters of the moonlit harbor. The town lights grew
+bigger, wharves loomed above us, and soon we were gliding along under
+their shadow. The eddies from our oars went _lap-lap-lapping_ off among
+the great dark spiles and stirred up the keen smell of salt-soaked timbers
+and seaweed. Blindly groping, we found a rickety ladder, tied our boat and
+climbed stiffly up, and there we were on our feet again, feeling rather
+queer and stretchy after seven hours in our cramped quarters.
+
+Half an hour later we were sitting in the warm, clean kitchen of the old
+inn, and a kindly but mystified hostess was mothering us with eggs and ham
+and tea and pie and doughnuts and other things that a New England kitchen
+always contains. While we ate she sat and rocked energetically,
+questioning us with friendly curiosity and watching us with keen though
+benevolent eyes.
+
+"Rowed, did you? Jim!" calling back over her shoulder through a half-open
+door, "did you hear that? These folks have rowed all the way across the
+bay this afternoon--yes--rowed. What say? Yes, _she_ rowed, too. They say
+they're goin' on to-morrow, round Judith."
+
+"Say, now," she finally appealed to us in frank perplexity, "what're you
+doin' it for?"
+
+"We like it," said Jonathan peacefully.
+
+"Like it, do you? Well, now, if that don't beat all! Say--you know? I
+wouldn't do that, what you're doin', not if you paid me. Have another cup
+o' tea, do."
+
+The next morning she bade us good-bye with the air of entrusting us to
+that Providence which is known to have a special care for children and
+fools.
+
+In fact, through all the varying experiences of our cruise, one thing
+never varied. That was, the expression on the faces of the people we met.
+Wind and water and coast and birds all greeted us differently with each
+new day, but no matter how many new faces we met, we found in them always
+the same look--a look at once friendly and quizzical, the look one casts
+upon nice children for whose antics one is not responsible, the look one
+casts upon very small dogs. Why? Is it so odd a thing to like to row a
+little boat? If it had been a yacht, now, or even a motor-boat, the
+expression would have been different. Apparently the oars were what did
+it.
+
+On that particular morning, word of our doings must have got abroad, for
+as we stepped out on the brick sidewalk of the shady main street a little
+crowd was waiting for us. It was a funny procession:--Jonathan first, with
+the guns and the water-jug, then a boy with a wheelbarrow, on which were
+piled the two dunnage bags, the metal box, the lantern, the axe, the chart
+tube, and a few other things. An old man and some boys followed curiously,
+then I came, with two big baking-powder cans, very gorgeous because the
+red paper was not yet off them, full of provisions pressed on us by our
+friendly hostess. Tagging behind me, came an old woman, a big girl, and a
+half-dozen children. It was the kind of escort that usually attends the
+hand-organ and monkey on their infrequent visits.
+
+We loaded up the boat and pulled off, a little stiff but fairly fit after
+all. The group waved us off and then stood obviously talking us over. One
+of the men called after us, with a sudden inspiration, "Pity ye' hevn't
+got a _motor_ in there!"
+
+Though we didn't want to be a motor-boat, we were not above receiving
+courtesies from one, and when the Providence tacitly invoked by our
+hostess sent one chugging along up to us, with the proposal to take us in
+tow, we accepted with great contentment. The morning was not half over
+when we made our next landing, and looked up the captain who was to tow us
+"around Judith."
+
+For in the matter of Point Judith our friends and advisers had been
+unanimously firm. There should be a limit, they said, even to the
+foolishness of a holiday plan. With a light boat, we might have braved
+their disapproval, but loaded as we were, we decided to be prudent.
+
+"I'd hate to lose the guns," said Jonathan.
+
+"Yes, and the camera," I added.
+
+So we accepted the offer of a good friend's knockabout, and sailed around
+the dreaded Point with our little boat tailing behind at the end of her
+rope. We saw no water that we could not have met in her, but, as our
+friends did not fail to point out, that proved nothing whatever.
+
+At Stonington we were left once more to our little boat and our four oars,
+and there we pulled her up and caulked her.
+
+Strange, how we are always trying to avoid mishaps, and yet when they come
+we are so often glad of them! A leaky boat had not been in our plans, but
+if we could change that first wild row across the big bay, if we could cut
+out that leakiness, that puddling bottom, the difficult shifts of baling
+and rowing, would we? We would not. Again, as we look back over the days
+of our cruise, we could ill spare those hours of labor on the hot stretch
+of sunny beach between the wharves, where we bent half-blinded over the
+dazzling white boat, our spirits irritated, our fingers aching as they
+worked at the _push-push-push_ of the cotton waste between the strakes. We
+said hard words of the man who thought he had put our boat in order for
+us, and yet--if we could cut out those hours of grumbling toil, would we?
+We would not. For one thing, we should perhaps have missed the precious
+word of advice given us by a man who sat and watched us. He recommended us
+to put a little motor in the stern. He pointed out to us that rowing was
+pretty hard work. We said we liked it. His face wore the expression I have
+already described.
+
+We launched her again at dusk. Next morning Jonathan was a moment ahead of
+me on the wharf.
+
+"Any water in her?" I called, following hard.
+
+"Dry as a bone," he shouted back, exultant; but as I came up he added,
+with his usual conservatism, "of course we can't tell what she may do when
+she's loaded."
+
+But our work held. For the rest of the trip we had a dry boat, except for
+what came in over the sides.
+
+Now that we were in the home State, we got out our guns and hugged the
+shore closely, on the lookout for plover. We drifted sometimes, while we
+studied our maps for the location of the salt marshes. If we were lucky,
+we had broiled birds for luncheon or supper; if we were not, we had tinned
+stuff, which is distinctly inferior. When we spent the night at an inn, we
+breakfasted there, but most of our meals were eaten along the shore, or,
+best of all, on some island.
+
+"Can we find an island for lunch to-day, do you suppose?" I usually asked,
+as we dipped our oars in the morning.
+
+"Do you have to have an island for lunch?"
+
+"I love an island!" choosing to ignore the jest. "That's one of the best
+things about a boat--that it takes you to islands."
+
+"Now, why an island?"
+
+"You know as well as I do. An island means--oh, it means remoteness, it
+means quiet--possession; while you're on it, it's yours--you don't have
+every passer-by looking over your shoulder--you have a little world all to
+yourself."
+
+I could feel Jonathan's indulgent smile through the back of his head as he
+rowed.
+
+"Well, you know yourself," I argued. "Even a tiny bit of stone and earth,
+with moss on it, and a flower, out in the middle of a brook, looks
+different, somehow, from the same things on the bank. It _is_
+different--it's an island."
+
+And so we sought islands--sometimes little ones, all rocks, too little even
+to have collected driftwood for a fire, too little to have grown anything
+but wisps of beach-grass, low enough to be covered, perhaps, by the
+highest tides. Sometimes it was a larger island, big enough to have bushes
+on it, and beaches round its edges. One of these we remember as best of
+all. It lay a mile off shore, a long island, rocky at its ocean end and at
+its land end running out to a long slim line of curving beach. In the
+middle it rose to a plateau, thick-set with grass and goldenrod and bay
+bushes, from which floated the gay, sweet voices of song sparrows. Ah!
+There was an island for you! And we made a fire of driftwood, and cooked
+our luncheon, and lay back on the sand and drowsed, while the sea-gulls,
+millions of them, circled curiously over our heads, mewing and screaming
+as they dived and swooped, and behind us the notes of the song sparrows
+rose sweet.
+
+If we had had water enough in our jug, we should have camped there. We
+rowed away at last, slowly, loving it, and in our thoughts we still
+possess it. As it dropped astern I pulled in my oars and stood up to take
+its picture--no easy task, with the boat mounting and plunging among the
+swells. But I have my picture, its horizon line at a noticeable slant,
+reminiscent of my unsteady balance. It means little to other people, but
+to us it means the sweetness of sunshine and wind and water, the sweetness
+of grass and bird-notes, all breathed over by the spirit of solitude.
+
+Then it melted away--our island--into the waste of waters, and we turned to
+look toward the misty headlands beyond our bow. Where the marshlands were,
+we followed them closely, but where the shore was rocky, or, worse still,
+built up with summer cottages, we often made a straight course from
+headland to headland, keeping well out, often a mile or two, to avoid tide
+eddies. We liked the feeling of being far out, the shore a dark blue, the
+cottages little dots. But we liked it, too, when the headland before us
+grew large, its rocks and bushes stood out, and we could see the white rip
+off its point--a rip to be taken with some caution if we hoped to keep our
+cargo dry. And then, the rip passed, if the bay beyond curved in quiet and
+uninhabited, how we loved to turn and pull along close to shore, watching
+its beaches and sand-cliffs draw smoothly away beside our stern, or, best
+of all, pulling about and running in till our bow grated and we jumped to
+the wet beach and ran up the cliff to look about. Such moments bring in a
+peculiar way the thrill of discovery. It is one thing to go along a coast
+by land, and learn its ways so. It is a good thing. But it is quite
+another to fare over its waters and turn in upon it from without,
+surprising its secrets as from another world.
+
+But to do this, your boat must be a little one. As soon as you have a real
+keel, the case is altered. For a keel demands a special landing-place--a
+wharf--and a wharf means human habitation, and then--where is your thrill of
+discovery? Ah, no!--a little boat! And you can land anywhere, among rocks
+or in sandy shallows; you can explore the tide creeks and marshes and the
+little rivers; you can beach wherever you like, wherever the rippling
+waves themselves can go. A little boat for romance!
+
+A little boat, but a long cruise, as long as may be. To be sure, a boat
+and a bit of water anywhere is good. Even an errand across the pond and
+back may be a joy. But if you can, now and then, free yourself from the
+there-and-back habit, the reward is great. The joy of pilgrimage--of going,
+not there and back, but on, and on, and yet on--is a joy by itself. The
+thought that each night brings sleep in a new and unforeseen spot, with a
+new journey on the morrow, gives special flavor to the journeying.
+
+Not the least among the pleasures of the cruise were the night-camps. When
+the shore looked inviting, and harborage at an inn seemed doubtful, we
+pulled our boat above tide-water, turned her over and tilted her up on her
+side for a wind-break, and there we spent the night. The half-emptied
+dunnage bags were our pillows, the sand was our bed. Sand, to sleep on, is
+harder than one might suppose, but it is better than earth in being easily
+scooped out to suit one's needs. Indeed, even on a pneumatic mattress, I
+should hardly have slept much that first night. It was a new experience.
+The great world of waters was so close that it seemed, all night long,
+like a wonderful but ever importunate presence. The wind blew that night,
+too, and there was a low-scudding rack, and a half-smothered moon. As we
+rolled ourselves up in our blankets and rubber sheets and settled down, I
+looked out over the restless water.
+
+"The bay seems very full to-night--brimming," I said.
+
+"Not brimming over, though," said Jonathan.
+
+"I should hope not! But it does seem to me there are very few inches
+between it and our feet."
+
+"And the tide is still rising, of course," said Jonathan, by way of
+comfort.
+
+"Jonathan, I know just where high-tide mark is, and we're fully twelve
+inches above it."
+
+Silence.
+
+"Aren't we?"
+
+"Oh, was that a question?" murmured Jonathan. "Why, yes, I think we are at
+least that."
+
+"Of course, there are extra high tides sometimes."
+
+Silence.
+
+"Jonathan, do you know when they come?"
+
+"Not exactly."
+
+"Well, I don't care. I love it, anyway. Only it seems so much bigger and
+colder at night, the water does."
+
+At last I drowsed, waking now and then to raise my head and just glance
+down at those waves--they certainly sounded as if they were lapping the
+sand close by my ear. No, there they were, quite within bounds, fully
+twenty feet away from my toes. Of course it was all right. I slept again,
+and dreamed that the tide rose and rose; the waves ran merrily up the
+beach, ran up on both sides of us, closed in behind us. We were lying on a
+little sand island, and the waves nibbled at its edges--nibbled and nibbled
+and nibbled--the island was being nibbled up. This would never do! We must
+move! And I woke. _Ripple, ripple, swash!_ _ripple, ripple, swash!_ went
+the unconscious waves. As I raised my head I saw the pale beach stretching
+off under the moon-washed mists of middle night. Reassured, I sank back,
+and when I waked again the big sun was well above the rim of the waters
+and all the little waves were dancing and the wet curves of the beach were
+gleaming in the new day.
+
+The water was not always restless at night. The next time we camped we
+found a little harbor within a harbor, a crescent curve of fine white sand
+ending in a point of rock. In one of its clefts we made our fire and
+broiled our plover, ranging them on spits of bay so that they hung over
+the two edges of rock like people looking down into a miniature Grand
+Cañon. There were nine of them, fat and sputtering, and while they
+cooked, we made toast and arranged the camp. Then we had supper, and
+watched the red coals smouldering and the white moonlight filling the
+world with a radiance that put out the stars and brought the blue back to
+the sky. The little basin of the bay was quiet as a pool, the air was full
+of stillness, with now and then the hushed _flip-flip_ of a tiny wave that
+had somehow strayed in from the tumbling crowd outside.
+
+We slept well, but once Jonathan waked me. "Look!" he whispered, "White
+heron."
+
+I raised my head. There, quite near us in the shallow water, stood a great
+pale bird, motionless, on one long, slim leg, his oval body, long neck,
+head and bill clearly outlined against the bright water beyond. The mirror
+of the water reflected perfectly the soft outline, making a double
+creature, one above and one below, with that slim stem of leg between.
+
+I watched him until my neck grew tired. He never moved. Out beyond him,
+more dim, stood his mate, motionless too. Now and then they called to each
+other, with queer, harsh talk that made the stillness all the stiller when
+it closed in again.
+
+When we awoke, they were gone, but we found the heronry that morning on
+one of the oak-covered knolls that rise like islands out of the heart of
+the great salt marshes.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+All through the cruise, the big winds were with us more than we had
+expected. They gave us, for the most part, a right good time. For even in
+the partly protected Sound it is possible to stir up a sea rough enough to
+keep one busy. Each wave, as it came galloping up, was an antagonist to be
+dealt with. If we met it successfully, it galloped on, and left us none
+the worse for it. If we did not, it meant, perhaps, that its foaming white
+mane brushed our shoulders, or swept across our laps, or, worse still,
+drowned our guns. Once, indeed, we were threatened with something a little
+more serious. We were running down out of the Connecticut River, gliding
+smoothly over sleek water. It was delicious rowing, and the boat shot
+along swiftly. As we turned westward, it grew rougher, but we were paying
+no special heed to this when suddenly I became conscious of something dark
+over my right shoulder. I turned my head, and found myself looking up into
+the evil heart of a dull green breaker. I gasped, "Look out!" and dug my
+oar. Jonathan glanced, pulled, there was a moment of doubt, then the huge
+dark bulk was shouldering heavily away, off our starboard quarter. It was
+only the first of its ugly company. Through sheer carelessness, we had
+run, as it were, into an ambush--one of the worst bits of water on the
+Sound, where tide and river currents meet and wrangle. All around us were
+rearing, white-maned breakers, though the impression we got was less of
+their white manes than of their dark sides as they rose over us. Our
+problem was to meet each one fairly, and yet snatch every moment of
+respite to slant off toward the harborage inside the breakwaters. It took
+all our strength and all our skill, and all the resources of the good
+little boat. But we made it, after perhaps half an hour of stiff work.
+Then we rested, breathed, and went on. We did not talk much about it until
+we made camp that night. Then, as we sat looking out over the quiet water,
+I told Jonathan about the shadow over my shoulder.
+
+"It was like seeing a ghost," I said,--"no--more like feeling the hand of an
+enemy on your shoulder."
+
+"The Black Douglas," suggested Jonathan.
+
+"Yes. Talk about the scientific attitude--you've just got to personify
+things when they come at you like that. That wave had an expression--an
+ugly one. I don't wonder the Northmen felt as they did about the sea and
+the waves. They took it all personally--they had to!"
+
+"Were you frightened?" asked Jonathan.
+
+"No, of course not," I said, almost too promptly. Then I meditated--"I
+don't know what you'd call it--but I believe I understand now what people
+mean when they talk about their hearts going down into their boots."
+
+"Did yours?"
+
+"Why, not exactly--but--well--it certainly did feel suddenly very thick and
+heavy--as if it had dropped--perhaps an inch or two."
+
+"I believe," said Jonathan gently, "you might almost call that being
+frightened."
+
+"Yes, perhaps you might. Tell me--were you?"
+
+"I didn't like it--yes, I was anxious--and it made me tired to have been
+such a fool--the whole thing was absolutely unnecessary, if we'd looked up
+the charts carefully."
+
+"Or asked a few questions. But you know you hate to ask questions."
+
+"You could have asked them."
+
+"Well, anyway, aren't you glad it happened?"
+
+"Oh, of course; it was an experience."
+
+"Do you want to do it again?"
+
+"No"--he was emphatic--"not with that load."
+
+"Neither do I."
+
+If the winds sometimes wearied us a little, they helped us, too. We can
+never forget the evening we turned into the Thames River, making for the
+shelter of a friend's hospitable roof. We had battled most of that day
+with the diagonal onslaughts of a southeast gale, bringing with it the
+full swing of the ocean swell. It was easier than a southwester would have
+been, but that was the best that could be said for it.
+
+We passed the last buoy and turned our bow north. And suddenly, the great
+waves that had all day kept us on the defensive became our strong helpers.
+They took us up and swung us forward on our course with great sweeping
+rushes of motion. The tide was setting in, too, and with that and our oars
+we were going almost as fast as the waves themselves, so that when one
+picked us up, it swung us a long way before it left us. We learned to
+watch for each roller, wait till one came up astern, then pull with all
+our might so that we went swooping down its long slope, its crest at first
+just behind our stern, but drawing more and more under us, until it passed
+beyond our bow and dropped us in the trough to wait for the next giant. It
+was like going in a swing, but with the downward rush very long and swift,
+and the upward rise short and slow. How long it took us to make the two
+miles to our friend's dock we shall never know. Probably only a few
+minutes. But it was not an experience in time. We had a sense of being at
+one with the great primal forces of wind and water, and at one with them,
+not in their moments of poise, but in their moments of resistless power.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+After all, the only drawback to the cruise was that it was over too soon.
+When, in the quiet afternoon light of the last day, a familiar headland
+floated into view, my first feeling was one of joy; for beyond that
+headland, what friendly faces waited for us--faces turned even now,
+perhaps, toward the east for a first glimpse of our little boat. But hard
+after this, came a pang of regret--it was over, our water-pilgrimage, and I
+wanted it to go on.
+
+It was over. And yet, not really over after all. I sometimes think that
+pleasures ought to be valued according to whether they are over when they
+_are_ over, or not. "You cannot eat your cake and have it too." True, but
+that is because it is cake. There are other things which you can eat, and
+still have. And our rowboat cruise is one of these. It is over, and yet it
+is not over. It never will be. I can shut my eyes--indeed, I do not need
+even to shut them--and again I am under the open sky, I am afloat in the
+sun and the wind, with the waters all around me. I see again the
+surf-edged curves of the beaches, the lines of the sand-cliffs, the ragged
+horizon edge, cut and jagged by the waves. I feel the boat, I feel the
+oars, I am aware of the damp, pure night air, and the sounds of the waves
+ceaselessly breaking on the sand.
+
+It is not over. Its best things are still ours, and those things which
+were hardly pleasures then have become such now. As we remember our aching
+muscles and blistered hands, we smile. As we recall times of intense
+weariness, of irritation, of anxiety, we find ourselves lingering over
+them with enjoyment. For memory does something wonderful with experience.
+It is a poet, and life is its raw material. I know that our cruise was
+made up of minutes, of oar-strokes, so many that to count them would be
+weariness unending. But in my memory, these things are re-created. I see a
+boundless stretch of windy or peaceful waters. I see the endless line of
+misty coast. I see lovely islands, sleeping alone, waiting to be possessed
+by those who come. And I see a little, little boat, faring along the
+coast-lands, out to the islands, over the waters--going on, and on, and on.
+
+
+
+                                 THE END
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 COLOPHON
+
+
+                           The Riverside Press
+
+                        CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS
+
+                                U . S . A
+
+
+
+
+
+                      APPENDIX A: EXTRA FRONT PAGES
+
+
+                         By Elisabeth Woodbridge
+
+                                 -------
+
+                          MORE JONATHAN PAPERS.
+                           THE JONATHAN PAPERS.
+
+                        HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
+                           BOSTON AND NEW YORK
+
+
+
+                           More Jonathan Papers
+
+
+
+
+
+                                  ERRATA
+
+
+      Chapter VII
+      Changed camp is *4.38*--A.M. to camp is *4:38*--A.M.
+
+      Chapter VII
+      Changed arrives at *10.15*, they to arrives at *10:15*, they
+
+      Chapter VII
+      Changed What does *10.15* look to What does *10:15* look
+
+      Chapter VIII
+      Changed "Does it bite?  to "Does it bite?*"*
+
+      Chapter VIIII
+      Changed find something*,* Here's to find something*.* Here's
+
+      Chapter VIIII
+      Changed no matter *now* many to no matter *how* many
+
+
+
+
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+  </div>
+
+  <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    
+  </div>
+
+  <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-titlePage" style="text-align: center">
+  <span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageiiii">[pg iiii]</span><a name="Pgiiii" id="Pgiiii" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a>
+    <span class="tei tei-docTitle" style="text-align: center">
+      <span class="tei tei-titlePart" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 173%">
+        More Jonathan Papers</span><br />
+        <br />
+      </span>
+    </span>
+    <div class="tei tei-byline" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 120%">By</span><br />
+      <span class="tei tei-docAuthor" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 120%">Elisabeth Woodbridge</span></span><br />
+      <br />
+    </div>
+    <span class="tei tei-docImprint" style="text-align: center">
+      BOSTON AND NEW YORK<br />
+      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY<br />
+      The Riverside Press Cambridge<br />
+    </span>
+    <span class="tei tei-docDate" style="text-align: center">1915</span>
+  </div>
+
+  <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 4.05em; margin-top: 4.05em">
+    <span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagev">[pg v]</span><a name="Pgv" id="Pgv" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a>
+    <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.81em"><span style="font-size: 81%">COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY ELISABETH WOODBRIDGE MORRIS</span><br />
+    <br /><span style="font-size: 81%">
+    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</span><br />
+    <br />
+    <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 81%; font-style: italic">Published November 1915</span></span></p>
+  </div>
+
+  <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    <span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagevi">[pg vi]</span><a name="Pgvi" id="Pgvi" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+    <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">TO<br />
+    JONATHAN</p>
+  </div>
+
+  
+
+  <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    <span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageviii">[pg viii]</span><a name="Pgviii" id="Pgviii" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+    <a name="pdf1" id="pdf1"></a>
+    <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span></h1>
+    <ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"><li><a href="#toc2">I. The Searchings of Jonathan</a></li><li><a href="#toc4">II. Sap-Time</a></li><li><a href="#toc6">III. Evenings on the Farm</a></li><li><a href="#toc8">IV. After Frost</a></li><li><a href="#toc10">V. The Joys of Garden Stewardship</a></li><li><a href="#toc12">VI. Trout and Arbutus</a></li><li><a href="#toc14">VII. Without the Time of Day</a></li><li><a href="#toc16">VIII. The Ways of Griselda</a></li><li><a href="#toc18">IX. A Rowboat Pilgrimage</a></li><li><a href="#toc20">Colophon</a></li><li><a href="#toc22">Appendix A: Extra Front Pages</a></li><li><a href="#toc24">Errata</a></li></ul>
+  </div>
+
+  
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-body" style="margin-bottom: 6.00em; margin-top: 6.00em">
+
+<hr class="doublepage" /><div id="chapter01" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page001">[pg 001]</span><a name="Pg001" id="Pg001" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc2" id="toc2"></a>
+<a name="pdf3" id="pdf3"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 173%">More Jonathan Papers</span></span></h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">I</span></h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">The Searchings of Jonathan</span></h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What I find it hard to understand is, why a
+person who can see a spray of fringed gentian
+in the middle of a meadow can’t see a book on
+the sitting-room table.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The reason why I can see the gentian,”</span>
+said Jonathan, <span class="tei tei-q">“is because the gentian is
+there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“So is the book,”</span> I responded.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Which table?”</span> he asked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The one with the lamp on it. It’s a red
+book, about <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">so</span></span> big.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It isn’t there; but, just to satisfy you,
+I’ll look again.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He returned in a moment with an argumentative
+expression of countenance. <span class="tei tei-q">“It
+isn’t there,”</span> he said firmly. <span class="tei tei-q">“Will anything
+else do instead?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page002">[pg 002]</span><a name="Pg002" id="Pg002" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, I wanted you to read that special
+thing. Oh, dear! And I have all these things
+in my lap! And I know it <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></span>
+there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And I <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></span> it
+isn’t.”</span> He stretched himself
+out in the hammock and watched me as
+I rather ostentatiously laid down thimble,
+scissors, needle, cotton, and material and set
+out for the sitting-room table. There were a
+number of books on it, to be sure. I glanced
+rapidly through the piles, fingered the lower
+books, pushed aside a magazine, and pulled
+out from beneath it the book I wanted. I
+returned to the hammock and handed it over.
+Then, after possessing myself, again rather
+ostentatiously, of material, cotton, needle,
+scissors, and thimble, I sat down.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It’s the second essay I specially thought
+we’d like,”</span> I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Just for curiosity,”</span> said Jonathan, with
+an impersonal air, <span class="tei tei-q">“where did you find it?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Find what?”</span> I asked innocently.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The book.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh! On the table.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Which table?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The one with the lamp on it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I should like to know where.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page003">[pg 003]</span><a name="Pg003" id="Pg003" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why—just there—on the table. There
+was an <span class="tei tei-q">‘Atlantic’</span> on top of it, to be sure.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I saw the <span class="tei tei-q">‘Atlantic.’</span> Blest if it looked as
+though it had anything under it! Besides,
+I was looking for it on top of things. You
+said you laid it down there just before luncheon,
+and I didn’t think it could have crawled
+in under so quick.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When you’re looking for a thing,”</span> I said,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“you mustn’t think, you must look. Now
+go ahead and read.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">If this were a single instance, or even if it
+were one of many illustrating a common
+human frailty, it would hardly be worth setting
+down. But the frailty under consideration
+has come to seem to me rather particularly
+masculine. Are not all the Jonathans
+in the world continually being sent to some
+sitting-room table for something, and coming
+back to assert, with more or less pleasantness,
+according to their temperament, that it is not
+there? The incident, then, is not isolated; it
+is typical of a vast group. For Jonathan, read
+Everyman; for the red book, read any particular
+thing that you want Him to bring;
+for the sitting-room table, read the place
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page004">[pg 004]</span><a name="Pg004" id="Pg004" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+where you know it is and Everyman says it
+isn’t.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This, at least, is my thesis. It is not, however,
+unchallenged. Jonathan has challenged
+it when, from time to time, as occasion offered,
+I have lightly sketched it out for him.
+Sometimes he argues that my instances are
+really isolated cases and that their evidence
+is not cumulative, at others he takes refuge
+in a <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">tu quoque</span></span>—in
+itself a confession of weakness—and
+alludes darkly to <span class="tei tei-q">“top shelves”</span>
+and <span class="tei tei-q">“bottom drawers.”</span> But let us have no
+mysteries. These phrases, considered as arguments,
+have their origin in certain incidents
+which, that all the evidence may be in, I will
+here set down.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Once upon a time I asked Jonathan to get
+me something from the top shelf in the closet.
+He went, and failed to find it. Then I went,
+and took it down. Jonathan, watching over
+my shoulder, said, <span class="tei tei-q">“But that wasn’t the top
+shelf, I suppose you will admit.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sure enough! There was a shelf above.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, yes; but I don’t count that shelf. We
+never use it, because nobody can reach
+it.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page005">[pg 005]</span><a name="Pg005" id="Pg005" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How do you expect me to know which
+shelves you count and which you don’t?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of course, anatomically—structurally—it
+is one, but functionally it isn’t there at all.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I see,”</span> said Jonathan, so contentedly that
+I knew he was filing this affair away for future
+use.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On another occasion I asked him to get
+something for me from the top drawer of the
+old <span class="tei tei-q">“high-boy”</span> in the dining-room. He was
+gone a long while, and at last, growing impatient,
+I followed. I found him standing on
+an old wooden-seated chair, screw-driver in
+hand. A drawer on a level with his head was
+open, and he had hanging over his arm
+a gaudy collection of ancient table-covers
+and embroidered scarfs, mostly in shades of
+magenta.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“She stuck, but I’ve got her open now.
+I don’t see any pillow-cases, though. It’s all
+full of these things.”</span> He pumped his laden
+arm up and down, and the table-covers
+wagged gayly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I sank into the chair and laughed. <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh!
+Have you been prying at that all this time?
+Of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">course</span></span> there’s nothing in
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">that</span></span> drawer.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page006">[pg 006]</span><a name="Pg006" id="Pg006" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“There’s where you’re wrong. There’s a
+great deal in it; I haven’t taken out half. If
+you want to see—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">don’t</span></span> want to see!
+There’s nothing I
+want less! What I mean is—I never put
+anything there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It’s the top drawer.”</span> He was beginning
+to lay back the table-covers.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But I can’t reach it. And it’s been stuck
+for ever so long.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You said the top drawer.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I suppose I did. Of course what I
+meant was the top one of the ones I use.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I see, my dear. When you say top shelf
+you don’t mean top shelf, and when you say
+top drawer you don’t mean top drawer; in
+fact, when you say top you don’t mean top
+at all—you mean the height of your head.
+Everything above that doesn’t count.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan was so pleased with this formulation
+of my attitude that he was not in the
+least irritated to have put out unnecessary
+work. And his satisfaction was deepened by
+one more incident. I had sent him to the
+bottom drawer of my bureau to get a shawl.
+He returned without it, and I was puzzled.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page007">[pg 007]</span><a name="Pg007" id="Pg007" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Now, Jonathan, it’s there, and it’s the top
+thing.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The real top,”</span> murmured Jonathan, <span class="tei tei-q">“or
+just what you call top?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It’s right in front,”</span> I went on; <span class="tei tei-q">“and I
+don’t see how even a man could fail to find it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He proceeded to enumerate the contents
+of the drawer in such strange fashion that I
+began to wonder where he had been.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I said my bureau.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I went to your bureau.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The bottom drawer.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The bottom drawer. There was nothing
+but a lot of little boxes and—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I</span></span> know what you did!
+You went to the secret drawer.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Isn’t that the bottom one?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why, yes, in a way—of course it is; but
+it doesn’t exactly count—it’s not one of the
+regular drawers—it hasn’t any knobs, or
+anything—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But it’s a perfectly good drawer.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. But nobody is supposed to know
+it’s there; it looks like a molding—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But I know it’s there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, of course.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page008">[pg 008]</span><a name="Pg008" id="Pg008" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And you know I know it’s there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, yes; but I just don’t think about
+that one in counting up. I see what you mean,
+of course.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And I see what you mean. You mean that
+your shawl is in the bottom one of the regular
+drawers—with knobs—that can be alluded
+to in general conversation. Now I think I can
+find it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He did. And in addition he amused himself
+by working out phrases about <span class="tei tei-q">“when is a
+bottom drawer not a bottom drawer?”</span> and
+<span class="tei tei-q">“when is a top shelf not a top shelf?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is to these incidents—which I regard as
+isolated and negligible, and he regards as
+typical and significant—that he alludes on
+the occasions when he is unable to find a red
+book on the sitting-room table. In vain do I
+point out that when language is variable and
+fluid it is alive, and that there may be two
+opinions about the structural top and the
+functional top, whereas there can be but one
+as to the book being or not being on the table.
+He maintains a quiet cheerfulness, as of one
+who is conscious of being, if not invulnerable,
+at least well armed.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page009">[pg 009]</span><a name="Pg009" id="Pg009" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For a time he even tried to make believe
+that he was invulnerable as well—to set up
+the thesis that if the book was really on the
+table he could find it. But in this he suffered
+so many reverses that only strong natural
+pertinacity kept him from capitulation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Is it necessary to recount instances? Every
+family can furnish them. As I allow myself to
+float off into a reminiscent dream I find my
+mind possessed by a continuous series of dissolving
+views in which Jonathan is always
+coming to me saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“It isn’t there,”</span> and I
+am always saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“Please look again.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though everything in the house seems to
+be in a conspiracy against him, it is perhaps
+with the fishing-tackle that he has most constant
+difficulties.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“My dear, have you any idea where my
+rod is? No, don’t get up—I’ll look if you’ll
+just tell me where—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Probably in the corner behind the chest
+in the orchard room.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’ve looked there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, then, did you take it in from the
+wagon last night?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I remember doing it.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page010">[pg 010]</span><a name="Pg010" id="Pg010" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What about the little attic? You might
+have put it up there to dry out.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. I took my wading boots up, but that
+was all.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The dining-room? You came in that
+way.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He goes and returns. <span class="tei tei-q">“Not there.”</span> I reflect
+deeply.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan, are you <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">sure</span></span>
+it’s not in that corner of the orchard room?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I’m sure; but I’ll look again.”</span> He
+disappears, but in a moment I hear his voice
+calling, <span class="tei tei-q">“No! Yours is here, but not mine.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I perceive that it is a case for me, and I get
+up. <span class="tei tei-q">“You go and harness. I’ll find it,”</span> I call.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There was a time when, under such conditions,
+I should have begun by hunting in all
+the unlikely places I could think of. Now I
+know better. I go straight to the corner of the
+orchard room. Then I call to Jonathan, just
+to relieve his mind.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“All right! I’ve found it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Here, in the orchard room.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Where</span></span> in the orchard
+room?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“In the corner.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page011">[pg 011]</span><a name="Pg011" id="Pg011" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What corner?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The usual corner—back of the chest.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The devil!”</span> Then he comes back to put
+his head in at the door. <span class="tei tei-q">“What are you
+laughing at?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nothing. What are you talking about the
+devil for? Anyway, it isn’t the devil; it’s the
+brownie.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For there seems no doubt that the things
+he hunts for are possessed of supernatural
+powers; and the theory of a brownie in the
+house, with a special grudge against Jonathan,
+would perhaps best account for the way in
+which they elude his search but leap into sight
+at my approach. There is, to be sure, one
+other explanation, but it is one that does not
+suggest itself to him, or appeal to him when
+suggested by me, so there is no need to dwell
+upon it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">If it isn’t the rod, it is the landing-net,
+which has hung itself on a nail a little to the
+left or right of the one he had expected to see
+it on; or his reel, which has crept into a corner
+of the tackle drawer and held a ball of string
+in front of itself to distract his vision; or a
+bunch of snell hooks, which, aware of its protective
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page012">[pg 012]</span><a name="Pg012" id="Pg012" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+coloring, has snuggled up against the
+shady side of the drawer and tucked its pink-papered
+head underneath a gay pickerel-spoon.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Fishing-tackle is, clearly, <span class="tei tei-q">“possessed,”</span> but
+in other fields Jonathan is not free from
+trouble. Finding anything on a bureau
+seems to offer peculiar obstacles. It is perhaps
+a big, black-headed pin that I want.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“On the pincushion, Jonathan.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He goes, and returns with two sizes of
+safety-pins and one long hat-pin.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, dear, those won’t do. A small, black-headed
+one—at least small compared with a
+hat-pin, large compared with an ordinary pin.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Common or house pin?”</span> he murmurs,
+quoting a friend’s phrase.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do look again! I hate to drop this to go
+myself.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When a man does a job, he gets his tools
+together first.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes; but they say women shouldn’t copy
+men, they should develop along their own
+lines. Please go.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He goes, and comes back. <span class="tei tei-q">“You don’t
+want fancy gold pins, I suppose?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, no! Here, you hold this, and I’ll go.”</span>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page013">[pg 013]</span><a name="Pg013" id="Pg013" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+I dash to the bureau. Sure enough, he is right
+about the cushion. I glance hastily about.
+There, in a little saucer, are a half-dozen of
+the sort I want. I snatch some and run back.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, it wasn’t in the cushion, I bet.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No,”</span> I admit; <span class="tei tei-q">“it was in a saucer just behind
+the cushion.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You said cushion.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I know. It’s all right.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now, if you had said simply <span class="tei tei-q">‘bureau,’</span> I’d
+have looked in other places on it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, you’d have <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">looked</span></span>
+in other places!”</span>
+I could not forbear responding. There is, I
+grant, another side to this question. One
+evening when I went upstairs I found a partial
+presentation of it, in the form of a little
+newspaper clipping, pinned on my cushion.
+It read as follows:—</p>
+
+<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em">
+  <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">My dear,</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> said she, </span><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">please run and
+  bring me the needle from the haystack.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p>
+
+  <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Oh, I don’t know which haystack.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p>
+
+  <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-q"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Look in all the haystacks—you
+  can’t miss it; there’s only one needle.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan was in the cellar at the moment.
+When he came up, he said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Did I hear any
+one laughing?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page014">[pg 014]</span><a name="Pg014" id="Pg014" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t know. Did you?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I thought maybe it was you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It might have been. Something amused
+me—I forget what.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I accused Jonathan of having written it
+himself, but he denied it. Some other Jonathan,
+then; for, as I said, this is not a personal
+matter, it is a world matter. Let us grant,
+then, a certain allowance for those who hunt
+in woman-made haystacks. But what about
+pockets? Is not a man lord over his own
+pockets? And are they not nevertheless as
+so many haystacks piled high for his confusion?
+Certain it is that Jonathan has nearly
+as much trouble with his pockets as he does
+with the corners and cupboards and shelves
+and drawers of his house. It usually happens
+over our late supper, after his day in town.
+He sets down his teacup, struck with a sudden
+memory. He feels in his vest pockets—first
+the right, then the left. He proceeds to search
+himself, murmuring, <span class="tei tei-q">“I thought something
+came to-day that I wanted to show you—oh,
+here! no, that isn’t it. I thought I put it—no,
+those are to be—what’s this? No,
+that’s a memorandum. Now, where in—”</span>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page015">[pg 015]</span><a name="Pg015" id="Pg015" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+He runs through the papers in his pockets
+twice over, and in the second round I watch
+him narrowly, and perhaps see a corner of an
+envelope that does not look like office work.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“There, Jonathan! What’s that? No, not
+that—that!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He pulls it out with an air of immense
+relief. <span class="tei tei-q">“There! I knew I had something.
+That’s it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When we travel, the same thing happens
+with the tickets, especially if they chance to
+be costly and complicated ones, with all the
+shifts and changes of our journey printed
+thick upon their faces. The conductor appears
+at the other end of the car. Jonathan
+begins vaguely to fumble without lowering
+his paper. Pocket after pocket is browsed
+through in this way. Then the paper slides to
+his knee and he begins a more thorough investigation,
+with all the characteristic clapping
+and diving motions that seem to be
+necessary. Some pockets must always be
+clapped and others dived into to discover their
+contents.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No tickets. The conductor is halfway up
+the car. Jonathan’s face begins to grow serious.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page016">[pg 016]</span><a name="Pg016" id="Pg016" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+He rises and looks on the seat and under
+it. He sits down and takes out packet after
+packet of papers and goes over them with
+scrupulous care. At this point I used to become
+really anxious—to make hasty calculations
+as to our financial resources, immediate
+and ultimate—to wonder if conductors
+ever really put nice people like us off trains.
+But that was long ago. I know now that
+Jonathan has never lost a ticket in his life.
+So I glance through the paper that he has
+dropped or watch the landscape until he
+reaches a certain stage of calm and definite
+pessimism, when he says, <span class="tei tei-q">“I must have pulled
+them out when I took out those postcards in
+the other car. Yes, that’s just what has happened.”</span>
+Then, the conductor being only a
+few seats away, I beg Jonathan to look once
+more in his vest pocket, where he always puts
+them. To oblige me he looks, though without
+faith, and lo! this time the tickets fairly
+fling themselves upon him, with smiles almost
+curling up their corners. Does the brownie
+travel with us, then?</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I begin to suspect that some of the good
+men who have been blamed for forgetting to
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page017">[pg 017]</span><a name="Pg017" id="Pg017" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+mail letters in their pockets have been, not
+indeed blameless, but at least misunderstood.
+Probably they do not forget. Probably they
+hunt for the letters and cannot find them, and
+conclude that they have already mailed them.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the matter of the home haystacks Jonathan’s
+confidence in himself has at last been
+shaken. For a long time, when he returned
+to me after some futile search, he used to say,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Of course you can look for it if you like, but
+it is <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">not</span></span> there.”</span>
+But man is a reasoning, if not
+altogether a reasonable, being, and with a sufficient
+accumulation of evidence, especially
+when there is some one constantly at hand to
+interpret its teachings, almost any set of opinions,
+however fixed, may be shaken. So here.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Once when we shut up the farm for the
+winter I left my fountain pen behind. This
+was little short of a tragedy, but I comforted
+myself with the knowledge that Jonathan
+was going back that week-end for a day’s
+hunt.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Be sure to get the pen first of all,”</span> I said,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“and put it in your pocket.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where is it?”</span> he asked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“In the little medicine cupboard over the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page018">[pg 018]</span><a name="Pg018" id="Pg018" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+fireplace in the orchard room, standing up at
+the side of the first shelf.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why not on your desk?”</span> he asked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Because I was writing tags in there, and
+set it up so it would be out of the way.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And it <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">was</span></span>
+out of the way. All right. I’ll
+collect it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He went, and on his return I met him with
+eager hand—<span class="tei tei-q">“My pen!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’m sorry,”</span> he began.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You didn’t forget!”</span> I exclaimed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. But it wasn’t there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But—did you look?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I looked.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thoroughly?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. I lit three matches.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Matches! Then you didn’t get it when
+you first got there!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why—no—I had the dog to attend
+to—and—but I had plenty of time when I
+got back, and it <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">wasn’t</span></span>
+there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—Dear me! Did you look anywhere
+else? I suppose I may be mistaken.
+Perhaps I did take it back to the desk.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That’s just what I thought myself,”</span> said
+Jonathan. <span class="tei tei-q">“So I went there, and looked, and
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page019">[pg 019]</span><a name="Pg019" id="Pg019" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+then I looked on all the mantelpieces and
+your bureau. You must have put it in your
+bag the last minute—bet it’s there now!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bet it isn’t.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It wasn’t. For two weeks more I was
+driven to using other pens—strange and distracting
+to the fingers and the eyes and the
+mind. Then Jonathan was to go up again.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Please look once more,”</span> I begged, <span class="tei tei-q">“and
+don’t expect not to see it. I can fairly see it
+myself, this minute, standing up there on the
+right-hand side, just behind the machine oil
+can.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, I’ll look,”</span> he promised. <span class="tei tei-q">“If
+it’s there, I’ll find it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He returned penless. I considered buying
+another. But we were planning to go up together
+the last week of the hunting season,
+and I thought I would wait on the chance.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We got off at the little station and hunted
+our way up, making great sweeps and jogs, as
+hunters must, to take in certain spots we
+thought promising—certain ravines and
+swamp edges where we are always sure of
+hearing the thunderous whir of partridge
+wings, or the soft, shrill whistle of woodcock.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page020">[pg 020]</span><a name="Pg020" id="Pg020" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+At noon we broiled chops and rested in the
+lee of the wood edge, where, even in the late
+fall, one can usually find spots that are warm
+and still. It was dusk by the time we came
+over the crest of the farm ledges and saw the
+huddle of the home buildings below us, and
+quite dark when we reached the house. Fires
+had been made and coals smouldered on the
+hearth in the sitting-room.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You light the lamp,”</span> I said, <span class="tei tei-q">“and I’ll
+just take a match and go through to see if
+that pen <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">should</span></span>
+happen to be there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No use doing anything to-night,”</span> said
+Jonathan. <span class="tei tei-q">“To-morrow morning you can
+have a thorough hunt.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But I took my match, felt my way into the
+next room, past the fireplace, up to the cupboard,
+then struck my match. In its first
+flare-up I glanced in. Then I chuckled.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan had gone out to the dining-room,
+but he has perfectly good ears.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“NO!”</span> he roared, and his tone of dismay,
+incredulity, rage, sent me off into gales of
+unscrupulous laughter. He was striding in,
+candle in hand, shouting, <span class="tei tei-q">“It was
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">not there!</span></span>”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Look yourself,”</span> I managed to gasp.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page021">[pg 021]</span><a name="Pg021" id="Pg021" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This time, somehow, he could see it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You planted it! You brought it up and
+planted it!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I never! Oh, dear me! It pays for going
+without it for weeks!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Nothing</span></span>
+will ever make me believe that
+that pen was standing there when I looked
+for it!”</span> said Jonathan, with vehement finality.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“All right,”</span> I sighed happily. <span class="tei tei-q">“You don’t
+have to believe it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But in his heart perhaps he does believe it.
+At any rate, since that time he has adopted a
+new formula: <span class="tei tei-q">“My dear, it may be there, of
+course, but I don’t see it.”</span> And this position
+I regard as unassailable.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">One triumph he has had. I wanted something
+that was stored away in the shut-up
+town house.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do you suppose you could find it?”</span> I said,
+as gently as possible.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I can try,”</span> he said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I think it is in a box about this shape—see?—a
+gray box, in the attic closet, the
+farthest-in corner.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Are you sure it’s in the house? If it’s in
+the house, I think I can find it.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page022">[pg 022]</span><a name="Pg022" id="Pg022" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I’m sure of that.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When he returned that night, his face wore
+a look of satisfaction very imperfectly concealed
+beneath a mask of nonchalance.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Good</span></span> for you!
+Was it where I said?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Was it in a different corner?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where was it?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It wasn’t in a corner at all. It wasn’t in
+that closet.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It wasn’t! Where, then?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Downstairs in the hall closet.”</span> He paused,
+then could not forbear adding, <span class="tei tei-q">“And it wasn’t
+in a gray box; it was in a big hat-box with
+violets all over it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Jonathan!</span></span>
+Aren’t you grand! How
+did you ever find it? I couldn’t have done
+better myself.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Under such praise he expanded. <span class="tei tei-q">“The
+fact is,”</span> he said confidentially, <span class="tei tei-q">“I had given
+it up. And then suddenly I changed my
+mind. I said to myself, <span class="tei tei-q">‘Jonathan, don’t
+be a man! Think what she’d do if she
+were here now.’</span> And then I got busy and
+found it.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page023">[pg 023]</span><a name="Pg023" id="Pg023" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan!”</span> I could almost have wept if
+I had not been laughing.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well,”</span> he said, proud, yet rather sheepish,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“what is there so funny about that? I gave
+up half a day to it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Funny! It isn’t funny—exactly. You
+don’t mind my laughing a little? Why, you’ve
+lived down the fountain pen—we’ll forget
+the pen—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, no, you won’t forget the pen either,”</span>
+he said, with a certain pleasant grimness.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, perhaps not—of course it would
+be a pity to forget that. Suppose I say, then,
+that we’ll always regard the pen in the light
+of the violet hat-box?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I think that might do.”</span> Then he had an
+alarming afterthought. <span class="tei tei-q">“But, see here—you
+won’t expect me to do things like that often?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Dear me, no! People can’t live always on
+their highest levels. Perhaps you’ll
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">never</span></span>
+do it again.”</span> Jonathan looked distinctly relieved.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“I’ll accept it as a unique effort—like
+Dante’s angel and Raphael’s sonnet.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan,”</span> I said that evening, <span class="tei tei-q">“what
+do you know about St. Anthony of Padua?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not much.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page024">[pg 024]</span><a name="Pg024" id="Pg024" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, you ought to. He helped you to-day.
+He’s the saint who helps people to find lost
+articles. Every man ought to take him as
+a patron saint.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And do you know which saint it is who
+helps people to find lost virtues—like humility,
+for instance?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. I don’t, really.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I didn’t suppose you did,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="chapter02" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page025">[pg 025]</span><a name="Pg025" id="Pg025" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc4" id="toc4"></a>
+<a name="pdf5" id="pdf5"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">II</span></h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Sap-Time</span></h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was a little tree-toad that began it. In a
+careless moment he had come down to the
+bench that connects the big maple tree with
+the old locust stump, and when I went out at
+dusk to wait for Jonathan, there he sat, in
+plain sight. A few experimental pokes sent
+him back to the tree, and I studied him there,
+marveling at the way he assimilated with its
+bark. As Jonathan came across the grass I
+called softly, and pointed to the tree.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well?”</span> he said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t you see?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. What?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Look—I thought you had eyes!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, what a little beauty!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And isn’t his back just like bark and
+lichens! And what are those things in the tree
+beside him?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Plugs, I suppose.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Plugs?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page026">[pg 026]</span><a name="Pg026" id="Pg026" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. After tapping. Uncle Ben used to
+tap these trees, I believe.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You mean for sap? Maple syrup?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan! I didn’t know these were
+sugar maples.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, yes. These on the road.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The whole row? Why, there are ten or
+fifteen of them! And you never told me!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I thought you knew.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Knew! I don’t know anything—I should
+think you’d know that, by this time. Do you
+suppose, if I had known, I should have let all
+these years go by—oh, dear—think of all
+the fun we’ve missed! And syrup!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You’d have to come up in February.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, then, I’ll
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">come</span></span> in February. Who’s
+afraid of February?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“All right. Try it next year.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I did. But not in February. Things happened,
+as things do, and it was early April before
+I got to the farm. But it had been a
+wintry March, and the farmers told me that
+the sap had not been running except for a few
+days in a February thaw. Anyway, it was
+worth trying.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page027">[pg 027]</span><a name="Pg027" id="Pg027" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan could not come with me. He was
+to join me later. But Hiram found a bundle
+of elder spouts in the attic, and with these
+and an auger we went out along the snowy,
+muddy road. The hole was bored—a pair
+of them—in the first tree, and the spouts
+driven in. I knelt, watching—in fact, peering
+up the spout-hole to see what might happen.
+Suddenly a drop, dim with sawdust, appeared—gathered,
+hesitated, then ran down
+gayly and leapt off the end.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Look! Hiram! It’s running!”</span> I called.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hiram, boring the next tree, made no response.
+He evidently expected it to run.
+Jonathan would have acted just like that, too,
+I felt sure. Is it a masculine quality, I wonder,
+to be unmoved when the theoretically expected
+becomes actual? Or is it that some
+temperaments have naturally a certain large
+confidence in the sway of law, and refuse to
+wonder at its individual workings? To me the
+individual workings give an ever fresh thrill
+because they bring a new realization of the
+mighty powers behind them. It seems to depend
+on which end you begin at.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But though the little drops thrilled me, I
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page028">[pg 028]</span><a name="Pg028" id="Pg028" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+was not beyond setting a pail underneath to
+catch them. And as Hiram went on boring, I
+followed with my pails. Pails, did I say?
+Pails by courtesy. There were, indeed, a few
+real pails—berry-pails, lard-pails, and water-pails—but
+for the most part the sap fell into
+pitchers, or tin saucepans, stew-kettles of
+aluminum or agate ware, blue and gray and
+white and mottled, or big yellow earthenware
+bowls. It was a strange collection of receptacles
+that lined the roadside when we had
+finished our progress. As I looked along the
+row, I laughed, and even Hiram smiled.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But what next? Every utensil in the house
+was out there, sitting in the road. There was
+nothing left but the wash-boiler. Now, I had
+heard tales of amateur syrup-boilings, and I
+felt that the wash-boiler would not do. Besides,
+I meant to work outdoors—no kitchen
+stove for me! I must have a pan, a big, flat
+pan. I flew to the telephone, and called up
+the village plumber, three miles away. Could
+he build me a pan? Oh, say, two feet by three
+feet, and five inches high—yes, right away.
+Yes, Hiram would call for it in the afternoon.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I felt better. And now for a fireplace! Oh,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page029">[pg 029]</span><a name="Pg029" id="Pg029" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Jonathan! Why did you have to be away!
+For Jonathan loves a stone and knows how
+to put stones together, as witness the stone
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Eyrie”</span> and the stile in the lane. However,
+there Jonathan wasn’t. So I went out into
+the swampy orchard behind the house and
+looked about—no lack of stones, at any rate.
+I began to collect material, and Hiram, seeing
+my purpose, helped with the big stones.
+Somehow my fireplace got made—two side
+walls, one end wall, the other end left open
+for stoking. It was not as pretty as if Jonathan
+had done it, but <span class="tei tei-q">“’t was enough, ’t would
+serve.”</span> I collected fire-wood, and there I was,
+ready for my pan, and the afternoon was yet
+young, and the sap was drip-drip-dripping
+from all the spouts. I could begin to boil next
+day. I felt that I was being borne along on
+the providential wave that so often floats the
+inexperienced to success.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That night I emptied all my vessels into
+the boiler and set them out once more. A
+neighbor drove by and pulled up to comment
+benevolently on my work.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Will it run to-night?”</span> I asked him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No—no—’t won’t run to-night. Too
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page030">[pg 030]</span><a name="Pg030" id="Pg030" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+cold. ’T won’t run any to-night. You can
+sleep all right.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This was pleasant to hear. There was a
+moon, to be sure, but it was growing colder,
+and at the idea of crawling along that road in
+the middle of the night even my enthusiasm
+shivered a little.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So I made my rounds at nine, in the white
+moonlight, and went to sleep.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was awakened the next morning to a consciousness
+of flooding sunshine and Hiram’s
+voice outside my window.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Got anything I can empty sap into? I’ve
+got everything all filled up.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sap! Why, it isn’t running yet, is it?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Pails were flowin’ over when I came out.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Flowing over! They said the sap wouldn’t
+run last night.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I guest there don’t nobody know when
+sap’ll run and when it won’t,”</span> said Hiram
+peacefully, as he tramped off to the barn.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In a few minutes I was outdoors. Sure
+enough, Hiram had everything full—old
+boilers, feed-pails, water-pails. But we found
+some three-gallon milk-cans and used them.
+A farm is like a city. There are always things
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page031">[pg 031]</span><a name="Pg031" id="Pg031" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+enough in it for all purposes. It is only a
+question of using its resources.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then, in the clear April sunshine, I went
+out and surveyed the row of maples. How
+they did drip! Some of them almost ran. I
+felt as if I had turned on the faucets of the
+universe and didn’t know how to turn them
+off again.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">However, there was my new pan. I set it
+over my oven walls and began to pour in sap.
+Hiram helped me. He seemed to think he
+needed his feed-pails. We poured in sap and
+we poured in sap. Never did I see anything
+hold so much as that pan. Even Hiram was
+stirred out of his usual calm to remark, <span class="tei tei-q">“It
+beats all, how much that holds.”</span> Of course
+Jonathan would have had its capacity all calculated
+the day before, but my methods are
+empirical, and so I was surprised as well as
+pleased when all my receptacles emptied
+themselves into its shallow breadths and still
+there was a good inch to allow for boiling up.
+Yes, Providence—my exclusive little fool’s
+Providence—was with me. The pan, and
+the oven, were a success, and when Jonathan
+came that night I led him out with unconcealed
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page032">[pg 032]</span><a name="Pg032" id="Pg032" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+pride and showed him the pan—now
+a heaving, frothing mass of sap-about-to-be-syrup,
+sending clouds of white steam down
+the wind. As he looked at the oven walls,
+I fancied his fingers ached to get at them,
+but he offered no criticism, seeing that they
+worked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The next day began overcast, but Providence
+was merely preparing for me a special
+little gift in the form of a miniature snowstorm.
+It was quite real while it lasted. It
+whitened the grass and the road, it piled itself
+softly among the clusters of swelling buds on
+the apple trees, and made the orchard look as
+though it had burst into bloom in an hour.
+Then the sun came out, there were a few
+dazzling moments when the world was all
+blue and silver, and then the whiteness faded.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And the sap! How it dripped! Once an
+hour I had to make the rounds, bringing back
+gallons each time, and the fire under my pan
+was kept up so that the boiling down might
+keep pace with the new supply.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They do say snow makes it run,”</span> shouted
+a passer-by, and another called, <span class="tei tei-q">“You want
+to keep skimmin’!”</span> Whereupon I seized my
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page033">[pg 033]</span><a name="Pg033" id="Pg033" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+long-handled skimmer and fell to work.
+Southern Connecticut does not know much
+about syrup, but by the avenue of the road I
+was gradually accumulating such wisdom as
+it possessed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The syrup was made. No worse accident
+befell than the occasional overflowing of a
+pail too long neglected. The syrup was made,
+and bottled, and distributed to friends, and
+was the pride of the household through the
+year.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“This time I will go early,”</span> I said to Jonathan;
+<span class="tei tei-q">“they say the late running is never
+quite so good.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was early March when I got up there
+this time—early March after a winter whose
+rigor had known practically no break. Again
+Jonathan could not come, but Cousin Janet
+could, and we met at the little station, where
+Hiram was waiting with Kit and the surrey.
+The sun was warm, but the air was keen and
+the woods hardly showed spring at all yet,
+even in that first token of it, the slight thickening
+of their millions of little tips, through
+the swelling of the buds. The city trees already
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page034">[pg 034]</span><a name="Pg034" id="Pg034" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+showed this, but the country ones still
+kept their wintry penciling of vanishing lines.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Spring was in the road, however. <span class="tei tei-q">“There
+ain’t no bottom to this road now, it’s just
+dropped clean out,”</span> remarked a fellow teamster
+as we wallowed along companionably
+through the woods. But, somehow, we
+reached the farm. Again we bored our holes,
+and again I was thrilled as the first bright
+drops slipped out and jeweled the ends of the
+spouts. I watched Janet. She was interested
+but calm, classing herself at once with Hiram
+and Jonathan. We unearthed last year’s
+oven and dug out its inner depths—leaves
+and dirt and apples and ashes—it was like
+excavating through the seven Troys to get to
+bottom. We brought down the big pan, now
+clothed in the honors of a season’s use, and
+cleaned off the cobwebs incident to a year’s
+sojourn in the attic. By sunset we had a panful
+of sap boiling merrily and already taking
+on a distinctly golden tinge. We tasted it. It
+was very syrupy. Letting the fire die down,
+we went in to get supper in the utmost content
+of spirit.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It’s so much simpler than last year,”</span> I
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page035">[pg 035]</span><a name="Pg035" id="Pg035" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+said, as we sat over our cozy <span class="tei tei-q">“tea,”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“having
+the pan and the oven ready-made, and
+all—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You don’t suppose anything could happen
+to it while we’re in here?”</span> suggested
+Janet. <span class="tei tei-q">“Shan’t I just run out and see?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, sit still. What could happen? The
+fire’s going out.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I know.”</span> But her voice was uncertain.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You see, I’ve been all through it once,”</span> I
+reassured her.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As we rose, Janet said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Let’s go out before
+we do the dishes.”</span> And to humor her I agreed.
+We lighted the lantern and stepped out on the
+back porch. It was quite dark, and as we
+looked off toward the fireplace we saw gleams
+of red.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How funny!”</span> I murmured. <span class="tei tei-q">“I didn’t
+think there was so much fire left.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We felt our way over, through the yielding
+mud of the orchard, and as I raised the lantern
+we stared in dazed astonishment. The pan
+was a blackened mass, lit up by winking red
+eyes of fire. I held the lantern more closely.
+I seized a stick and poked—the crisp black
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page036">[pg 036]</span><a name="Pg036" id="Pg036" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+stuff broke and crumbled into an empty and
+blackening pan. A curious odor arose.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It couldn’t have!”</span> gasped Janet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It couldn’t—but it has!”</span> I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was a matter for tears, or rage, or
+laughter. And laughter won. When we recovered
+a little we took up the black shell of
+carbon that had once been syrup-froth; we
+laid it gently beside the oven, for a keepsake.
+Then we poured water in the pan, and steam
+rose hissing to the stars.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Does it leak?”</span> faltered Janet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Leak!”</span> I said. I was on my knees now,
+watching the water stream through the
+parted seam of the pan bottom, down into the
+ashes below.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The question is,”</span> I went on as I got up,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“did it boil away because it leaked, or did it
+leak because it boiled away?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t see that it matters much,”</span> said
+Janet. She was showing symptoms of depression
+at this point.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It matters a great deal,”</span> I said. <span class="tei tei-q">“Because,
+you see, we’ve got to tell Jonathan,
+and it makes all the difference how we put
+it.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page037">[pg 037]</span><a name="Pg037" id="Pg037" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I see,”</span> said Janet; then she added, experimentally,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Why tell Jonathan?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why, Janet, you know better! I wouldn’t
+miss telling Jonathan for anything. What is
+Jonathan <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">for!</span></span>”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—of course,”</span> she conceded. <span class="tei tei-q">“Let’s
+do dishes.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We sat before the fire that evening and I
+read while Janet knitted. Between my eyes
+and the printed page there kept rising a vision—a
+vision of black crust, with winking red
+embers smoldering along its broken edges. I
+found it distracting in the extreme.…</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At some time unknown, out of the blind
+depths of the night, I was awakened by a
+voice:—</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It’s beginning to rain. I think I’ll just
+go out and empty what’s near the house.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Janet!”</span> I murmured, <span class="tei tei-q">“don’t be absurd.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But it will dilute all that sap.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“There isn’t any sap to dilute. It won’t
+be running at night.”</span> After a while the voice,
+full of propitiatory intonations, resumed:—</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“My dear, you don’t mind if I slip out. It
+will only take a minute.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I do mind. Go to sleep!”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page038">[pg 038]</span><a name="Pg038" id="Pg038" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Silence. Then:—</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It’s raining harder. I hate to think of all
+that sap—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You don’t <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">have</span></span>
+to think!”</span> I was quite
+savage. <span class="tei tei-q">“Just go to sleep—and let me!”</span>
+Another silence. Then a fresh downpour.
+The voice was pleading:—</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Please</span></span>
+let me go! I’ll be back in a minute.
+And it’s not cold.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, well—I’m awake now, anyway.
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I’ll</span></span>
+go.”</span> My voice was tinged with that high
+resignation that is worse than anger. Janet’s
+tone changed instantly:—</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, no! Don’t! Please don’t! I’m going.
+I truly don’t mind.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I’m</span></span>
+going. I don’t mind, either, not at all.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, dear! Then let’s not either of us go.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That was my idea in the first place.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, then, we won’t. Go to sleep, and I
+will too.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not at all! I’ve decided to go.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But it’s stopped raining. Probably it
+won’t rain any more.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Then what are you making all this fuss
+for?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page039">[pg 039]</span><a name="Pg039" id="Pg039" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I didn’t make a fuss. I just thought I
+could slip out—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, you couldn’t. And it’s raining very
+hard again. And I’m going.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, don’t! You’ll get drenched.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of course. But I can’t bear to have all
+that sap diluted.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It doesn’t run at night. You said it
+didn’t.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You said it did.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But I don’t really know. You know best.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why didn’t you think of that sooner?
+Anyway, I’m going.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, dear! You make me feel as if I’d
+stirred you up—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You have,”</span> I interrupted, sweetly. <span class="tei tei-q">“I
+won’t deny that you
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">have</span></span> stirred me up. But
+now that you have mentioned it”</span>—I felt
+for a match—<span class="tei tei-q">“now that you have mentioned
+it, I see that this was the one thing
+needed to make my evening complete, or
+perhaps it’s morning—I don’t know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We found the dining-room warm, and soon
+we were equipped in those curious compromises
+of vesture that people adopt under such
+circumstances, and, with lantern and umbrella,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page040">[pg 040]</span><a name="Pg040" id="Pg040" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+we fumbled our way out to the trees.
+The rain was driving in sheets, and we
+plodded up the road in the yellow circle of
+lantern-light wavering uncertainly over the
+puddles, while under our feet the mud gave
+and sucked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It’s diluted, sure enough,”</span> I said, as we
+emptied the pails. We crawled slowly back,
+with our heavy milk-can full of sap-and-rain-water,
+and went in.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The warm dining-room was pleasant to return
+to, and we sat down to cookies and milk,
+feeling almost cozy.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’ve always wanted to know how it would
+be to go out in the middle of the night this
+way,”</span> I remarked, <span class="tei tei-q">“and now I know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aren’t you hateful!”</span> said Janet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not at all. Just appreciative. But now,
+if you haven’t any
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">other</span></span> plan, we’ll go back
+to bed.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was half-past eight when we waked next
+morning. But there was nothing to wake up
+for. The old house was filled with the rain-noises
+that only such an old house knows.
+On the little windows the drops pricked
+sharply; in the fireplace with the straight flue
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page041">[pg 041]</span><a name="Pg041" id="Pg041" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+they fell, hissing, on the embers. On the
+porch roofs the rain made a dull patter of
+sound; on the tin roof of the <span class="tei tei-q">“little attic”</span>
+over the kitchen it beat with flat resonance.
+In the big attic, when we went up to see if all
+was tight, it filled the place with a multitudinous
+clamor; on the sides of the house it drove
+with a fury that re-echoed dimly within doors.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Outside, everything was afloat. We visited
+the trees and viewed with consternation the
+torrents of rain-water pouring into the pails.
+We tried fastening pans over the spouts to
+protect them. The wind blew them merrily
+down the road. It would have been easy
+enough to cover the pails, but how to let the
+sap drip in and the rain drip out—that was
+the question.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It seems as if there was a curse on the
+syrup this year,”</span> said Janet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The trouble is,”</span> I said, <span class="tei tei-q">“I know just
+enough to have lost my hold on the fool’s
+Providence, and not enough really to take
+care of myself.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Superstition!”</span> said Janet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What do you call your idea of the curse?”</span>
+I retorted. <span class="tei tei-q">“Anyway, I have an idea! Look,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page042">[pg 042]</span><a name="Pg042" id="Pg042" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Janet! We’ll just cut up these enamel-cloth
+table-covers here by the sink and everywhere,
+and tack them around the spouts.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Janet’s thrifty spirit was doubtful. <span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t
+you need them?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not half so much as the trees do. Come
+on! Pull them off. We’ll have to have fresh
+ones this summer, anyway.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We stripped the kitchen tables and the
+pantry and the milk-room. We got tacks and
+a hammer and scissors, and out we went again.
+We cut a piece for each tree, just enough to
+go over each pair of spouts and protect the
+pail. When tacked on, it had the appearance
+of a neat bib, and as the pattern was a blue
+and white check, the effect, as one looked
+down the road at the twelve trees, was very
+fresh and pleasing. It seemed to cheer the
+people who drove by, too.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But the bibs served their purpose, and the
+sap dripped cozily into the pails without any
+distraction from alien elements. Sap doesn’t
+run in the rain, they say, but this sap did.
+Probably Hiram was right, and you can’t tell.
+I am glad if you can’t. The physical mysteries
+of the universe are being unveiled so
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page043">[pg 043]</span><a name="Pg043" id="Pg043" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+swiftly that one likes to find something that
+still keeps its secret—though, indeed, the
+spiritual mysteries seem in no danger of such
+enforcement.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The next day the rain stopped, the floods
+began to subside, and Jonathan managed to
+arrive, though the roads had even less <span class="tei tei-q">“bottom
+to ’em”</span> than before. The sun blazed out,
+and the sap ran faster, and, after Jonathan
+had fully enjoyed them, the blue and white
+bibs were taken off. Somehow in the clear
+March sunshine they looked almost shocking.
+By the next day we had syrup enough to try
+for sugar.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For on sugar my heart was set. Syrup was
+all very well for the first year, but now it
+had to be sugar. Moreover, as I explained to
+Janet, when it came to sugar, being absolutely
+ignorant, I was again in a position to expect
+the aid of the fool’s Providence.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How much <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">do</span></span>
+you know about it?”</span> asked Janet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, just what people say. It seems to be
+partly like fudge and partly like molasses
+candy. You boil it, and then you beat it, and
+then you pour it off.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page044">[pg 044]</span><a name="Pg044" id="Pg044" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’ve got more to go on than that,”</span> said
+Jonathan. <span class="tei tei-q">“I came up on the train with the
+Judge. He used to see it done.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You’ve got to drive Janet over to her
+train to-night; Hiram can’t,”</span> I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“All right. There’s time enough.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We sat down to early supper, and took
+turns running out to the kitchen to <span class="tei tei-q">“try”</span>
+the syrup as it boiled down. At least we said
+we would take turns, but usually we all three
+went. Supper seemed distinctly a side issue.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’m going to take it off now,”</span> said Jonathan.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Look out!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do you think it’s time?”</span> I demurred.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We’ll know soon,”</span> said Jonathan, with
+his usual composure.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We hung over him. <span class="tei tei-q">“Now you beat it,”</span> I
+said. But he was already beating.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Get some cold water to set it in,”</span> he commanded.
+We brought the dishpan with water
+from the well, where ice still floated.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Maybe you oughtn’t to stir so much—do
+you think?”</span> I suggested, helpfully. <span class="tei tei-q">“Beat
+it more—up, you know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“More the way you would eggs,”</span> said
+Janet.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page045">[pg 045]</span><a name="Pg045" id="Pg045" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’ll show you.”</span> I lunged at the spoon.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Go away! This isn’t eggs,”</span> said Jonathan,
+beating steadily.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Your arm must be tired. Let me take it,”</span>
+pleaded Janet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, me!”</span> I said. <span class="tei tei-q">“Janet, you’ve got to
+get your coat and things. You’ll have to start
+in fifteen minutes. Here, Jonathan, you need
+a fresh arm.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’m fresh enough.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And I really don’t think you have the
+motion.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I have motion enough. This is my job.
+You go and help Janet.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Janet’s all right.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“So am I. See how white it’s getting. The
+Judge said—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Here come Hiram and Kit,”</span> announced
+Janet, returning with bag and wraps. <span class="tei tei-q">“But
+you have ten minutes. Can’t I help?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He won’t let us. He’s that
+‘sot,’”</span> I murmured. <span class="tei tei-q">“He’ll
+make you miss your train.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">could</span></span>
+butter the pans,”</span> he counter charged,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“and you haven’t.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We flew to prepare, and the pouring began.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page046">[pg 046]</span><a name="Pg046" id="Pg046" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+It was a thrilling moment. The syrup, or
+sugar, now a pale hay color, poured out
+thickly, blob-blob-blob, into the little pans.
+Janet moved them up as they were needed,
+and I snatched the spoon, at last, and encouraged
+the stuff to fall where it should. But
+Jonathan got it from me again, and scraped
+out the remnant, making designs of clovers
+and polliwogs on the tops of the cakes. Then
+a dash for coats and hats and a rush to the
+carriage.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When the surrey disappeared around the
+turn of the road, I went back, shivering, to
+the house. It seemed very empty, as houses
+will, being sensitive things. I went to the
+kitchen. There on the table sat a huddle of
+little pans, to cheer me, and I fell to work
+getting things in order to be left in the morning.
+Then I went back to the fire and waited
+for Jonathan. I picked up a book and tried
+to read, but the stillness of the house was
+too importunate, it had to be listened to. I
+leaned back and watched the fire, and the old
+house and I held communion together.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Perhaps in no other way is it possible to get
+quite what I got that evening. It was partly
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page047">[pg 047]</span><a name="Pg047" id="Pg047" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+my own attitude; I was going away in the
+morning, and I had, in a sense, no duties
+toward the place. The magazines of last fall
+lay on the tables, the newspapers of last fall
+lay beside them. The dust of last fall was,
+doubtless, in the closets and on the floors. It
+did not matter. For though I was the mistress
+of the house, I was for the moment even more
+its guest, and guests do not concern themselves
+with such things as these.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">If it had been really an empty house, I
+should have been obliged to think of these
+things, for in an empty house the dust speaks
+and the house is still, dumbly imprisoned in
+its own past. On the other hand, when a
+house is filled with life, it is still, too; it is
+absorbed in its own present. But when one
+sojourns in a house that is merely resting, full
+of the life that has only for a brief season left
+it, ready for the life that is soon to return—then
+one is in the midst of silences that are
+not empty and hollow, but richly eloquent.
+The house is the link that joins and interprets
+the living past and the living future.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Something of this I came to feel as I sat
+there in the wonderful stillness. There were
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page048">[pg 048]</span><a name="Pg048" id="Pg048" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+no house noises such as generally form the
+unnoticed background of one’s consciousness—the
+steps overhead, the distant voices, the
+ticking of the clock, the breathing of the dog
+in the corner. Even the mice and the chimney-swallows
+had not come back, and I missed the
+scurrying in the walls and the flutter of wings
+in the chimney. The fire purred low, now and
+then the wind sighed gently about the corner
+of the <span class="tei tei-q">“new part,”</span> and a loose door-latch
+clicked as the draught shook it. A branch
+drew back and forth across a window-pane
+with the faintest squeak. And little by little
+the old house opened its heart. All that it
+told me I hardly yet know myself. It gathered
+up for me all its past, the past that I had
+known and the past that I had not known.
+Time fell away. My own importance dwindled.
+I seemed a very small part of the life
+of the house—very small, yet wholly belonging
+to it. I felt that it absorbed me as it
+absorbed the rest—those before and after
+me—for time was not.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There was the sound of slow wheels outside,
+the long roll of the carriage-house door,
+and the trampling of hoofs on the flooring
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page049">[pg 049]</span><a name="Pg049" id="Pg049" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+within. Then the clinking of the lantern and
+the even tread of feet on the path behind the
+house, a gust of raw snow-air—and the house
+fell silent so that Jonathan might come in.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Your sugar is hardening nicely, I see,”</span>
+he said, rubbing his hands before the fire.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> I said. <span class="tei tei-q">“You know I
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">told</span></span> Janet
+that for this part of the affair we could trust
+to the fool’s Providence.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Thank you,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="chapter03" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page050">[pg 050]</span><a name="Pg050" id="Pg050" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc6" id="toc6"></a>
+<a name="pdf7" id="pdf7"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">III</span></h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Evenings on the Farm</span></h1>
+
+<div class="tei tei-epigraph" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 9.00em">
+  <div class="tei tei-cit" style="text-align: right">
+    <span class="tei tei-quote" style="text-align: right">
+      <div class="tei tei-lg" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em">
+        <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;</span></div>
+        <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away</span></div>
+        <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">(And wait to watch the water clear, I may);</span></div>
+        <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">I shan’t be gone long.—You come too.</span></div>
+        <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"> </div>
+        <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">I’m going out to fetch the little calf</span></div>
+        <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,</span></div>
+        <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">It totters when she licks it with her tongue.</span></div>
+        <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">I shan’t be gone long.—You come too.</span></div>
+      </div>
+      <span class="tei tei-bibl" style="text-align: right">
+        <span class="tei tei-author" style="text-align: right"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Robert Frost</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.
+      </span></span>
+    </span>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When we first planned to take up the farm
+we looked forward with especial pleasure to
+our evenings. They were to be the quiet
+rounding-in of our days, full of companionship,
+full of meditation. <span class="tei tei-q">“We’ll do lots of
+reading aloud,”</span> I said. <span class="tei tei-q">“And we’ll have long
+walks. There won’t be much to do
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">but</span></span> walk
+and read. I can hardly wait.”</span> And I chose
+our summer books with special reference to
+reading aloud.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of course,”</span> I said, as we fell to work at
+our packing, <span class="tei tei-q">“we’ll have to do all sorts of
+things first. But the days are so long up there,
+and the life is very simple. And in the evenings
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page051">[pg 051]</span><a name="Pg051" id="Pg051" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+you’ll help. We ought to be settled in a
+week.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Or two—or three,”</span> suggested Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Three! What is there to do?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Farm-life isn’t so blamed simple as you
+think.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But what <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></span>
+there to do? Now, listen!
+One day for trunks, one day for boxes and
+barrels, one day for closets, that’s three, one
+for curtains, four, one day for—for the garret,
+that’s five. Well—one day for odds and
+ends that I haven’t thought of. That’s
+liberal, I’m sure.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Better say the rest of your life for the
+odds and ends you haven’t thought of,”</span> said
+Jonathan, as he drove the last nail in a neatly
+headed barrel.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan, why are you such a pessimist?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’m not, except when you’re such an
+optimist.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If I’d begun by saying it would take a
+month, would you have said a week?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Can’t tell. Might have.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Anyway, there’s nothing bad about odds
+and ends. They’re about all women have
+much to do with most of their lives.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page052">[pg 052]</span><a name="Pg052" id="Pg052" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That’s what I said. And you called me a
+pessimist.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I didn’t call you one. I said, why were
+you one.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’m sorry. My mistake,”</span> said Jonathan
+with the smile of one who scores.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And so we went.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">One day for trunks was all right. Any one
+can manage trunks. And the second day, the
+boxes were emptied and sent flying out to the
+barn. Curtains I decided to keep for evening
+work, while Jonathan read. That left the
+closets and the attic, or rather the attics, for
+there was one over the main house and one
+over the <span class="tei tei-q">“new part,”</span>—still <span class="tei tei-q">“new,”</span> although
+now some seventy years old. They were
+known as the attic and the little attic. I
+thought I would do the closets first, and I began
+with the one in the parlor. This was built
+into the chimney, over the fireplace. It was
+low, and as long as the mantelpiece itself. It
+had two long shelves shut away behind three
+glass doors through which the treasures within
+were dimly visible. When I swung these open
+it felt like opening a tomb—cold, musty
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page053">[pg 053]</span><a name="Pg053" id="Pg053" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+air hung about my face. I brushed it aside,
+and considered where to begin. It was a depressing
+collection. There were photographs
+and photographs, some in frames, the rest of
+them tied up in packages or lying in piles. A
+few had names or messages written on the
+back, but most gave no clue; and all of them
+gazed out at me with that expression of complete
+respectability that constitutes so impenetrable
+a mask for the personality behind.
+Most of us wear such masks, but the older
+photographers seem to have been singularly
+successful in concentrating attention on them.
+Then there were albums, with more photographs,
+of people and of <span class="tei tei-q">“views.”</span> There was
+a big Bible, some prayer-books, and a few
+other books elaborately bound with that
+heavy fancifulness that we are learning to call
+Victorian. One of these was on <span class="tei tei-q">“The Wonders
+of the Great West”</span>; another was about
+<span class="tei tei-q">“The Female Saints of America.”</span> I took it
+down and glanced through it, but concluded
+that one had to be a female saint, or at least
+an aspirant, to appreciate it. Then there were
+things made out of dried flowers, out of hair,
+out of shells, out of pine-cones. There were
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page054">[pg 054]</span><a name="Pg054" id="Pg054" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+vases and other ornamental bits of china and
+glass, also Victorian, looking as if they were
+meant to be continually washed or dusted by
+the worn, busy fingers of the female saints. As
+I came to fuller realization of all these relics,
+my resolution flickered out and there fell upon
+me a strange numbness of spirit. I seemed
+under a spell of inaction. Everything behind
+those glass doors had been cherished too long
+to be lightly thrown away, yet was not old
+enough to be valuable nor useful enough to
+keep. I spent a long day—one of the longest
+days of my life—browsing through the books,
+trying to sort the photographs, and glancing
+through a few old letters. I did nothing in
+particular with anything, and in the late afternoon
+I roused myself, put them all back, and
+shut the glass doors. I had nothing to show
+for my day’s experience except a deep little
+round ache in the back of my neck and a faint
+brassy taste in my mouth. I complained of it
+to Jonathan later.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It always tasted just that way to me when
+I was a boy,”</span> he said, <span class="tei tei-q">“but I never thought
+much about it—I thought it was just a
+closet-taste.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page055">[pg 055]</span><a name="Pg055" id="Pg055" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And it isn’t only the taste,”</span> I went on.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“It does something to me, to my state of
+mind. I’m afraid to try the garret.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Garrets are different,”</span> said Jonathan.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“But I’d leave them. They can wait.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They’ve waited a good while, of course,”</span>
+I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And so we left the garrets. We came back
+to them later, and were glad we had done so.
+But that is a story by itself.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meanwhile, in the evenings, Jonathan
+helped.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’m afraid you were more or less right
+about the odd jobs,”</span> I admitted one night.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“They do seem to accumulate.”</span> I was holding
+a candle while he set up a loose latch.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They’ve been accumulating a good many
+years,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, that’s it. And so the doors all stick,
+and the latches won’t latch, and the shades
+are sulky or wild, and the pantry shelves—have
+you noticed?—they’re all warped so
+they rock when you set a dish on them.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And the chairs pull apart,”</span> added Jonathan.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page056">[pg 056]</span><a name="Pg056" id="Pg056" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. Of course after we catch up we’ll be
+all right.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I wouldn’t count too much on catching
+up.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why not?”</span> I asked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The farm has had a long start.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But you’re a Yankee,”</span> I argued; <span class="tei tei-q">“the
+Yankee nature fairly feeds on such jobs—‘putter
+jobs,’ you know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Only, of course, you get on faster if you’re
+not too particular about having the exact
+tool—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Considered as a Yankee, Jonathan’s only
+fault is that when he does a job he likes to
+have a very special tool to do it with. Often
+it is so special that I have never heard its
+name before and then I consider he is going
+too far. He merely thinks I haven’t gone far
+enough. Perhaps such matters must always
+remain matters of opinion. But even with
+this handicap we did begin to catch up, and
+we could have done this a good deal faster if
+it had not been for the pump.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The pump was a clear case of new wine in
+an old bottle. It was large and very strong.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page057">[pg 057]</span><a name="Pg057" id="Pg057" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+The people who worked it were strong too.
+But the walls and floor to which it was attached
+were not strong at all. And so, one
+night, when Jonathan wanted a walk I was
+obliged instead to suggest the pump.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What’s the matter there?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why, it seems to have pulled clear of its
+moorings. You look at it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He looked, with that expression of meditative
+resourcefulness peculiar to the true
+Yankee countenance. <span class="tei tei-q">“H’m—needs new
+wood there,—and there; that stuff’ll never
+hold.”</span> And so the old bottle was patched with
+new skin at the points of strain, and in the zest
+of reconstruction Jonathan almost forgot to
+regret the walk. <span class="tei tei-q">“We’ll have it to-morrow
+night,”</span> he said: <span class="tei tei-q">“the moon will be better.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The next evening I met him below the turn of
+the road. <span class="tei tei-q">“Wonderful night it’s going to be,”</span>
+he said, as he pushed his wheel up the last hill.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes—”</span> I said, a little uneasily. I was
+thinking of the kitchen pump. Finally I
+brought myself to face it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“There seems to be some trouble—with
+the pump,”</span> I said apologetically. I felt that
+it was my fault, though I knew it wasn’t.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page058">[pg 058]</span><a name="Pg058" id="Pg058" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“More trouble? What sort of trouble?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, it wheezes and makes funny sucking
+noises, and the water spits and spits, and then
+bursts out, and then doesn’t come at all. It
+sounds a little like a cat with a bone in its
+throat.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Probably just that,”</span> said Jonathan:
+<span class="tei tei-q">“grain of sand in the valve, very likely.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Shall I get a plumber?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Plumber! I’ll fix it myself in three shakes
+of a lamb’s tail.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well,”</span> I said, relieved: <span class="tei tei-q">“you can do that
+after supper while I see that all the chickens
+are in, and those turkeys, and then we’ll have
+our walk.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Accordingly I went off on my tour. When
+I returned the pale moon-shadows were already
+beginning to show in the lingering dusk
+of the fading daylight. Indoors seemed very
+dark, but on the kitchen floor a candle sat,
+flaring and dipping.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan,”</span> I called, <span class="tei tei-q">“I’m ready.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I’m not,”</span> said a voice at my feet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why, where are you? Oh, there!”</span> I bent
+down and peered under the sink at a shape
+crouched there. <span class="tei tei-q">“Haven’t you finished?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page059">[pg 059]</span><a name="Pg059" id="Pg059" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Finished! I’ve just got the thing apart.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I should say you had!”</span> I regarded the
+various pieces of iron and leather and wood as
+they lay, mere dismembered shapes, about
+the dim kitchen.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It doesn’t seem as if it would ever come
+together again—to be a pump,”</span> I said in
+some depression.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, that’s easy! It’s just a question of
+time.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How much time?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Heaven knows.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Was it the valve?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It was—several things.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">His tone had the vagueness born of concentration.
+I could see that this was no time to
+press for information. Besides, in the field
+of mechanics, as Jonathan has occasionally
+pointed out to me, I am rather like a traveler
+who has learned to ask questions in a foreign
+tongue, but not to understand the answers.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I’ll bring my sewing out here—or
+would you rather have me read to you?
+There’s something in the last number of—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No—get your sewing—blast that
+screw! Why doesn’t it start?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page060">[pg 060]</span><a name="Pg060" id="Pg060" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Evidently sewing was better than the last
+number of anything. I settled myself under
+a lamp, while Jonathan, in the twilight beneath
+the sink, continued his mystic rites,
+with an accompaniment of mildly vituperative
+or persuasive language, addressed sometimes
+to his tools, sometimes to the screws
+and nuts and other parts, sometimes against
+the men who made them or the plumbers who
+put them in. Now and then I held a candle,
+or steadied some perverse bit of metal while
+he worked his will upon it. And at last the
+phœnix did indeed rise, the pump was again
+a pump,—at least it looked like one.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Suppose it doesn’t work,”</span> I suggested.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Suppose it does,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He began to pump furiously. <span class="tei tei-q">“Pour in
+water there!”</span> he directed. <span class="tei tei-q">“Keep on pouring—don’t
+stop—never mind if she does spout.”</span>
+I poured and he pumped, and there were the
+usual sounds of a pump resuming activity:
+gurglings and spittings, suckings and sudden
+spoutings; but at last it seemed to get its
+breath—a few more long strokes of the
+handle, and the water poured.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What time is it?”</span> he asked.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page061">[pg 061]</span><a name="Pg061" id="Pg061" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, fairly late—about ten—ten minutes
+past.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Instead of our walk, we stood for a moment
+under the big maples before the house
+and looked out into a sea of moonlight. It
+silvered the sides of the old gray barns and
+washed over the blossoming apple trees beyond
+the house. Is there anything more
+sweetly still than the stillness of moonlight
+over apple blossoms! As we went out to
+the barns to lock up, even the little hencoops
+looked poetic. Passing one of them, we half
+roused the feathered family within and heard
+muffled peepings and a smothered <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">clk-clk</span></span>.
+Jonathan was by this time so serene that I
+felt I could ask him a question that had occurred
+to me.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan, how long <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></span>
+three shakes of a lamb’s tail?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Apparently, my dear, it is the whole evening,”</span>
+he answered unruffled.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The next night was drizzly. Well, we would
+have books instead of a walk. We lighted a
+fire, May though it was, and settled down before
+it. <span class="tei tei-q">“What shall we read?”</span> I asked, feeling
+very cozy.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page062">[pg 062]</span><a name="Pg062" id="Pg062" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan was filling his pipe with a leisurely
+deliberation good to look upon. With the
+match in his hand he paused—<span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, I meant
+to tell you—those young turkeys of yours—they
+were still out when I came through
+the yard. I wonder if they went in all right.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I have always noticed that if the turkeys
+grow up very fat and strutty and suggestive
+of Thanksgiving, Jonathan calls them <span class="tei tei-q">“our
+turkeys,”</span> but in the spring, when they are
+committing all the naughtinesses of wild and
+silly youth, he is apt to allude to them as
+<span class="tei tei-q">“those young turkeys of yours.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I rose wearily. <span class="tei tei-q">“No. They never go in all
+right when they get out at this time—especially
+on wet nights. I’ll have to find them
+and stow them.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan got up, too, and laid down his
+pipe. <span class="tei tei-q">“You’ll need the lantern,”</span> he said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We went out together into the May drizzle—a
+good thing to be out in, too, if you are
+out for the fun of it. But when you are hunting
+silly little turkeys who literally don’t
+know enough to go in when it rains, and when
+you expected and wanted to be doing something
+else, then it seems different, the drizzle
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page063">[pg 063]</span><a name="Pg063" id="Pg063" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+seems peculiarly drizzly, the silliness of the
+turkeys seems particularly and unendurably
+silly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We waded through the drenched grass and
+the tall, dripping weeds, listening for the
+faint, foolish peeping of the wanderers. Some
+we found under piled fence rails, some under
+burdock leaves, some under nothing more
+protective than a plantain leaf. By ones and
+twos we collected them, half drowned yet
+shrilly remonstrant, and dropped them into
+the dry shed where they belonged. Then we
+returned to the house, very wet, feeling the
+kind of discouragement that usually besets
+those who are forced to furnish prudence to
+fools.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nine o’clock,”</span> said Jonathan, <span class="tei tei-q">“and we’re
+too wet to sit down. If you could just shut in
+those turkeys on wet days—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Shut them in! Didn’t I shut them in!
+They must have got out since four o’clock.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Isn’t the shed tight?”</span> he asked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Chicken-tight, but not turkey-tight, apparently.
+Nothing is turkey-tight.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They’re bigger than chickens.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not in any one spot they aren’t. They’re
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page064">[pg 064]</span><a name="Pg064" id="Pg064" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+like coiled wire—when they stretch out to
+get through a crack they have <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">no</span></span> dimension
+except length, their bodies are mere imaginary
+points to hang feathers on. You don’t
+know little turkeys.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It might be said that, having undertaken
+to raise turkeys, we had to expect them to act
+like turkeys. But there were other interruptions
+in our evenings where our share of responsibility
+was not so plain. For example,
+one wet evening in early June we had kindled
+a little fire and I had brought the lamp forward.
+The pump was quiescent, the little
+turkeys were all tucked up in the turkey
+equivalent for bed, the farm seemed to be
+cuddling down into itself for the night. We
+sat for a moment luxuriously regarding the
+flames, listening to the sighing of the wind,
+feeling the sweet damp air as it blew in
+through the open windows. I was considering
+which book it should be and at last rose to
+possess myself of two or three.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sh—h—h!”</span> said Jonathan, a warning
+finger raised.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I stood listening.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t hear anything,”</span> I said.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page065">[pg 065]</span><a name="Pg065" id="Pg065" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sh—h!”</span> he repeated. <span class="tei tei-q">“There!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This time, indeed, I heard faint bird-notes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Young robins!”</span> He sprang up and made
+for the back door with long strides.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I peered out through the window of the
+orchard room, but saw only the reflection of
+the firelight and the lamp. Suddenly I heard
+Jonathan whistle and I ran to the back porch.
+Blackness pressed against my eyes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where are you?”</span> I called into it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The whistle again, quite near me, apparently
+out of the air.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bring a lantern,”</span> came a whisper.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I got it and came back and down the steps
+to the path, holding up my light and peering
+about in search of the voice.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where are you? I can’t see you at all.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Right here—look—here—up!”</span> The
+voice was almost over my head.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I searched the dark masses of the tree—oh,
+yes! the lantern revealed the heel of a
+shoe in a crotch, and above,—yes, undoubtedly,
+the rest of Jonathan, stretched out along
+a limb.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh! What are you doing up there?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Get me a long stick—hoe—clothes-pole—anything
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page066">[pg 066]</span><a name="Pg066" id="Pg066" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+I can poke with. Quick!
+The cat’s up here. I can hear her, but I can’t
+see her.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I found the rake and reached it up to him.
+From the dark beyond him came a distressed
+mew.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now the lantern. Hang it on the teeth.”</span>
+He drew it up to him, then, rake in one hand
+and lantern in the other, proceeded to squirm
+out along the limb.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now I see her.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I saw her too—a huddle of yellow,
+crouched close.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’ll have her in a minute. She’ll either
+have to drop or be caught.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And in fact this distressing dilemma was
+already becoming plain to the marauder herself.
+Her mewings grew louder and more
+frequent. A few more contortions brought
+the climber nearer his victim. A little judicious
+urging with the rake and she was within
+reach. The rake came down to me, and a
+long, wild mew announced that Jonathan had
+clutched.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t see how you’re going to get down,”</span>
+I said, mopping the rain-mist out of my eyes.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page067">[pg 067]</span><a name="Pg067" id="Pg067" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Watch me,”</span> panted the contortionist.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I watched a curious mass descend the
+tree, the lantern, swinging and jerking, fitfully
+illumined the pair, and I could see, now
+a knee and an ear, now a hand and a yellow
+furry shape, now a white collar, nose, and
+chin. There was a last, long, scratching slide.
+I snatched the lantern, and Jonathan stood
+beside me, holding by the scruff of her neck
+a very much frazzled yellow cat. We returned
+to the porch where her victims were—one
+alive, in a basket, two dead, beside it, and
+Jonathan, kneeling, held the cat’s nose close
+to the little bodies while he boxed her ears—once,
+twice; remonstrant mews rose wild,
+and with a desperate twist the culprit backed
+out under his arm and leaped into the blackness.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t believe she’ll eat young robin for a
+day or two,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Is that what they were? Where were
+they?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Under the tree. She’d knocked them
+out.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Could you put this one back? He seems
+all right—only sort of naked in spots.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page068">[pg 068]</span><a name="Pg068" id="Pg068" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We’ll half cover the basket and hang it
+in the tree. His folks’ll take care of him.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Next morning early there began the greatest
+to-do among the robins in the orchard.
+They shrieked their comments on the affair
+at the top of their lungs. They screamed
+abusively at Jonathan and me as we stood
+watching. <span class="tei tei-q">“They say we did it!”</span> said Jonathan.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“I call that gratitude!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I wish I could record that from that evening
+the cat was a reformed character. An
+impression had indeed been made. All next
+day she stayed under the porch, two glowing
+eyes in the dark. The second day she came
+out, walking indifferent and debonair, as cats
+do. But when Jonathan took down the basket
+from the tree and made her smell of it,
+she flattened her ears against her head and
+shot under the porch again.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But lessons grow dim and temptation is
+freshly importunate. It was not two weeks
+before Jonathan was up another tree on the
+same errand, and when I considered the number
+of nests in our orchard, and the number
+of cats—none of them really our cats—on
+the place, I felt that the position of overruling
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page069">[pg 069]</span><a name="Pg069" id="Pg069" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Providence was almost more than we could
+undertake, if we hoped to do anything else.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These things—tinkering of latches and
+chairs, pump-mending, rescue work in the
+orchard and among the poultry—filled our
+evenings fairly full. Yet these are only samples,
+and not particularly representative
+samples either. They were the sort of things
+that happened oftenest, the common emergencies
+incidental to the life. But there were
+also the uncommon emergencies, each occurring
+seldom but each adding its own touch
+of variety to the tale of our evenings.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For instance, there was the time of the
+great drought, when Jonathan, coming in
+from a tour of the farm at dusk, said, <span class="tei tei-q">“I’ve
+got to go up and dig out the spring-hole
+across the swamp. Everything else is dry,
+and the cattle are getting crazy.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Can I help?”</span> I asked, not without regrets
+for our books and our evening—it was
+a black night, and I had had hopes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. Come and hold the lantern.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We went. The spring-hole had been trodden
+by the poor, eager creatures into a useless
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page070">[pg 070]</span><a name="Pg070" id="Pg070" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+jelly of mud. Jonathan fell to work,
+while I held the lantern high. But soon it
+became more than a mere matter of holding
+the lantern. There was a crashing in the
+blackness about us and a huge horned head
+emerged behind my shoulder, another loomed
+beyond Jonathan’s stooping bulk.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Keep ’em back,”</span> he said. <span class="tei tei-q">“They’ll have
+it all trodden up again—Hi! You! Ge’
+back ’ere!”</span> There is as special a lingo for
+talking to cattle as there is for talking to
+babies. I used it as well as I could. I swung
+the lantern in their faces, I brandished the
+hoe-handle at them, I jabbed at them recklessly.
+They snorted and backed and closed
+in again,—crazy, poor things, with the
+smell of the water. It was an evening’s battle
+for us. Jonathan dug and dug, and then laid
+rails, and the precious water filled in slowly,
+grew to a dark pool, and the thirsty creatures
+panted and snuffed in the dark just outside
+the radius of the hoe-handle, until at last we
+could let them in. I had forgotten my books,
+for we had come close to the earth and the
+creatures of the earth. The cows were our
+sisters and the steers our brothers that night.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page071">[pg 071]</span><a name="Pg071" id="Pg071" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sometimes the emergency was in the barn—a
+broken halter and trouble among the
+horses, or perhaps a new calf. Sometimes a
+stray creature,—cow or horse,—grazing
+along the roadside, got into our yard and
+threatened our corn and squashes and my
+poor, struggling flower-beds. Once it was a
+break in the wire fence around Jonathan’s
+muskmelon patch in the barn meadow. The
+cows had just been turned in, and if it wasn’t
+mended that evening it meant no melons
+that season, also melon-tainted cream for days.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Once or twice each year it was the drainpipe
+from the sink. The drain, like the pump,
+was an innovation. Our ancestors had always
+carried out whatever they couldn’t use
+or burn, and dumped it on the far edge of the
+orchard. In a thinly settled community,
+there is much to be said for this method:
+you know just where you are. But we had the
+drain, and occasionally we didn’t know just
+where we were.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Coffee grounds,”</span> Jonathan would suggest,
+with a touch of sternness.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No,”</span> I would reply firmly; <span class="tei tei-q">“coffee
+grounds are always burned.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page072">[pg 072]</span><a name="Pg072" id="Pg072" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What then?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t know. I’ve poked and poked.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A gleam in the corner of Jonathan’s eye—<span class="tei tei-q">“What
+with?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, everything.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I suppose so. For instance what?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why—hair-pin first, of course, and then
+scissors, and then button-hook—you needn’t
+smile. Button-hooks are wonderful for
+cleaning out pipes. And then I took a pail-handle
+and straightened it out—”</span> Jonathan
+was laughing by this time—<span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I
+have to use what I have, don’t I?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, of course. And after the pail-handle?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“After that—oh, yes. I tried your cleaning-rod.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The devil you did!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not at all. It wasn’t hurt a bit. It just
+wouldn’t go down, that’s all. So then I
+thought I’d wait for you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And now what do you expect?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I expect you to fix it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Of course, after that, there was nothing for
+Jonathan to do but fix it. Usually it did not
+take long. Sometimes it did. Once it took a
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page073">[pg 073]</span><a name="Pg073" id="Pg073" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+whole evening, and required the services of a
+young tree, which Jonathan went out and cut
+and trimmed and forced through a section of
+the pipe which he had taken up and laid out
+for the operation on the kitchen floor. It was
+a warm evening, too, and friends had driven
+over to visit us. We received them warmly in
+the kitchen. We explained that we believed
+in making them members of the family, and
+that members of the family always helped in
+whatever was being done. So they helped.
+They took turns gripping the pipe while
+Jonathan and I persuaded the young tree
+through it. It required great strength and
+some skill because it was necessary to make
+the tree and the pipe perform spirally rotatory
+movements each antagonistic and complementary
+to the other. We were all rather
+tired and very hot before anything began to
+happen. Then it happened all at once: the
+tree burst through—and not alone. A good
+deal came with it. The kitchen floor was a
+sight, and there was—undoubtedly there
+was—a strong smell of coffee. Jonathan
+smiled. Then he went down cellar and restored
+the pipe to its position, while the rest
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page074">[pg 074]</span><a name="Pg074" id="Pg074" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+of us cleared up the kitchen,—it’s astonishing
+what a little job like that can make a
+kitchen look like,—and as our friends started
+to go a voice from beneath us, like the ghost
+in <span class="tei tei-q">“Hamlet,”</span> shouted, <span class="tei tei-q">“Hold ’em! There’s
+half a freezer of ice-cream down here we can
+finish.”</span> Sure enough there was! And then
+he wouldn’t have to pack it down. We had
+it up. We looted the pantry as only irresponsible
+adults can loot, in their own pantry,
+and the evening ended in luxurious ease.
+Some time in the black of the night our
+friends left, and I suppose the sound of their
+carriage-wheels along the empty road set
+many a neighbor wondering, through his
+sleep, <span class="tei tei-q">“Who’s sick now?”</span> How could they
+know it was only a plumbing party?</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As I look back on this evening it seems one
+of the pleasantest of the year. It isn’t so
+much what you do, of course, as the way you
+feel about it, that makes the difference between
+pleasant and unpleasant. Shall we say
+of that evening that we meant to read aloud?
+Or that we meant to have a quiet evening
+with friends? Not at all. We say, with all the
+conviction in the world, that we meant, on
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page075">[pg 075]</span><a name="Pg075" id="Pg075" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+that particular evening, to have a plumbing
+party, with the drain as the
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">pièce de résistance</span></span>.
+Toward this our lives had been yearning,
+and lo! they had arrived!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Some few things, however, are hard to
+meet in that spirit. When the pigs broke out
+of the pen, about nine o’clock, and Hiram
+was away, and Mrs. Hiram needed our help
+to get them in—there was no use in pretending
+that we meant to do it. Moreover, the
+labor of rounding up pigs is one of mingled
+arduousness and delicacy. Pigs in clover
+was once a popular game, but pigs in a dark
+orchard is not a game at all, and it will, I am
+firmly convinced, never be popular. It is, I
+repeat, not a game, yet probably the only
+way to keep one’s temper at all is to regard
+it, for the time being, as a major sport, like
+football and deep-sea fishing and mountain-climbing,
+where you are expected to take
+some risks and not think too much about results
+as such. On this basis it has, perhaps,
+its own rewards. But the attitude is difficult
+to maintain, especially late at night.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On that particular evening, as we returned,
+breathless and worn, to the house, I could
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page076">[pg 076]</span><a name="Pg076" id="Pg076" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+not refrain from saying, with some edge, <span class="tei tei-q">“I
+never wanted to keep pigs anyway.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who says we’re keeping them?”</span> remarked
+Jonathan; and then we laughed and laughed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You needn’t think I’m laughing because
+you said anything specially funny,”</span> I said.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“It’s only because I’m tired enough to laugh
+at anything.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The pump, too, tried my philosophy now
+and then. One evening when I had worn my
+hands to the bone cutting out thick leather
+washers for Jonathan to insert somewhere in
+the circulatory system of that same monster,
+I finally broke out, <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, dear! I hate the
+pump! I wanted a moonlight walk!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’ll have the thing together now in a
+jiffy,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jiffy! There’s no use talking about jiffies
+at half-past ten at night,”</span> I snarled. I
+was determined anyway to be as cross as I
+liked. <span class="tei tei-q">“Why can’t we find a really simple
+way of living? This isn’t simple. It’s highly
+complex and very difficult.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You cut those washers very well,”</span> suggested
+Jonathan soothingly, but I was not
+prepared to be soothed.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page077">[pg 077]</span><a name="Pg077" id="Pg077" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It was hateful work, though. Now, look
+what we’ve done this evening! We’ve shut
+up a setting hen, and housed the little turkeys,
+and driven that cow back into the road,
+and mended a window-shade and the dog’s
+chain, and now we’ve fixed the pump—and
+it won’t stay fixed at that!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Fair evening’s work,”</span> murmured Jonathan
+as he rapidly assembled the pump.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, as work. But all I mean is—it isn’t
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">simple</span></span>.
+Farm life has a reputation for simplicity
+that I begin to think is overdone. It
+doesn’t seem to me that my evening has been
+any more simple than if we had dressed for
+dinner and gone to the opera or played bridge.
+In fact, at this distance, that, compared with
+this, has the simplicity of a—I don’t know
+what!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I like your climaxes,”</span> said Jonathan, and
+we both laughed. <span class="tei tei-q">“There! I’m done. Now
+suppose we go, in our simple way, and lock up
+the barns and chicken-houses.”</span></p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And so the evenings came and went, each
+offering a prospect of fair and quiet things—books
+and firelight and moonlight and talk;
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page078">[pg 078]</span><a name="Pg078" id="Pg078" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+many in retrospect full of things quite different—drains
+and latches and fledglings and
+cows and pigs. Many, but not all. For the
+evenings did now and then come when the
+pump ceased from troubling and the <span class="tei tei-q">“critters”</span>
+were at rest. Evenings when we sat
+under the lamp and read, when we walked
+and walked along moonlit roads or lay on the
+slopes of moon-washed meadows. It was on
+such an evening that we faced the vagaries of
+farm life and searched for a philosophy to
+cover them.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’m beginning to see that it will never be
+any better,”</span> I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Probably not,”</span> said Jonathan, talking
+around his pipe.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You seem contented enough about it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I am.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t know that I’m contented, but
+perhaps I’m resigned. I believe it’s necessary.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of course it’s necessary.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan often has the air of having known
+since infancy the great truths about life that
+I have just discovered. I overlooked this, and
+went on, <span class="tei tei-q">“You see, we’re right down close to
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page079">[pg 079]</span><a name="Pg079" id="Pg079" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the earth that is the ultimate basis of everything,
+and all the caprices of things touch us
+immediately and we have to make immediate
+adjustments to them.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And that knocks the bottom out of our
+evenings.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now if we’re in the city, playing bridge,
+somebody else is making those adjustments
+for us. We’re like the princess with seventeen
+mattresses between her and the pea.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“She felt it, though,”</span> said Jonathan. <span class="tei tei-q">“It
+kept her awake.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I know. She had a poor night. But even
+she would hardly have maintained that she
+felt it as she would have done if the mattresses
+hadn’t been there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“True,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Farm life is the pea without the mattresses—”</span>
+I went on.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sounds a little cheerless,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—of course, it isn’t really cheerless
+at all. But neither is it easy. It’s full of remorseless
+demands for immediate adjustment.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That was the way the princess felt about
+her pea.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page080">[pg 080]</span><a name="Pg080" id="Pg080" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The princess was a snippy little thing.
+But after all, probably her life was full of
+adjustments of other sorts. She couldn’t call
+her soul her own a minute, I suppose.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Perhaps that was why she ran away,”</span>
+suggested Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of course it was. She ran away to find the
+simple life and didn’t find it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. She found the pea—even with all
+those mattresses.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And we’ve run away, and found several
+peas, and fewer mattresses,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let’s not get confused—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’m not confused,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I shall be in a minute if I don’t look
+out. You can’t follow a parallel too far.
+What I mean is, that if you run away from
+one kind of complexity you run into another
+kind.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What are you going to do about it?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’m going to like it all,”</span> I answered, <span class="tei tei-q">“and
+make believe I meant to do it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After that we were silent awhile. Then I
+tried again. <span class="tei tei-q">“You know your trick of waltzing
+with a glass of water on your head?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page081">[pg 081]</span><a name="Pg081" id="Pg081" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I wonder if we couldn’t do that
+with our souls.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That suggests to me a rather curious
+picture,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—you know what I mean. When
+you do that, your body takes up all the jolts
+and jiggles before they get to the top of your
+head, so the glass stays quiet.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I don’t see why—only, of course,
+our souls aren’t really anything like glasses
+of water, and it would be perfectly detestable
+to think of carrying them around carefully
+like that.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Perhaps you’d better back out of that
+figure of speech,”</span> suggested Jonathan. <span class="tei tei-q">“Go
+back to your princess. Say, <span class="tei tei-q">‘every man his
+own mattress.’</span> ”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. Any figure is wrong. The trouble
+with all of them is that as soon as you use
+one it begins to get in your way, and say all
+sorts of things for you that you never meant
+at all. And then if you notice it, it bothers
+you, and if you don’t notice it, you get drawn
+into crooked thinking.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And yet you can’t think without them.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page082">[pg 082]</span><a name="Pg082" id="Pg082" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, you can’t think without them.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—where are we, anyway?”</span> he
+asked placidly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t know at all. Only I feel sure that
+leading the simple life doesn’t depend on the
+things you do it <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">with</span></span>.
+Feeding your own cows
+and pigs and using pumps and candles brings
+you no nearer to it than marketing by telephone
+and using city water supply and electric
+lighting. I don’t know what does bring
+you nearer, but I’m sure it must be something
+inside you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That sounds rather reasonable,”</span> said
+Jonathan; <span class="tei tei-q">“almost scriptural—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I know,”</span> I said.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="chapter04" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page083">[pg 083]</span><a name="Pg083" id="Pg083" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc8" id="toc8"></a>
+<a name="pdf9" id="pdf9"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">IV</span></h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">After Frost</span></h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is late afternoon in mid-September. I
+stand in my garden sniffing the raw air, and
+wondering, as always at this season,
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">will</span></span>
+there be frost to-night or will there not? Of
+course if I were a woodchuck or a muskrat, or
+any other really intelligent creature, I should
+know at once and act accordingly, but being
+only a stupid human being, I am thrown
+back on conjecture, assisted by the thermometer,
+and an appeal to Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Too much wind for frost,”</span> says he.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sure? I’d hate to lose my nasturtiums
+quite so early.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You won’t lose ’em. Look at the thermometer
+if you don’t believe me. If it’s
+above forty you’re safe.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I look, and try to feel reassured. But I am
+not quite easy in my mind until next morning
+when, running out before breakfast, I make
+the rounds and find everything untouched.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page084">[pg 084]</span><a name="Pg084" id="Pg084" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But a few days later the alarm comes again.
+There is no wind this time, and, what is
+worse, an ominous silence falls at dusk over
+the orchard and meadow. <span class="tei tei-q">“Why is everything
+so still?”</span> I ask myself. <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, of course—the
+katydids aren’t talking—and the
+crickets, and all the other whirr-y things.
+Ah! That means business! My poor garden!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan!”</span> I call, as I feel rather than
+see his shape whirling noiselessly in at the
+big gate after his ride up from the station.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Help me cover my nasturtiums. There’ll
+be frost to-night.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Maybe,”</span> says Jonathan’s voice.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not maybe at all—surely. Listen to the
+katydids!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You mean, listen to the absence of katydids.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Very well. The point is, I want newspapers.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. The point is, I am to bring newspapers.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Exactly.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And tuck up your nasturtiums for the
+night in your peculiarly ridiculous fashion—”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page085">[pg 085]</span><a name="Pg085" id="Pg085" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I know it looks ridiculous, but really it’s
+sensible. There may be weeks of summer
+after this.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And so the nasturtiums are tucked up,
+cozily hidden under the big layers of sheets,
+whose corners we fasten down with stones.
+To be sure, the garden <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></span> rather a funny
+sight, with these pale shapes sprawling over
+its beds. But it pays. For in the morning,
+though over in the vegetable garden the
+squash leaves and lima beans are blackened
+and limp, my nasturtiums are still pert and
+crisp. I pull off the papers, wondering what
+the passers-by have thought, and lo! my gay
+garden, good for perhaps two weeks more!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But a day arrives when even newspaper
+coddling is of no avail. Sometimes it is in late
+September, sometimes not until October, but
+when it comes there is no resisting.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sun goes down, leaving a clear sky
+paling to green at the horizon. A still cold
+falls upon the world, and I feel that it is
+the end. Shears in hand, I cut everything I
+can—nasturtiums down to the ground,—leaves,
+buds, and all,—feathery sprays of
+cosmos, asters by the armful. Those last
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page086">[pg 086]</span><a name="Pg086" id="Pg086" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+bouquets that I bring into the house are always
+the most beautiful, for I do not have to
+save buds for later cutting. There will, alas,
+be no later cutting.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So I fill my bowls and vases, and next
+morning I go out, well knowing what I shall
+see. It is a beautiful sight, too, if one can
+forget its meaning. The whole golden-green
+world of autumn has been touched with silver.
+In the low-lying swamp beyond the
+orchard it is almost like a light snowfall.
+The meadows rising beyond the barns are
+silvered over wherever the long tree-shadows
+still lie. And in my garden, too, where the
+shadows linger, every leaf is frosted, but as
+soon as the sun warms them through, leaf and
+twig turn dark and droop to the ground. It is
+the end.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Except, indeed, for my brave marigolds
+and calendulas and little button asters. It is
+for this reason that I have given them space
+all summer, nipping them back when they
+tried to blossom early, for they seem a bit
+crude compared with the other flowers. But
+now that frost is here, my feelings warm to
+them. I cannot criticize their color and texture,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page087">[pg 087]</span><a name="Pg087" id="Pg087" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+so grateful am I to them for not giving
+up. And when last night’s cuttings have
+faded, I shall be very glad of a glowing mass
+of marigold beside my fireplace, and of the
+yellow stars of calendula, like embodied
+sunshine, on my dining-table.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Well, then, the frost has come! And after
+the first pang of realization, I find that, curiously
+enough, the worst is over. Since it has
+come, let it come! And now—hurrah for the
+garden house-cleaning! The garden is dead—the
+garden of yesterday! Long live the
+garden—the garden of to-morrow! For
+suddenly my mind has leaped ahead to spring.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I can hardly wait for breakfast to be over,
+before I am out in working clothes, pulling
+up things—not weeds now, but flowers, or
+what were flowers. Nasturtiums, asters, cosmos,
+snapdragon, stock, late-blooming cornflowers—up
+they all come, all the annuals,
+and the biennials that have had their season.
+I fling them together in piles, and soon have
+small haystacks all along my grass paths, and—there
+I am! Down again to the good brown
+earth!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is with positive satisfaction that I stand
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page088">[pg 088]</span><a name="Pg088" id="Pg088" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and survey my beds, great bare patches of
+earth, glorified here and there by low clumps
+of calendula and great bushes of marigold.
+Now, then! I can do anything! I can dig,
+and fertilize, and transplant. Best of all, I
+can plan and plan! The crisp wind stings my
+cheeks, but as I work I feel the sun hot on the
+back of my neck. I get the smell of the earth
+as I turn it over, mingled with the pungent
+tang of marigold blossoms, very pleasant out
+of doors, though almost too strong for the
+house except near a fireplace. I believe the
+most characteristic fall odors are to me this
+of marigold, mingled with the fragrance of
+apples piled in the orchard, the good smell
+of earth newly turned up, and the flavor of
+burning leaves, borne now and then on the
+wind, from the outdoor house-cleaning of the
+world.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is perhaps no season of all the garden
+year that brings more real delight to the
+gardener, no time so stimulating to the imagination.
+This year in the garden has been
+good, but next year shall be better. All the
+failures, or near-failures, shall of course be
+turned into successes, and the successes shall
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page089">[pg 089]</span><a name="Pg089" id="Pg089" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+be bettered. Last year there were not quite
+enough hollyhocks, but next year there shall
+be such glories! There are seedlings that I
+have been saving, over on the edge of the
+phlox. I dash across to look them up—yes,
+here they are, splendid little fellows, leaves
+only a bit crumpled by the frost. I dig them
+up carefully, keeping earth packed about
+their roots, and one by one I convey them
+across and set them out in a beautiful row
+where I want them to grow next year. Their
+place is beside the old stone-flagged path, and
+I picture them rising tall against the side of
+the woodshed, whose barrenness I have besides
+more than half covered with honeysuckle.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then, there are my foxgloves. Some of
+them I have already transplanted, but not
+all. There is a little corner full of stocky
+yearlings that I must change now. And that
+same corner can be used for poppies. I have
+kept seeds of this year’s poppies—funny
+little brown pepper-shakers, with tiny holes
+at the end through which I shake out the fine
+seed dust. Doubtless they would attend to
+all this without my help, but I like to be sure
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page090">[pg 090]</span><a name="Pg090" id="Pg090" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+that even my self-seeding annuals come up
+where I most want them.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Biennials, like the foxglove and canterbury
+bells, are of course, the difficult children
+of the garden, because you have to plan
+not only for next year but for the year after.
+Next year’s bloom is secured—unless they
+winter-kill—in this year’s young plants,
+growing since spring, or even since the fall
+before. These I transplant for next summer’s
+beauty. But for the year after I like to take
+double precautions. Already I have tiny
+seedlings, started since August, but besides
+these I sow seed, too late to start before
+spring. For a severe winter may do havoc,
+and I shall then need the early start given by
+fall sowing.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As I work on, I discover all sorts of treasures—young
+plants, seedlings from all the
+big-folk of my garden. Young larkspurs
+surround the bushy parent clumps, and
+the ground near the forget-me-nots is fairly
+carpeted with little new ones. I have found
+that, though the old forget-me-nots will live
+through, it pays to pull out the most ragged
+of them and trust to the youngsters to fill
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page091">[pg 091]</span><a name="Pg091" id="Pg091" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+their places. These, and English daisies, I let
+grow together about as they will. They are
+pretty together, with their mingling of pink,
+white, and blue, they never run out, and all I
+need is to keep them from spreading too far,
+or from crowding each other too much.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When my back aches from this kind of
+sorting and shifting, I straighten up and look
+about me again. Ah! The phlox! Time now
+to attend to that!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My white phlox is really the most distinguished
+thing in my garden. I have pink
+and lavender, too, but any one can have pink
+and lavender by ordering them from a florist.
+They can have white, too, but not my
+white. For mine never saw a florist; it is an
+inheritance.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sixty or seventy years ago there was a
+beautiful little garden north of the old house
+tended and loved by a beautiful lady. The
+lady died, and the garden did not long outlive
+her. Its place was taken by a crab-apple
+orchard, which flourished, bore blossom and
+fruit, until in its turn it grew old, while the
+garden had faded to a dim tradition. But one
+day in August, a few years ago, I discovered
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page092">[pg 092]</span><a name="Pg092" id="Pg092" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+under the shade of an old crab tree, two slender
+sprays of white phlox, trying to blossom.
+In memory of that old garden and its lady, I
+took them up and cherished them. And the
+miracle of life was again made manifest.
+For from those two little half-starved roots
+has come the most splendid part of my garden.
+All summer it makes a thick green wall
+on the garden’s edge, beside the flagged path.
+In the other beds it rises in luxuriant masses,
+giving background and body with its wonderful
+deep green foliage, which is greener
+and thicker than any other phlox I know.
+And when its season to bloom arrives—a
+long month, from early August to mid-September—it
+is a glory of whiteness, the tallest
+sprays on a level with my eyes, the shortest
+shoulder high, except when rain weighs down
+the heavy heads and they lean across the
+paths barring my passage with their fragrant
+wetness.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here and there I have let the pink and
+lavender phlox come in, for they begin to
+bloom two weeks earlier, when the garden
+needs color. But always my white must
+dominate. And it does. Most wonderful of
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page093">[pg 093]</span><a name="Pg093" id="Pg093" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+all is it on moonlight nights of late August,
+when it broods over the garden like a white
+cloud, and the night moths come crowding
+to its fragrant feast, with their intermittent
+burring of furry wings.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ah, well! the phlox has passed now, and its
+trim green leaves are brown and crackly. I
+can do what I like with it after this. So when
+my other transplanting grows tiresome, I fall
+upon my phlox. Every year some of it needs
+thinning, so quickly does it spread. I take the
+spading-fork, and, with what seems like utter
+ruthlessness, I pry out from the thickest centers
+enough good roots to give the rest breathing
+and growing space. Along the path edges
+I always have to cut out encroaching roots
+each year, or else soon there would be no
+path. But all that I take out is precious,
+either to give to friends for their gardens, or
+to enlarge the edges of my own. For this
+phlox needs almost no care, and will fight
+grass and weeds for itself.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There are phlox seedlings, too, all over the
+garden, but I have no way of telling what color
+they are, though usually I can detect the
+white by its foliage. I take them up and set
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page094">[pg 094]</span><a name="Pg094" id="Pg094" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+them out near the main phlox masses, and
+wait for the next season’s blossoming before I
+give them their final place.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This is the time of year, too, when I give
+some attention to the rocks in my garden.
+Of course, in order to have a garden at all,
+it was necessary to take out enough rock
+to build quite a respectable stone wall. But
+that was not the end. There never will be an
+end. A Connecticut garden grows rocks like
+weeds, and one must expect to keep on taking
+them out each fall. The rest of the year I try
+to ignore them, but after frost I like to make
+a fresh raid, and get rid of another wheelbarrow
+load or so. And I always notice that
+for one barrow load of stones that go out, it
+takes at least two barrow loads of earth to
+fill in. Thus an excellent circulation is maintained,
+and the garden does not stagnate.
+Moreover, I take great pleasure in showing
+my friends—especially friends from the
+more earthy sections of New York and farther
+west—the piles of rock and the parts of
+certain stone walls about the place that have
+been literally made out of the cullings of my
+garden. They never believe me.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page095">[pg 095]</span><a name="Pg095" id="Pg095" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As I am thus occupied,—digging, planting,
+thinning, sowing,—I find it one of the
+happiest seasons of the year. It is partly the
+stimulus of the autumn air, partly the pleasure
+of getting at the ground. I think there
+are some of us, city folk though we be, who
+must have the giant Antæus for ancestor. We
+still need to get in close touch with the earth
+now and then. Children have a true instinct
+with their love of barefoot play in the dirt,
+and there are grown folks who still love it—but
+we call it gardening. The sight and the
+feel and the smell of my brown garden beds
+gives me a pleasure that is very deep and
+probably very primitive.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But there is another source of pleasure in
+my fall gardening—a pleasure not of the
+senses but of the imagination.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For as I do my work my fancy is active.
+As I transplant my young hollyhocks, I see
+them, not little round-leaved bunches in my
+hand, but tall and stately, aflare with colors—yellows,
+whites, pinks. As I dig about my
+larkspur and stake out its seedlings, they
+spire above me in heavenly blues. As I arrange
+the clumps of coarse-leaved young
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page096">[pg 096]</span><a name="Pg096" id="Pg096" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+foxgloves, I seem to see their rich tower-like
+clusters of old-pink bells bending always a
+little towards the southeast, where most sun
+comes from. As I thin my forget-me-not I
+see it—in my mind’s eye—in a blue mist
+of spring bloom. Thus, a garden rises in my
+fancy, a garden where neither beetle, borer,
+nor cutworm doth corrupt, and where the
+mole doth not break in or steal, where gentle
+rain and blessed sun come as they are needed,
+where all the flowers bloom unceasingly in
+colors of heavenly light—a garden such as
+never yet existed nor ever shall, till the tales
+of fairyland come true. I shall never see that
+garden, yet every year it blooms for me
+afresh—after frost.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="chapter05" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page097">[pg 097]</span><a name="Pg097" id="Pg097" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc10" id="toc10"></a>
+<a name="pdf11" id="pdf11"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">V</span></h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">The Joys of Garden Stewardship</span></h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I sometimes think I am coming to classify
+my friends according to the way they act
+when I talk about my garden. On this basis,
+there are three sorts of people.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">First there are those who are obviously not
+interested. Such as these feel no answering
+thrill, even at the sight of a florist’s spring
+catalogue. A weed inspires in them no desire
+to pull it. They may, however, be really nice
+people if they are still young; for, except by
+special grace, no one under thirty need be
+expected to care about gardens—it is a mature
+taste. But in the mean time I turn our
+talk in other channels.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then there are the people who, when I
+approach the subject, brighten up, look intelligent,
+even eager, but in a moment make
+it clear that what they are eager for is a
+chance to talk about their own gardens.
+Mine is merely the stepping-stone, the bridge,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page098">[pg 098]</span><a name="Pg098" id="Pg098" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the handle. This is better than indifference,
+yet it is sometimes trying. One of my dearest
+friends thus tests my love now and then when
+she walks in my garden.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aren’t those peonies lovely?”</span> I suggest.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> dreamily; <span class="tei tei-q">“you know I can’t have
+that shade in my garden because—”</span> and she
+trails off into a disquisition that I could, just
+at that moment, do without.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Look at the height of that larkspur!”</span> I say.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes—but, you know, it wouldn’t do for
+me to have larkspur when I go away so early.
+What I need is things for April and May.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I am not trying to
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">sell</span></span> you any,”</span> I
+am sometimes goaded into protesting. <span class="tei tei-q">“I
+only wanted you to say they are pretty—pretty
+right here in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">my</span></span> garden.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes—yes—of course they are pretty—they’re
+lovely—you have a lovely garden,
+you know.”</span> She pulls herself up to give
+this tribute, but soon her eyes get the faraway
+look in them again, and she is murmuring,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, I must write Edward to see
+about that hedge. Tell me, my dear, if you
+had a brick wall, would you have vines on it
+or wall-fruit?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page099">[pg 099]</span><a name="Pg099" id="Pg099" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is of no use. I cannot hold her long. I
+sometimes think she was nicer when she had
+no garden of her own. Perhaps she thinks I
+was nicer when I had none.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But there is another kind of garden manners—a
+kind that subtly soothes, cheers,
+perhaps inebriates. It is the manner of the
+friend who may, indeed, have a garden, but
+who looks at mine with the eye of adoption,
+temporarily at least. She walks down its
+paths, singling out this or that for notice.
+She suggests, she even criticizes, tenderly, as
+one who tells you an <span class="tei tei-q">“even
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">more</span></span> becoming
+way”</span> to arrange your little daughter’s hair.
+She offers you roots and seeds and seedlings
+from her garden, and—last touch of flattery—she
+begs seeds and seedlings from yours.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For garden purposes, give me the manners
+of this third class. And, indeed, not for
+garden purposes alone. They are useful as
+applied to many things—children, particularly,
+and houses.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Undoubtedly the demand that I make
+upon my friends is a form of vanity, yet I
+cannot seem to feel ashamed of it. I admit at
+once that not the least part of my pleasure in
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg 100]</span><a name="Pg100" id="Pg100" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+my flowers is the attention they get from
+others. Moreover, it is not only from friends
+that I seek this, but from every passer-by
+along my country road. There are gardens
+and gardens. Some, set about with hedges
+tall and thick, offer the delights of exclusiveness
+and solitude. But exclusiveness and solitude
+are easily had on a Connecticut farm,
+and my garden will none of them; it flings
+forth its appeal to every wayfarer. And I
+like it. I like my garden to <span class="tei tei-q">“get notice.”</span> As
+people drive by I hope they enjoy my phlox.
+I furtively glance to see if they have an eye
+for the foxglove. I wonder if the calendulas
+are so tall that they hide the asters. And if,
+as I bend over my weeding, an automobile
+whirling past lets fly an appreciative phrase—<span class="tei tei-q">“lovely
+flowers—”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“wonderful yellow
+of—”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“garden there,”</span>—my ears are quick
+to receive it and I forgive the eddies of gasolene
+and dust that are also left by the vanishing
+visitant.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">About few things can one be so brazen in
+one’s enjoyment of recognition. One’s house,
+one’s clothes, one’s work, one’s children, all
+these demand a certain modesty of demeanor,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page101">[pg 101]</span><a name="Pg101" id="Pg101" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+however the inner spirit may puff.
+Not so one’s garden. I fancy this is because,
+while I have a strong sense of ownership in it,
+I also have a strong sense of stewardship.
+As owner I must be modest, but as steward I
+may admire as openly as I will. Did I make
+my phlox? Did I fashion my asters? Am I the
+artificer of my fringed larkspur? Nay, truly,
+I am but their caretaker, and may glory in
+them as well as another, only with the added
+touch of joy that I, even I, have given them
+their opportunity. Like Paul I plant, like
+Apollos I water, but before the power that
+giveth the increase I stand back and wonder.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But it is not alone the results of my stewardship
+that give me joy. Its very processes
+are good. Delight in the earth is a primitive
+instinct. Digging is naturally pleasant, hoeing
+is pleasant, raking is pleasant, and then
+there is the weeding. For I am not the only
+one who sows seeds in my garden. One of my
+friends remarked cheerfully that he had
+planted twenty-seven different vegetables in
+his garden, and the Lord had planted two
+hundred and twenty-seven other kinds of
+things.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page102">[pg 102]</span><a name="Pg102" id="Pg102" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This is where the weeding comes in. Now a
+good deal has been said about the labor of
+weeding, but little about the gratifications of
+weeding. I don’t mean weeding with a hoe.
+I mean yanking up, with movements suited
+to the occasion, each individual growing
+thing that doesn’t belong. Surely I am not
+the only one to have felt the pleasure of this.
+They come up so nicely, and leave such soft
+earth behind! And intellect is needed, too,
+for each weed demands its own way of handling:
+the adherent plantain needing a slow,
+firm, drawing motion, but very satisfactory
+when it comes; the evasive clover requiring
+that all its sprawling runners shall be gathered
+up in one gentle, tactful pull; the tender
+shepherd’s purse coming easily on a straight
+twitch; the tough ragweed that yields to almost
+any kind of jerk. Even witch-grass, the
+bane of the farmer, has its rewarding side,
+when one really does get out its handful of
+wicked-looking, crawly, white tubers.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Weeding is most fun when the weeds are
+not too small. Yes, from the aspect of a sport
+there is something to be said for letting weeds
+grow. Pulling out little tender ones is poor
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page103">[pg 103]</span><a name="Pg103" id="Pg103" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+work compared with the satisfaction of hauling
+up a spreading treelet of ragweed or a
+far-flaunting wild buckwheat. You seem to
+get so much for your effort, and it stirs up
+the ground so, and no other weeds have grown
+under the shade of the big one, so its departure
+leaves a good bit of empty brown
+earth.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Surely, weeding is good fun. If faults could
+be yanked out of children in the same entertaining
+way, the orphan asylums would soon
+be emptied through the craze for adoption as
+a major sport.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">One of the pleasantest mornings of my life
+was spent weeding, in the rain, a long-neglected
+corner of my garden, while a young
+friend stood around the edges and explained
+the current political situation to me, and
+carted away armfuls of green stuff as I
+handed them out to him. The rain drizzled,
+and the air was fragrant with the smell of
+wet earth and bruised stems. Ideally, of
+course, weeds should never reach this state
+of sportive rankness. But most of my friends
+admit, under pressure, that there are corners
+where such things do happen.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page104">[pg 104]</span><a name="Pg104" id="Pg104" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Naturally, all this is assuming that one is
+one’s own gardener. There may be pleasure
+in having a garden kept up by a real gardener,
+but that always seems to me a little
+like having a doll and letting somebody else
+dress and undress it. My garden must never
+grow so big that I cannot take care of it—and
+neglect it—myself.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In saying this, however, I don’t count
+rocks. When it comes to rocks, I call in Jonathan.
+And it often comes to rocks.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For mine is a Connecticut garden. Now
+in the beginning Connecticut was composed
+entirely of rocks. Then the little earth
+gnomes, fearing that no one would ever come
+there to give them sport, sprinkled a little
+earth amongst the rocks, partly covered
+some, wholly covered others, and then hid to
+see what the gardeners would do about it.
+And ever since the gardeners have been patiently,
+or impatiently, tucking in their seeds
+and plants in the thimblefuls of earth left by
+the gnomes. They have been picking out the
+rocks, or blowing them up, or burying them,
+or working around them; and every winter
+the little gnomes gather and push up a new
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page105">[pg 105]</span><a name="Pg105" id="Pg105" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+lot from the dark storehouses of the underworld.
+In the spring the gardeners begin
+again, and the little gnomes hold their sides
+with still laughter to watch the work go on.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Rocks?”</span> my friends say. <span class="tei tei-q">“Do you mind
+the rocks? But they are a special beauty!
+Why, I have a rock in my garden that I have
+treated—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Very well,”</span> I interrupt rudely.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A rock</span></span> is
+all very well. If I had <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">a
+rock</span></span> in my garden I
+could treat it, too. But how about a garden
+that is all rocks?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh—why—choose another spot.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Whereupon I reply, <span class="tei tei-q">“You don’t know
+Connecticut.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ever since I began having a garden I have
+had my troubles with the rocks, but the
+worst time came when, in a mood of enthusiastic
+and absolutely unintelligent optimism,
+I decided to have a bit of smooth grass in the
+middle of my garden. I wanted it very much.
+The place was too restless; you couldn’t sit
+down anywhere. I felt that I had to have a
+clear green spot where I could take a chair
+and a book. I selected the spot, marked it off
+with string, and began to loosen up the earth
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page106">[pg 106]</span><a name="Pg106" id="Pg106" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+for a late summer planting of grass seed.
+Calendulas and poppies and cornflowers had
+bloomed there before, self-sown and able to
+look out for themselves, so I had never investigated
+the depths of the bed to see what
+the little gnomes had prepared for me. Now
+I found out. The spading-fork gave a familiar
+dull clink as it struck rock. I felt about
+for the edge; it was a big one. I got the crowbar
+and dropped it, in testing prods; it was a
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">very</span></span>
+big one, and only four inches below the
+surface. Grass would never grow there in a
+dry season. I moved to another part. Another
+rock, big too! I prodded all over the
+allotted space, and found six big fellows lurking
+just below the top of the soil. Evidently
+it was a case for calling in Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He came, grumbling a little, as a man
+should, but very efficient, armed with two
+crowbars and equipped with a natural genius
+for manipulating rocks. He made a few
+well-placed remarks about queer people who
+choose to have grass where flowers would
+grow, and flowers where grass would grow,
+also about Connecticut being intended for a
+quarry and not for a garden anyhow. But all
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page107">[pg 107]</span><a name="Pg107" id="Pg107" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+this was only the necessary accompaniment of
+the crowbar-play. Soon, under the insistent
+and canny urgency of the bars, a big rock
+began to heave its shoulder into sight above
+the soil. I hovered about, chucking in stones
+and earth underneath, placing little rocks
+under the bar for fulcrums, pulling them out
+again when they were no longer needed,
+standing guard over the flowers in the rest of
+the garden, with repeated warnings. <span class="tei tei-q">“Please,
+Jonathan, don’t step back any farther; you’ll
+trample the forget-me-nots!”</span>
+<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Could</span></span> you
+manage to roll this fellow out along that
+path and not across the mangled bodies of
+the marigolds?”</span> Jonathan grumbled a little
+about being expected to pick a half-ton pebble
+out of the garden with his fingers, or lead
+it out with a string.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, well, of course, if you
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">can’t</span></span> do it I’ll
+have to let the marigolds go this year. But
+you do such wonderful things with a crowbar,
+I thought you could probably just guide it a
+little.”</span> And Jonathan responds nobly to the
+flattery of this remark, and does indeed guide
+the huge thing, eases it along the narrow
+path, grazes the marigolds but leaves them
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page108">[pg 108]</span><a name="Pg108" id="Pg108" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+unhurt, until at last, with a careful arrangement
+of stone fulcrums and a skillful twist of
+the bars, the great rock makes its last response
+and lunges heavily past the last flower
+bed on to the grass beyond.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When the work was done, the edge of the
+garden looked like Stonehenge, and the spot
+where my grass was to be was nothing but
+a yawning pit, crying to be filled. We surveyed
+it with interest. <span class="tei tei-q">“If we had a water-supply,
+I wouldn’t make a grass-plot,”</span> I
+said; <span class="tei tei-q">“I’d make a swimming-pool. It’s deep
+enough.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And sit in the middle with your book?”</span>
+asked Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But there was no water-supply, so we filled
+it in with earth. Thirty wheelbarrow loads
+went in where those rocks came out. And
+the little gnomes perched on Stonehenge and
+jeered the while. I photographed it, and the
+rocks <span class="tei tei-q">“took”</span> well, but as regards the gnomes,
+the film was underexposed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus the grass seed was planted. And we
+reminded each other of the version of <span class="tei tei-q">“America”</span>
+once given, with unconscious inspiration,
+by a little friend of ours:—</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page109">[pg 109]</span><a name="Pg109" id="Pg109" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em">
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Land where our father died,</span></span></div>
+  <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Land where the pilgrims pried.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It seemed to us to suit the adventure.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As I have said, I love to have my friends
+love my garden. But there is one thing about
+it that I find does not always appeal to them
+pleasantly, and that is its color-schemes.
+Yet this is not my doing. For in nothing do
+I feel more keenly the fact of my mere stewardship
+than in this matter of color-scheme.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I set out with a very rigid one. I was
+quite decided in my own mind that what
+I wanted was white and salmon-pink and
+lavender. Asters, phlox, sweet peas, hollyhocks,
+all were to bend themselves to my
+rules. At first affairs went very well. White
+was easy. White phlox I had, and have—an
+inheritance—which from a few roots is
+spreading and spreading in waves of whiteness
+that grow more luxuriant every year.
+But I bought roots of salmon-pink and lavender,
+and then my troubles commenced.
+About the third season strange things began
+to happen. The pink phlox had the strength
+of ten. It spread amazingly; but it forgot all
+about my rules. It degenerated, some of it—reverted
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page110">[pg 110]</span><a name="Pg110" id="Pg110" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+toward that magenta shade that
+nature seems so naturally to adore in the
+vegetable world. To my horror I found my
+garden blossoming into magenta pink, blue
+pink, crimson, cardinal—all the colors I had
+determined not under any circumstances to
+admit. On the other hand, the lavender
+phlox, which I particularly wanted, was
+most lovely, but frail. It refused to spread.
+It effaced itself before the rampant pink and
+its magenta-tainted brood. I vowed I would
+pull out the magentas, but each year my
+courage failed. They bloomed so bravely; I
+would wait till they were through. But by
+that time I was not quite sure which was
+which; I might pull out the wrong ones. And
+so I hesitated.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Moreover, I discovered, lingering among
+the flowers at dusk, that there were certain
+colors, most unpleasant by daylight, which
+at that time took on a new shade, and, for
+perhaps half an hour before night fell, were
+richly lovely. This is true of some of the
+magentas, which at dusk turn suddenly to
+royal purples and deep lavender-blues that
+are wonderfully satisfying.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page111">[pg 111]</span><a name="Pg111" id="Pg111" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For that half-hour of beauty I spare them.
+While the sun shines I try to look the other
+way, and at twilight I linger near them and
+enjoy their strange, dim glories, born literally
+of the magic hour. But I have trouble explaining
+them, by daylight, to some of my
+visitors who like color-schemes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Insubordination is contagious. And I
+found after a while that my asters were not
+running true; queer things were happening
+among the sweet peas, and in the ranks of the
+hollyhocks all was not as it should be. And
+the last charge was made upon me by the
+children’s gardens. Children know not color-schemes.
+What they demand is flowers, flowers—flowers
+to pick and pick, flowers to do
+things with. Snapdragon, for instance, is a
+jolly playmate, and little fingers love to
+pinch its cheeks and see its jaws yawn wide.
+But snapdragon tends dangerously toward
+the magenta. Then there was the calendula—a
+delight to the young, because it blooms
+incessantly long past the early frosts, and has
+brittle stems that yield themselves to the
+clumsiest plucking by small hands. But calendula
+ranges from a faded yellow, through
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page112">[pg 112]</span><a name="Pg112" id="Pg112" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+really pretty primrose shades, to a deep red-orange
+touched with maroon.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And, finally, there was the portulaca.
+Children love it, perhaps, best of all. It offers
+them fresh blossoms and new colors each
+morning, and it is even more easy to pick
+than the calendula. Who would deny them
+portulaca? Yet if this be admitted, one may
+as well give up the battle. For, as we all
+know, there is absolutely no color, except
+green, that portulaca does not perpetrate in
+its blossoms. It knows no shame.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In short, I am giving up. I am beginning
+to say with conviction that color-schemes are
+the mark of a narrow and rigid taste—that
+they are born of convention and are meant
+not for living things but for wall-papers and
+portières and clothes. Moreover, I am really
+growing callous—or is it, rather, broad?
+Colors in my garden that would once have
+made my teeth ache now leave them feeling
+perfectly comfortable. I find myself looking
+with unmoved flesh—no creeps nor withdrawals—upon
+a bed of mixed magentas,
+scarlets, rose-pinks, and yellow-pinks. I even
+look with pleasure. I begin to think there
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page113">[pg 113]</span><a name="Pg113" id="Pg113" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+may be a point beyond which discord achieves
+a higher harmony. At least, this sounds well.
+But, again, I find it hard to explain to some
+of my friends.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Indoors, it is another story. When I bring
+in the spoils of the garden I am again mistress
+and bend all to my will. Here I’ll have
+no tricks of color played on me. Sunshine and
+sky, perhaps, work some spell, for as soon as I
+get within four walls my prejudices return;
+scarlets and crimsons and pinks have to live
+in different rooms. I must have my color-schemes
+again, and perhaps I am as narrow
+as the worst. Except, indeed, for the children’s
+bowls; here the pink and the magenta,
+the lamb and the lion, may lie down together.
+But it takes a little child to lead them.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Out in my garden I feel myself less and
+less owner, more and more merely steward.
+I decree certain paths, and the phlox says,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Paths? Did you say paths?”</span> and obliterates
+them in a season’s growth, so that children
+walk by faith and not by sight. I decree
+iris in one corner, and the primroses say,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Iris? Not at all. This is our bed. Iris indeed!”</span>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page114">[pg 114]</span><a name="Pg114" id="Pg114" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+And I submit, and move the iris
+elsewhere.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And yet this slipping of responsibility is
+pleasant, too. So long as my garden will let
+me dig in it and weed it and pick it, so long as
+it entertains my friends for me, so long as it
+tosses up an occasional rock so that Jonathan
+does not lose all interest in it, so long as it
+plays prettily with the children and flings gay
+greetings to every passer-by, I can find no
+fault with it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The joys of stewardship are great and I
+am well content.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="chapter06" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page115">[pg 115]</span><a name="Pg115" id="Pg115" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc12" id="toc12"></a>
+<a name="pdf13" id="pdf13"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">VI</span></h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Trout and Arbutus</span></h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Every year, toward the end of March, I find
+Jonathan poking about in my sewing-box.
+And, unless I am very absent-minded, I know
+what he is after.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No use looking there,”</span> I remark; <span class="tei tei-q">“I keep
+my silks put away.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I want red, and as strong as there is.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I know what you want. Here.”</span> and I
+hand him a spool of red buttonhole twist.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ah! Just right!”</span> And for the rest of the
+evening his fingers are busy.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Over what? Mending our trout-rods, of
+course. It is pretty work, calling for strength
+and precision of grasp, and as he winds and
+winds, adjusting all the little brass leading-rings,
+or supplying new ones, and staying
+points in the bamboo where he suspects weakness,
+we talk over last year’s trout-pools, and
+wonder what they will be like this year.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But beyond wonder we do not get, often
+for weeks after the trout season is, legislatively,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page116">[pg 116]</span><a name="Pg116" id="Pg116" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<span class="tei tei-q">“open.”</span> Jonathan is <span class="tei tei-q">“busy.”</span> I am
+<span class="tei tei-q">“busy.”</span> We know that, if April passes, there
+is still May and June, and so, if at the end of
+April, or early May, we do at last pick up
+our rods,—all new-bedight with red silk
+windings, and shiny with fresh varnish,—it
+is not alone the call of the trout that decides
+us, but another call which is to me at least
+more imperious, because, if we neglect it now,
+there is no May and June in which to heed it.
+It is the call of the arbutus.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Any one with New England traditions
+knows what this call is. Its appeal is to
+something far deeper than the love of a pretty
+flower. For it is the flower that, to our fathers
+and our grandfathers, and to their fathers and
+grandfathers, meant spring; and not spring in
+its prettiness and ease, appealing to the idler
+in us, nor spring in its melancholy, appealing
+to—shall I say the poet in us? But spring
+in its blessedness of opportunity, its joyously
+triumphant life, appealing to the worker in
+us. Here, of course, we touch hands with all
+the races of the world for whom winter has
+been the supreme menace, spring the supreme
+and saving miracle. But each race has its own
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page117">[pg 117]</span><a name="Pg117" id="Pg117" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+symbols, and to the New Englander the symbol
+is the arbutus.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This may seem a bit of sentimentality.
+And, indeed, we need not expect to find it
+expressed by any New England farmer. New
+England does not go out in gay companies to
+bring back the first blossoms. But New
+England does nothing in gay companies. It
+has been taught to distrust ceremonies and
+expression of any sort. It rejoices with reticence,
+it appreciates with a reservation. And
+yet I have seen a sprig of arbutus in rough
+and clumsy buttonholes on weather-faded
+lapels which, the rest of the twelve-month
+through, know no other flower. And when,
+in unfamiliar country, I have interrupted the
+ploughing to ask for guidance, I usually get
+it:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Arbutus? Yaas. The’s a lot of it up
+along that hillside and in the woods over beyond—’t
+was out last week, some of it, I
+happened to notice”</span>—this in the apologetic
+tone of one who admits a weakness—<span class="tei tei-q">“guess
+you’ll find all you want.”</span> I venture to say
+that of no other wild flower, except those
+which work specific harm or good, could I get
+such information.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page118">[pg 118]</span><a name="Pg118" id="Pg118" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To many of us, city-bred, the tradition
+comes through inheritance. It means, perhaps,
+the shy, poetic side of our father’s boyhood,
+only half acknowledged, after the New
+England fashion, but none the less real and
+none the less our possession. It means rare
+days, when the city—whose chiefest signs
+of spring were the flare of dandelions in yards
+and parks and the chatter of English sparrows
+on ivy-clad church walls—was left behind,
+and we were <span class="tei tei-q">“in the country.”</span> It was a
+country excitingly different from the country
+of the summer vacation, a country not deeply
+green, but warmly brown, and sweet with the
+smell of moist, living earth. Green enough,
+indeed, in the spring-fed meadows and folds of
+the hills, where the early grass flashes into
+vividest emerald, but in the woods the soft
+mist-colored mazes of multitudinous twigs
+still show through their veilings and dustings
+of color—palest green of birches, gray-green
+of poplar, yellow-green of willows, and
+redder tones of the maples; and along the
+fence-lines and roadsides—blessed, untidy
+fence-lines and roadsides of New England—a
+fine penciling of red stems—the cut-back
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page119">[pg 119]</span><a name="Pg119" id="Pg119" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+maple bushes and tangled vines alive to their
+tips and just bursting into leaf. And everywhere
+in the woods, on fence-lines and roadsides,
+the white blossoms of the <span class="tei tei-q">“shad-blow,”</span>
+daintiest of spring trees,—too slight for a
+tree, indeed, though too tall for a bush and
+looking less like a tree in blossom than like
+floating blossoms caught for a moment among
+the twigs. A moment only, for the first gust
+loosens them again and carpets the woods
+with their petals, but while they last their
+whiteness shimmers everywhere.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Such rare days were all blown through
+with the wonderful wind of spring. Spring
+wind is really different from any other. It is
+not a finished thing, like the mellow winds of
+summer and the cold blasts of winter. It is an
+imperfect blend of shivering reminiscence and
+eager promise. One moment it breathes sun
+and stirring earth, the next it reminds us of
+old snow in the hollows, and bleak northern
+slopes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When, on these days, the wind blew to us,
+almost before we saw it, the first greeting of
+the arbutus, it always seemed that the day
+had found its complete and satisfying expression.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page120">[pg 120]</span><a name="Pg120" id="Pg120" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Every one comes to realize, at
+some time in his life, the power of suggestion
+possessed by odors. Does not half the power
+of the Church lie in its incense? An odor, just
+because it is at once concrete and formless,
+can carry an appeal overwhelmingly strong
+and searching, superseding all other expression.
+This is the appeal made to me by the
+arbutus. It can never be quite precipitated
+into words, but it holds in solution all the
+things it has come to mean—dear human
+tradition and beloved companionship, the
+poetry of the land and the miracle of new
+birth.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In late March or early April I am likely to
+see the first blossom on some friend’s table—I
+try not to see it first in a florist’s display!
+To my startled question she gives reassuring
+answer, <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, no, not from around here. This
+came from Virginia.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Days pass, and, perhaps, the mail brings
+some to me, this time from Pennsylvania or
+New Jersey, and soon I can no longer ignore
+the trays of tight, leafless bunches for sale on
+street corners and behind plate-glass windows.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“From York State,”</span> they tell me. I grow
+restive.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page121">[pg 121]</span><a name="Pg121" id="Pg121" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan,”</span> I say, holding up a spray for
+him to smell, <span class="tei tei-q">“we’ve got to go. You can’t
+resist that. We’ll take a day and go for it—and
+trout, too.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout
+season, for to take a day off just to pick a
+flower might seem a little absurd. But,
+coupled with trout—all is well. Trout is
+food. One must eat. The search for food
+needs no defense, and yet, the curious fact is,
+that if you go for trout and don’t get any, it
+doesn’t make so much difference as you
+might suppose, but if you go for arbutus and
+don’t get any, it makes all the difference in
+the world. And so Jonathan knows that in
+choosing his brook for that particular day,
+he must have regard primarily to the arbutus
+it will give us and only secondarily to the
+trout.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Every one knows the kind of brook that is,
+for every one knows the kind of country
+arbutus loves—hilly country, with slopes
+toward the north; bits of woodland, preferably
+with pine in it, to give shade, but not too
+deep shade; a scrub undergrowth of laurel
+and huckleberry and bay; and always, somewhere
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page122">[pg 122]</span><a name="Pg122" id="Pg122" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+within sight or hearing, water. It is
+curious how arbutus, which never grows in
+wet places, yet seems to like the neighborhood
+of water. It loves the slopes above a brook
+or the shaggy hillsides overlooking a little
+pond or river.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Fortunately, there is such a brook, in just
+such country, on our list. There are not so
+many trout as in other brooks, but enough to
+justify our rods; and not so much arbutus as
+I could find elsewhere, but enough—oh,
+enough!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To this brook we go. We tie Kit at the
+bridge, Jonathan slings on a fish-basket, to do
+for both, and I take a box or two for the
+flowers. But from this moment on our interests
+are somewhat at variance. The fact is,
+Jonathan cares a little more about the trout
+than about the arbutus, while I care a little
+more about the arbutus than about the
+trout. His eye is keenly on the brook, mine
+is, yearningly, on the ragged hillsides that roll
+up above it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan feels this. <span class="tei tei-q">“There isn’t any for
+two fields yet—might as well stick to the
+brook.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page123">[pg 123]</span><a name="Pg123" id="Pg123" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I know. I thought perhaps I’d go on
+down and let you fish this part. Then I’d
+meet you beyond the second fence—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, no, that won’t do at all. Why, there’s
+a rock just below here—down by that wild
+cherry—where I took out a beauty last
+year, and left another. I want you to go
+down and get him.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You get him. I don’t mind.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, but I mind. Here, I’ve got it all
+planned: there’s a bit of brush-fishing just
+below—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No brush-fishing for me, please!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That’s what I’m saying, if you’ll only
+give me time. I’ll take that—there are
+always two or three in there—and when
+you’ve finished here you can go around me
+and fish the bend, under the hemlocks, and
+then the first arbutus is just beside that, and
+I’ll join you there.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well”</span>—I assent grudgingly—<span class="tei tei-q">“only,
+really, I’d be just as happy if you’d fish the
+whole thing and let me go right on down—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, you wouldn’t. Now, remember to
+sneak before you get to that rock. Drop in
+six feet above it and let the current do the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page124">[pg 124]</span><a name="Pg124" id="Pg124" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+rest. They’re awfully shy. I expect you to
+get at least one there, and two down at the
+bend.”</span> He trudges off to his brush-fishing
+and leaves me bound in honor to extract a
+trout from under that rock. I deposit my
+boxes in the meadow above it, and <span class="tei tei-q">“sneak”</span>
+down. The sneak of a trout fisherman is like
+no other form of locomotion, and I am convinced
+that the human frame was not evolved
+with it in mind. But I resort to it in deference
+to Jonathan’s prejudices—in deference,
+also, to the fact that when I do not the trout
+seldom bite. And Jonathan is so trustfully
+counting on my getting that trout!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I did get him. I dropped in my line, as per
+directions, and let the current do the rest;
+had the thrill of feeling the line suddenly
+caught and drawn under the rock, held, then
+wiggled slightly; I struck, felt the weight,
+drew back steadily, and in a few moments
+there was a flopping in the grass behind me.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So that was off my mind.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I strung him on a twig of wild cherry,
+gathered up my boxes, and wandered along
+the faint path, back of the patch of brush
+where, I knew, Jonathan was cheerfully
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page125">[pg 125]</span><a name="Pg125" id="Pg125" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+threading his line through tangles of twig,
+briar, and vine, compared with which the
+needle’s eye is as a yawning barn door.
+Jonathan’s attitude toward brush-fishing is
+something which I respect without understanding.
+Down one long field I went, where
+the brook ran in shallow gayety, and there,
+ahead, was the bend, a sudden curve of
+water, deepening under the roots of an overhanging
+hemlock. I climbed the stone wall
+beside, glanced at the water—very trouty
+water indeed—glanced at the hill-pasture
+above—very arbutusy indeed—laid down
+my rod and my trout and my box, and ran
+up the low bank to a clump of bay and berry-bushes
+that I thought I remembered.…
+Yes! There it was! I had remembered! Ah!
+The dear things!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When you first find arbutus, there is only
+one thing to do:—lie right down beside it.
+Its fragrance as it grows is different from
+what it is after it is picked, because with the
+sweetness of the blossoms is mingled the good
+smell of the earth and of the woody twigs and
+of the dried grass and leaves. And there are
+other rewards one gets by lying down. It is
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page126">[pg 126]</span><a name="Pg126" id="Pg126" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+all very well to talk proudly about man’s
+walking with his head erect and his face to
+the heavens, but if we keep that posture all
+the time we miss a good deal. The attitude
+of the toad and the lizard is not to be scorned,
+though when the needs of locomotion convert
+it into the fisherman’s <span class="tei tei-q">“sneak,”</span> it is, as I
+have suggested, to be sparingly indulged in.
+But if we could only nibble now and then
+from <span class="tei tei-q">“the other side”</span> of Alice’s mushroom,
+what a new outlook we should get on the
+world that now lies about our feet! What
+new aspects of its beauty would be revealed
+to us: the forest grandeurs of the grass, the
+architecture of its slim shafts with their pillared
+aisles and pointed arches of interlocking
+and upspringing curves, their ceiling traceries
+of spraying tops against a far-away background
+of sky!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To know arbutus, you must stoop to its
+level, and look across the fine, frosty fur of
+its stiff little leaves, and feel the nestle of its
+stems to the ground, the little up-fling of their
+tips toward the sun, and the neat radiance
+of its flower clusters, with their blessed
+fragrance and their pure, babyish color.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page127">[pg 127]</span><a name="Pg127" id="Pg127" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But after that? You want to pick it. Yes,
+you really want to pick it!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In this it is different from other flowers.
+Most of them I am well content to leave
+where they grow. In fact, the love of picking
+things—flowers or anything else—is a
+youthful taste: we lose it as we grow older;
+we become more and more willing to appreciate
+without acquiring, or rather, appreciation
+becomes to us a finer and more spiritual
+form of acquiring. Is it possible that, after all,
+the old idea of heaven as a state of enraptured
+contemplation is in harmony with the trend
+of our development?</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But if there is arbutus in heaven, I shall
+need to develop a good deal further not to
+want to pick it. It suggests picking; it
+almost invites it. There is something about
+the way it nestles and hides, that makes you
+want to see it better. Here is a spray of pure
+white, living under a green tent of overlapping
+leaves; one must raise it, and nip off just one
+leaf, so that the blossoms can see out. There
+is another, a pink cluster, showing faintly
+through the dry, matted grass. You feel for
+the stem, pull it gently, and, lo, it is many
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page128">[pg 128]</span><a name="Pg128" id="Pg128" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+stems, which have crept their way under the
+tangle, and every one is tipped with a cluster
+of stars or round little buds each on its long
+stem, fairly begging to be picked. It gets
+picked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Yet sometimes its very beauty has stayed
+my hand. I shall never forget one clump I
+found, growing out of a bank of deep green
+moss, partly shaded by a great hemlock. The
+soft pink blossoms—luxuriant leafy sprays of
+them—were lying out on the moss in a pagan
+carelessness of beauty, as though some
+god had willed it there for his pleasure. I sat
+beside it a long time, and in the end I left it
+without picking it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On this particular day, Jonathan being
+still lost in the brush patch, I had risen
+from my visit with the first-discovered blossoms
+and wandered on, from clump to clump,
+wherever the glimpse of a leaf attracted me,
+picking the choicest here and there and
+dropping them into my box. After I do not
+know how long, I was roused by Jonathan’s
+whistle. I was some distance up the hillside
+by this time, and he was beside the brook, at
+the bend.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page129">[pg 129]</span><a name="Pg129" id="Pg129" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What luck?”</span> he called.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good luck! I’ve found lots. Come up!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He took a few steps up toward me, so that
+conversation could drop from shouting to
+speaking levels. <span class="tei tei-q">“How many did you get?”</span>
+he asked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How many?… Oh … why … Oh, I
+got one up there where you showed me—under
+the rock, you know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good one?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eight inches. He’s down there by the
+bars.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good! And what about the bend?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The bend? Oh, I didn’t fish there—look
+at these! Aren’t they beauties?”</span> I
+came down the hill to hold my open box up
+to his face. But my casual word almost
+effaced the scent of the flowers.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Ah—yes—delicious—didn’t fish
+there? Why not? Did they see you?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who? The trout? I don’t know. But I
+saw this. And I just had to pick it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well! You’re a great fisherman! And with
+that water right there beside you! Lord!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“With the arbutus right here beside me!
+Lord!”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page130">[pg 130]</span><a name="Pg130" id="Pg130" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But the arbutus would wait.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But the trout would wait. They’re waiting
+for you now, don’t you hear them? Go
+and fish there!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. That’s your pool.”</span> Jonathan has a
+way of bestowing a trout-pool on me as if it
+were a bouquet. To refuse its opportunities
+is almost like throwing his flowers back in his
+face.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—of course it’s a beautiful pool—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Best on the brook,”</span> murmured Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But, truly, I’d enjoy it just as much to
+have you fish it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nobody can fish it now for a while. I
+thought you’d be there, of course, and I came
+stamping along down, close by the bank.
+They wouldn’t bite now—not for half an
+hour, anyway.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, then, that’s just right. We’ll go on
+up the hillside for half an hour, and then come
+back and fish it. Set your rod up against the
+bayberry here, and come along—look there!
+you’re almost stepping on some!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan, gradually adjusting himself to
+the turn of things, stood his rod up against
+the bush with the meticulous care of the true
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page131">[pg 131]</span><a name="Pg131" id="Pg131" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+sportsman. <span class="tei tei-q">“Where did you leave yours?”</span>
+he asked, with a suspiciousness born of a
+deep knowledge of my character.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, down by the bars.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Standing up or lying down?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Lying down, I think. It’s all right.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It’s not all right if it’s lying down. Anything
+might trample on it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“For instance, what?—birds or crickets?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“For instance, people or cows.”</span> He strode
+down the hill, and I saw him stoop. As he
+returned I could read disapproval in his gait.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Will you never learn how to treat a rod!
+It was lying just beyond the bars. I must
+have landed within two feet of it when I
+jumped over.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’m sorry. I meant to go back. I know
+perfectly how to treat a rod. My trouble
+comes in knowing when to apply my knowledge.…
+Well, let’s go up there. Near those
+big hemlocks there’s some, I remember.”</span>
+And we wandered on, separating a little to
+scan the ground more widely.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Once having pried his mind away from the
+trout, Jonathan was as keen for arbutus as I
+could wish, and soon I heard an exclamation,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page132">[pg 132]</span><a name="Pg132" id="Pg132" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and saw him kneel. <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, come over!”</span> he
+called; <span class="tei tei-q">“you really ought to see this growing!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But there’s some I want, right here,
+that’s lovely—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Never mind. Come and see this—oh,
+come!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Of course I come, and of course I am glad I
+came, and of course soon I am obliged to call
+Jonathan to see some I have found—<span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan,
+it is truly the loveliest
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">yet!</span></span> It’s the
+way it grows—with the moss and all—please
+come!”</span> And of course he comes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We had been on the hillside a long half-hour,
+much nearer an hour, when Jonathan
+began to grow restive. <span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t you think you
+have enough?”</span> he suggested several times.
+Finally, he spoke plainly of the trout.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, yes, of course,”</span> I said, <span class="tei tei-q">“you go down
+and I’ll follow just as soon as I’ve gone along
+that upper path.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Not at all. That was not what was wanted.
+So I turned and we went down the hill, back
+to the bend, whose seductions I had been so
+puzzlingly able to resist. I am sure Jonathan
+has never yet quite understood how I could
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page133">[pg 133]</span><a name="Pg133" id="Pg133" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+leave that bit of water at my left hand and
+turn away to the right.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now—sneak!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We sneaked, and I sank down just back of
+the edge of the bank. Jonathan crouched
+some feet behind, coaching me:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Now—draw
+out a little more line—not too much—there—and
+have some slack in your hand.
+Now, up-stream fifteen feet—allow for the
+wind—wait till that gust passes—now!
+Good! First-rate! Now let her drift—there—what
+did I tell you? Give him line! <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Give</span></span> him
+line! Now, feel of him—careful! You’ll
+know when to strike … there!… Oh! too
+bad!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For as I struck, my line held fast.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Snagged, by gummy! Can’t you pull
+clear?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not without stirring up the whole pool.
+You’ll have to do the fishing, after all.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh! <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">too</span></span>
+bad! That’s hard luck!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not a bit. I like to watch you do it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And so indeed I did. Once having realized
+that I was temporarily laid by, Jonathan put
+his whole mind on the pool, while I, being
+honorably released from all responsibility,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page134">[pg 134]</span><a name="Pg134" id="Pg134" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+except that of keeping my line taut, could
+put my whole mind on his performance.
+There is a little the same sort of pleasure in
+watching the skillful handling of a rod that
+there is in watching the bow-action of a
+violinist. Both things demand the utmost
+nicety of adjustment: body, arm, wrist, fingers
+uniting in an interplay of efficiency exactly
+adapted to the intricately shifting needs
+of each moment.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus I watched, through the typical stages
+of the sport: the delicate flip of the bait into
+the current at just the right spot; its swift
+descent, imperceptibly guided by the rod’s
+quivering tip; its slower drift toward deep
+water; its sudden vanishing, and the whir of
+the reel as the line goes out; then the pause,
+the critical moments of <span class="tei tei-q">“feeling for him”</span>; at
+last the strike … and then, a flopping in the
+grass behind me, and Jonathan crawling
+back to kill and unhook him.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t get up. There’s probably another
+one,”</span> he said; and soon, by the same reptilian
+methods, was back for another try. There
+was another one, and yet another, and then a
+little fellow, barely hooked. <span class="tei tei-q">“That’s all,”</span>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page135">[pg 135]</span><a name="Pg135" id="Pg135" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+said Jonathan, as he rose to put him back into
+the pool, and we watched the pretty spotted
+creature fling himself upstream with a wild
+flourish of his gleaming body.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now I’ll get you clear,”</span> said Jonathan,
+wading out into the water, and, with sleeves
+rolled high, feeling deep, deep down under
+the opposite bank. <span class="tei tei-q">“He had you all right—it’s
+wound round a root and then jabbed
+deep into it … hard luck! I wanted you to
+get those fellows!”</span> And to this day I am sure
+he remembers those trout with a tinge of
+regret.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had intended leaving him to fish the rest
+of the brook, while I went back to that upper
+path to look up two or three special arbutus
+clumps that I knew, but seeing his depression
+over the snag incident, I could not suggest
+this. Instead I followed the stream with him,
+accepting his urgent offer of all the best pools,
+while he, taking what was left, drew out perfectly
+good trout from the most unhopeful-looking
+bits of water. And at the end, there
+was time to return along the upper path and
+visit my old friends, so both of us were satisfied.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page136">[pg 136]</span><a name="Pg136" id="Pg136" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On such days, however, there is always one
+person who is not satisfied, and that is, Kit
+the horse. Kit has borne with our vagaries
+for many years, but she has never come to
+understand them. She never fails to greet
+our return, as our voices come within the
+range of her pricked-up ears, by a prolonged
+and reproachful whinny, which says as plainly
+as is necessary, <span class="tei tei-q">“Back? Well—I should
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">think</span></span> it was time!
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I should think it was
+TIME!</span></span>”</span> Now and then we have thought it
+would be pleasant to have a little motor-car
+that could be tucked away at any roadside,
+without reference to a good hitching-place,
+but if we had it, I am sure we should miss that
+ungracious welcoming whinny. We should
+miss, too, the exasperated violence of Kit’s
+pace on the first bit of the home road—a
+violence expressing in the most ostentatious
+manner her opinion of folks who keep a respectable
+horse hitched by the roadside, far
+from the delights of the dim, sweet stable
+and the dusty, sneezy, munchy hay.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But leaving out this little matter of Kit’s
+preference, and also the other little matter of
+the trout’s preference, I feel sure that an arbutus-trouting
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page137">[pg 137]</span><a name="Pg137" id="Pg137" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+is peculiarly satisfying. It meets
+every human need—the need of food and
+beauty, the need of feeling strong and skillful,
+the need of becoming deeply aware of
+nature as living and kind. Moreover, it is
+very satisfying afterwards. As we sat that
+evening, over a late supper, with a shallow
+dish of arbutus beside us, I remarked, <span class="tei tei-q">“The
+advantage of getting arbutus is, that you
+bring the whole day home with you and
+have it at your elbow.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The advantage of getting trout,”</span> remarked
+Jonathan dreamily, as if to himself,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“is, that you bring your whole day home
+with you, and have it for breakfast.”</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="chapter07" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page138">[pg 138]</span><a name="Pg138" id="Pg138" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc14" id="toc14"></a>
+<a name="pdf15" id="pdf15"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">VII</span></h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Without the Time of Day</span></h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan, did you ever live without a
+clock,—whole days, I mean,—days and
+days—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“When I was a boy—most of the time, I
+suppose. But the family didn’t like it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of course. But did you like it?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I liked it all. I seem to remember
+getting pretty hungry sometimes, but it’s all
+rather good as I look back on it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let’s do it!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. Society is an enlarged family, and
+wouldn’t like it. But this summer, when
+we camp.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How do you know we’re going to camp?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The things we know best we don’t always
+know how we know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, then,—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">if</span></span>
+we camp—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">When</span></span>
+we camp—let’s live without a
+watch.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You’d need one to get there.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page139">[pg 139]</span><a name="Pg139" id="Pg139" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Take one, and let it run down.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As it turned out, my <span class="tei tei-q">“when”</span> was truer
+than Jonathan’s <span class="tei tei-q">“if.”</span> We did camp. We
+did, however, use watches to get there: when
+we expressed our baggage, when we sent our
+canoe, when we took the trolley car and the
+train; and the watch was still going as our
+laden craft nosed gently against the bank of
+the river-island that was to be our home for
+two weeks. It was late afternoon, and the
+shadows of the steep woods on the western
+bank had already turned the rocks in midstream
+from silver to gray, and dimmed the
+brightness of the swift water, almost to the
+eastern shore.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Will there be time to get settled before
+dark?”</span> I asked, as we stepped out into the
+shallow water and drew up the canoe to unload.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Shall I look at my watch to see?”</span> asked
+Jonathan, with a note of amiable derision in
+his voice.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">should</span></span>
+rather like to know what
+time it is. We won’t begin till to-morrow.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You mean, we won’t begin to stop watching.
+All right. It’s just seventeen and a half
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page140">[pg 140]</span><a name="Pg140" id="Pg140" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+minutes after five. I’ll give you the seconds
+if you like.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Minutes will do nicely, thank you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Lots of time. You collect firewood while
+I get the tent ready. Then it’ll need us both
+to set it up.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We worked busily, happily. Ah! The joyous
+elation of the first night in camp! Is
+there anything like it? With days and days
+ahead, and not even one counted off the
+shining number! All the good things of
+childhood and maturity seem pressed into
+one mood of flawless, abounding happiness.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By dark the tent was up, the baggage
+stowed, the canoe secured, the fire glowing
+in a bed of embers, and we sat beside it, looking
+out past the glooms of the hemlocks
+across the moonlit river,—sat and ate city-cooked
+chicken and sandwiches and drank
+thermos-bottled tea.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“To-morrow we’ll cook,”</span> I said. <span class="tei tei-q">“To-night
+it’s rather nice not to have to. Look at
+the moonlight on that rock! How black it
+makes the eddy below!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good bass under there,”</span> said Jonathan.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“We’ll get some to-morrow.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page141">[pg 141]</span><a name="Pg141" id="Pg141" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Maybe.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, of course, it’s always maybe, with
+bass. Well—I’m done—and it’s quarter to
+ten—late! Oh! Excuse me! Maybe you’d
+rather I hadn’t told you. By the way, do I
+wind my watch to-night or not?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not it is, then. Sure you wouldn’t rather
+have it wound, though? We can leave it
+hanging in the tent. It won’t break loose and
+bite you.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, it would. There would be a something—a
+taint—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">all</span></span> right!”</span></p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We slept with the murmur of the river
+running through our dreams,—a murmur of
+many voices: deep voices, high voices, grumbling
+voices as the stones go grinding and rolling
+along the ever-changing bottom,—and
+only half roused when the dawn chorus of
+the birds filled the air. That dawn chorus was
+something we should have been loath to miss.
+Through the first gray of the morning there
+comes a stir in the woods, an expectant
+tremor; a bird peeps softly and is still; then
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page142">[pg 142]</span><a name="Pg142" id="Pg142" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+another, and another, <span class="tei tei-q">“softly conferring together.”</span>
+As the light grows warmer, comes a
+clearer note from some leader, then a full,
+complete song; another, and the woods are
+awake, flinging out their wonderful song-greeting
+to the morning. There is in it a prodigality
+of swift-changing beauty like ocean
+surf: a continuous and intricate interweaving
+of rhythms, pulses and ebbings of clear tone,
+beautiful phrases rising antiphonal, showerings
+of bright notes, moments of subsidence,
+almost of pause. As the light grows and
+sharpens, the music reaches a crescendo of
+exuberance, and at last dies down as real day
+comes, bringing with it the day’s work. On
+our island the leader of the chorus was almost
+always a song sparrow, though once or
+twice a wood thrush came over from the shore
+woods and filled the hemlock shadows with
+the limpid splendors of his song.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hearing the chorus through our dreams,
+we slept again, and when I really waked the
+sun was high, flecking the eastern V of our
+tent with dazzling patches. I heard Jonathan
+moving about outside, and the crackling of
+a new-made fire. I went to the front of the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page143">[pg 143]</span><a name="Pg143" id="Pg143" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+tent and looked out. Yes, there they were,
+the fire and Jonathan, in a quiet space of
+shade where the early coolness still hung.
+Beyond them, half shut out from view by
+the low-spreading hemlock boughs, was the
+open river—such gayety of swift water!
+Such dazzle of midsummer morning! I drew
+back, eager to be out in it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bacon and eggs, is it?”</span> called Jonathan,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“or shall I run down and try for a bass?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t!”</span> I called. I knew that if he once
+got out after bass he was lost to me for the
+day. And now we had cut loose from even
+the mild tyranny of his watch. As I thought
+of this I went over to the many-forked tree,
+whose close-trimmed branches served our tent
+as hat-rack, clothes-rack, everything-that-can-hang-or-perch-rack,
+and opened Jonathan’s
+watch.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, what time is it?”</span> Jonathan was
+peering in between the tent-flaps.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Twenty-two minutes before five.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“A.M., I judge. Sorry you didn’t let me
+wind it?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not a bit. I was just curious to see when
+it stopped, that was all.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page144">[pg 144]</span><a name="Pg144" id="Pg144" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, now you know. Hereafter the official
+time for the camp is
+<span class="tei tei-reg"><a name="E1" id="E1" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e1" class="tei tei-ref">4:38</a></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">A.M.</span></span>
+or <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">P.M.</span></span>,
+according to taste. Come along. The bacon’s
+done, and I’m blest if I want to drop in the
+eggs.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dropping an egg will never, I fear, be one
+of Jonathan’s most finished performances.
+He watched me do it with generous admiration.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“If you could just get over being
+scared of them,”</span> I suggested, as the last one
+plumped into the pan and set up its gentle
+sizzle.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No use. I <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">am</span></span>
+scared of the things. I tap
+and tap, and nothing happens, and then I
+get mad and tap hard, and they’re all over
+the place.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By the time breakfast was over, even the
+coolness under the hemlocks was beginning to
+grow warm and aromatic. The birds in the
+shore woods were quieter, though out at the
+sunny end of our island, where the hemlocks
+gave place to low scrub growth, the song
+sparrow sang gayly now and then.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now,”</span> said Jonathan, <span class="tei tei-q">“what about fishing?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—let’s fish!”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page145">[pg 145]</span><a name="Pg145" id="Pg145" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“One up stream and one down, or keep together?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Together,”</span> I decided. <span class="tei tei-q">“If we go two
+ways there’s no telling when I’ll ever see
+you again.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, there is: when I’m hungry.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No; some time after you’ve noticed
+you’re hungry.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now, if we had watches it would be so
+much simpler: we could meet here at, say,
+one o’clock.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Simple, indeed! When did you ever look
+at a watch when you were fishing, unless I
+made you? No, my way is simple, but we
+stay together.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Of course, in river fishing, <span class="tei tei-q">“together”</span> means
+simply not absolutely out of sight of each
+other. Jonathan may be up to his arm-pits in
+mid-current, or marooned on a rock above a
+swirling eddy, while I am in a similar situation
+beyond calling distance, but so long as a
+bend in the river does not cut us off, we are
+<span class="tei tei-q">“together,”</span> and very companionable togetherness
+it is, too. When I see Jonathan wildly
+waving to attract my attention, I know he
+has either just caught a big bass or else just
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page146">[pg 146]</span><a name="Pg146" id="Pg146" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+lost one, and this gives me something to smile
+over as I wonder which it is. After a time, if
+I am catching shiners and no bass, and Jonathan
+doesn’t seem to be moving, I infer that
+his luck is better than mine, and drift along
+toward him. Or it may be the other way
+around, and he comes to look me up. Bass
+are the most uncertain of fish, and no one
+can predict when they will elect to bite, or
+where. Sometimes they are in the still water,
+deep or shallow according to their caprice;
+sometimes they hang on the edges of the
+rapids; sometimes they are in the dark,
+smooth eddies below the great boulders;
+sometimes in the clear depths around the
+rocks near shore. Each day afresh,—indeed,
+each morning and each afternoon,—the
+fisherman must try, and try, and try, until
+he discovers what their choice has been for
+that special time. Yet no fisherman who has
+once drawn out a good bass from a certain
+bit of water can help feeling, next time, that
+there is another waiting for him there. That
+is one of the reasons why he is always hopeful,
+and so always happy. The fish he has caught,
+at this well-remembered spot and that, rise
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page147">[pg 147]</span><a name="Pg147" id="Pg147" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+up out of the past and flick their tails at him;
+and all the stretches between—stretches of
+water that have never for him held anything
+but shiners, stretches of time diversified by
+not even a nibble—sink into pleasant insignificance.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We banked our fire, stowed everything in
+the tent that a thunderstorm would hurt,
+and splashed out into the river. There it lay
+in all its bright, swift beauty, and we stood
+a moment, looking, feeling the push of the
+water about our knees and the warmth of the
+sun on our shoulders.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It makes a difference, sleeping out in it
+all,”</span> I said. <span class="tei tei-q">“You feel as if it belonged to
+you so much more. I quite own the river this
+morning, don’t you?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Quite. But not the bass in it. Bet you
+don’t catch one!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bet I beat you!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Bass, mind you. Sunfish don’t count.
+You’re always catching sunfish.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They count in the pan. But I’ll beat you
+on bass. I know some places—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who doesn’t? All right, go ahead!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We were off; Jonathan, as usual, wading
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page148">[pg 148]</span><a name="Pg148" id="Pg148" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+up to his chest or perched on a bit of boulder
+above some dark, slick rapid; I preferring
+water not more than waist-deep, and not too
+far from shore to miss the responses of the
+wood-folk to my passing: soft flurries of
+wings; shy, half-suppressed peepings; quick
+warning notes; light footfalls, hopping or
+running or galloping; the snapping of twigs
+and the crushing of leaves. Some sounds tell
+me who the creature is,—the warning of the
+blue jay, the whirr of the big ruffed grouse,
+the thud of the bounding rabbit,—but many
+others leave me guessing, which is almost
+better. When a very big stick snaps, I always
+feel sure a deer is stealing away, though Jonathan
+assures me that a chewink can break
+twigs and <span class="tei tei-q">“kick up a row generally,”</span> so that
+you’d swear it was nothing smaller than a
+wild bull.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So we fished that day. When I caught a
+bass, which was seldom, I whooped and
+waved it at Jonathan, and when I caught a
+shiner, which was rather often, I waved it
+too, just to keep his mind occupied. Hours
+passed, and we met at a bend in the river
+where the deep water glides close to shore.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page149">[pg 149]</span><a name="Pg149" id="Pg149" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Hungry?”</span> I asked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now you speak of it, yes.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Shall we go back?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How can I tell? Now, if we only had that
+watch we’d know whether we ought to be
+hungry or not.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What does that matter, if we
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">are</span></span> hungry?
+Besides, if you’d had a watch, you’d have
+had to carry it in your teeth. You know perfectly
+well you wouldn’t have brought it,
+anyway.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—then, at least when we got back,
+we should have known whether we ought to
+have been hungry or not. Now we shall never
+know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Never! Oh! Look there, Jonathan!
+We’re going to catch it!”</span> A sense of growing
+shadow in the air had made me look up, and
+there, back of the steep-rising woods, hung a
+blue-black cloud, with ragged edges crawling
+out into the brightness of the sky.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sure enough! The bass’ll bite now, if it
+really comes. Wait till the first drops, and
+see what you see.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We had not long to wait. There came that
+sudden expectancy in the air and the trees,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page150">[pg 150]</span><a name="Pg150" id="Pg150" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the strange pallor in the light, the chill sweep
+of wind gusts with warm pauses between.
+Then a few big drops splashed on the dusty,
+sun-baked stones about us.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now! Wade right out there, to the edge
+of that ledge—don’t slip over, it’s deep.
+I’ll go down a little way.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I waded out carefully, and cast, in the
+smooth, dark water already beginning to be
+rain-pocked. It was surprisingly shivery, that
+storm wind! I glanced toward shore to look
+for shelter—I remembered an overhanging
+ledge of rock—then my line went taut! I
+forgot about shelter, forgot about being
+chilly; I knew it was a good bass.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I got him in—too big to go through the
+hole in my creel—cast for another—and
+another—and yet another. The rain began
+to fall in sheets, and the wind nearly blew me
+over, but who could run away from such
+fishing? The surface of the river, deep blue-gray,
+seemed rising everywhere in little jets
+to meet the rain. Rapids, eddies, still waters,
+weedy edges, all looked alike; there were
+neither waves nor swirls nor glassy slicks,
+but all were roughly furry under the multitudinous
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page151">[pg 151]</span><a name="Pg151" id="Pg151" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+assaults of the fierce rain-drops.
+The sky was mottled lead-color, the wind
+blew less strongly, but cold—cold. And
+under that water the bass were biting, my rod
+was bending double, my reel softly screaming
+as I gave line, and one after another I drew
+the fish alongside and dipped them out with
+my landing net.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then, as suddenly as they had begun, they
+stopped biting. I waited long minutes;
+nothing happened, and all at once I realized
+that I was very wet and very cold. Wading
+ashore, I saw Jonathan shivering along up
+the narrow beach toward me, his shoulders
+drawn in to half their natural spread, neck
+tucked in between his collar-bones, knees
+slightly bent.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You can’t be cold?”</span> I questioned as soon
+as he was near enough to hear me through
+the slash of the rain and wind.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, of course not; are you?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We didn’t discuss it, but ran up the bank
+to the rock-ledge and crouched under it, our
+teeth literally chattering.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Did you ever see such fishing?”</span> I managed
+to stammer.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page152">[pg 152]</span><a name="Pg152" id="Pg152" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Great! But oh, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">why</span></span>
+didn’t I bring the whiskey bottle?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let’s run for camp! We can’t be wetter.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We crawled out into the rain again, and
+first sprinted and then dog-trotted along the
+river edge. No bird notes now in the woods
+beside us, no whirring of wings; only the rain
+sounds: soft swishings and drippings and
+gusty showerings, very different from the
+flat, flicking sounds when rain first starts in
+dry woods.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Camp looked a little cheerless, but a blazing
+fire, started with dry stuff we had stowed
+inside the tent, changed things, and dry
+clothes changed them still more, and we sat
+within the tent flaps and ate ginger-snaps in
+great contentment of spirit while we waited
+for the rain to stop.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It did stop, and very soon the fish were
+sizzling in the pan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of course, if we had a watch, now—”</span>
+suggested Jonathan, as he carefully tucked
+under the pan little sticks of just the right
+length.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What should we know more than we do
+now—that we’re hungry?”</span> I asked.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page153">[pg 153]</span><a name="Pg153" id="Pg153" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, for one thing, we’d know what
+time it is,”</span> replied Jonathan tranquilly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And for another we’d know whether it’s
+dinner or supper I’m cooking,”</span> I supplemented.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“But does it matter? You won’t get
+anything different, no matter which it is—just
+fish is what you’ll get. And pretty soon
+the sun will be out, and you can set up a
+stick and watch the shadow and make a sundial
+for yourself.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, I don’t really care which it is.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do you suppose I don’t know that! And
+meanwhile, you might cut the bread and
+make some toast,—there are some good
+embers on your side under the pan,—and
+I’ll get the butter, and there we’ll be.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By the time the toast was made and the
+fish curling brownly away from the pan, the
+sun had indeed come out, at first pale and
+watery, then clear, and still high enough in
+the heavens to set the soaked earth steaming
+fragrantly with its heat. Odors of hemlock
+and wet earth mingled with odors of toast
+and fried fish.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Um-m! Smell it all!”</span> I said. <span class="tei tei-q">“What a lot
+we should miss if we didn’t eat in the kitchen!”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page154">[pg 154]</span><a name="Pg154" id="Pg154" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Or cook in the dining-room—which?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And hear that song sparrow! Doesn’t it
+sound as if the rain had washed his song a
+little cleaner and clearer?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There followed the wonderful afterlight
+that a short, drenching rain leaves behind it—a
+hush of light, deeply pervasive and
+friendly. The sunshine slanted across the
+gleaming wet rocks in the river, lit up the
+rain-darkened trunks of the hemlocks, glinted
+on the low-hanging leaves, and flashed through
+the dripping edges of sagging fern fronds. As
+twilight came on, we canoed across to the side
+of the river where the road lay—the other side
+was steep and pathless woods—and walked
+down to the nearest farmhouse to buy eggs for
+the morning. Back again by the light of a
+low-hung moon, and across the dim water to
+our own island and the embers of our fire.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, Jonathan! We never asked them
+what time it was!”</span> I said. <span class="tei tei-q">“I meant to—for
+your sake—I thought you’d sleep better if
+you knew.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Too bad! Probably I should have. I
+thought of it, of course, but was afraid that
+if I asked it would spoil your day.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page155">[pg 155]</span><a name="Pg155" id="Pg155" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It would take something pretty bad to
+spoil a day like this one,”</span> I said.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Two days later the weather turned still and
+warm, the bass refused to bite, and even the
+sunfish lay, shy or wary or indifferent, in
+their shallow, sunny pools, so we resolved to
+walk down the river to the post-office, four
+miles away, for possible mail. As we sat on
+the steps of the little store, looking it over,—<span class="tei tei-q">“Here’s
+news,”</span> said Jonathan; <span class="tei tei-q">“Jack and
+Molly say they’ll run up if we want them,
+day after to-morrow—up on the morning
+train, and back on the evening.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good! Tell them to come along.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No—it’s to-morrow—letter’s been here
+since yesterday. I’ll telegraph.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As we tramped home we planned the day.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“We’ll meet them and all walk up together,”</span>
+said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We’d better catch some bass and leave
+them all hooked in a pool, ready for them to
+pull out,”</span> I added; <span class="tei tei-q">“otherwise they may not
+catch any. And maybe you’d better meet
+them and I’ll have dinner ready when you
+get back.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page156">[pg 156]</span><a name="Pg156" id="Pg156" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Nonsense! You come, and we’ll all get
+dinner when we get back. That’s what
+they’re coming for—to see the whole thing.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But if it’s late—they’ve got to get back
+for that down train.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—time enough.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, Jonathan! What about catching that
+train?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They’ll have watches—watches that
+go.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But what about our meeting them? The
+train arrives at
+<span class="tei tei-reg"><a name="E2" id="E2" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e2" class="tei tei-ref">10:15</a></span>,
+they said. What does
+<span class="tei tei-reg"><a name="E3" id="E3" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e3" class="tei tei-ref">10:15</a></span>
+look like in the sky, I wonder!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Or rather, what does 8.45 look like? It
+takes an hour and a half to get there, counting
+crossing the river.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes—dear me! Well, Jonathan, we’ll
+just have to get up early and go, and then
+wait.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Or else take our watch to the farmhouse
+and set it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan, I will not! I’d rather start at
+daylight.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Which was very nearly what we did. The
+morning opened with a sun obscured, and I
+felt sure it was stealing a march on us and
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page157">[pg 157]</span><a name="Pg157" id="Pg157" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+would suddenly burst out upon us from a
+noonday sky. We breakfasted hastily, ferried
+across to shore, and set a swinging pace down
+the road. As we walked, the sun burned
+through the mist, and our shadows came out,
+dim, long things, striding with the exaggerated
+gait that shadows have, over the grassy
+banks to our right.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I think,”</span> said Jonathan, <span class="tei tei-q">“it may be as
+late as seven o’clock, but perhaps it’s only
+six.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When we reached the station, the official
+clock registered 8.30. We strolled over to the
+store-and-post-office and got more letters—one
+from Molly and Jack saying thank you
+they’d come. <span class="tei tei-q">“They don’t entirely understand
+our mail system up here,”</span> said Jonathan.
+We got some ginger-cookies and some
+milk and had a second breakfast, and finally
+wandered back to the station to wait for the
+train. It came, bearing the expected two,
+and much friendliness. <span class="tei tei-q">“Get our letter?
+There, Jack! He said you wouldn’t, but I
+said you would. I made him send it … four
+miles to walk? What fun!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was fun, indeed, and all went well until
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page158">[pg 158]</span><a name="Pg158" id="Pg158" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+after dinner, when Jack—saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“Well,
+maybe we’d better be starting back for that
+train”</span>—drew out his watch. He opened it,
+muttered something, put it to his ear, then
+began to wind it rapidly. He wound and
+wound. We all laughed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Looks as if you hadn’t remembered to
+wind it last night,”</span> said Jonathan, glancing
+at me.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I haven’t done that in months, hang it!
+Give me the time, will you, Jonathan?”</span> said
+Jack.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sorry!”</span> Jonathan was smiling genially.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Mine’s run down too. It stopped at
+twenty-two minutes before
+five—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">A. M.</span></span>, I
+think.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What luck! And Molly didn’t bring
+hers.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You told me not to,”</span> Molly flicked in.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“So here we are,”</span> said Jonathan, <span class="tei tei-q">“entirely
+without the time of day.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But plenty of real time all round us,”</span> I
+said. <span class="tei tei-q">“Let’s use it, and start.”</span> I avoided
+Jonathan’s eye.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We reached the station with an hour and
+ten minutes to spare—bought more ginger-cookies
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page159">[pg 159]</span><a name="Pg159" id="Pg159" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and more milk. As we sat eating
+them in the midst of the preternatural calm
+that marks a country railroad station outside
+of train times, Molly remarked brightly,—</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I don’t see but we got on just as
+well without a watch, didn’t we, Jack? Why
+do we need watches, anyway? Do
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">you</span></span> see?”</span>
+she turned to us. <span class="tei tei-q">“Jack does everything by
+his watch—eats and breathes and sleeps by
+it—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jack returned, watch in hand—he had
+been getting railroad time from the telegraph
+operator. <span class="tei tei-q">“Want to set yours while you
+think of it?”</span> he asked Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sorry—thank you—didn’t bring it,”</span>
+said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“By George, man, what’ll you do?”</span> Real
+consternation sounded in Jack’s tones.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, we’ll get along somehow,”</span> said Jonathan.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“You see, we don’t have many engagements,
+except with the bass, and they
+never meet theirs, anyhow.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When the train had gone, I said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan,
+why didn’t you tell them it was my
+whim?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, I just didn’t,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page160">[pg 160]</span><a name="Pg160" id="Pg160" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As Jonathan had predicted, we did get
+along somehow—got along rather well, on
+the whole. There are, of course, some drawbacks
+to an unwatched life. You never want
+to start the next meal till you are hungry,
+and after that it takes one or two or three
+hours, as the case may be, to go back to
+camp and get the meal ready, and by that
+time you are almost hungrier than you like
+being. But except for this, and the little
+matter of meeting trains, it is rather pleasant
+to break away from the habit of watching the
+watch, and it was with real regret that, on the
+last night of our camp, we took our watch
+to the farmhouse to set it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Run down, did it? Guess you forgot to
+wind it. Well—we do forget things sometimes,
+all of us do,”</span> the farmer’s wife said
+comfortingly as she went to look at the clock.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Twenty minutes to seven, our clock says.
+It’s apt to be fast, so I guess you won’t miss
+any trains. Father he says he’d rather have
+a clock fast than slow any day, but it don’t
+often get more than ten minutes wrong either
+way.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And to us, after our two weeks of camp,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page161">[pg 161]</span><a name="Pg161" id="Pg161" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+ten minutes’ error in a clock seemed indeed
+slight.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan,”</span> I said, as we walked back
+along the road, <span class="tei tei-q">“I hate to go back to clock
+time. I like real time better.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You couldn’t do so many things in a
+day,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No—maybe not.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But maybe that wouldn’t matter.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Maybe it wouldn’t,”</span> I said.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="chapter08" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page162">[pg 162]</span><a name="Pg162" id="Pg162" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc16" id="toc16"></a>
+<a name="pdf17" id="pdf17"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">VIII</span></h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">The Ways of Griselda</span></h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of course you don’t know what her name
+is,”</span> I said, as we stood examining the sleek
+little black mare Jonathan had just brought
+up from the city.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. Forgot to ask. Don’t believe they’d
+have known anyway—one of a hundred or
+so.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, we’ll name her again. Dear me—she’s
+rather plain! Probably she’s useful.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Hope so,”</span> said Jonathan. Then, stepping
+back a little, in a slightly grieved tone, <span class="tei tei-q">“But
+I don’t call her plain. Wait till she’s groomed
+up—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It’s that droop of her neck—sort of patient—and
+the way she drops one of her
+hips—if they are hips.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But we want a horse to be patient.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. I don’t know that I care about having
+her <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">look</span></span> so terribly much so as this. I
+think I’ll call her Griselda.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page163">[pg 163]</span><a name="Pg163" id="Pg163" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now, why Griselda?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why, don’t you know? She was that
+patient creature, with the horrid husband
+who had to keep trying to see just how patient
+she was. It’s a hateful story—enough
+to turn any one who brooded on it into a militant
+suffragette.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But you can’t call a horse Griselda—not
+for common stable use, you know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Call her <span class="tei tei-q">‘Griz’</span> for short. It does very
+well.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan jeered a little, but in the family
+the name held. Our man Hiram said nothing,
+but I think in private he called her
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Fan”</span> or <span class="tei tei-q">“Beauty”</span> or <span class="tei tei-q">“Lady,”</span> or some
+such regulation stable name.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Called by any name, she pleased us, and
+she <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">was</span></span> patient. She trotted peacefully up
+hill and down, she did her best at ploughing
+and haymaking and all the odd jobs that the
+farm supplied. She stood when we left her,
+with that same demure, almost overdone
+droop of the neck that I had first noticed.
+When I met Jonathan at the station, she
+stood with her nose against a snorting train,
+looking as if nothing could rouse her.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page164">[pg 164]</span><a name="Pg164" id="Pg164" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good little horse you got there,”</span> remarked
+the station agent. <span class="tei tei-q">“Where’d you
+find her?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, I picked her out of a bunch down in
+the city,”</span> said Jonathan casually. <span class="tei tei-q">“I didn’t
+think I knew much about horses, but I guess
+I was in luck this time.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Guess you know more about horses than
+you’re sayin’.”</span> And Jonathan, thus pressed,
+admitted with suitable reluctance that he
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">had</span></span> now and then been able to detect a good
+horse by his own observation.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the way home he openly congratulated
+himself on his find. <span class="tei tei-q">“I really wasn’t
+sure I knew how to pick out a horse,”</span> he remarked,
+in a glow of retrospective modesty,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“but I certainly got a treasure this time.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Griz had been with us about two weeks,
+and all went well. Then another horse was
+needed for farm work, and one was sent up—one
+Kit by name—a big, pleasant, rather
+stupid brown mare.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“They do say two mares don’t git on so
+well together as a mare ’n a horse,”</span> remarked
+Hiram.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But these are both such quiet creatures,”</span>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page165">[pg 165]</span><a name="Pg165" id="Pg165" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+I protested, to which Hiram made no answer.
+Hiram seldom made an answer unless
+fairly cornered into it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For two or three days after the new arrival
+nothing happened, so far as we knew,
+except that Griz always laid her ears back,
+and looked queer about her under lip, whenever
+Kit was led in or out of the stall next
+her, while Kit always huddled up close to
+her manger whenever Griz was led past her
+heels. Once or twice Griz slipped her halter
+in the stall, and Hiram said there was a place
+on Kit that looked as if she had been kicked,
+but when we scrutinized Griz, neck a-droop
+and eyes a-blink, we found it hard to think
+ill of her. Besides, Jonathan was now fairly
+committed to the opinion that he had <span class="tei tei-q">“got
+a treasure this time.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“Kit may have hurt
+herself lying down,”</span> he suggested, and again
+Hiram made no answer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then one night, sometime during the very
+small, very dark, and very sleepy hours, we
+were awakened by awful sounds. <span class="tei tei-q">“What is
+it? What <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></span> it?”</span> I gasped.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Crash! Bang! Boom! The trampling of
+hoofs!—heavy, hollow pounding!—the
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page166">[pg 166]</span><a name="Pg166" id="Pg166" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+tearing and splintering of wood!—all coming
+from the barn, though loud enough, indeed,
+to have come from the next room.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan was up in an instant muttering,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Where are my rubber boots?—and my
+coat?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan! <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">what</span></span>
+a combination!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But he was gone, and I heard the snap of
+the lantern and the slam of the back door
+almost before the rocking-chair in the sitting-room
+that he had hit—and talked to—had
+stopped rocking. Then I heard him calling
+outside Hiram’s window and then he ran
+past our window, out to the barn. I wished
+he had waited for Hiram, but I had an undercurrent
+of pleasure in hearing him run. Jonathan’s
+theory is that there is never any
+hurry, and now and then I like to have this
+notion jolted up a little.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meanwhile the awful sounds had ceased.
+There was the rumble of the stable door, a
+pause, and Jonathan’s voice in conversational
+tones. Next came the flashing of Hiram’s
+lantern, and the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">tromp, tromp, tromp</span></span>,
+in much quicker tempo than usual, of Hiram’s
+heavy boots. Hiram’s theory was a
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page167">[pg 167]</span><a name="Pg167" id="Pg167" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+good deal like Jonathan’s, so this also gave
+me pleasure. Finally, there came the flash
+of another lantern, and I recognized the
+quick, short step of Mrs. Hiram. I smiled to
+myself, picturing the meeting between her and
+Jonathan, for I knew just how Jonathan was
+costumed. In two minutes I heard her steps
+repassing, and in five minutes Jonathan returned.
+He was chuckling quietly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I guess Griz got all she needed—didn’t
+know either of ’em had so much spunk in ’em.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What happened?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t know, exactly, but when I opened
+that door, there was Griz, just inside, no halter
+on, head down, meek as Moses, as far
+away from Kit’s heels as she could get—she’s
+got the mark of them on her leg and her flank.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Is she hurt?—or Kit?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, not so far as we can see, not to
+amount to anything—except maybe Griz’s
+feelings.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And what about Mrs. Hiram’s feelings?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan laughed aloud. <span class="tei tei-q">“I was inside
+with Kit, and she called out to know if she
+could help.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And what did you say?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page168">[pg 168]</span><a name="Pg168" id="Pg168" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I said, <span class="tei tei-q">‘Not on your life.’</span> ”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“So that was why she came back. Did you
+really say,‘Not on your life,’ or did you only
+imply it in your tone, while you actually said,
+‘No, thank you very much’?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I really said it. At least, I don’t remember
+conversations the way you do, but I didn’t
+feel a bit like thanking anybody, and I
+don’t believe I did.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I wish I’d heard you. One misses a
+good deal—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You can see the stable to-morrow. That’ll
+keep. They must have had a time of it!
+The walls are marked and splintered as high
+as I can reach. And I don’t believe Kit’ll
+cringe when Griz passes her any more.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of course you remember Hiram
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">said</span></span> two
+mares didn’t usually get on very well, and
+even when they’re chosen by a good judge of
+horses—”</span></p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After that the two did get along peaceably
+enough, and Jonathan assured me that all
+horses had these little affairs. One day we
+drove over to the main street of the village on
+an errand.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page169">[pg 169]</span><a name="Pg169" id="Pg169" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Will she stand?”</span> I questioned.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Better hitch her, perhaps,”</span> said Jonathan,
+getting out the rope. He snapped it
+into her bit-ring, then threw the other end
+around a post and started to make a half-hitch.
+But as he drew up the rope it was suddenly
+jerked out of his hand. He looked up
+and saw Griselda’s patient head waving high
+above him on the end of an erect and rebellious
+neck, the hitch-rope waggling in loops
+and spirals in the air, and the whole outfit
+backing away from him with speed and decision.
+He was so astonished that he did
+nothing, and in a moment Griz had stopped
+backing and stood still, her head sagging
+gently, the rope dangling.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—I’ll—be—”</span> I didn’t try to
+remember just what Jonathan said he would
+be, because it doesn’t really matter. We
+both stared at Griz as if we had never seen her
+before. Griz looked at nothing in particular,
+she blinked long lashes over drowsy, dark
+eyes, and sagged one hip.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“She’s trying to make believe she didn’t
+do it—but she did,”</span> I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Something must have startled her,”</span> said
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page170">[pg 170]</span><a name="Pg170" id="Pg170" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Jonathan, peering up and down the deserted
+street. Two roosters were crowing antiphonally
+in near-by yards, and a dog was barking
+somewhere far off.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What?”</span> I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You never can tell, with a horse.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, apparently not,”</span> I said, smiling to
+myself; and I added hastily, as I saw Jonathan
+go forward to her head,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Don’t</span></span> try it
+again, please! I’ll stay by her while you go
+in. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Please!</span></span>”</span>
+For I had detected on Jonathan’s
+face a look that I very well knew. It was the
+same expression he had worn that Sunday he
+led the calf to pasture. He made no answer,
+but stood examining the hitch-rope.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No use,”</span> he said, quietly releasing it and
+tossing its coil into the carriage, <span class="tei tei-q">“It’s too
+rotten. If it snapped, she’d be ruined.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I breathed freer. I privately hoped that all
+the hitch-ropes at the farm were rotten.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Griz stands perfectly well without hitching,”</span>
+I said as we drove home, <span class="tei tei-q">“Why do you
+force an issue?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I didn’t. She did. She’s beaten me. If
+I don’t hitch her now, she’ll know she’s master.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page171">[pg 171]</span><a name="Pg171" id="Pg171" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, dear!”</span> I sighed. <span class="tei tei-q">“Let her
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">be</span></span> master!
+Where’s the harm? It’s just your vanity.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Perhaps so,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When he agrees with me like that I know
+it’s hopeless.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The next night he wheeled in at the big gate
+bearing about his shoulders a coil of heavy
+rope.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It looks like a ship’s cable,”</span> I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> he responded, leaning his bicycle
+against his side, and swinging the coil over
+his head. <span class="tei tei-q">“I want it for mooring purposes.
+Think it’ll moor Griz?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan!”</span> I exclaimed, <span class="tei tei-q">“you won’t!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Watch me,”</span> said Jonathan, and he proceeded
+to explain to me the working of the
+tackle.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">One end had a ring in it, and as nearly as
+I remember, the plan was to put the rope
+around her body, under what would be her
+arm-pits if she had arm-pits,—horses’ joints
+are never called what one would expect, of
+course,—run the end through the ring, then
+forward between her legs and through the bit-ring.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page172">[pg 172]</span><a name="Pg172" id="Pg172" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Then, when she sets back, it cuts her in
+two,”</span> he concluded cheerfully.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But you don’t
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">want</span></span> her in two,”</span> I protested.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“She won’t set back,”</span> he responded; <span class="tei tei-q">“at
+least, not more than once. To-morrow’s Sunday;
+I’ll have to hitch her at church.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I hoped it would rain, so we needn’t go,
+but we were having a drought and the morning
+dawned cloudless. We reached the church
+just on the last stroke of the bell. The women
+were all within; the men and boys lounging
+in the vestibule were turning reluctant feet
+to follow them.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You go right in,”</span> said Jonathan, <span class="tei tei-q">“I’ll be
+in soon.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I turned to protest, but he was already
+driving round to the side, and a hush had
+fallen over the congregation within that made
+it embarrassing to call. Besides, one of the
+deacons stood holding open the door for me.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I slipped into a pew near the back, with
+the apologetic feeling one often has in an old
+country church—a feeling that one is making
+the ghosts move along a little. They did
+move, of course,—probably ghosts are always
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page173">[pg 173]</span><a name="Pg173" id="Pg173" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+polite when one really meets them,—and
+I sat down. Indeed, I was thinking very
+little of ghosts that day, or of the minister
+either. My ears were cocked to catch and
+interpret all the noises that came in through
+the open windows on my left. My eyes wandered
+in that direction, too, though the clear
+panes revealed nothing more exciting than
+flickering maple leaves and a sky filmed over
+by veils of cloud.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The moralists tell us that what we get out
+of any experience depends upon what we
+bring to it. What I brought to it that morning
+was a mind agog, attuned to receive these
+expected outside sounds. To all such sounds
+the service within was merely a background—a
+background which didn’t know its
+place, since it kept pushing itself more or
+less importunately into the foreground. I sat
+there, of course, with perfect propriety of
+demeanor, but my reactions were something
+like this:—</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Hymn 912</span></span>
+… seven stanzas! horrors! oh!
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">omit the 3d, 5th, and
+6th</span></span>—well, I should
+hope so!… I can’t hear a thing while this
+is going on!… He hasn’t come in yet!
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page174">[pg 174]</span><a name="Pg174" id="Pg174" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Scripture reading for
+to-day</span></span>—why can’t he
+give us the passage and let us read it for ourselves?—well,
+his voice is rather high and
+uneven, I think I could make out Jonathan’s
+through the loopholes in it.… There! What
+was that, I wonder! Sounded like shouting,—oh,
+why can’t he talk softly! <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Let us unite
+in prayer.</span></span> Ah! now we’ll have a long, quiet
+time, anyway!… if only he wouldn’t pray
+quite so loud! Why pray aloud at all, anyway?
+I like the Quaker way best: a good long
+strip of silence, where your thoughts can
+wash around in any fashion that—There!
+No—yes—no—it’s just people going by
+on the road.… Maybe he’s in the back of
+the church now, waiting for the close of the
+prayer. Seems as if I had to look.… Well,
+he isn’t.… <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">For
+thy name’s sake, amen.</span></span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And then the collection, with an organ
+voluntary the while—now why an organ
+voluntary? Why not leave people to their
+thoughts some of the time?</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And at last, the sermon:—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The text to
+which I wish to call your attention this morning</span></span>—my
+attention, forsooth! My attention
+was otherwise occupied. Ah! A puff of
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page175">[pg 175]</span><a name="Pg175" id="Pg175" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+warm, sweet air from behind me, and the soft,
+padding noise of the swinging doors, apprised
+me of an incomer. A cautious tread in
+the aisle—I moved along a little to make
+room.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In a city church probably I should have
+thrown propriety to the winds and had the
+gist of the story out of him at once, but in a
+country church there are always such listening
+spaces,—the very pew-backs and cushions
+seem attentive, the hymnals creak in their
+racks, and the little stools cry out nervously
+when one barely touches them. It was too
+much for me. I was coerced into an outer
+semblance of decorum. However, I snatched
+a hasty glance at Jonathan’s face. It was
+quite red and hot-looking, but calm, very
+calm, and I judged it to be the calm, not of
+defeat nor yet of settled militancy, but of
+triumph. I even thought I detected the
+flicker of a grin,—the mere atmospheric
+suggestion of a grin,—as if he felt the urgent
+if furtive appeal in my glance. At any rate,
+Jonathan was all right, that was clear. And
+as to Griz—whether she was still one mare or
+two half-mares—it didn’t so much matter.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page176">[pg 176]</span><a name="Pg176" id="Pg176" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+And now for the sermon! I gathered myself
+to attend.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As we stood up for the last hymn, I whispered,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“How did it go?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“All right. She’s hitched,”</span> was the answer.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After church there was the usual stir of
+sociability, and when I emerged into the glare
+of the church steps, I saw Jonathan driving
+slowly around from the rear. Griz walked
+meekly, her head sagged, her eyes blinked.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Good quiet little horse you’ve got there,”</span>
+said a deacon over my shoulder; <span class="tei tei-q">“don’t get
+restless standing, the way some horses do.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, she’s very quiet,”</span> I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I got in, and at last, as we drove off, the
+flood-gates of my impatience broke:—</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well?”</span> I said,—<span class="tei tei-q">“well?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Well?
+Tell</span></span> me about it!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’ve told you. I hitched her.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How did you hitch her?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Just the way I said I would.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Didn’t she mind?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t know.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Did she make a fuss?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not much.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page177">[pg 177]</span><a name="Pg177" id="Pg177" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What do you mean by much?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, she set back a little.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do any harm?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Hurt herself?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Guess not.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan, you drive me distracted—you
+have no more sense for a story—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“But there was nothing in particular—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now, Jonathan, if there was nothing in
+particular, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">why</span></span>
+didn’t you get into church
+till the sermon was begun, and why were you
+so red and hot?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan smiled indulgently. <span class="tei tei-q">“Why, of
+course, she didn’t care about being hitched.
+I thought you knew that. But it was perfectly
+easy.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And that was about all I could extract by
+the most artful questions. I took my revenge
+by telling Jonathan the deacon’s compliment
+to Griz. <span class="tei tei-q">“He said she didn’t get restless
+standing, the way so many horses did. I
+thought of mentioning that you were a rather
+good judge of horses, in an amateur way, but
+then I thought it might seem like boasting,
+so I didn’t.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page178">[pg 178]</span><a name="Pg178" id="Pg178" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After that, of course, I didn’t really deserve
+to hear the whole story, but the next
+night I happened to be in the hammock while
+Jonathan was talking to a neighbor at the
+front gate, and he was relating the incident
+with detail enough to have satisfied the most
+hungry gossip. Only thus did I learn that
+Bill Howard, who had wound the rope twice
+round the post to give himself a little leeway,
+was drawn right up to the post when she set
+back; that they had been afraid the headstall
+would tear off; that they had been rather
+nervous about the post, and other such little
+points, which I had not been clever enough
+to elicit by my questions.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Now, why? Probably a man likes to tell a
+story when he likes to tell it. I find myself
+wondering how much Odysseus told Penelope
+about his adventures when she got him to
+herself for a good talk. Is it significant that
+his really long story was told to the King of
+the Phæacians?</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As to Griz:—it would perhaps not be
+worth while to recount her subsequent history.
+It was a curious one, consisting of
+long stretches of continuous and ostentatious
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page179">[pg 179]</span><a name="Pg179" id="Pg179" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+meekness, broken by sudden flare-ups which,
+after their occurrence, always seemed incredible.
+She never again <span class="tei tei-q">“set back”</span> when
+Jonathan was the one to hitch her, but this
+was a concession made to him personally, and
+had no effect on her general habits. We
+talked of changing her name, but could never
+manage it. We thought of selling her, but
+she was too valuable—most of the time. And
+when we finally parted from her our relief
+was deeply tinged with regret.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I have sometimes wondered whether such
+flare-ups were not the natural and necessary
+means of recuperation from such depths of
+meekness. I have even wondered whether
+the original Griselda may not have—but
+this is not a dissertation on early Italian
+poetry, nor on the nature of women.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="page" /><div id="chapter09" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page180">[pg 180]</span><a name="Pg180" id="Pg180" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+<a name="toc18" id="toc18"></a>
+<a name="pdf19" id="pdf19"></a>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">IX</span></h1>
+<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Rowboat Pilgrimage</span></h1>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We were glad that the plan of the rowboat
+cruise dawned upon us almost a year before
+it came to pass. We were the gainers by just
+that rich length of expectancy.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For the joy that one gets from any cherished
+plan is always threefold: there is the joy
+of looking forward, the joy of the very doing,
+and the joy of remembering. They are all
+good, but only the last is eternal. The doing
+is hedged between limits, and its pleasures
+are often confused, overlaid with alien or accidental
+impressions. The joy of the forward
+look is pure and keen, but its bounds, too,
+are set. It begins at the moment when the
+first ray of the plan-idea dawns on one’s
+mind, and it ends with the day of fulfillment.
+If the dawn begins long before the day, so
+much the better.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was early fall, and we had come in from
+a day by the river, where we had tramped
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page181">[pg 181]</span><a name="Pg181" id="Pg181" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+miles up, to one of its infrequent bridges, and
+miles down on the other bank. Now we sat
+before the fire, talking it over.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If we only had a boat!”</span> I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Boat! What do you want a boat for?
+You wouldn’t want to sit in a boat all day.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Who said I would? But I want to get
+into it, and float off, and get out again somewhere
+else. That’s my idea of a boat.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, of course, a boat would be handy—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Handy! You talk as if it was a buttonhook!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well—of course it
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></span> handy—as you
+call it—but a boat means such a lot of
+things—adventure, romance. When you’re
+in a boat—a little boat—anything might
+happen.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> said Jonathan, drawing the logs
+together, <span class="tei tei-q">“that’s just the way your family
+feels about it when you’re young.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then we both laughed, and there was a
+reminiscent pause.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What became of your boat?”</span> I asked
+finally.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Sold. You kept yours.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page182">[pg 182]</span><a name="Pg182" id="Pg182" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. It’s in the cellar, there at Nantucket.
+I could have it sent on.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Cost as much as to buy a new one.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“A new one wouldn’t be as good.”</span> I
+bristled a little. Any one who has owned a
+boat is very sensitive about its virtues.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How big?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How should I know? A little boat—maybe
+twelve feet.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Two oars?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Four.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Round bottom?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. She’d ride anything.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well”</span>—Jonathan suddenly
+expanded—<span class="tei tei-q">“here’s
+an idea now! How would you like
+to have it sent on to the mainland, and then
+row it the rest of the way—along the Rhode
+Island and Connecticut shores?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I sat straight up. <span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan! Let’s do it
+now!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonathan chuckled. <span class="tei tei-q">“My! What a hurry
+she’s in!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, let’s!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We couldn’t. The boat will have to be
+overhauled first.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, dear! I suppose so.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page183">[pg 183]</span><a name="Pg183" id="Pg183" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We could do it next spring, and go up the
+trout streams.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Think of that!”</span> I murmured.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Or in September and get the shore hunting—the
+salt marshes.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, which?—which?”</span> Already I was
+following our course along curving beaches
+and amongst the yellow marshlands. But
+Jonathan’s mind was working on more practical
+details.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Twelve feet, you said?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“About that.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Pretty close stowing for our dunnage—still—let’s
+see—two guns—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Or the rods, if we went in the spring.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And rubber coats, and blankets—”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan! Should we camp?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Might have to.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Let’s, anyway.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“How does that coast-line run? Where’s
+a map?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All we had were some railroad maps and an
+old school geography—just enough to tantalize
+us—but we fell upon them eagerly.
+It is curious what a change comes over these
+dumb bits of colored paper at such times.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page184">[pg 184]</span><a name="Pg184" id="Pg184" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Every curve of the shore, every bay and headland
+came to life and spoke to us—called to
+us.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We decided on the September plan, and for
+the next eleven months our casual talk was
+starred with inapropos remarks like these:—</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan, I know we shall forget a can-opener.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Better write it down while you think of it.
+And have you put down a hatchet?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The camera! It isn’t on the list!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Hang it! Those charts haven’t come yet!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What can we take to look respectable in
+when we go ashore?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meanwhile the little boat was stirred out
+of its long sleep in the cellar, overhauled, and
+painted, and shipped to a port up in Narragansett
+Bay. And on the last day of August
+we found ourselves walking down through
+the little town. Following the instructions
+of wondering small boys, we came to a gate
+in a board fence, opened it and let ourselves
+into a typical New England seaport scene—a
+tiny garden, ablaze with sunshine and gorgeous
+with the yellows and lavenders of fall
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page185">[pg 185]</span><a name="Pg185" id="Pg185" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+flowers, and a narrow brick path, under a
+grape-vine arch, leading down to the sand
+and the wharf and the sparkling blue waters
+of the bay. As we passed down through the
+garden, we saw a little boat, bottom up, dazzling
+white in the sun.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“There it is!”</span> I said, with a surge of reminiscent
+affection.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That little thing!”</span> said Jonathan. <span class="tei tei-q">“I
+thought you said twelve feet.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, isn’t it? Anyway,
+I said <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">about</span></span>.
+And it’s big enough.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He was spanning its length with his hands.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eleven foot six. Oh, I suppose she’ll do.
+My boat was fourteen.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now, don’t be so patronizing about your
+boat. Wait till you see how mine behaves.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He dropped the discussion and got her
+launched. Is there anything prettier than a
+pretty boat floating beside a dock!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The next morning when we came down we
+found her half full of water. <span class="tei tei-q">“She’ll be all
+right now she’s soaked up,”</span> said Jonathan,
+and we baled her dry and went off to get our
+stuff.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I delayed to buy provisions, and when I
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page186">[pg 186]</span><a name="Pg186" id="Pg186" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+came back I found Jonathan standing on the
+float surrounded by plunder of all sorts. He
+answered my hail rather solemnly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“See here! When this stuff’s all stowed,
+where are we going to sit? That’s what’s
+worrying me.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why, won’t it go in?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Go! It wouldn’t go in two boats.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I came down the plank. <span class="tei tei-q">“Well, let’s eliminate.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We eliminated. We took out extra shoes
+and coats and <span class="tei tei-q">“town clothes,”</span> we cut down
+as far as we dared, and expressed a big
+bundle home. The rest we got into two
+sailor’s dunnage bags, one waterproof, the
+other nearly so, and one big water-tight
+metal box. Then there were the guns, and
+the provisions, and the charts in a long tin
+tube, and there was a lantern—a clumsy
+thing, which we lashed to a seat. It was always
+in the way and proved of very little use,
+but we thought we ought to take it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While we worked, some loungers gathered
+on the wharf above and watched us with that
+tolerant curiosity that loungers know so well
+how to assume. As we got in and took up our
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page187">[pg 187]</span><a name="Pg187" id="Pg187" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+oars, one of them called out, <span class="tei tei-q">“Now, if you
+only had a little motor there in the stern,
+you’d be all right.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Don’t want one,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What? Why not?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Go too fast.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Eh? What say?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Go—too—fast.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“He heard you,”</span> I said, <span class="tei tei-q">“but he can’t believe
+you really said it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The oars fell into unison, there was the dip
+of their blades, the grating chunk of the
+rowlocks—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">dip-ke-chunk, dip-ke-chunk</span></span>.
+As we fell into our stroke the little boat began to
+respond, the water swished at her bows and
+gurgled under her stern. The wharf fell away
+behind us, the houses back of it came into
+sight, then the wooded hills behind. The
+whole town began to draw together, with its
+church steeples as its centers.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“She does go!”</span> remarked Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I told you! Look at us now! Look at that
+buoy!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Dip-ke-chunk, dip-ke-chunk</span></span>—the
+red buoy swept by us and dropped into the blue background
+of dancing waves.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page188">[pg 188]</span><a name="Pg188" id="Pg188" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Are we really off? Is it really happening?”</span>
+I said joyously.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do you like it?”</span> said Jonathan over his
+shoulder.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No. Do you?”</span> To such unwisdom of
+speech do people come when they are happy.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But there were circumstances to steady
+us.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What I’m wondering,”</span> said Jonathan,
+<span class="tei tei-q">“is, what’s going to happen next—when we
+get out there.”</span> He tilted his head toward the
+open bay, broad and windy, ahead of us.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“There’s some pretty interesting water out
+there beyond this lee.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, she’ll take it all right. It’s no worse
+than Nantucket water. It couldn’t be.
+You’ll see.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We did see. In half an hour we were in the
+middle of upper Narragansett Bay, trying to
+make a diagonal across it to the southwest,
+while the long rollers came in steadily from
+the south, broken by a nasty chop of peaked,
+whitecapped waves. We rowed carefully, our
+heads over our right shoulders, watching
+each wave as it came on, with broken comments:—</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page189">[pg 189]</span><a name="Pg189" id="Pg189" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“That’s a good one coming—bring her
+up now—there—all right, now let her off
+again—hold her so—there’s another
+coming—see?—that big one, the fifth, the
+fourth, away—row, now—we beat it—there
+it goes off astern—see it break!
+Here’s another—look out for your oar—we
+can’t afford to miss a stroke—oh, me! Did
+that wet you too? My right shoulder is
+soaked—my left isn’t—now it is!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But half an hour of this sort of thing
+brought about two results—confidence in
+the little boat, which rode well in spite of
+her load, and confidence in each other’s
+rowing. We found that the four oars worked
+together, our early training told, and we instinctively
+did the same things in each of the
+varied emergencies created by wind and
+wave. There was no need for orders, and our
+talk died down to an exclamation now and
+then at some especially big wave, or a laugh
+as one of us got a drenching from the white
+top of a foaming crest.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was not an easy day, that first one.…
+It seems, sometimes, as if there were little
+imps of malignity that hovered over one
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page190">[pg 190]</span><a name="Pg190" id="Pg190" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+at the beginning of an undertaking—little
+brownies, using all their charms to try to turn
+one back, discouraged. If there be such, they
+had a good time with us that long afternoon.
+First they had said that we shouldn’t load
+our boat. Then they sent us rough water.
+Then they set the boat a-leak.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For leak it did. The soaking over night
+had done no good. It had, indeed, been
+<span class="tei tei-q">“thoroughly overhauled”</span> and pronounced
+seaworthy, but there was the water, too
+much to be accounted for as spray, swashing
+over the bottom boards, growing undeniably
+and most uncomfortably deeper. The imps
+made no offer to bale for us, so we had to do
+it ourselves, losing the much-needed power
+at the oars, while one of us set to work at the
+dip-and-toss, dip-and-toss motion so familiar
+to any one who has kept company with a
+small boat.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I wish my mother could see me now—”</span>
+hummed Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I wouldn’t wish that.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why not?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“What would they all think of us if they
+could see us this minute?”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page191">[pg 191]</span><a name="Pg191" id="Pg191" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Just what they have thought for a long
+time.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I laughed. <span class="tei tei-q">“How true that is, teacher!”</span>
+I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Finding us still cheerful, the imps tried
+again.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan—do you know—I do believe—my
+rowlock socket is working loose.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He cast a quick look over his shoulder
+without breaking stroke. Then he said a few
+words, explicit and powerful, about the man
+who had <span class="tei tei-q">“overhauled”</span> the boat. <span class="tei tei-q">“He ought
+to be put out in it, in a sea like this, and left
+to row himself home.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, of course, but instead, here we are.
+It won’t last half an hour longer.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It did not last ten minutes. There it hung,
+one screw pulled loose, the other barely
+holding.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Take my knife—you can get it out of
+my hip pocket—and try to set up that screw
+with the big blade.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I did so, and pulled a few strokes. Then—<span class="tei tei-q">“It’s
+come out again. It’s no use.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We make blamed poor headway with one
+pair of oars,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page192">[pg 192]</span><a name="Pg192" id="Pg192" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He meditated.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Where are the screw-eyes?”</span> he said after
+a moment.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, good for you! They’re in the metal
+box. I’ll get them.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I drew in my useless oars, turned about
+and cautiously wriggled up into the bow seat.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Look out for yourself! Don’t bullfrog
+out over the bow. I can’t hold her any
+steadier than this.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, I’m all right.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With one hand I gripped the gunwale, with
+the other I felt down into the box and finally
+fished out the required treasures. I worked
+my way back into my own seat and tried a
+screw-eye in the empty, rusted-out hole.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">“Does it
+bite?<span class="tei tei-add"><a name="E4" id="E4" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e4" class="tei tei-ref">”</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t know about biting, but it’s going
+in beautifully—now it goes hard.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Perhaps I can give it a turn.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Perhaps you can’t! Don’t you stop rowing.
+If this boat wasn’t held steady, she’d—I
+don’t know what she wouldn’t do.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“If you stick something through the eye
+you can turn it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. I’ll find
+something<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E5" id="E5" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e5" class="tei tei-ref">.</a></span>
+Here’s the can-opener.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page193">[pg 193]</span><a name="Pg193" id="Pg193" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+Grand! There! It’s solid. Now I’ll
+do the other one the same way. Hurrah for
+the screw-eyes!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You thought of bringing them,”</span> said
+Jonathan magnanimously.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You thought of using them,”</span> said I, not
+to be outdone.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And so again the imps were foiled. But
+they hung over us, they slapped us with
+spray, they tossed the whitecaps, jeering, at
+our heads, over our shoulders, into our laps.
+They put up the tides to tricks of eddies and
+back-currents, so that they hindered instead
+of helping, as by calculation they should
+have done. They laid invisible hands on our
+oars and dragged them down, or held them
+up as the wave raced by, so that we missed
+a stroke. Once, in the lee of an island, we
+paused to rest and unroll our chart and get
+our bearings, while the smooth rise and fall
+of the ground swell was all there was to remind
+us of the riot of water just outside.
+Then we were off again, and the imps had
+us. They were busy, those imps, all that long,
+windy, wave-tossed, wonderful day.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page194">[pg 194]</span><a name="Pg194" id="Pg194" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For it was wonderful, and the imps were
+indeed frustrate, wholly frustrate. We pulled
+toward the quiet harbor that evening with
+aching muscles, hair and clothes matted with
+salt water, but spirits undaunted. Hungry,
+too, for we had not been able to do more than
+munch a few ship’s biscuit while we rowed.
+Wind, tide, waves, all against us, boat leaking,
+oars disabled—and still—<span class="tei tei-q">“Isn’t it
+great!”</span> we said, <span class="tei tei-q">“great—great!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dusk was closing in and lights began to
+blink along the western shore. We beached
+on a sandy point and asked our way,—where
+could we put up for the night? Children,
+barelegged, waded out around the boat,
+looking at us and our funny, laden craft, with
+curious eyes. Yes, they said, there was an
+inn, farther up the harbor, where we saw
+those lights—ten minutes’ row, perhaps.
+We pulled off again, stiffly.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Tired?”</span> said Jonathan. <span class="tei tei-q">“I’ll take her
+in.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Indeed you won’t! Of course I’m tired,
+but I’ve got to do something to keep warm.
+And I want to get in. I want supper. They’ll
+all be in bed if we don’t hurry.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page195">[pg 195]</span><a name="Pg195" id="Pg195" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Our tired muscles lent themselves mechanically
+to their work and the boat slid across
+the quiet waters of the moonlit harbor. The
+town lights grew bigger, wharves loomed
+above us, and soon we were gliding along
+under their shadow. The eddies from our
+oars went <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">lap-lap-lapping</span></span>
+off among the great
+dark spiles and stirred up the keen smell of
+salt-soaked timbers and seaweed. Blindly
+groping, we found a rickety ladder, tied our
+boat and climbed stiffly up, and there we
+were on our feet again, feeling rather queer
+and stretchy after seven hours in our cramped
+quarters.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Half an hour later we were sitting in the
+warm, clean kitchen of the old inn, and a
+kindly but mystified hostess was mothering
+us with eggs and ham and tea and pie and
+doughnuts and other things that a New
+England kitchen always contains. While we
+ate she sat and rocked energetically, questioning
+us with friendly curiosity and watching
+us with keen though benevolent eyes.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Rowed, did you? Jim!”</span> calling back over
+her shoulder through a half-open door, <span class="tei tei-q">“did
+you hear that? These folks have rowed all
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page196">[pg 196]</span><a name="Pg196" id="Pg196" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+the way across the bay this afternoon—yes—rowed.
+What say? Yes, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">she</span></span> rowed, too.
+They say they’re goin’ on to-morrow, round
+Judith.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Say, now,”</span> she finally appealed to us in
+frank perplexity, <span class="tei tei-q">“what’re you doin’ it for?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“We like it,”</span> said Jonathan peacefully.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Like it, do you? Well, now, if that don’t
+beat all! Say—you know? I wouldn’t do
+that, what you’re doin’, not if you paid me.
+Have another cup o’ tea, do.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The next morning she bade us good-bye
+with the air of entrusting us to that Providence
+which is known to have a special care
+for children and fools.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In fact, through all the varying experiences
+of our cruise, one thing never varied. That
+was, the expression on the faces of the people
+we met. Wind and water and coast and birds
+all greeted us differently with each new day,
+but no matter
+<span class="tei tei-corr"><a name="E6" id="E6" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#e6" class="tei tei-ref">how</a></span>
+many new faces we met,
+we found in them always the same look—a
+look at once friendly and quizzical, the look
+one casts upon nice children for whose antics
+one is not responsible, the look one casts upon
+very small dogs. Why? Is it so odd a thing
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page197">[pg 197]</span><a name="Pg197" id="Pg197" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+to like to row a little boat? If it had been a
+yacht, now, or even a motor-boat, the expression
+would have been different. Apparently
+the oars were what did it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On that particular morning, word of our
+doings must have got abroad, for as we
+stepped out on the brick sidewalk of the
+shady main street a little crowd was waiting
+for us. It was a funny procession:—Jonathan
+first, with the guns and the water-jug,
+then a boy with a wheelbarrow, on which
+were piled the two dunnage bags, the metal
+box, the lantern, the axe, the chart tube, and
+a few other things. An old man and some
+boys followed curiously, then I came, with
+two big baking-powder cans, very gorgeous
+because the red paper was not yet off them,
+full of provisions pressed on us by our friendly
+hostess. Tagging behind me, came an old
+woman, a big girl, and a half-dozen children.
+It was the kind of escort that usually attends
+the hand-organ and monkey on their infrequent
+visits.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We loaded up the boat and pulled off, a
+little stiff but fairly fit after all. The group
+waved us off and then stood obviously talking
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page198">[pg 198]</span><a name="Pg198" id="Pg198" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+us over. One of the men called after us,
+with a sudden inspiration, <span class="tei tei-q">“Pity ye’ hevn’t
+got a <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">motor</span></span> in there!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though we didn’t want to be a motor-boat,
+we were not above receiving courtesies
+from one, and when the Providence tacitly
+invoked by our hostess sent one chugging
+along up to us, with the proposal to take us
+in tow, we accepted with great contentment.
+The morning was not half over when we made
+our next landing, and looked up the captain
+who was to tow us <span class="tei tei-q">“around Judith.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For in the matter of Point Judith our
+friends and advisers had been unanimously
+firm. There should be a limit, they said, even
+to the foolishness of a holiday plan. With a
+light boat, we might have braved their disapproval,
+but loaded as we were, we decided
+to be prudent.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I’d hate to lose the guns,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, and the camera,”</span> I added.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So we accepted the offer of a good friend’s
+knockabout, and sailed around the dreaded
+Point with our little boat tailing behind at
+the end of her rope. We saw no water that
+we could not have met in her, but, as our
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page199">[pg 199]</span><a name="Pg199" id="Pg199" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+friends did not fail to point out, that proved
+nothing whatever.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At Stonington we were left once more to
+our little boat and our four oars, and there we
+pulled her up and caulked her.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Strange, how we are always trying to avoid
+mishaps, and yet when they come we are so
+often glad of them! A leaky boat had not
+been in our plans, but if we could change that
+first wild row across the big bay, if we could
+cut out that leakiness, that puddling bottom,
+the difficult shifts of baling and rowing, would
+we? We would not. Again, as we look back
+over the days of our cruise, we could ill spare
+those hours of labor on the hot stretch of
+sunny beach between the wharves, where we
+bent half-blinded over the dazzling white
+boat, our spirits irritated, our fingers aching
+as they worked at the
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">push-push-push</span></span> of the
+cotton waste between the strakes. We said
+hard words of the man who thought he had
+put our boat in order for us, and yet—if we
+could cut out those hours of grumbling toil,
+would we? We would not. For one thing, we
+should perhaps have missed the precious
+word of advice given us by a man who sat and
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page200">[pg 200]</span><a name="Pg200" id="Pg200" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+watched us. He recommended us to put a
+little motor in the stern. He pointed out to
+us that rowing was pretty hard work. We
+said we liked it. His face wore the expression
+I have already described.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We launched her again at dusk. Next
+morning Jonathan was a moment ahead of
+me on the wharf.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Any water in her?”</span> I called, following
+hard.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Dry as a bone,”</span> he shouted back, exultant;
+but as I came up he added, with his
+usual conservatism, <span class="tei tei-q">“of course we can’t tell
+what she may do when she’s loaded.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But our work held. For the rest of the trip
+we had a dry boat, except for what came in
+over the sides.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Now that we were in the home State, we
+got out our guns and hugged the shore closely,
+on the lookout for plover. We drifted sometimes,
+while we studied our maps for the location
+of the salt marshes. If we were lucky, we
+had broiled birds for luncheon or supper; if
+we were not, we had tinned stuff, which is distinctly
+inferior. When we spent the night at
+an inn, we breakfasted there, but most of our
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page201">[pg 201]</span><a name="Pg201" id="Pg201" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+meals were eaten along the shore, or, best of
+all, on some island.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Can we find an island for lunch to-day, do
+you suppose?”</span> I usually asked, as we dipped
+our oars in the morning.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do you have to have an island for lunch?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I love an island!”</span> choosing to ignore the
+jest. <span class="tei tei-q">“That’s one of the best things about a
+boat—that it takes you to islands.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Now, why an island?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You know as well as I do. An island
+means—oh, it means remoteness, it means
+quiet—possession; while you’re on it, it’s
+yours—you don’t have every passer-by
+looking over your shoulder—you have a
+little world all to yourself.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I could feel Jonathan’s indulgent smile
+through the back of his head as he rowed.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, you know yourself,”</span> I argued.
+<span class="tei tei-q">“Even a tiny bit of stone and earth, with
+moss on it, and a flower, out in the middle of
+a brook, looks different, somehow, from the
+same things on the bank. It
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></span> different—it’s
+an island.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And so we sought islands—sometimes
+little ones, all rocks, too little even to have
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page202">[pg 202]</span><a name="Pg202" id="Pg202" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+collected driftwood for a fire, too little to have
+grown anything but wisps of beach-grass,
+low enough to be covered, perhaps, by the
+highest tides. Sometimes it was a larger
+island, big enough to have bushes on it, and
+beaches round its edges. One of these we
+remember as best of all. It lay a mile off
+shore, a long island, rocky at its ocean end
+and at its land end running out to a long
+slim line of curving beach. In the middle it
+rose to a plateau, thick-set with grass and
+goldenrod and bay bushes, from which
+floated the gay, sweet voices of song sparrows.
+Ah! There was an island for you! And
+we made a fire of driftwood, and cooked our
+luncheon, and lay back on the sand and
+drowsed, while the sea-gulls, millions of them,
+circled curiously over our heads, mewing and
+screaming as they dived and swooped, and
+behind us the notes of the song sparrows rose
+sweet.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">If we had had water enough in our jug, we
+should have camped there. We rowed away
+at last, slowly, loving it, and in our thoughts
+we still possess it. As it dropped astern I
+pulled in my oars and stood up to take its
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page203">[pg 203]</span><a name="Pg203" id="Pg203" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+picture—no easy task, with the boat mounting
+and plunging among the swells. But I
+have my picture, its horizon line at a noticeable
+slant, reminiscent of my unsteady balance.
+It means little to other people, but to
+us it means the sweetness of sunshine and
+wind and water, the sweetness of grass and
+bird-notes, all breathed over by the spirit of
+solitude.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then it melted away—our island—into
+the waste of waters, and we turned to look
+toward the misty headlands beyond our bow.
+Where the marshlands were, we followed
+them closely, but where the shore was rocky,
+or, worse still, built up with summer cottages,
+we often made a straight course from
+headland to headland, keeping well out, often
+a mile or two, to avoid tide eddies. We liked
+the feeling of being far out, the shore a dark
+blue, the cottages little dots. But we liked it,
+too, when the headland before us grew large,
+its rocks and bushes stood out, and we could
+see the white rip off its point—a rip to be
+taken with some caution if we hoped to keep
+our cargo dry. And then, the rip passed, if
+the bay beyond curved in quiet and uninhabited,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page204">[pg 204]</span><a name="Pg204" id="Pg204" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+how we loved to turn and pull along
+close to shore, watching its beaches and sand-cliffs
+draw smoothly away beside our stern,
+or, best of all, pulling about and running in
+till our bow grated and we jumped to the wet
+beach and ran up the cliff to look about. Such
+moments bring in a peculiar way the thrill of
+discovery. It is one thing to go along a coast
+by land, and learn its ways so. It is a good
+thing. But it is quite another to fare over its
+waters and turn in upon it from without,
+surprising its secrets as from another world.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But to do this, your boat must be a little
+one. As soon as you have a real keel, the case
+is altered. For a keel demands a special landing-place—a
+wharf—and a wharf means
+human habitation, and then—where is your
+thrill of discovery? Ah, no!—a little boat!
+And you can land anywhere, among rocks
+or in sandy shallows; you can explore the tide
+creeks and marshes and the little rivers; you
+can beach wherever you like, wherever the
+rippling waves themselves can go. A little
+boat for romance!</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A little boat, but a long cruise, as long as
+may be. To be sure, a boat and a bit of water
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page205">[pg 205]</span><a name="Pg205" id="Pg205" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+anywhere is good. Even an errand across the
+pond and back may be a joy. But if you can,
+now and then, free yourself from the there-and-back
+habit, the reward is great. The joy
+of pilgrimage—of going, not there and back,
+but on, and on, and yet on—is a joy by itself.
+The thought that each night brings
+sleep in a new and unforeseen spot, with a new
+journey on the morrow, gives special flavor
+to the journeying.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Not the least among the pleasures of the
+cruise were the night-camps. When the shore
+looked inviting, and harborage at an inn
+seemed doubtful, we pulled our boat above
+tide-water, turned her over and tilted her up
+on her side for a wind-break, and there we
+spent the night. The half-emptied dunnage
+bags were our pillows, the sand was our bed.
+Sand, to sleep on, is harder than one might
+suppose, but it is better than earth in being
+easily scooped out to suit one’s needs. Indeed,
+even on a pneumatic mattress, I should hardly
+have slept much that first night. It was a
+new experience. The great world of waters
+was so close that it seemed, all night long,
+like a wonderful but ever importunate presence.
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page206">[pg 206]</span><a name="Pg206" id="Pg206" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+The wind blew that night, too, and
+there was a low-scudding rack, and a half-smothered
+moon. As we rolled ourselves
+up in our blankets and rubber sheets and settled
+down, I looked out over the restless
+water.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The bay seems very full to-night—brimming,”</span>
+I said.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not brimming over, though,”</span> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I should hope not! But it does seem to
+me there are very few inches between it and
+our feet.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“And the tide is still rising, of course,”</span>
+said Jonathan, by way of comfort.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan, I know just where high-tide
+mark is, and we’re fully twelve inches above
+it.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Silence.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Aren’t we?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, was that a question?”</span> murmured
+Jonathan. <span class="tei tei-q">“Why, yes, I think we are at least
+that.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Of course, there are extra high tides
+sometimes.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Silence.</p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page207">[pg 207]</span><a name="Pg207" id="Pg207" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Jonathan, do you know when they come?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Not exactly.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, I don’t care. I love it, anyway.
+Only it seems so much bigger and colder at
+night, the water does.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At last I drowsed, waking now and then to
+raise my head and just glance down at those
+waves—they certainly sounded as if they
+were lapping the sand close by my ear. No,
+there they were, quite within bounds, fully
+twenty feet away from my toes. Of course it
+was all right. I slept again, and dreamed that
+the tide rose and rose; the waves ran merrily
+up the beach, ran up on both sides of us,
+closed in behind us. We were lying on a little
+sand island, and the waves nibbled at its
+edges—nibbled and nibbled and nibbled—the
+island was being nibbled up. This would
+never do! We must move! And I woke.
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ripple, ripple, swash!</span></span>
+<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">ripple, ripple, swash!</span></span>
+went the unconscious waves. As I raised my
+head I saw the pale beach stretching off under
+the moon-washed mists of middle night. Reassured,
+I sank back, and when I waked again
+the big sun was well above the rim of the
+waters and all the little waves were dancing
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page208">[pg 208]</span><a name="Pg208" id="Pg208" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+and the wet curves of the beach were gleaming
+in the new day.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The water was not always restless at night.
+The next time we camped we found a little
+harbor within a harbor, a crescent curve of
+fine white sand ending in a point of rock. In
+one of its clefts we made our fire and broiled
+our plover, ranging them on spits of bay so
+that they hung over the two edges of rock
+like people looking down into a miniature
+Grand Cañon. There were nine of them, fat
+and sputtering, and while they cooked, we
+made toast and arranged the camp. Then
+we had supper, and watched the red coals
+smouldering and the white moonlight filling
+the world with a radiance that put out the
+stars and brought the blue back to the sky.
+The little basin of the bay was quiet as a pool,
+the air was full of stillness, with now and then
+the hushed <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">flip-flip</span></span>
+of a tiny wave that had
+somehow strayed in from the tumbling crowd
+outside.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We slept well, but once Jonathan waked
+me. <span class="tei tei-q">“Look!”</span> he whispered, <span class="tei tei-q">“White heron.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I raised my head. There, quite near us in
+the shallow water, stood a great pale bird,
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page209">[pg 209]</span><a name="Pg209" id="Pg209" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+motionless, on one long, slim leg, his oval
+body, long neck, head and bill clearly outlined
+against the bright water beyond. The
+mirror of the water reflected perfectly the
+soft outline, making a double creature, one
+above and one below, with that slim stem of
+leg between.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I watched him until my neck grew tired.
+He never moved. Out beyond him, more dim,
+stood his mate, motionless too. Now and
+then they called to each other, with queer,
+harsh talk that made the stillness all the
+stiller when it closed in again.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When we awoke, they were gone, but we
+found the heronry that morning on one of the
+oak-covered knolls that rise like islands out of
+the heart of the great salt marshes.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All through the cruise, the big winds were
+with us more than we had expected. They
+gave us, for the most part, a right good time.
+For even in the partly protected Sound it is
+possible to stir up a sea rough enough to keep
+one busy. Each wave, as it came galloping
+up, was an antagonist to be dealt with. If
+we met it successfully, it galloped on, and left
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page210">[pg 210]</span><a name="Pg210" id="Pg210" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+us none the worse for it. If we did not, it
+meant, perhaps, that its foaming white mane
+brushed our shoulders, or swept across our
+laps, or, worse still, drowned our guns. Once,
+indeed, we were threatened with something a
+little more serious. We were running down out
+of the Connecticut River, gliding smoothly
+over sleek water. It was delicious rowing, and
+the boat shot along swiftly. As we turned
+westward, it grew rougher, but we were paying
+no special heed to this when suddenly I
+became conscious of something dark over my
+right shoulder. I turned my head, and found
+myself looking up into the evil heart of a dull
+green breaker. I gasped, <span class="tei tei-q">“Look out!”</span> and
+dug my oar. Jonathan glanced, pulled, there
+was a moment of doubt, then the huge dark
+bulk was shouldering heavily away, off our
+starboard quarter. It was only the first of
+its ugly company. Through sheer carelessness,
+we had run, as it were, into an ambush—one
+of the worst bits of water on the Sound,
+where tide and river currents meet and
+wrangle. All around us were rearing, white-maned
+breakers, though the impression we
+got was less of their white manes than of their
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page211">[pg 211]</span><a name="Pg211" id="Pg211" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+dark sides as they rose over us. Our problem
+was to meet each one fairly, and yet snatch
+every moment of respite to slant off toward
+the harborage inside the breakwaters. It took
+all our strength and all our skill, and all the
+resources of the good little boat. But we
+made it, after perhaps half an hour of stiff
+work. Then we rested, breathed, and went
+on. We did not talk much about it until we
+made camp that night. Then, as we sat looking
+out over the quiet water, I told Jonathan
+about the shadow over my shoulder.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“It was like seeing a ghost,”</span>
+I said,—<span class="tei tei-q">“no—more
+like feeling the hand of an enemy
+on your shoulder.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“The Black Douglas,”</span> suggested Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes. Talk about the scientific attitude—you’ve
+just got to personify things when they
+come at you like that. That wave had an expression—an
+ugly one. I don’t wonder the
+Northmen felt as they did about the sea and
+the waves. They took it all personally—they
+had to!”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Were you frightened?”</span> asked Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No, of course not,”</span> I said, almost too
+promptly. Then I meditated—<span class="tei tei-q">“I don’t
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page212">[pg 212]</span><a name="Pg212" id="Pg212" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+know what you’d call it—but I believe I
+understand now what people mean when they
+talk about their hearts going down into their
+boots.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Did yours?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Why, not exactly—but—well—it certainly
+did feel suddenly very thick and heavy—as
+if it had dropped—perhaps an inch
+or two.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I believe,”</span> said Jonathan gently, <span class="tei tei-q">“you
+might almost call that being frightened.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, perhaps you might. Tell me—were
+you?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“I didn’t like it—yes, I was anxious—and
+it made me tired to have been such a fool—the
+whole thing was absolutely unnecessary,
+if we’d looked up the charts carefully.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Or asked a few questions. But you know
+you hate to ask questions.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“You could have asked them.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Well, anyway, aren’t you glad it happened?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, of course; it was an experience.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Do you want to do it again?”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“No”</span>—he was emphatic—<span class="tei tei-q">“not with
+that load.”</span></p>
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page213">[pg 213]</span><a name="Pg213" id="Pg213" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-q">“Neither do I.”</span></p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">If the winds sometimes wearied us a little,
+they helped us, too. We can never forget the
+evening we turned into the Thames River,
+making for the shelter of a friend’s hospitable
+roof. We had battled most of that day with
+the diagonal onslaughts of a southeast gale,
+bringing with it the full swing of the ocean
+swell. It was easier than a southwester would
+have been, but that was the best that could
+be said for it.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We passed the last buoy and turned our
+bow north. And suddenly, the great waves
+that had all day kept us on the defensive became
+our strong helpers. They took us up and
+swung us forward on our course with great
+sweeping rushes of motion. The tide was
+setting in, too, and with that and our oars
+we were going almost as fast as the waves
+themselves, so that when one picked us up,
+it swung us a long way before it left us. We
+learned to watch for each roller, wait till one
+came up astern, then pull with all our might
+so that we went swooping down its long slope,
+its crest at first just behind our stern, but
+drawing more and more under us, until it
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page214">[pg 214]</span><a name="Pg214" id="Pg214" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+passed beyond our bow and dropped us in the
+trough to wait for the next giant. It was like
+going in a swing, but with the downward rush
+very long and swift, and the upward rise short
+and slow. How long it took us to make the
+two miles to our friend’s dock we shall never
+know. Probably only a few minutes. But it
+was not an experience in time. We had a
+sense of being at one with the great primal
+forces of wind and water, and at one with
+them, not in their moments of poise, but in
+their moments of resistless power.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb">* * * * * </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After all, the only drawback to the cruise
+was that it was over too soon. When, in the
+quiet afternoon light of the last day, a familiar
+headland floated into view, my first feeling
+was one of joy; for beyond that headland,
+what friendly faces waited for us—faces
+turned even now, perhaps, toward the east for
+a first glimpse of our little boat. But hard
+after this, came a pang of regret—it was
+over, our water-pilgrimage, and I wanted it
+to go on.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was over. And yet, not really over after
+all. I sometimes think that pleasures ought
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page215">[pg 215]</span><a name="Pg215" id="Pg215" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+to be valued according to whether they are
+over when they <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">are</span></span>
+over, or not. <span class="tei tei-q">“You cannot
+eat your cake and have it too.”</span> True, but
+that is because it is cake. There are other
+things which you can eat, and still have. And
+our rowboat cruise is one of these. It is over,
+and yet it is not over. It never will be. I can
+shut my eyes—indeed, I do not need even
+to shut them—and again I am under the
+open sky, I am afloat in the sun and the wind,
+with the waters all around me. I see again
+the surf-edged curves of the beaches, the lines
+of the sand-cliffs, the ragged horizon edge,
+cut and jagged by the waves. I feel the boat,
+I feel the oars, I am aware of the damp, pure
+night air, and the sounds of the waves ceaselessly
+breaking on the sand.</p>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is not over. Its best things are still ours,
+and those things which were hardly pleasures
+then have become such now. As we remember
+our aching muscles and blistered hands, we
+smile. As we recall times of intense weariness,
+of irritation, of anxiety, we find ourselves
+lingering over them with enjoyment. For
+memory does something wonderful with experience.
+It is a poet, and life is its raw
+<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page216">[pg 216]</span><a name="Pg216" id="Pg216" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+material. I know that our cruise was made up
+of minutes, of oar-strokes, so many that to
+count them would be weariness unending. But
+in my memory, these things are re-created.
+I see a boundless stretch of windy or peaceful
+waters. I see the endless line of misty coast.
+I see lovely islands, sleeping alone, waiting
+to be possessed by those who come. And I see
+a little, little boat, faring along the coast-lands,
+out to the islands, over the waters—going
+on, and on, and on.</p>
+
+<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div>
+
+<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE END</p>
+
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="tei tei-back" style="margin-bottom: 2.00em; margin-top: 6.00em">
+  <hr class="doublepage" /><div id="colophon" class="tei tei-div" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    <a name="toc20" id="toc20"></a>
+    <a name="pdf21" id="pdf21"></a>
+    <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Colophon</span></h1>
+
+    <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page218">[pg 218]</span><a name="Pg218" id="Pg218" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a>
+    <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The Riverside Press</span></p>
+
+    <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.81em"><span style="font-size: 81%">CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS</span></p>
+
+    <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.81em"><span style="font-size: 81%">U . S . A</span></p>
+  </div>
+
+  <hr class="doublepage" /><div id="appendix" class="tei tei-div" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    <a name="toc22" id="toc22"></a>
+    <a name="pdf23" id="pdf23"></a>
+    <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Appendix A: Extra Front Pages</span></h1>
+    <span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagei">[pg i]</span><a name="Pgi" id="Pgi" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a>
+    
+    <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">
+    By Elisabeth Woodbridge</span></p>
+
+    <div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 10%" /></div>
+    
+    <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.73em"><span style="font-size: 73%">MORE JONATHAN PAPERS.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 73%">
+    THE JONATHAN PAPERS.</span></p>
+    
+    <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.81em"><span style="font-size: 81%">HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY</span><br />
+    <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 73%; font-variant: small-caps">
+      Boston And New York
+    </span></span></p>
+
+    <div class="tei tei-tb"> </div>
+
+    <span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageii">[pg ii]</span><a name="Pgii" id="Pgii" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a>
+    
+    <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">More Jonathan Papers</p>
+
+    
+  </div>
+
+  <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+    <a name="toc24" id="toc24"></a>
+    <a name="pdf25" id="pdf25"></a>
+    <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Errata</span></h1>
+  
+    <a name="e1" id="e1" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter VII</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed camp is <span class="tei tei-hi"><a href="#E1" class="tei tei-ref"><span style="font-weight: 700">4.38</span></a></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">A.M.</span></span> to camp is <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">4:38</span></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">A.M.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
+    
+    <a name="e2" id="e2" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter VII</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed arrives at <span class="tei tei-hi"><a href="#E2" class="tei tei-ref"><span style="font-weight: 700">10.15</span></a></span>, they to arrives at <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">10:15</span></span>, they</td></tr></tbody></table>
+    
+    <a name="e3" id="e3" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter VII</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed What does <span class="tei tei-hi"><a href="#E3" class="tei tei-ref"><span style="font-weight: 700">10.15</span></a></span> look to What does <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">10:15</span></span> look</td></tr></tbody></table>
+    
+    <a name="e4" id="e4" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter VIII</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed “Does it bite?<a href="#E4" class="tei tei-ref"> </a> to
+      “Does it bite?<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">”</span></span>
+      </td></tr></tbody></table>
+    
+    <a name="e5" id="e5" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter VIIII</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed find something<span class="tei tei-hi"><a href="#E5" class="tei tei-ref"><span style="font-weight: 700">,</span></a></span> Here’s to find
+      something<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">.</span></span> Here’s</td></tr></tbody></table>
+    
+    <a name="e6" id="e6" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Chapter VIIII</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Changed no matter <span class="tei tei-hi"><a href="#E6" class="tei tei-ref"><span style="font-weight: 700">now</span></a></span> many to no matter <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-weight: 700">how</span></span> many</td></tr></tbody></table>
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+<front>
+  <div>
+    <divGen type="pgheader" />
+  </div>
+
+  <div>
+    <divGen type="encodingDesc" />
+  </div>
+
+  <titlePage rend="page-break-before: right; text-align: center">
+  <pb n="iiii"/><anchor id="Pgiiii"/>
+    <docTitle>
+      <titlePart type="main" rend="font-size: xx-large">
+        More Jonathan Papers<lb/>
+        <lb/>
+      </titlePart>
+    </docTitle>
+    <byline rend="font-size: large">By<lb/>
+      <docAuthor>Elisabeth Woodbridge</docAuthor><lb/>
+      <lb/>
+    </byline>
+    <docImprint>
+      BOSTON AND NEW YORK<lb/>
+      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY<lb/>
+      The Riverside Press Cambridge<lb/>
+    </docImprint>
+    <docDate>1915</docDate>
+  </titlePage>
+
+  <div rend="page-break-before: always; text-align: center; font-size: x-small"
+   type="verso">
+    <pb n="v"/><anchor id="Pgv"/>
+    <p>COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY ELISABETH WOODBRIDGE MORRIS<lb/>
+    <lb/>
+    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED<lb/>
+    <lb/>
+    <hi rend="font-style: italic">Published November 1915</hi></p>
+  </div>
+
+  <div rend="page-break-before: right" type="dedication">
+    <pb n="vi"/><anchor id="Pgvi"/>
+    <p rend="text-align: center">TO<lb/>
+    JONATHAN</p>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- <pb n="vii"/><anchor id="Pgvii"/>
+  Blank Page -->
+
+  <div rend="page-break-before: right">
+    <pb n="viii"/><anchor id="Pgviii"/>
+    <index index="pdf"/>
+    <head rend="text-align: center">Contents</head>
+    <divGen type="toc"/>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- <pb n="ix"/><anchor id="Pgix"/>
+  Blank Page -->
+</front>
+
+<body>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: right" id="chapter01">
+<pb n="001"/><anchor id="Pg001"/>
+<index index="toc" level1="I. The Searchings of Jonathan"/>
+<index index="pdf" level1="I. The Searchings of Jonathan"/>
+<head type="sub"><hi rend="font-size: xx-large">More Jonathan Papers</hi></head>
+<head rend="text-align: center">I</head>
+<head type="sub">The Searchings of Jonathan</head>
+
+<p><q>What I find it hard to understand is, why a
+person who can see a spray of fringed gentian
+in the middle of a meadow can&rsquo;t see a book on
+the sitting-room table.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The reason why I can see the gentian,</q>
+said Jonathan, <q>is because the gentian is
+there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>So is the book,</q> I responded.</p>
+
+<p><q>Which table?</q> he asked.</p>
+
+<p><q>The one with the lamp on it. It&rsquo;s a red
+book, about <hi rend="font-style: italic">so</hi> big.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It isn&rsquo;t there; but, just to satisfy you,
+I&rsquo;ll look again.</q></p>
+
+<p>He returned in a moment with an argumentative
+expression of countenance. <q>It
+isn&rsquo;t there,</q> he said firmly. <q>Will anything
+else do instead?</q></p>
+<pb n="002"/><anchor id="Pg002"/>
+
+<p><q>No, I wanted you to read that special
+thing. Oh, dear! And I have all these things
+in my lap! And I know it <hi rend="font-style: italic">is</hi>
+there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And I <hi rend="font-style: italic">know</hi> it
+isn&rsquo;t.</q> He stretched himself
+out in the hammock and watched me as
+I rather ostentatiously laid down thimble,
+scissors, needle, cotton, and material and set
+out for the sitting-room table. There were a
+number of books on it, to be sure. I glanced
+rapidly through the piles, fingered the lower
+books, pushed aside a magazine, and pulled
+out from beneath it the book I wanted. I
+returned to the hammock and handed it over.
+Then, after possessing myself, again rather
+ostentatiously, of material, cotton, needle,
+scissors, and thimble, I sat down.</p>
+
+<p><q>It&rsquo;s the second essay I specially thought
+we&rsquo;d like,</q> I said.</p>
+
+<p><q>Just for curiosity,</q> said Jonathan, with
+an impersonal air, <q>where did you find it?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Find what?</q> I asked innocently.</p>
+
+<p><q>The book.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh! On the table.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Which table?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The one with the lamp on it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I should like to know where.</q></p>
+<pb n="003"/><anchor id="Pg003"/>
+
+<p><q>Why&mdash;just there&mdash;on the table. There
+was an <q>Atlantic</q> on top of it, to be sure.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I saw the <q>Atlantic.</q> Blest if it looked as
+though it had anything under it! Besides,
+I was looking for it on top of things. You
+said you laid it down there just before luncheon,
+and I didn&rsquo;t think it could have crawled
+in under so quick.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>When you&rsquo;re looking for a thing,</q> I said,
+<q>you mustn&rsquo;t think, you must look. Now
+go ahead and read.</q></p>
+
+<p>If this were a single instance, or even if it
+were one of many illustrating a common
+human frailty, it would hardly be worth setting
+down. But the frailty under consideration
+has come to seem to me rather particularly
+masculine. Are not all the Jonathans
+in the world continually being sent to some
+sitting-room table for something, and coming
+back to assert, with more or less pleasantness,
+according to their temperament, that it is not
+there? The incident, then, is not isolated; it
+is typical of a vast group. For Jonathan, read
+Everyman; for the red book, read any particular
+thing that you want Him to bring;
+for the sitting-room table, read the place
+<pb n="004"/><anchor id="Pg004"/>
+where you know it is and Everyman says it
+isn&rsquo;t.</p>
+
+<p>This, at least, is my thesis. It is not, however,
+unchallenged. Jonathan has challenged
+it when, from time to time, as occasion offered,
+I have lightly sketched it out for him.
+Sometimes he argues that my instances are
+really isolated cases and that their evidence
+is not cumulative, at others he takes refuge
+in a <hi rend="font-style: italic">tu quoque</hi>&mdash;in
+itself a confession of weakness&mdash;and
+alludes darkly to <q>top shelves</q>
+and <q>bottom drawers.</q> But let us have no
+mysteries. These phrases, considered as arguments,
+have their origin in certain incidents
+which, that all the evidence may be in, I will
+here set down.</p>
+
+<p>Once upon a time I asked Jonathan to get
+me something from the top shelf in the closet.
+He went, and failed to find it. Then I went,
+and took it down. Jonathan, watching over
+my shoulder, said, <q>But that wasn&rsquo;t the top
+shelf, I suppose you will admit.</q></p>
+
+<p>Sure enough! There was a shelf above.
+<q>Oh, yes; but I don&rsquo;t count that shelf. We
+never use it, because nobody can reach
+it.</q></p>
+<pb n="005"/><anchor id="Pg005"/>
+
+<p><q>How do you expect me to know which
+shelves you count and which you don&rsquo;t?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Of course, anatomically&mdash;structurally&mdash;it
+is one, but functionally it isn&rsquo;t there at all.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I see,</q> said Jonathan, so contentedly that
+I knew he was filing this affair away for future
+use.</p>
+
+<p>On another occasion I asked him to get
+something for me from the top drawer of the
+old <q>high-boy</q> in the dining-room. He was
+gone a long while, and at last, growing impatient,
+I followed. I found him standing on
+an old wooden-seated chair, screw-driver in
+hand. A drawer on a level with his head was
+open, and he had hanging over his arm
+a gaudy collection of ancient table-covers
+and embroidered scarfs, mostly in shades of
+magenta.</p>
+
+<p><q>She stuck, but I&rsquo;ve got her open now.
+I don&rsquo;t see any pillow-cases, though. It&rsquo;s all
+full of these things.</q> He pumped his laden
+arm up and down, and the table-covers
+wagged gayly.</p>
+
+<p>I sank into the chair and laughed. <q>Oh!
+Have you been prying at that all this time?
+Of <hi rend="font-style: italic">course</hi> there&rsquo;s nothing in
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">that</hi> drawer.</q></p>
+<pb n="006"/><anchor id="Pg006"/>
+
+<p><q>There&rsquo;s where you&rsquo;re wrong. There&rsquo;s a
+great deal in it; I haven&rsquo;t taken out half. If
+you want to see&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I <hi rend="font-style: italic">don&rsquo;t</hi> want to see!
+There&rsquo;s nothing I
+want less! What I mean is&mdash;I never put
+anything there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It&rsquo;s the top drawer.</q> He was beginning
+to lay back the table-covers.</p>
+
+<p><q>But I can&rsquo;t reach it. And it&rsquo;s been stuck
+for ever so long.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You said the top drawer.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I suppose I did. Of course what I
+meant was the top one of the ones I use.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I see, my dear. When you say top shelf
+you don&rsquo;t mean top shelf, and when you say
+top drawer you don&rsquo;t mean top drawer; in
+fact, when you say top you don&rsquo;t mean top
+at all&mdash;you mean the height of your head.
+Everything above that doesn&rsquo;t count.</q></p>
+
+<p>Jonathan was so pleased with this formulation
+of my attitude that he was not in the
+least irritated to have put out unnecessary
+work. And his satisfaction was deepened by
+one more incident. I had sent him to the
+bottom drawer of my bureau to get a shawl.
+He returned without it, and I was puzzled.
+<pb n="007"/><anchor id="Pg007"/>
+<q>Now, Jonathan, it&rsquo;s there, and it&rsquo;s the top
+thing.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The real top,</q> murmured Jonathan, <q>or
+just what you call top?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It&rsquo;s right in front,</q> I went on; <q>and I
+don&rsquo;t see how even a man could fail to find it.</q></p>
+
+<p>He proceeded to enumerate the contents
+of the drawer in such strange fashion that I
+began to wonder where he had been.</p>
+
+<p><q>I said my bureau.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I went to your bureau.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The bottom drawer.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The bottom drawer. There was nothing
+but a lot of little boxes and&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, <hi rend="font-style: italic">I</hi> know what you did!
+You went to the secret drawer.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Isn&rsquo;t that the bottom one?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why, yes, in a way&mdash;of course it is; but
+it doesn&rsquo;t exactly count&mdash;it&rsquo;s not one of the
+regular drawers&mdash;it hasn&rsquo;t any knobs, or
+anything&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But it&rsquo;s a perfectly good drawer.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes. But nobody is supposed to know
+it&rsquo;s there; it looks like a molding&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But I know it&rsquo;s there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, of course.</q></p>
+<pb n="008"/><anchor id="Pg008"/>
+
+<p><q>And you know I know it&rsquo;s there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, yes; but I just don&rsquo;t think about
+that one in counting up. I see what you mean,
+of course.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And I see what you mean. You mean that
+your shawl is in the bottom one of the regular
+drawers&mdash;with knobs&mdash;that can be alluded
+to in general conversation. Now I think I can
+find it.</q></p>
+
+<p>He did. And in addition he amused himself
+by working out phrases about <q>when is a
+bottom drawer not a bottom drawer?</q> and
+<q>when is a top shelf not a top shelf?</q></p>
+
+<p>It is to these incidents&mdash;which I regard as
+isolated and negligible, and he regards as
+typical and significant&mdash;that he alludes on
+the occasions when he is unable to find a red
+book on the sitting-room table. In vain do I
+point out that when language is variable and
+fluid it is alive, and that there may be two
+opinions about the structural top and the
+functional top, whereas there can be but one
+as to the book being or not being on the table.
+He maintains a quiet cheerfulness, as of one
+who is conscious of being, if not invulnerable,
+at least well armed.</p>
+<pb n="009"/><anchor id="Pg009"/>
+
+<p>For a time he even tried to make believe
+that he was invulnerable as well&mdash;to set up
+the thesis that if the book was really on the
+table he could find it. But in this he suffered
+so many reverses that only strong natural
+pertinacity kept him from capitulation.</p>
+
+<p>Is it necessary to recount instances? Every
+family can furnish them. As I allow myself to
+float off into a reminiscent dream I find my
+mind possessed by a continuous series of dissolving
+views in which Jonathan is always
+coming to me saying, <q>It isn&rsquo;t there,</q> and I
+am always saying, <q>Please look again.</q></p>
+
+<p>Though everything in the house seems to
+be in a conspiracy against him, it is perhaps
+with the fishing-tackle that he has most constant
+difficulties.</p>
+
+<p><q>My dear, have you any idea where my
+rod is? No, don&rsquo;t get up&mdash;I&rsquo;ll look if you&rsquo;ll
+just tell me where&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Probably in the corner behind the chest
+in the orchard room.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;ve looked there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, then, did you take it in from the
+wagon last night?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I remember doing it.</q></p>
+<pb n="010"/><anchor id="Pg010"/>
+
+<p><q>What about the little attic? You might
+have put it up there to dry out.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No. I took my wading boots up, but that
+was all.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The dining-room? You came in that
+way.</q></p>
+
+<p>He goes and returns. <q>Not there.</q> I reflect
+deeply.</p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan, are you <hi rend="font-style: italic">sure</hi>
+it&rsquo;s not in that corner of the orchard room?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I&rsquo;m sure; but I&rsquo;ll look again.</q> He
+disappears, but in a moment I hear his voice
+calling, <q>No! Yours is here, but not mine.</q></p>
+
+<p>I perceive that it is a case for me, and I get
+up. <q>You go and harness. I&rsquo;ll find it,</q> I call.</p>
+
+<p>There was a time when, under such conditions,
+I should have begun by hunting in all
+the unlikely places I could think of. Now I
+know better. I go straight to the corner of the
+orchard room. Then I call to Jonathan, just
+to relieve his mind.</p>
+
+<p><q>All right! I&rsquo;ve found it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Where?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Here, in the orchard room.</q></p>
+
+<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">Where</hi> in the orchard
+room?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>In the corner.</q></p>
+<pb n="011"/><anchor id="Pg011"/>
+
+<p><q>What corner?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The usual corner&mdash;back of the chest.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The devil!</q> Then he comes back to put
+his head in at the door. <q>What are you
+laughing at?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nothing. What are you talking about the
+devil for? Anyway, it isn&rsquo;t the devil; it&rsquo;s the
+brownie.</q></p>
+
+<p>For there seems no doubt that the things
+he hunts for are possessed of supernatural
+powers; and the theory of a brownie in the
+house, with a special grudge against Jonathan,
+would perhaps best account for the way in
+which they elude his search but leap into sight
+at my approach. There is, to be sure, one
+other explanation, but it is one that does not
+suggest itself to him, or appeal to him when
+suggested by me, so there is no need to dwell
+upon it.</p>
+
+<p>If it isn&rsquo;t the rod, it is the landing-net,
+which has hung itself on a nail a little to the
+left or right of the one he had expected to see
+it on; or his reel, which has crept into a corner
+of the tackle drawer and held a ball of string
+in front of itself to distract his vision; or a
+bunch of snell hooks, which, aware of its protective
+<pb n="012"/><anchor id="Pg012"/>
+coloring, has snuggled up against the
+shady side of the drawer and tucked its pink-papered
+head underneath a gay pickerel-spoon.</p>
+
+<p>Fishing-tackle is, clearly, <q>possessed,</q> but
+in other fields Jonathan is not free from
+trouble. Finding anything on a bureau
+seems to offer peculiar obstacles. It is perhaps
+a big, black-headed pin that I want.
+<q>On the pincushion, Jonathan.</q></p>
+
+<p>He goes, and returns with two sizes of
+safety-pins and one long hat-pin.</p>
+
+<p><q>No, dear, those won&rsquo;t do. A small, black-headed
+one&mdash;at least small compared with a
+hat-pin, large compared with an ordinary pin.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Common or house pin?</q> he murmurs,
+quoting a friend&rsquo;s phrase.</p>
+
+<p><q>Do look again! I hate to drop this to go
+myself.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>When a man does a job, he gets his tools
+together first.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes; but they say women shouldn&rsquo;t copy
+men, they should develop along their own
+lines. Please go.</q></p>
+
+<p>He goes, and comes back. <q>You don&rsquo;t
+want fancy gold pins, I suppose?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No, no! Here, you hold this, and I&rsquo;ll go.</q>
+<pb n="013"/><anchor id="Pg013"/>
+I dash to the bureau. Sure enough, he is right
+about the cushion. I glance hastily about.
+There, in a little saucer, are a half-dozen of
+the sort I want. I snatch some and run back.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well, it wasn&rsquo;t in the cushion, I bet.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No,</q> I admit; <q>it was in a saucer just behind
+the cushion.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You said cushion.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I know. It&rsquo;s all right.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Now, if you had said simply <q>bureau,</q> I&rsquo;d
+have looked in other places on it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, you&rsquo;d have <hi rend="font-style: italic">looked</hi>
+in other places!</q>
+I could not forbear responding. There is, I
+grant, another side to this question. One
+evening when I went upstairs I found a partial
+presentation of it, in the form of a little
+newspaper clipping, pinned on my cushion.
+It read as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<quote rend="display">
+  <p><q>My dear,</q> said she, <q>please run and
+  bring me the needle from the haystack.</q></p>
+
+  <p><q>Oh, I don&rsquo;t know which haystack.</q></p>
+
+  <p><q>Look in all the haystacks&mdash;you
+  can&rsquo;t miss it; there&rsquo;s only one needle.</q></p>
+</quote>
+
+<p>Jonathan was in the cellar at the moment.
+When he came up, he said, <q>Did I hear any
+one laughing?</q></p>
+<pb n="014"/><anchor id="Pg014"/>
+
+<p><q>I don&rsquo;t know. Did you?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I thought maybe it was you.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It might have been. Something amused
+me&mdash;I forget what.</q></p>
+
+<p>I accused Jonathan of having written it
+himself, but he denied it. Some other Jonathan,
+then; for, as I said, this is not a personal
+matter, it is a world matter. Let us grant,
+then, a certain allowance for those who hunt
+in woman-made haystacks. But what about
+pockets? Is not a man lord over his own
+pockets? And are they not nevertheless as
+so many haystacks piled high for his confusion?
+Certain it is that Jonathan has nearly
+as much trouble with his pockets as he does
+with the corners and cupboards and shelves
+and drawers of his house. It usually happens
+over our late supper, after his day in town.
+He sets down his teacup, struck with a sudden
+memory. He feels in his vest pockets&mdash;first
+the right, then the left. He proceeds to search
+himself, murmuring, <q>I thought something
+came to-day that I wanted to show you&mdash;oh,
+here! no, that isn&rsquo;t it. I thought I put it&mdash;no,
+those are to be&mdash;what&rsquo;s this? No,
+that&rsquo;s a memorandum. Now, where in&mdash;</q>
+<pb n="015"/><anchor id="Pg015"/>
+He runs through the papers in his pockets
+twice over, and in the second round I watch
+him narrowly, and perhaps see a corner of an
+envelope that does not look like office work.
+<q>There, Jonathan! What&rsquo;s that? No, not
+that&mdash;that!</q></p>
+
+<p>He pulls it out with an air of immense
+relief. <q>There! I knew I had something.
+That&rsquo;s it.</q></p>
+
+<p>When we travel, the same thing happens
+with the tickets, especially if they chance to
+be costly and complicated ones, with all the
+shifts and changes of our journey printed
+thick upon their faces. The conductor appears
+at the other end of the car. Jonathan
+begins vaguely to fumble without lowering
+his paper. Pocket after pocket is browsed
+through in this way. Then the paper slides to
+his knee and he begins a more thorough investigation,
+with all the characteristic clapping
+and diving motions that seem to be
+necessary. Some pockets must always be
+clapped and others dived into to discover their
+contents.</p>
+
+<p>No tickets. The conductor is halfway up
+the car. Jonathan&rsquo;s face begins to grow serious.
+<pb n="016"/><anchor id="Pg016"/>
+He rises and looks on the seat and under
+it. He sits down and takes out packet after
+packet of papers and goes over them with
+scrupulous care. At this point I used to become
+really anxious&mdash;to make hasty calculations
+as to our financial resources, immediate
+and ultimate&mdash;to wonder if conductors
+ever really put nice people like us off trains.
+But that was long ago. I know now that
+Jonathan has never lost a ticket in his life.
+So I glance through the paper that he has
+dropped or watch the landscape until he
+reaches a certain stage of calm and definite
+pessimism, when he says, <q>I must have pulled
+them out when I took out those postcards in
+the other car. Yes, that&rsquo;s just what has happened.</q>
+Then, the conductor being only a
+few seats away, I beg Jonathan to look once
+more in his vest pocket, where he always puts
+them. To oblige me he looks, though without
+faith, and lo! this time the tickets fairly
+fling themselves upon him, with smiles almost
+curling up their corners. Does the brownie
+travel with us, then?</p>
+
+<p>I begin to suspect that some of the good
+men who have been blamed for forgetting to
+<pb n="017"/><anchor id="Pg017"/>
+mail letters in their pockets have been, not
+indeed blameless, but at least misunderstood.
+Probably they do not forget. Probably they
+hunt for the letters and cannot find them, and
+conclude that they have already mailed them.</p>
+
+<p>In the matter of the home haystacks Jonathan&rsquo;s
+confidence in himself has at last been
+shaken. For a long time, when he returned
+to me after some futile search, he used to say,
+<q>Of course you can look for it if you like, but
+it is <hi rend="font-style: italic">not</hi> there.</q>
+But man is a reasoning, if not
+altogether a reasonable, being, and with a sufficient
+accumulation of evidence, especially
+when there is some one constantly at hand to
+interpret its teachings, almost any set of opinions,
+however fixed, may be shaken. So here.</p>
+
+<p>Once when we shut up the farm for the
+winter I left my fountain pen behind. This
+was little short of a tragedy, but I comforted
+myself with the knowledge that Jonathan
+was going back that week-end for a day&rsquo;s
+hunt.</p>
+
+<p><q>Be sure to get the pen first of all,</q> I said,
+<q>and put it in your pocket.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Where is it?</q> he asked.</p>
+
+<p><q>In the little medicine cupboard over the
+<pb n="018"/><anchor id="Pg018"/>
+fireplace in the orchard room, standing up at
+the side of the first shelf.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why not on your desk?</q> he asked.</p>
+
+<p><q>Because I was writing tags in there, and
+set it up so it would be out of the way.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And it <hi rend="font-style: italic">was</hi>
+out of the way. All right. I&rsquo;ll
+collect it.</q></p>
+
+<p>He went, and on his return I met him with
+eager hand&mdash;<q>My pen!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;m sorry,</q> he began.</p>
+
+<p><q>You didn&rsquo;t forget!</q> I exclaimed.</p>
+
+<p><q>No. But it wasn&rsquo;t there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But&mdash;did you look?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I looked.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thoroughly?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes. I lit three matches.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Matches! Then you didn&rsquo;t get it when
+you first got there!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why&mdash;no&mdash;I had the dog to attend
+to&mdash;and&mdash;but I had plenty of time when I
+got back, and it <hi rend="font-style: italic">wasn&rsquo;t</hi>
+there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;Dear me! Did you look anywhere
+else? I suppose I may be mistaken.
+Perhaps I did take it back to the desk.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That&rsquo;s just what I thought myself,</q> said
+Jonathan. <q>So I went there, and looked, and
+<pb n="019"/><anchor id="Pg019"/>
+then I looked on all the mantelpieces and
+your bureau. You must have put it in your
+bag the last minute&mdash;bet it&rsquo;s there now!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bet it isn&rsquo;t.</q></p>
+
+<p>It wasn&rsquo;t. For two weeks more I was
+driven to using other pens&mdash;strange and distracting
+to the fingers and the eyes and the
+mind. Then Jonathan was to go up again.</p>
+
+<p><q>Please look once more,</q> I begged, <q>and
+don&rsquo;t expect not to see it. I can fairly see it
+myself, this minute, standing up there on the
+right-hand side, just behind the machine oil
+can.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, I&rsquo;ll look,</q> he promised. <q>If
+it&rsquo;s there, I&rsquo;ll find it.</q></p>
+
+<p>He returned penless. I considered buying
+another. But we were planning to go up together
+the last week of the hunting season,
+and I thought I would wait on the chance.</p>
+
+<p>We got off at the little station and hunted
+our way up, making great sweeps and jogs, as
+hunters must, to take in certain spots we
+thought promising&mdash;certain ravines and
+swamp edges where we are always sure of
+hearing the thunderous whir of partridge
+wings, or the soft, shrill whistle of woodcock.
+<pb n="020"/><anchor id="Pg020"/>
+At noon we broiled chops and rested in the
+lee of the wood edge, where, even in the late
+fall, one can usually find spots that are warm
+and still. It was dusk by the time we came
+over the crest of the farm ledges and saw the
+huddle of the home buildings below us, and
+quite dark when we reached the house. Fires
+had been made and coals smouldered on the
+hearth in the sitting-room.</p>
+
+<p><q>You light the lamp,</q> I said, <q>and I&rsquo;ll
+just take a match and go through to see if
+that pen <hi rend="font-style: italic">should</hi>
+happen to be there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No use doing anything to-night,</q> said
+Jonathan. <q>To-morrow morning you can
+have a thorough hunt.</q></p>
+
+<p>But I took my match, felt my way into the
+next room, past the fireplace, up to the cupboard,
+then struck my match. In its first
+flare-up I glanced in. Then I chuckled.</p>
+
+<p>Jonathan had gone out to the dining-room,
+but he has perfectly good ears.</p>
+
+<p><q>NO!</q> he roared, and his tone of dismay,
+incredulity, rage, sent me off into gales of
+unscrupulous laughter. He was striding in,
+candle in hand, shouting, <q>It was
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">not there!</hi></q></p>
+
+<p><q>Look yourself,</q> I managed to gasp.</p>
+<pb n="021"/><anchor id="Pg021"/>
+
+<p>This time, somehow, he could see it.</p>
+
+<p><q>You planted it! You brought it up and
+planted it!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I never! Oh, dear me! It pays for going
+without it for weeks!</q></p>
+
+<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">Nothing</hi>
+will ever make me believe that
+that pen was standing there when I looked
+for it!</q> said Jonathan, with vehement finality.</p>
+
+<p><q>All right,</q> I sighed happily. <q>You don&rsquo;t
+have to believe it.</q></p>
+
+<p>But in his heart perhaps he does believe it.
+At any rate, since that time he has adopted a
+new formula: <q>My dear, it may be there, of
+course, but I don&rsquo;t see it.</q> And this position
+I regard as unassailable.</p>
+
+<p>One triumph he has had. I wanted something
+that was stored away in the shut-up
+town house.</p>
+
+<p><q>Do you suppose you could find it?</q> I said,
+as gently as possible.</p>
+
+<p><q>I can try,</q> he said.</p>
+
+<p><q>I think it is in a box about this shape&mdash;see?&mdash;a
+gray box, in the attic closet, the
+farthest-in corner.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Are you sure it&rsquo;s in the house? If it&rsquo;s in
+the house, I think I can find it.</q></p>
+<pb n="022"/><anchor id="Pg022"/>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I&rsquo;m sure of that.</q></p>
+
+<p>When he returned that night, his face wore
+a look of satisfaction very imperfectly concealed
+beneath a mask of nonchalance.</p>
+
+<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">Good</hi> for you!
+Was it where I said?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Was it in a different corner?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Where was it?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It wasn&rsquo;t in a corner at all. It wasn&rsquo;t in
+that closet.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It wasn&rsquo;t! Where, then?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Downstairs in the hall closet.</q> He paused,
+then could not forbear adding, <q>And it wasn&rsquo;t
+in a gray box; it was in a big hat-box with
+violets all over it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why, <hi rend="font-style: italic">Jonathan!</hi>
+Aren&rsquo;t you grand! How
+did you ever find it? I couldn&rsquo;t have done
+better myself.</q></p>
+
+<p>Under such praise he expanded. <q>The
+fact is,</q> he said confidentially, <q>I had given
+it up. And then suddenly I changed my
+mind. I said to myself, <q>Jonathan, don&rsquo;t
+be a man! Think what she&rsquo;d do if she
+were here now.</q> And then I got busy and
+found it.</q></p>
+<pb n="023"/><anchor id="Pg023"/>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan!</q> I could almost have wept if
+I had not been laughing.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well,</q> he said, proud, yet rather sheepish,
+<q>what is there so funny about that? I gave
+up half a day to it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Funny! It isn&rsquo;t funny&mdash;exactly. You
+don&rsquo;t mind my laughing a little? Why, you&rsquo;ve
+lived down the fountain pen&mdash;we&rsquo;ll forget
+the pen&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, no, you won&rsquo;t forget the pen either,</q>
+he said, with a certain pleasant grimness.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well, perhaps not&mdash;of course it would
+be a pity to forget that. Suppose I say, then,
+that we&rsquo;ll always regard the pen in the light
+of the violet hat-box?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I think that might do.</q> Then he had an
+alarming afterthought. <q>But, see here&mdash;you
+won&rsquo;t expect me to do things like that often?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Dear me, no! People can&rsquo;t live always on
+their highest levels. Perhaps you&rsquo;ll
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">never</hi>
+do it again.</q> Jonathan looked distinctly relieved.
+<q>I&rsquo;ll accept it as a unique effort&mdash;like
+Dante&rsquo;s angel and Raphael&rsquo;s sonnet.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan,</q> I said that evening, <q>what
+do you know about St. Anthony of Padua?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not much.</q></p>
+<pb n="024"/><anchor id="Pg024"/>
+
+<p><q>Well, you ought to. He helped you to-day.
+He&rsquo;s the saint who helps people to find lost
+articles. Every man ought to take him as
+a patron saint.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And do you know which saint it is who
+helps people to find lost virtues&mdash;like humility,
+for instance?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No. I don&rsquo;t, really.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I didn&rsquo;t suppose you did,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="chapter02">
+<pb n="025"/><anchor id="Pg025"/>
+<index index="toc" level1="II. Sap-Time"/>
+<index index="pdf" level1="II. Sap-Time"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">II</head>
+<head type="sub">Sap-Time</head>
+
+<p>It was a little tree-toad that began it. In a
+careless moment he had come down to the
+bench that connects the big maple tree with
+the old locust stump, and when I went out at
+dusk to wait for Jonathan, there he sat, in
+plain sight. A few experimental pokes sent
+him back to the tree, and I studied him there,
+marveling at the way he assimilated with its
+bark. As Jonathan came across the grass I
+called softly, and pointed to the tree.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well?</q> he said.</p>
+
+<p><q>Don&rsquo;t you see?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No. What?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Look&mdash;I thought you had eyes!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, what a little beauty!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And isn&rsquo;t his back just like bark and
+lichens! And what are those things in the tree
+beside him?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Plugs, I suppose.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Plugs?</q></p>
+<pb n="026"/><anchor id="Pg026"/>
+
+<p><q>Yes. After tapping. Uncle Ben used to
+tap these trees, I believe.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You mean for sap? Maple syrup?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan! I didn&rsquo;t know these were
+sugar maples.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, yes. These on the road.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The whole row? Why, there are ten or
+fifteen of them! And you never told me!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I thought you knew.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Knew! I don&rsquo;t know anything&mdash;I should
+think you&rsquo;d know that, by this time. Do you
+suppose, if I had known, I should have let all
+these years go by&mdash;oh, dear&mdash;think of all
+the fun we&rsquo;ve missed! And syrup!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You&rsquo;d have to come up in February.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, then, I&rsquo;ll
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">come</hi> in February. Who&rsquo;s
+afraid of February?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>All right. Try it next year.</q></p>
+
+<p>I did. But not in February. Things happened,
+as things do, and it was early April before
+I got to the farm. But it had been a
+wintry March, and the farmers told me that
+the sap had not been running except for a few
+days in a February thaw. Anyway, it was
+worth trying.</p>
+<pb n="027"/><anchor id="Pg027"/>
+
+<p>Jonathan could not come with me. He was
+to join me later. But Hiram found a bundle
+of elder spouts in the attic, and with these
+and an auger we went out along the snowy,
+muddy road. The hole was bored&mdash;a pair
+of them&mdash;in the first tree, and the spouts
+driven in. I knelt, watching&mdash;in fact, peering
+up the spout-hole to see what might happen.
+Suddenly a drop, dim with sawdust, appeared&mdash;gathered,
+hesitated, then ran down
+gayly and leapt off the end.</p>
+
+<p><q>Look! Hiram! It&rsquo;s running!</q> I called.</p>
+
+<p>Hiram, boring the next tree, made no response.
+He evidently expected it to run.
+Jonathan would have acted just like that, too,
+I felt sure. Is it a masculine quality, I wonder,
+to be unmoved when the theoretically expected
+becomes actual? Or is it that some
+temperaments have naturally a certain large
+confidence in the sway of law, and refuse to
+wonder at its individual workings? To me the
+individual workings give an ever fresh thrill
+because they bring a new realization of the
+mighty powers behind them. It seems to depend
+on which end you begin at.</p>
+
+<p>But though the little drops thrilled me, I
+<pb n="028"/><anchor id="Pg028"/>
+was not beyond setting a pail underneath to
+catch them. And as Hiram went on boring, I
+followed with my pails. Pails, did I say?
+Pails by courtesy. There were, indeed, a few
+real pails&mdash;berry-pails, lard-pails, and water-pails&mdash;but
+for the most part the sap fell into
+pitchers, or tin saucepans, stew-kettles of
+aluminum or agate ware, blue and gray and
+white and mottled, or big yellow earthenware
+bowls. It was a strange collection of receptacles
+that lined the roadside when we had
+finished our progress. As I looked along the
+row, I laughed, and even Hiram smiled.</p>
+
+<p>But what next? Every utensil in the house
+was out there, sitting in the road. There was
+nothing left but the wash-boiler. Now, I had
+heard tales of amateur syrup-boilings, and I
+felt that the wash-boiler would not do. Besides,
+I meant to work outdoors&mdash;no kitchen
+stove for me! I must have a pan, a big, flat
+pan. I flew to the telephone, and called up
+the village plumber, three miles away. Could
+he build me a pan? Oh, say, two feet by three
+feet, and five inches high&mdash;yes, right away.
+Yes, Hiram would call for it in the afternoon.</p>
+
+<p>I felt better. And now for a fireplace! Oh,
+<pb n="029"/><anchor id="Pg029"/>
+Jonathan! Why did you have to be away!
+For Jonathan loves a stone and knows how
+to put stones together, as witness the stone
+<q>Eyrie</q> and the stile in the lane. However,
+there Jonathan wasn&rsquo;t. So I went out into
+the swampy orchard behind the house and
+looked about&mdash;no lack of stones, at any rate.
+I began to collect material, and Hiram, seeing
+my purpose, helped with the big stones.
+Somehow my fireplace got made&mdash;two side
+walls, one end wall, the other end left open
+for stoking. It was not as pretty as if Jonathan
+had done it, but <q>&rsquo;t was enough, &rsquo;t would
+serve.</q> I collected fire-wood, and there I was,
+ready for my pan, and the afternoon was yet
+young, and the sap was drip-drip-dripping
+from all the spouts. I could begin to boil next
+day. I felt that I was being borne along on
+the providential wave that so often floats the
+inexperienced to success.</p>
+
+<p>That night I emptied all my vessels into
+the boiler and set them out once more. A
+neighbor drove by and pulled up to comment
+benevolently on my work.</p>
+
+<p><q>Will it run to-night?</q> I asked him.</p>
+
+<p><q>No&mdash;no&mdash;&rsquo;t won&rsquo;t run to-night. Too
+<pb n="030"/><anchor id="Pg030"/>
+cold. &rsquo;T won&rsquo;t run any to-night. You can
+sleep all right.</q></p>
+
+<p>This was pleasant to hear. There was a
+moon, to be sure, but it was growing colder,
+and at the idea of crawling along that road in
+the middle of the night even my enthusiasm
+shivered a little.</p>
+
+<p>So I made my rounds at nine, in the white
+moonlight, and went to sleep.</p>
+
+<p>I was awakened the next morning to a consciousness
+of flooding sunshine and Hiram&rsquo;s
+voice outside my window.</p>
+
+<p><q>Got anything I can empty sap into? I&rsquo;ve
+got everything all filled up.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Sap! Why, it isn&rsquo;t running yet, is it?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Pails were flowin&rsquo; over when I came out.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Flowing over! They said the sap wouldn&rsquo;t
+run last night.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I guest there don&rsquo;t nobody know when
+sap&rsquo;ll run and when it won&rsquo;t,</q> said Hiram
+peacefully, as he tramped off to the barn.</p>
+
+<p>In a few minutes I was outdoors. Sure
+enough, Hiram had everything full&mdash;old
+boilers, feed-pails, water-pails. But we found
+some three-gallon milk-cans and used them.
+A farm is like a city. There are always things
+<pb n="031"/><anchor id="Pg031"/>
+enough in it for all purposes. It is only a
+question of using its resources.</p>
+
+<p>Then, in the clear April sunshine, I went
+out and surveyed the row of maples. How
+they did drip! Some of them almost ran. I
+felt as if I had turned on the faucets of the
+universe and didn&rsquo;t know how to turn them
+off again.</p>
+
+<p>However, there was my new pan. I set it
+over my oven walls and began to pour in sap.
+Hiram helped me. He seemed to think he
+needed his feed-pails. We poured in sap and
+we poured in sap. Never did I see anything
+hold so much as that pan. Even Hiram was
+stirred out of his usual calm to remark, <q>It
+beats all, how much that holds.</q> Of course
+Jonathan would have had its capacity all calculated
+the day before, but my methods are
+empirical, and so I was surprised as well as
+pleased when all my receptacles emptied
+themselves into its shallow breadths and still
+there was a good inch to allow for boiling up.
+Yes, Providence&mdash;my exclusive little fool&rsquo;s
+Providence&mdash;was with me. The pan, and
+the oven, were a success, and when Jonathan
+came that night I led him out with unconcealed
+<pb n="032"/><anchor id="Pg032"/>
+pride and showed him the pan&mdash;now
+a heaving, frothing mass of sap-about-to-be-syrup,
+sending clouds of white steam down
+the wind. As he looked at the oven walls,
+I fancied his fingers ached to get at them,
+but he offered no criticism, seeing that they
+worked.</p>
+
+<p>The next day began overcast, but Providence
+was merely preparing for me a special
+little gift in the form of a miniature snowstorm.
+It was quite real while it lasted. It
+whitened the grass and the road, it piled itself
+softly among the clusters of swelling buds on
+the apple trees, and made the orchard look as
+though it had burst into bloom in an hour.
+Then the sun came out, there were a few
+dazzling moments when the world was all
+blue and silver, and then the whiteness faded.</p>
+
+<p>And the sap! How it dripped! Once an
+hour I had to make the rounds, bringing back
+gallons each time, and the fire under my pan
+was kept up so that the boiling down might
+keep pace with the new supply.</p>
+
+<p><q>They do say snow makes it run,</q> shouted
+a passer-by, and another called, <q>You want
+to keep skimmin&rsquo;!</q> Whereupon I seized my
+<pb n="033"/><anchor id="Pg033"/>
+long-handled skimmer and fell to work.
+Southern Connecticut does not know much
+about syrup, but by the avenue of the road I
+was gradually accumulating such wisdom as
+it possessed.</p>
+
+<p>The syrup was made. No worse accident
+befell than the occasional overflowing of a
+pail too long neglected. The syrup was made,
+and bottled, and distributed to friends, and
+was the pride of the household through the
+year.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p><q>This time I will go early,</q> I said to Jonathan;
+<q>they say the late running is never
+quite so good.</q></p>
+
+<p>It was early March when I got up there
+this time&mdash;early March after a winter whose
+rigor had known practically no break. Again
+Jonathan could not come, but Cousin Janet
+could, and we met at the little station, where
+Hiram was waiting with Kit and the surrey.
+The sun was warm, but the air was keen and
+the woods hardly showed spring at all yet,
+even in that first token of it, the slight thickening
+of their millions of little tips, through
+the swelling of the buds. The city trees already
+<pb n="034"/><anchor id="Pg034"/>
+showed this, but the country ones still
+kept their wintry penciling of vanishing lines.</p>
+
+<p>Spring was in the road, however. <q>There
+ain&rsquo;t no bottom to this road now, it&rsquo;s just
+dropped clean out,</q> remarked a fellow teamster
+as we wallowed along companionably
+through the woods. But, somehow, we
+reached the farm. Again we bored our holes,
+and again I was thrilled as the first bright
+drops slipped out and jeweled the ends of the
+spouts. I watched Janet. She was interested
+but calm, classing herself at once with Hiram
+and Jonathan. We unearthed last year&rsquo;s
+oven and dug out its inner depths&mdash;leaves
+and dirt and apples and ashes&mdash;it was like
+excavating through the seven Troys to get to
+bottom. We brought down the big pan, now
+clothed in the honors of a season&rsquo;s use, and
+cleaned off the cobwebs incident to a year&rsquo;s
+sojourn in the attic. By sunset we had a panful
+of sap boiling merrily and already taking
+on a distinctly golden tinge. We tasted it. It
+was very syrupy. Letting the fire die down,
+we went in to get supper in the utmost content
+of spirit.</p>
+
+<p><q>It&rsquo;s so much simpler than last year,</q> I
+<pb n="035"/><anchor id="Pg035"/>
+said, as we sat over our cozy <q>tea,</q>&mdash;<q>having
+the pan and the oven ready-made, and
+all&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You don&rsquo;t suppose anything could happen
+to it while we&rsquo;re in here?</q> suggested
+Janet. <q>Shan&rsquo;t I just run out and see?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No, sit still. What could happen? The
+fire&rsquo;s going out.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I know.</q> But her voice was uncertain.</p>
+
+<p><q>You see, I&rsquo;ve been all through it once,</q> I
+reassured her.</p>
+
+<p>As we rose, Janet said, <q>Let&rsquo;s go out before
+we do the dishes.</q> And to humor her I agreed.
+We lighted the lantern and stepped out on the
+back porch. It was quite dark, and as we
+looked off toward the fireplace we saw gleams
+of red.</p>
+
+<p><q>How funny!</q> I murmured. <q>I didn&rsquo;t
+think there was so much fire left.</q></p>
+
+<p>We felt our way over, through the yielding
+mud of the orchard, and as I raised the lantern
+we stared in dazed astonishment. The pan
+was a blackened mass, lit up by winking red
+eyes of fire. I held the lantern more closely.
+I seized a stick and poked&mdash;the crisp black
+<pb n="036"/><anchor id="Pg036"/>
+stuff broke and crumbled into an empty and
+blackening pan. A curious odor arose.</p>
+
+<p><q>It couldn&rsquo;t have!</q> gasped Janet.</p>
+
+<p><q>It couldn&rsquo;t&mdash;but it has!</q> I said.</p>
+
+<p>It was a matter for tears, or rage, or
+laughter. And laughter won. When we recovered
+a little we took up the black shell of
+carbon that had once been syrup-froth; we
+laid it gently beside the oven, for a keepsake.
+Then we poured water in the pan, and steam
+rose hissing to the stars.</p>
+
+<p><q>Does it leak?</q> faltered Janet.</p>
+
+<p><q>Leak!</q> I said. I was on my knees now,
+watching the water stream through the
+parted seam of the pan bottom, down into the
+ashes below.</p>
+
+<p><q>The question is,</q> I went on as I got up,
+<q>did it boil away because it leaked, or did it
+leak because it boiled away?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I don&rsquo;t see that it matters much,</q> said
+Janet. She was showing symptoms of depression
+at this point.</p>
+
+<p><q>It matters a great deal,</q> I said. <q>Because,
+you see, we&rsquo;ve got to tell Jonathan,
+and it makes all the difference how we put
+it.</q></p>
+<pb n="037"/><anchor id="Pg037"/>
+
+<p><q>I see,</q> said Janet; then she added, experimentally,
+<q>Why tell Jonathan?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why, Janet, you know better! I wouldn&rsquo;t
+miss telling Jonathan for anything. What is
+Jonathan <hi rend="font-style: italic">for!</hi></q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;of course,</q> she conceded. <q>Let&rsquo;s
+do dishes.</q></p>
+
+<p>We sat before the fire that evening and I
+read while Janet knitted. Between my eyes
+and the printed page there kept rising a vision&mdash;a
+vision of black crust, with winking red
+embers smoldering along its broken edges. I
+found it distracting in the extreme.&hellip;</p>
+
+<p>At some time unknown, out of the blind
+depths of the night, I was awakened by a
+voice:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><q>It&rsquo;s beginning to rain. I think I&rsquo;ll just
+go out and empty what&rsquo;s near the house.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Janet!</q> I murmured, <q>don&rsquo;t be absurd.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But it will dilute all that sap.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>There isn&rsquo;t any sap to dilute. It won&rsquo;t
+be running at night.</q> After a while the voice,
+full of propitiatory intonations, resumed:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><q>My dear, you don&rsquo;t mind if I slip out. It
+will only take a minute.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I do mind. Go to sleep!</q></p>
+<pb n="038"/><anchor id="Pg038"/>
+
+<p>Silence. Then:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><q>It&rsquo;s raining harder. I hate to think of all
+that sap&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You don&rsquo;t <hi rend="font-style: italic">have</hi>
+to think!</q> I was quite
+savage. <q>Just go to sleep&mdash;and let me!</q>
+Another silence. Then a fresh downpour.
+The voice was pleading:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">Please</hi>
+let me go! I&rsquo;ll be back in a minute.
+And it&rsquo;s not cold.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, well&mdash;I&rsquo;m awake now, anyway.
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">I&rsquo;ll</hi>
+go.</q> My voice was tinged with that high
+resignation that is worse than anger. Janet&rsquo;s
+tone changed instantly:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><q>No, no! Don&rsquo;t! Please don&rsquo;t! I&rsquo;m going.
+I truly don&rsquo;t mind.</q></p>
+
+<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">I&rsquo;m</hi>
+going. I don&rsquo;t mind, either, not at all.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, dear! Then let&rsquo;s not either of us go.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That was my idea in the first place.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, then, we won&rsquo;t. Go to sleep, and I
+will too.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not at all! I&rsquo;ve decided to go.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But it&rsquo;s stopped raining. Probably it
+won&rsquo;t rain any more.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Then what are you making all this fuss
+for?</q></p>
+<pb n="039"/><anchor id="Pg039"/>
+
+<p><q>I didn&rsquo;t make a fuss. I just thought I
+could slip out&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, you couldn&rsquo;t. And it&rsquo;s raining very
+hard again. And I&rsquo;m going.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, don&rsquo;t! You&rsquo;ll get drenched.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Of course. But I can&rsquo;t bear to have all
+that sap diluted.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It doesn&rsquo;t run at night. You said it
+didn&rsquo;t.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You said it did.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But I don&rsquo;t really know. You know best.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why didn&rsquo;t you think of that sooner?
+Anyway, I&rsquo;m going.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, dear! You make me feel as if I&rsquo;d
+stirred you up&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You have,</q> I interrupted, sweetly. <q>I
+won&rsquo;t deny that you
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">have</hi> stirred me up. But
+now that you have mentioned it</q>&mdash;I felt
+for a match&mdash;<q>now that you have mentioned
+it, I see that this was the one thing
+needed to make my evening complete, or
+perhaps it&rsquo;s morning&mdash;I don&rsquo;t know.</q></p>
+
+<p>We found the dining-room warm, and soon
+we were equipped in those curious compromises
+of vesture that people adopt under such
+circumstances, and, with lantern and umbrella,
+<pb n="040"/><anchor id="Pg040"/>
+we fumbled our way out to the trees.
+The rain was driving in sheets, and we
+plodded up the road in the yellow circle of
+lantern-light wavering uncertainly over the
+puddles, while under our feet the mud gave
+and sucked.</p>
+
+<p><q>It&rsquo;s diluted, sure enough,</q> I said, as we
+emptied the pails. We crawled slowly back,
+with our heavy milk-can full of sap-and-rain-water,
+and went in.</p>
+
+<p>The warm dining-room was pleasant to return
+to, and we sat down to cookies and milk,
+feeling almost cozy.</p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;ve always wanted to know how it would
+be to go out in the middle of the night this
+way,</q> I remarked, <q>and now I know.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Aren&rsquo;t you hateful!</q> said Janet.</p>
+
+<p><q>Not at all. Just appreciative. But now,
+if you haven&rsquo;t any
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">other</hi> plan, we&rsquo;ll go back
+to bed.</q></p>
+
+<p>It was half-past eight when we waked next
+morning. But there was nothing to wake up
+for. The old house was filled with the rain-noises
+that only such an old house knows.
+On the little windows the drops pricked
+sharply; in the fireplace with the straight flue
+<pb n="041"/><anchor id="Pg041"/>
+they fell, hissing, on the embers. On the
+porch roofs the rain made a dull patter of
+sound; on the tin roof of the <q>little attic</q>
+over the kitchen it beat with flat resonance.
+In the big attic, when we went up to see if all
+was tight, it filled the place with a multitudinous
+clamor; on the sides of the house it drove
+with a fury that re-echoed dimly within doors.</p>
+
+<p>Outside, everything was afloat. We visited
+the trees and viewed with consternation the
+torrents of rain-water pouring into the pails.
+We tried fastening pans over the spouts to
+protect them. The wind blew them merrily
+down the road. It would have been easy
+enough to cover the pails, but how to let the
+sap drip in and the rain drip out&mdash;that was
+the question.</p>
+
+<p><q>It seems as if there was a curse on the
+syrup this year,</q> said Janet.</p>
+
+<p><q>The trouble is,</q> I said, <q>I know just
+enough to have lost my hold on the fool&rsquo;s
+Providence, and not enough really to take
+care of myself.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Superstition!</q> said Janet.</p>
+
+<p><q>What do you call your idea of the curse?</q>
+I retorted. <q>Anyway, I have an idea! Look,
+<pb n="042"/><anchor id="Pg042"/>
+Janet! We&rsquo;ll just cut up these enamel-cloth
+table-covers here by the sink and everywhere,
+and tack them around the spouts.</q></p>
+
+<p>Janet&rsquo;s thrifty spirit was doubtful. <q>Don&rsquo;t
+you need them?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not half so much as the trees do. Come
+on! Pull them off. We&rsquo;ll have to have fresh
+ones this summer, anyway.</q></p>
+
+<p>We stripped the kitchen tables and the
+pantry and the milk-room. We got tacks and
+a hammer and scissors, and out we went again.
+We cut a piece for each tree, just enough to
+go over each pair of spouts and protect the
+pail. When tacked on, it had the appearance
+of a neat bib, and as the pattern was a blue
+and white check, the effect, as one looked
+down the road at the twelve trees, was very
+fresh and pleasing. It seemed to cheer the
+people who drove by, too.</p>
+
+<p>But the bibs served their purpose, and the
+sap dripped cozily into the pails without any
+distraction from alien elements. Sap doesn&rsquo;t
+run in the rain, they say, but this sap did.
+Probably Hiram was right, and you can&rsquo;t tell.
+I am glad if you can&rsquo;t. The physical mysteries
+of the universe are being unveiled so
+<pb n="043"/><anchor id="Pg043"/>
+swiftly that one likes to find something that
+still keeps its secret&mdash;though, indeed, the
+spiritual mysteries seem in no danger of such
+enforcement.</p>
+
+<p>The next day the rain stopped, the floods
+began to subside, and Jonathan managed to
+arrive, though the roads had even less <q>bottom
+to &rsquo;em</q> than before. The sun blazed out,
+and the sap ran faster, and, after Jonathan
+had fully enjoyed them, the blue and white
+bibs were taken off. Somehow in the clear
+March sunshine they looked almost shocking.
+By the next day we had syrup enough to try
+for sugar.</p>
+
+<p>For on sugar my heart was set. Syrup was
+all very well for the first year, but now it
+had to be sugar. Moreover, as I explained to
+Janet, when it came to sugar, being absolutely
+ignorant, I was again in a position to expect
+the aid of the fool&rsquo;s Providence.</p>
+
+<p><q>How much <hi rend="font-style: italic">do</hi>
+you know about it?</q> asked Janet.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, just what people say. It seems to be
+partly like fudge and partly like molasses
+candy. You boil it, and then you beat it, and
+then you pour it off.</q></p>
+<pb n="044"/><anchor id="Pg044"/>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;ve got more to go on than that,</q> said
+Jonathan. <q>I came up on the train with the
+Judge. He used to see it done.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You&rsquo;ve got to drive Janet over to her
+train to-night; Hiram can&rsquo;t,</q> I said.</p>
+
+<p><q>All right. There&rsquo;s time enough.</q></p>
+
+<p>We sat down to early supper, and took
+turns running out to the kitchen to <q>try</q>
+the syrup as it boiled down. At least we said
+we would take turns, but usually we all three
+went. Supper seemed distinctly a side issue.</p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;m going to take it off now,</q> said Jonathan.
+<q>Look out!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Do you think it&rsquo;s time?</q> I demurred.</p>
+
+<p><q>We&rsquo;ll know soon,</q> said Jonathan, with
+his usual composure.</p>
+
+<p>We hung over him. <q>Now you beat it,</q> I
+said. But he was already beating.</p>
+
+<p><q>Get some cold water to set it in,</q> he commanded.
+We brought the dishpan with water
+from the well, where ice still floated.</p>
+
+<p><q>Maybe you oughtn&rsquo;t to stir so much&mdash;do
+you think?</q> I suggested, helpfully. <q>Beat
+it more&mdash;up, you know.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>More the way you would eggs,</q> said
+Janet.</p>
+<pb n="045"/><anchor id="Pg045"/>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;ll show you.</q> I lunged at the spoon.</p>
+
+<p><q>Go away! This isn&rsquo;t eggs,</q> said Jonathan,
+beating steadily.</p>
+
+<p><q>Your arm must be tired. Let me take it,</q>
+pleaded Janet.</p>
+
+<p><q>No, me!</q> I said. <q>Janet, you&rsquo;ve got to
+get your coat and things. You&rsquo;ll have to start
+in fifteen minutes. Here, Jonathan, you need
+a fresh arm.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;m fresh enough.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And I really don&rsquo;t think you have the
+motion.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I have motion enough. This is my job.
+You go and help Janet.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Janet&rsquo;s all right.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>So am I. See how white it&rsquo;s getting. The
+Judge said&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Here come Hiram and Kit,</q> announced
+Janet, returning with bag and wraps. <q>But
+you have ten minutes. Can&rsquo;t I help?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He won&rsquo;t let us. He&rsquo;s that
+&lsquo;sot,&rsquo;</q> I murmured. <q>He&rsquo;ll
+make you miss your train.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You <hi rend="font-style: italic">could</hi>
+butter the pans,</q> he counter charged,
+<q>and you haven&rsquo;t.</q></p>
+
+<p>We flew to prepare, and the pouring began.
+<pb n="046"/><anchor id="Pg046"/>
+It was a thrilling moment. The syrup, or
+sugar, now a pale hay color, poured out
+thickly, blob-blob-blob, into the little pans.
+Janet moved them up as they were needed,
+and I snatched the spoon, at last, and encouraged
+the stuff to fall where it should. But
+Jonathan got it from me again, and scraped
+out the remnant, making designs of clovers
+and polliwogs on the tops of the cakes. Then
+a dash for coats and hats and a rush to the
+carriage.</p>
+
+<p>When the surrey disappeared around the
+turn of the road, I went back, shivering, to
+the house. It seemed very empty, as houses
+will, being sensitive things. I went to the
+kitchen. There on the table sat a huddle of
+little pans, to cheer me, and I fell to work
+getting things in order to be left in the morning.
+Then I went back to the fire and waited
+for Jonathan. I picked up a book and tried
+to read, but the stillness of the house was
+too importunate, it had to be listened to. I
+leaned back and watched the fire, and the old
+house and I held communion together.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps in no other way is it possible to get
+quite what I got that evening. It was partly
+<pb n="047"/><anchor id="Pg047"/>
+my own attitude; I was going away in the
+morning, and I had, in a sense, no duties
+toward the place. The magazines of last fall
+lay on the tables, the newspapers of last fall
+lay beside them. The dust of last fall was,
+doubtless, in the closets and on the floors. It
+did not matter. For though I was the mistress
+of the house, I was for the moment even more
+its guest, and guests do not concern themselves
+with such things as these.</p>
+
+<p>If it had been really an empty house, I
+should have been obliged to think of these
+things, for in an empty house the dust speaks
+and the house is still, dumbly imprisoned in
+its own past. On the other hand, when a
+house is filled with life, it is still, too; it is
+absorbed in its own present. But when one
+sojourns in a house that is merely resting, full
+of the life that has only for a brief season left
+it, ready for the life that is soon to return&mdash;then
+one is in the midst of silences that are
+not empty and hollow, but richly eloquent.
+The house is the link that joins and interprets
+the living past and the living future.</p>
+
+<p>Something of this I came to feel as I sat
+there in the wonderful stillness. There were
+<pb n="048"/><anchor id="Pg048"/>
+no house noises such as generally form the
+unnoticed background of one&rsquo;s consciousness&mdash;the
+steps overhead, the distant voices, the
+ticking of the clock, the breathing of the dog
+in the corner. Even the mice and the chimney-swallows
+had not come back, and I missed the
+scurrying in the walls and the flutter of wings
+in the chimney. The fire purred low, now and
+then the wind sighed gently about the corner
+of the <q>new part,</q> and a loose door-latch
+clicked as the draught shook it. A branch
+drew back and forth across a window-pane
+with the faintest squeak. And little by little
+the old house opened its heart. All that it
+told me I hardly yet know myself. It gathered
+up for me all its past, the past that I had
+known and the past that I had not known.
+Time fell away. My own importance dwindled.
+I seemed a very small part of the life
+of the house&mdash;very small, yet wholly belonging
+to it. I felt that it absorbed me as it
+absorbed the rest&mdash;those before and after
+me&mdash;for time was not.</p>
+
+<p>There was the sound of slow wheels outside,
+the long roll of the carriage-house door,
+and the trampling of hoofs on the flooring
+<pb n="049"/><anchor id="Pg049"/>
+within. Then the clinking of the lantern and
+the even tread of feet on the path behind the
+house, a gust of raw snow-air&mdash;and the house
+fell silent so that Jonathan might come in.</p>
+
+<p><q>Your sugar is hardening nicely, I see,</q>
+he said, rubbing his hands before the fire.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes,</q> I said. <q>You know I
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">told</hi> Janet
+that for this part of the affair we could trust
+to the fool&rsquo;s Providence.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Thank you,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="chapter03">
+<pb n="050"/><anchor id="Pg050"/>
+<index index="toc" level1="III. Evenings on the Farm"/>
+<index index="pdf" level1="III. Evenings on the Farm"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">III</head>
+<head type="sub">Evenings on the Farm</head>
+
+<epigraph>
+  <cit>
+    <quote rend="pre: none; post: none">
+      <lg>
+        <l>I&rsquo;m going out to clean the pasture spring;</l>
+        <l>I&rsquo;ll only stop to rake the leaves away</l>
+        <l>(And wait to watch the water clear, I may);</l>
+        <l>I shan&rsquo;t be gone long.&mdash;You come too.</l>
+        <l>&nbsp;</l>
+        <l>I&rsquo;m going out to fetch the little calf</l>
+        <l>That&rsquo;s standing by the mother. It&rsquo;s so young,</l>
+        <l>It totters when she licks it with her tongue.</l>
+        <l>I shan&rsquo;t be gone long.&mdash;You come too.</l>
+      </lg>
+      <bibl>
+        <author><hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">Robert Frost</hi></author>.
+      </bibl>
+    </quote>
+  </cit>
+</epigraph>
+
+<p>When we first planned to take up the farm
+we looked forward with especial pleasure to
+our evenings. They were to be the quiet
+rounding-in of our days, full of companionship,
+full of meditation. <q>We&rsquo;ll do lots of
+reading aloud,</q> I said. <q>And we&rsquo;ll have long
+walks. There won&rsquo;t be much to do
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">but</hi> walk
+and read. I can hardly wait.</q> And I chose
+our summer books with special reference to
+reading aloud.</p>
+
+<p><q>Of course,</q> I said, as we fell to work at
+our packing, <q>we&rsquo;ll have to do all sorts of
+things first. But the days are so long up there,
+and the life is very simple. And in the evenings
+<pb n="051"/><anchor id="Pg051"/>
+you&rsquo;ll help. We ought to be settled in a
+week.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Or two&mdash;or three,</q> suggested Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Three! What is there to do?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Farm-life isn&rsquo;t so blamed simple as you
+think.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But what <hi rend="font-style: italic">is</hi>
+there to do? Now, listen!
+One day for trunks, one day for boxes and
+barrels, one day for closets, that&rsquo;s three, one
+for curtains, four, one day for&mdash;for the garret,
+that&rsquo;s five. Well&mdash;one day for odds and
+ends that I haven&rsquo;t thought of. That&rsquo;s
+liberal, I&rsquo;m sure.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Better say the rest of your life for the
+odds and ends you haven&rsquo;t thought of,</q> said
+Jonathan, as he drove the last nail in a neatly
+headed barrel.</p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan, why are you such a pessimist?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;m not, except when you&rsquo;re such an
+optimist.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>If I&rsquo;d begun by saying it would take a
+month, would you have said a week?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Can&rsquo;t tell. Might have.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Anyway, there&rsquo;s nothing bad about odds
+and ends. They&rsquo;re about all women have
+much to do with most of their lives.</q></p>
+<pb n="052"/><anchor id="Pg052"/>
+
+<p><q>That&rsquo;s what I said. And you called me a
+pessimist.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I didn&rsquo;t call you one. I said, why were
+you one.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;m sorry. My mistake,</q> said Jonathan
+with the smile of one who scores.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>And so we went.</p>
+
+<p>One day for trunks was all right. Any one
+can manage trunks. And the second day, the
+boxes were emptied and sent flying out to the
+barn. Curtains I decided to keep for evening
+work, while Jonathan read. That left the
+closets and the attic, or rather the attics, for
+there was one over the main house and one
+over the <q>new part,</q>&mdash;still <q>new,</q> although
+now some seventy years old. They were
+known as the attic and the little attic. I
+thought I would do the closets first, and I began
+with the one in the parlor. This was built
+into the chimney, over the fireplace. It was
+low, and as long as the mantelpiece itself. It
+had two long shelves shut away behind three
+glass doors through which the treasures within
+were dimly visible. When I swung these open
+it felt like opening a tomb&mdash;cold, musty
+<pb n="053"/><anchor id="Pg053"/>
+air hung about my face. I brushed it aside,
+and considered where to begin. It was a depressing
+collection. There were photographs
+and photographs, some in frames, the rest of
+them tied up in packages or lying in piles. A
+few had names or messages written on the
+back, but most gave no clue; and all of them
+gazed out at me with that expression of complete
+respectability that constitutes so impenetrable
+a mask for the personality behind.
+Most of us wear such masks, but the older
+photographers seem to have been singularly
+successful in concentrating attention on them.
+Then there were albums, with more photographs,
+of people and of <q>views.</q> There was
+a big Bible, some prayer-books, and a few
+other books elaborately bound with that
+heavy fancifulness that we are learning to call
+Victorian. One of these was on <q>The Wonders
+of the Great West</q>; another was about
+<q>The Female Saints of America.</q> I took it
+down and glanced through it, but concluded
+that one had to be a female saint, or at least
+an aspirant, to appreciate it. Then there were
+things made out of dried flowers, out of hair,
+out of shells, out of pine-cones. There were
+<pb n="054"/><anchor id="Pg054"/>
+vases and other ornamental bits of china and
+glass, also Victorian, looking as if they were
+meant to be continually washed or dusted by
+the worn, busy fingers of the female saints. As
+I came to fuller realization of all these relics,
+my resolution flickered out and there fell upon
+me a strange numbness of spirit. I seemed
+under a spell of inaction. Everything behind
+those glass doors had been cherished too long
+to be lightly thrown away, yet was not old
+enough to be valuable nor useful enough to
+keep. I spent a long day&mdash;one of the longest
+days of my life&mdash;browsing through the books,
+trying to sort the photographs, and glancing
+through a few old letters. I did nothing in
+particular with anything, and in the late afternoon
+I roused myself, put them all back, and
+shut the glass doors. I had nothing to show
+for my day&rsquo;s experience except a deep little
+round ache in the back of my neck and a faint
+brassy taste in my mouth. I complained of it
+to Jonathan later.</p>
+
+<p><q>It always tasted just that way to me when
+I was a boy,</q> he said, <q>but I never thought
+much about it&mdash;I thought it was just a
+closet-taste.</q></p>
+<pb n="055"/><anchor id="Pg055"/>
+
+<p><q>And it isn&rsquo;t only the taste,</q> I went on.
+<q>It does something to me, to my state of
+mind. I&rsquo;m afraid to try the garret.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Garrets are different,</q> said Jonathan.
+<q>But I&rsquo;d leave them. They can wait.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>They&rsquo;ve waited a good while, of course,</q>
+I said.</p>
+
+<p>And so we left the garrets. We came back
+to them later, and were glad we had done so.
+But that is a story by itself.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>Meanwhile, in the evenings, Jonathan
+helped.</p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;m afraid you were more or less right
+about the odd jobs,</q> I admitted one night.
+<q>They do seem to accumulate.</q> I was holding
+a candle while he set up a loose latch.</p>
+
+<p><q>They&rsquo;ve been accumulating a good many
+years,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, that&rsquo;s it. And so the doors all stick,
+and the latches won&rsquo;t latch, and the shades
+are sulky or wild, and the pantry shelves&mdash;have
+you noticed?&mdash;they&rsquo;re all warped so
+they rock when you set a dish on them.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And the chairs pull apart,</q> added Jonathan.</p>
+<pb n="056"/><anchor id="Pg056"/>
+
+<p><q>Yes. Of course after we catch up we&rsquo;ll be
+all right.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I wouldn&rsquo;t count too much on catching
+up.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why not?</q> I asked.</p>
+
+<p><q>The farm has had a long start.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But you&rsquo;re a Yankee,</q> I argued; <q>the
+Yankee nature fairly feeds on such jobs&mdash;&lsquo;putter
+jobs,&rsquo; you know.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I know.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Only, of course, you get on faster if you&rsquo;re
+not too particular about having the exact
+tool&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p>Considered as a Yankee, Jonathan&rsquo;s only
+fault is that when he does a job he likes to
+have a very special tool to do it with. Often
+it is so special that I have never heard its
+name before and then I consider he is going
+too far. He merely thinks I haven&rsquo;t gone far
+enough. Perhaps such matters must always
+remain matters of opinion. But even with
+this handicap we did begin to catch up, and
+we could have done this a good deal faster if
+it had not been for the pump.</p>
+
+<p>The pump was a clear case of new wine in
+an old bottle. It was large and very strong.
+<pb n="057"/><anchor id="Pg057"/>
+The people who worked it were strong too.
+But the walls and floor to which it was attached
+were not strong at all. And so, one
+night, when Jonathan wanted a walk I was
+obliged instead to suggest the pump.</p>
+
+<p><q>What&rsquo;s the matter there?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why, it seems to have pulled clear of its
+moorings. You look at it.</q></p>
+
+<p>He looked, with that expression of meditative
+resourcefulness peculiar to the true
+Yankee countenance. <q>H&rsquo;m&mdash;needs new
+wood there,&mdash;and there; that stuff&rsquo;ll never
+hold.</q> And so the old bottle was patched with
+new skin at the points of strain, and in the zest
+of reconstruction Jonathan almost forgot to
+regret the walk. <q>We&rsquo;ll have it to-morrow
+night,</q> he said: <q>the moon will be better.</q></p>
+
+<p>The next evening I met him below the turn of
+the road. <q>Wonderful night it&rsquo;s going to be,</q>
+he said, as he pushed his wheel up the last hill.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes&mdash;</q> I said, a little uneasily. I was
+thinking of the kitchen pump. Finally I
+brought myself to face it.</p>
+
+<p><q>There seems to be some trouble&mdash;with
+the pump,</q> I said apologetically. I felt that
+it was my fault, though I knew it wasn&rsquo;t.</p>
+<pb n="058"/><anchor id="Pg058"/>
+
+<p><q>More trouble? What sort of trouble?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, it wheezes and makes funny sucking
+noises, and the water spits and spits, and then
+bursts out, and then doesn&rsquo;t come at all. It
+sounds a little like a cat with a bone in its
+throat.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Probably just that,</q> said Jonathan:
+<q>grain of sand in the valve, very likely.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Shall I get a plumber?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Plumber! I&rsquo;ll fix it myself in three shakes
+of a lamb&rsquo;s tail.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well,</q> I said, relieved: <q>you can do that
+after supper while I see that all the chickens
+are in, and those turkeys, and then we&rsquo;ll have
+our walk.</q></p>
+
+<p>Accordingly I went off on my tour. When
+I returned the pale moon-shadows were already
+beginning to show in the lingering dusk
+of the fading daylight. Indoors seemed very
+dark, but on the kitchen floor a candle sat,
+flaring and dipping.</p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan,</q> I called, <q>I&rsquo;m ready.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, I&rsquo;m not,</q> said a voice at my feet.</p>
+
+<p><q>Why, where are you? Oh, there!</q> I bent
+down and peered under the sink at a shape
+crouched there. <q>Haven&rsquo;t you finished?</q></p>
+<pb n="059"/><anchor id="Pg059"/>
+
+<p><q>Finished! I&rsquo;ve just got the thing apart.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I should say you had!</q> I regarded the
+various pieces of iron and leather and wood as
+they lay, mere dismembered shapes, about
+the dim kitchen.</p>
+
+<p><q>It doesn&rsquo;t seem as if it would ever come
+together again&mdash;to be a pump,</q> I said in
+some depression.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, that&rsquo;s easy! It&rsquo;s just a question of
+time.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>How much time?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Heaven knows.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Was it the valve?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It was&mdash;several things.</q></p>
+
+<p>His tone had the vagueness born of concentration.
+I could see that this was no time to
+press for information. Besides, in the field
+of mechanics, as Jonathan has occasionally
+pointed out to me, I am rather like a traveler
+who has learned to ask questions in a foreign
+tongue, but not to understand the answers.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well, I&rsquo;ll bring my sewing out here&mdash;or
+would you rather have me read to you?
+There&rsquo;s something in the last number of&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No&mdash;get your sewing&mdash;blast that
+screw! Why doesn&rsquo;t it start?</q></p>
+<pb n="060"/><anchor id="Pg060"/>
+
+<p>Evidently sewing was better than the last
+number of anything. I settled myself under
+a lamp, while Jonathan, in the twilight beneath
+the sink, continued his mystic rites,
+with an accompaniment of mildly vituperative
+or persuasive language, addressed sometimes
+to his tools, sometimes to the screws
+and nuts and other parts, sometimes against
+the men who made them or the plumbers who
+put them in. Now and then I held a candle,
+or steadied some perverse bit of metal while
+he worked his will upon it. And at last the
+ph&oelig;nix did indeed rise, the pump was again
+a pump,&mdash;at least it looked like one.</p>
+
+<p><q>Suppose it doesn&rsquo;t work,</q> I suggested.</p>
+
+<p><q>Suppose it does,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p>He began to pump furiously. <q>Pour in
+water there!</q> he directed. <q>Keep on pouring&mdash;don&rsquo;t
+stop&mdash;never mind if she does spout.</q>
+I poured and he pumped, and there were the
+usual sounds of a pump resuming activity:
+gurglings and spittings, suckings and sudden
+spoutings; but at last it seemed to get its
+breath&mdash;a few more long strokes of the
+handle, and the water poured.</p>
+
+<p><q>What time is it?</q> he asked.</p>
+<pb n="061"/><anchor id="Pg061"/>
+
+<p><q>Oh, fairly late&mdash;about ten&mdash;ten minutes
+past.</q></p>
+
+<p>Instead of our walk, we stood for a moment
+under the big maples before the house
+and looked out into a sea of moonlight. It
+silvered the sides of the old gray barns and
+washed over the blossoming apple trees beyond
+the house. Is there anything more
+sweetly still than the stillness of moonlight
+over apple blossoms! As we went out to
+the barns to lock up, even the little hencoops
+looked poetic. Passing one of them, we half
+roused the feathered family within and heard
+muffled peepings and a smothered <hi rend="font-style: italic">clk-clk</hi>.
+Jonathan was by this time so serene that I
+felt I could ask him a question that had occurred
+to me.</p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan, how long <hi rend="font-style: italic">is</hi>
+three shakes of a lamb&rsquo;s tail?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Apparently, my dear, it is the whole evening,</q>
+he answered unruffled.</p>
+
+<p>The next night was drizzly. Well, we would
+have books instead of a walk. We lighted a
+fire, May though it was, and settled down before
+it. <q>What shall we read?</q> I asked, feeling
+very cozy.</p>
+<pb n="062"/><anchor id="Pg062"/>
+
+<p>Jonathan was filling his pipe with a leisurely
+deliberation good to look upon. With the
+match in his hand he paused&mdash;<q>Oh, I meant
+to tell you&mdash;those young turkeys of yours&mdash;they
+were still out when I came through
+the yard. I wonder if they went in all right.</q></p>
+
+<p>I have always noticed that if the turkeys
+grow up very fat and strutty and suggestive
+of Thanksgiving, Jonathan calls them <q>our
+turkeys,</q> but in the spring, when they are
+committing all the naughtinesses of wild and
+silly youth, he is apt to allude to them as
+<q>those young turkeys of yours.</q></p>
+
+<p>I rose wearily. <q>No. They never go in all
+right when they get out at this time&mdash;especially
+on wet nights. I&rsquo;ll have to find them
+and stow them.</q></p>
+
+<p>Jonathan got up, too, and laid down his
+pipe. <q>You&rsquo;ll need the lantern,</q> he said.</p>
+
+<p>We went out together into the May drizzle&mdash;a
+good thing to be out in, too, if you are
+out for the fun of it. But when you are hunting
+silly little turkeys who literally don&rsquo;t
+know enough to go in when it rains, and when
+you expected and wanted to be doing something
+else, then it seems different, the drizzle
+<pb n="063"/><anchor id="Pg063"/>
+seems peculiarly drizzly, the silliness of the
+turkeys seems particularly and unendurably
+silly.</p>
+
+<p>We waded through the drenched grass and
+the tall, dripping weeds, listening for the
+faint, foolish peeping of the wanderers. Some
+we found under piled fence rails, some under
+burdock leaves, some under nothing more
+protective than a plantain leaf. By ones and
+twos we collected them, half drowned yet
+shrilly remonstrant, and dropped them into
+the dry shed where they belonged. Then we
+returned to the house, very wet, feeling the
+kind of discouragement that usually besets
+those who are forced to furnish prudence to
+fools.</p>
+
+<p><q>Nine o&rsquo;clock,</q> said Jonathan, <q>and we&rsquo;re
+too wet to sit down. If you could just shut in
+those turkeys on wet days&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Shut them in! Didn&rsquo;t I shut them in!
+They must have got out since four o&rsquo;clock.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Isn&rsquo;t the shed tight?</q> he asked.</p>
+
+<p><q>Chicken-tight, but not turkey-tight, apparently.
+Nothing is turkey-tight.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>They&rsquo;re bigger than chickens.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not in any one spot they aren&rsquo;t. They&rsquo;re
+<pb n="064"/><anchor id="Pg064"/>
+like coiled wire&mdash;when they stretch out to
+get through a crack they have <hi rend="font-style: italic">no</hi> dimension
+except length, their bodies are mere imaginary
+points to hang feathers on. You don&rsquo;t
+know little turkeys.</q></p>
+
+<p>It might be said that, having undertaken
+to raise turkeys, we had to expect them to act
+like turkeys. But there were other interruptions
+in our evenings where our share of responsibility
+was not so plain. For example,
+one wet evening in early June we had kindled
+a little fire and I had brought the lamp forward.
+The pump was quiescent, the little
+turkeys were all tucked up in the turkey
+equivalent for bed, the farm seemed to be
+cuddling down into itself for the night. We
+sat for a moment luxuriously regarding the
+flames, listening to the sighing of the wind,
+feeling the sweet damp air as it blew in
+through the open windows. I was considering
+which book it should be and at last rose to
+possess myself of two or three.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sh&mdash;h&mdash;h!</q> said Jonathan, a warning
+finger raised.</p>
+
+<p>I stood listening.</p>
+
+<p><q>I don&rsquo;t hear anything,</q> I said.</p>
+<pb n="065"/><anchor id="Pg065"/>
+
+<p><q>Sh&mdash;h!</q> he repeated. <q>There!</q></p>
+
+<p>This time, indeed, I heard faint bird-notes.</p>
+
+<p><q>Young robins!</q> He sprang up and made
+for the back door with long strides.</p>
+
+<p>I peered out through the window of the
+orchard room, but saw only the reflection of
+the firelight and the lamp. Suddenly I heard
+Jonathan whistle and I ran to the back porch.
+Blackness pressed against my eyes.</p>
+
+<p><q>Where are you?</q> I called into it.</p>
+
+<p>The whistle again, quite near me, apparently
+out of the air.</p>
+
+<p><q>Bring a lantern,</q> came a whisper.</p>
+
+<p>I got it and came back and down the steps
+to the path, holding up my light and peering
+about in search of the voice.</p>
+
+<p><q>Where are you? I can&rsquo;t see you at all.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Right here&mdash;look&mdash;here&mdash;up!</q> The
+voice was almost over my head.</p>
+
+<p>I searched the dark masses of the tree&mdash;oh,
+yes! the lantern revealed the heel of a
+shoe in a crotch, and above,&mdash;yes, undoubtedly,
+the rest of Jonathan, stretched out along
+a limb.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh! What are you doing up there?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Get me a long stick&mdash;hoe&mdash;clothes-pole&mdash;anything
+<pb n="066"/><anchor id="Pg066"/>
+I can poke with. Quick!
+The cat&rsquo;s up here. I can hear her, but I can&rsquo;t
+see her.</q></p>
+
+<p>I found the rake and reached it up to him.
+From the dark beyond him came a distressed
+mew.</p>
+
+<p><q>Now the lantern. Hang it on the teeth.</q>
+He drew it up to him, then, rake in one hand
+and lantern in the other, proceeded to squirm
+out along the limb.</p>
+
+<p><q>Now I see her.</q></p>
+
+<p>I saw her too&mdash;a huddle of yellow,
+crouched close.</p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;ll have her in a minute. She&rsquo;ll either
+have to drop or be caught.</q></p>
+
+<p>And in fact this distressing dilemma was
+already becoming plain to the marauder herself.
+Her mewings grew louder and more
+frequent. A few more contortions brought
+the climber nearer his victim. A little judicious
+urging with the rake and she was within
+reach. The rake came down to me, and a
+long, wild mew announced that Jonathan had
+clutched.</p>
+
+<p><q>I don&rsquo;t see how you&rsquo;re going to get down,</q>
+I said, mopping the rain-mist out of my eyes.</p>
+<pb n="067"/><anchor id="Pg067"/>
+
+<p><q>Watch me,</q> panted the contortionist.</p>
+
+<p>I watched a curious mass descend the
+tree, the lantern, swinging and jerking, fitfully
+illumined the pair, and I could see, now
+a knee and an ear, now a hand and a yellow
+furry shape, now a white collar, nose, and
+chin. There was a last, long, scratching slide.
+I snatched the lantern, and Jonathan stood
+beside me, holding by the scruff of her neck
+a very much frazzled yellow cat. We returned
+to the porch where her victims were&mdash;one
+alive, in a basket, two dead, beside it, and
+Jonathan, kneeling, held the cat&rsquo;s nose close
+to the little bodies while he boxed her ears&mdash;once,
+twice; remonstrant mews rose wild,
+and with a desperate twist the culprit backed
+out under his arm and leaped into the blackness.</p>
+
+<p><q>Don&rsquo;t believe she&rsquo;ll eat young robin for a
+day or two,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Is that what they were? Where were
+they?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Under the tree. She&rsquo;d knocked them
+out.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Could you put this one back? He seems
+all right&mdash;only sort of naked in spots.</q></p>
+<pb n="068"/><anchor id="Pg068"/>
+
+<p><q>We&rsquo;ll half cover the basket and hang it
+in the tree. His folks&rsquo;ll take care of him.</q></p>
+
+<p>Next morning early there began the greatest
+to-do among the robins in the orchard.
+They shrieked their comments on the affair
+at the top of their lungs. They screamed
+abusively at Jonathan and me as we stood
+watching. <q>They say we did it!</q> said Jonathan.
+<q>I call that gratitude!</q></p>
+
+<p>I wish I could record that from that evening
+the cat was a reformed character. An
+impression had indeed been made. All next
+day she stayed under the porch, two glowing
+eyes in the dark. The second day she came
+out, walking indifferent and debonair, as cats
+do. But when Jonathan took down the basket
+from the tree and made her smell of it,
+she flattened her ears against her head and
+shot under the porch again.</p>
+
+<p>But lessons grow dim and temptation is
+freshly importunate. It was not two weeks
+before Jonathan was up another tree on the
+same errand, and when I considered the number
+of nests in our orchard, and the number
+of cats&mdash;none of them really our cats&mdash;on
+the place, I felt that the position of overruling
+<pb n="069"/><anchor id="Pg069"/>
+Providence was almost more than we could
+undertake, if we hoped to do anything else.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>These things&mdash;tinkering of latches and
+chairs, pump-mending, rescue work in the
+orchard and among the poultry&mdash;filled our
+evenings fairly full. Yet these are only samples,
+and not particularly representative
+samples either. They were the sort of things
+that happened oftenest, the common emergencies
+incidental to the life. But there were
+also the uncommon emergencies, each occurring
+seldom but each adding its own touch
+of variety to the tale of our evenings.</p>
+
+<p>For instance, there was the time of the
+great drought, when Jonathan, coming in
+from a tour of the farm at dusk, said, <q>I&rsquo;ve
+got to go up and dig out the spring-hole
+across the swamp. Everything else is dry,
+and the cattle are getting crazy.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Can I help?</q> I asked, not without regrets
+for our books and our evening&mdash;it was
+a black night, and I had had hopes.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes. Come and hold the lantern.</q></p>
+
+<p>We went. The spring-hole had been trodden
+by the poor, eager creatures into a useless
+<pb n="070"/><anchor id="Pg070"/>
+jelly of mud. Jonathan fell to work,
+while I held the lantern high. But soon it
+became more than a mere matter of holding
+the lantern. There was a crashing in the
+blackness about us and a huge horned head
+emerged behind my shoulder, another loomed
+beyond Jonathan&rsquo;s stooping bulk.</p>
+
+<p><q>Keep &rsquo;em back,</q> he said. <q>They&rsquo;ll have
+it all trodden up again&mdash;Hi! You! Ge&rsquo;
+back &rsquo;ere!</q> There is as special a lingo for
+talking to cattle as there is for talking to
+babies. I used it as well as I could. I swung
+the lantern in their faces, I brandished the
+hoe-handle at them, I jabbed at them recklessly.
+They snorted and backed and closed
+in again,&mdash;crazy, poor things, with the
+smell of the water. It was an evening&rsquo;s battle
+for us. Jonathan dug and dug, and then laid
+rails, and the precious water filled in slowly,
+grew to a dark pool, and the thirsty creatures
+panted and snuffed in the dark just outside
+the radius of the hoe-handle, until at last we
+could let them in. I had forgotten my books,
+for we had come close to the earth and the
+creatures of the earth. The cows were our
+sisters and the steers our brothers that night.</p>
+<pb n="071"/><anchor id="Pg071"/>
+
+<p>Sometimes the emergency was in the barn&mdash;a
+broken halter and trouble among the
+horses, or perhaps a new calf. Sometimes a
+stray creature,&mdash;cow or horse,&mdash;grazing
+along the roadside, got into our yard and
+threatened our corn and squashes and my
+poor, struggling flower-beds. Once it was a
+break in the wire fence around Jonathan&rsquo;s
+muskmelon patch in the barn meadow. The
+cows had just been turned in, and if it wasn&rsquo;t
+mended that evening it meant no melons
+that season, also melon-tainted cream for days.</p>
+
+<p>Once or twice each year it was the drainpipe
+from the sink. The drain, like the pump,
+was an innovation. Our ancestors had always
+carried out whatever they couldn&rsquo;t use
+or burn, and dumped it on the far edge of the
+orchard. In a thinly settled community,
+there is much to be said for this method:
+you know just where you are. But we had the
+drain, and occasionally we didn&rsquo;t know just
+where we were.</p>
+
+<p><q>Coffee grounds,</q> Jonathan would suggest,
+with a touch of sternness.</p>
+
+<p><q>No,</q> I would reply firmly; <q>coffee
+grounds are always burned.</q></p>
+<pb n="072"/><anchor id="Pg072"/>
+
+<p><q>What then?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Don&rsquo;t know. I&rsquo;ve poked and poked.</q></p>
+
+<p>A gleam in the corner of Jonathan&rsquo;s eye&mdash;<q>What
+with?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, everything.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I suppose so. For instance what?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why&mdash;hair-pin first, of course, and then
+scissors, and then button-hook&mdash;you needn&rsquo;t
+smile. Button-hooks are wonderful for
+cleaning out pipes. And then I took a pail-handle
+and straightened it out&mdash;</q> Jonathan
+was laughing by this time&mdash;<q>Well, I
+have to use what I have, don&rsquo;t I?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, of course. And after the pail-handle?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>After that&mdash;oh, yes. I tried your cleaning-rod.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The devil you did!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not at all. It wasn&rsquo;t hurt a bit. It just
+wouldn&rsquo;t go down, that&rsquo;s all. So then I
+thought I&rsquo;d wait for you.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And now what do you expect?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I expect you to fix it.</q></p>
+
+<p>Of course, after that, there was nothing for
+Jonathan to do but fix it. Usually it did not
+take long. Sometimes it did. Once it took a
+<pb n="073"/><anchor id="Pg073"/>
+whole evening, and required the services of a
+young tree, which Jonathan went out and cut
+and trimmed and forced through a section of
+the pipe which he had taken up and laid out
+for the operation on the kitchen floor. It was
+a warm evening, too, and friends had driven
+over to visit us. We received them warmly in
+the kitchen. We explained that we believed
+in making them members of the family, and
+that members of the family always helped in
+whatever was being done. So they helped.
+They took turns gripping the pipe while
+Jonathan and I persuaded the young tree
+through it. It required great strength and
+some skill because it was necessary to make
+the tree and the pipe perform spirally rotatory
+movements each antagonistic and complementary
+to the other. We were all rather
+tired and very hot before anything began to
+happen. Then it happened all at once: the
+tree burst through&mdash;and not alone. A good
+deal came with it. The kitchen floor was a
+sight, and there was&mdash;undoubtedly there
+was&mdash;a strong smell of coffee. Jonathan
+smiled. Then he went down cellar and restored
+the pipe to its position, while the rest
+<pb n="074"/><anchor id="Pg074"/>
+of us cleared up the kitchen,&mdash;it&rsquo;s astonishing
+what a little job like that can make a
+kitchen look like,&mdash;and as our friends started
+to go a voice from beneath us, like the ghost
+in <q>Hamlet,</q> shouted, <q>Hold &rsquo;em! There&rsquo;s
+half a freezer of ice-cream down here we can
+finish.</q> Sure enough there was! And then
+he wouldn&rsquo;t have to pack it down. We had
+it up. We looted the pantry as only irresponsible
+adults can loot, in their own pantry,
+and the evening ended in luxurious ease.
+Some time in the black of the night our
+friends left, and I suppose the sound of their
+carriage-wheels along the empty road set
+many a neighbor wondering, through his
+sleep, <q>Who&rsquo;s sick now?</q> How could they
+know it was only a plumbing party?</p>
+
+<p>As I look back on this evening it seems one
+of the pleasantest of the year. It isn&rsquo;t so
+much what you do, of course, as the way you
+feel about it, that makes the difference between
+pleasant and unpleasant. Shall we say
+of that evening that we meant to read aloud?
+Or that we meant to have a quiet evening
+with friends? Not at all. We say, with all the
+conviction in the world, that we meant, on
+<pb n="075"/><anchor id="Pg075"/>
+that particular evening, to have a plumbing
+party, with the drain as the
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">pièce de résistance</hi>.
+Toward this our lives had been yearning,
+and lo! they had arrived!</p>
+
+<p>Some few things, however, are hard to
+meet in that spirit. When the pigs broke out
+of the pen, about nine o&rsquo;clock, and Hiram
+was away, and Mrs. Hiram needed our help
+to get them in&mdash;there was no use in pretending
+that we meant to do it. Moreover, the
+labor of rounding up pigs is one of mingled
+arduousness and delicacy. Pigs in clover
+was once a popular game, but pigs in a dark
+orchard is not a game at all, and it will, I am
+firmly convinced, never be popular. It is, I
+repeat, not a game, yet probably the only
+way to keep one&rsquo;s temper at all is to regard
+it, for the time being, as a major sport, like
+football and deep-sea fishing and mountain-climbing,
+where you are expected to take
+some risks and not think too much about results
+as such. On this basis it has, perhaps,
+its own rewards. But the attitude is difficult
+to maintain, especially late at night.</p>
+
+<p>On that particular evening, as we returned,
+breathless and worn, to the house, I could
+<pb n="076"/><anchor id="Pg076"/>
+not refrain from saying, with some edge, <q>I
+never wanted to keep pigs anyway.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Who says we&rsquo;re keeping them?</q> remarked
+Jonathan; and then we laughed and laughed.</p>
+
+<p><q>You needn&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m laughing because
+you said anything specially funny,</q> I said.
+<q>It&rsquo;s only because I&rsquo;m tired enough to laugh
+at anything.</q></p>
+
+<p>The pump, too, tried my philosophy now
+and then. One evening when I had worn my
+hands to the bone cutting out thick leather
+washers for Jonathan to insert somewhere in
+the circulatory system of that same monster,
+I finally broke out, <q>Oh, dear! I hate the
+pump! I wanted a moonlight walk!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;ll have the thing together now in a
+jiffy,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Jiffy! There&rsquo;s no use talking about jiffies
+at half-past ten at night,</q> I snarled. I
+was determined anyway to be as cross as I
+liked. <q>Why can&rsquo;t we find a really simple
+way of living? This isn&rsquo;t simple. It&rsquo;s highly
+complex and very difficult.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You cut those washers very well,</q> suggested
+Jonathan soothingly, but I was not
+prepared to be soothed.</p>
+<pb n="077"/><anchor id="Pg077"/>
+
+<p><q>It was hateful work, though. Now, look
+what we&rsquo;ve done this evening! We&rsquo;ve shut
+up a setting hen, and housed the little turkeys,
+and driven that cow back into the road,
+and mended a window-shade and the dog&rsquo;s
+chain, and now we&rsquo;ve fixed the pump&mdash;and
+it won&rsquo;t stay fixed at that!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Fair evening&rsquo;s work,</q> murmured Jonathan
+as he rapidly assembled the pump.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, as work. But all I mean is&mdash;it isn&rsquo;t
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">simple</hi>.
+Farm life has a reputation for simplicity
+that I begin to think is overdone. It
+doesn&rsquo;t seem to me that my evening has been
+any more simple than if we had dressed for
+dinner and gone to the opera or played bridge.
+In fact, at this distance, that, compared with
+this, has the simplicity of a&mdash;I don&rsquo;t know
+what!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I like your climaxes,</q> said Jonathan, and
+we both laughed. <q>There! I&rsquo;m done. Now
+suppose we go, in our simple way, and lock up
+the barns and chicken-houses.</q></p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>And so the evenings came and went, each
+offering a prospect of fair and quiet things&mdash;books
+and firelight and moonlight and talk;
+<pb n="078"/><anchor id="Pg078"/>
+many in retrospect full of things quite different&mdash;drains
+and latches and fledglings and
+cows and pigs. Many, but not all. For the
+evenings did now and then come when the
+pump ceased from troubling and the <q>critters</q>
+were at rest. Evenings when we sat
+under the lamp and read, when we walked
+and walked along moonlit roads or lay on the
+slopes of moon-washed meadows. It was on
+such an evening that we faced the vagaries of
+farm life and searched for a philosophy to
+cover them.</p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;m beginning to see that it will never be
+any better,</q> I said.</p>
+
+<p><q>Probably not,</q> said Jonathan, talking
+around his pipe.</p>
+
+<p><q>You seem contented enough about it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I am.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I don&rsquo;t know that I&rsquo;m contented, but
+perhaps I&rsquo;m resigned. I believe it&rsquo;s necessary.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Of course it&rsquo;s necessary.</q></p>
+
+<p>Jonathan often has the air of having known
+since infancy the great truths about life that
+I have just discovered. I overlooked this, and
+went on, <q>You see, we&rsquo;re right down close to
+<pb n="079"/><anchor id="Pg079"/>
+the earth that is the ultimate basis of everything,
+and all the caprices of things touch us
+immediately and we have to make immediate
+adjustments to them.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And that knocks the bottom out of our
+evenings.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Now if we&rsquo;re in the city, playing bridge,
+somebody else is making those adjustments
+for us. We&rsquo;re like the princess with seventeen
+mattresses between her and the pea.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>She felt it, though,</q> said Jonathan. <q>It
+kept her awake.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I know. She had a poor night. But even
+she would hardly have maintained that she
+felt it as she would have done if the mattresses
+hadn&rsquo;t been there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>True,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Farm life is the pea without the mattresses&mdash;</q>
+I went on.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sounds a little cheerless,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;of course, it isn&rsquo;t really cheerless
+at all. But neither is it easy. It&rsquo;s full of remorseless
+demands for immediate adjustment.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That was the way the princess felt about
+her pea.</q></p>
+<pb n="080"/><anchor id="Pg080"/>
+
+<p><q>The princess was a snippy little thing.
+But after all, probably her life was full of
+adjustments of other sorts. She couldn&rsquo;t call
+her soul her own a minute, I suppose.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Perhaps that was why she ran away,</q>
+suggested Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Of course it was. She ran away to find the
+simple life and didn&rsquo;t find it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No. She found the pea&mdash;even with all
+those mattresses.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And we&rsquo;ve run away, and found several
+peas, and fewer mattresses,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Let&rsquo;s not get confused&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;m not confused,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well, I shall be in a minute if I don&rsquo;t look
+out. You can&rsquo;t follow a parallel too far.
+What I mean is, that if you run away from
+one kind of complexity you run into another
+kind.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>What are you going to do about it?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;m going to like it all,</q> I answered, <q>and
+make believe I meant to do it.</q></p>
+
+<p>After that we were silent awhile. Then I
+tried again. <q>You know your trick of waltzing
+with a glass of water on your head?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes.</q></p>
+<pb n="081"/><anchor id="Pg081"/>
+
+<p><q>Well, I wonder if we couldn&rsquo;t do that
+with our souls.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That suggests to me a rather curious
+picture,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;you know what I mean. When
+you do that, your body takes up all the jolts
+and jiggles before they get to the top of your
+head, so the glass stays quiet.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, I don&rsquo;t see why&mdash;only, of course,
+our souls aren&rsquo;t really anything like glasses
+of water, and it would be perfectly detestable
+to think of carrying them around carefully
+like that.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Perhaps you&rsquo;d better back out of that
+figure of speech,</q> suggested Jonathan. <q>Go
+back to your princess. Say, <q>every man his
+own mattress.</q></q></p>
+
+<p><q>No. Any figure is wrong. The trouble
+with all of them is that as soon as you use
+one it begins to get in your way, and say all
+sorts of things for you that you never meant
+at all. And then if you notice it, it bothers
+you, and if you don&rsquo;t notice it, you get drawn
+into crooked thinking.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And yet you can&rsquo;t think without them.</q></p>
+<pb n="082"/><anchor id="Pg082"/>
+
+<p><q>No, you can&rsquo;t think without them.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;where are we, anyway?</q> he
+asked placidly.</p>
+
+<p><q>I don&rsquo;t know at all. Only I feel sure that
+leading the simple life doesn&rsquo;t depend on the
+things you do it <hi rend="font-style: italic">with</hi>.
+Feeding your own cows
+and pigs and using pumps and candles brings
+you no nearer to it than marketing by telephone
+and using city water supply and electric
+lighting. I don&rsquo;t know what does bring
+you nearer, but I&rsquo;m sure it must be something
+inside you.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That sounds rather reasonable,</q> said
+Jonathan; <q>almost scriptural&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I know,</q> I said.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="chapter04">
+<pb n="083"/><anchor id="Pg083"/>
+<index index="toc" level1="IV. After Frost"/>
+<index index="pdf" level1="IV. After Frost"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">IV</head>
+<head type="sub">After Frost</head>
+
+<p>It is late afternoon in mid-September. I
+stand in my garden sniffing the raw air, and
+wondering, as always at this season,
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">will</hi>
+there be frost to-night or will there not? Of
+course if I were a woodchuck or a muskrat, or
+any other really intelligent creature, I should
+know at once and act accordingly, but being
+only a stupid human being, I am thrown
+back on conjecture, assisted by the thermometer,
+and an appeal to Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Too much wind for frost,</q> says he.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sure? I&rsquo;d hate to lose my nasturtiums
+quite so early.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You won&rsquo;t lose &rsquo;em. Look at the thermometer
+if you don&rsquo;t believe me. If it&rsquo;s
+above forty you&rsquo;re safe.</q></p>
+
+<p>I look, and try to feel reassured. But I am
+not quite easy in my mind until next morning
+when, running out before breakfast, I make
+the rounds and find everything untouched.</p>
+<pb n="084"/><anchor id="Pg084"/>
+
+<p>But a few days later the alarm comes again.
+There is no wind this time, and, what is
+worse, an ominous silence falls at dusk over
+the orchard and meadow. <q>Why is everything
+so still?</q> I ask myself. <q>Oh, of course&mdash;the
+katydids aren&rsquo;t talking&mdash;and the
+crickets, and all the other whirr-y things.
+Ah! That means business! My poor garden!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan!</q> I call, as I feel rather than
+see his shape whirling noiselessly in at the
+big gate after his ride up from the station.
+<q>Help me cover my nasturtiums. There&rsquo;ll
+be frost to-night.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Maybe,</q> says Jonathan&rsquo;s voice.</p>
+
+<p><q>Not maybe at all&mdash;surely. Listen to the
+katydids!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You mean, listen to the absence of katydids.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Very well. The point is, I want newspapers.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No. The point is, I am to bring newspapers.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Exactly.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And tuck up your nasturtiums for the
+night in your peculiarly ridiculous fashion&mdash;</q></p>
+<pb n="085"/><anchor id="Pg085"/>
+
+<p><q>I know it looks ridiculous, but really it&rsquo;s
+sensible. There may be weeks of summer
+after this.</q></p>
+
+<p>And so the nasturtiums are tucked up,
+cozily hidden under the big layers of sheets,
+whose corners we fasten down with stones.
+To be sure, the garden <hi rend="font-style: italic">is</hi> rather a funny
+sight, with these pale shapes sprawling over
+its beds. But it pays. For in the morning,
+though over in the vegetable garden the
+squash leaves and lima beans are blackened
+and limp, my nasturtiums are still pert and
+crisp. I pull off the papers, wondering what
+the passers-by have thought, and lo! my gay
+garden, good for perhaps two weeks more!</p>
+
+<p>But a day arrives when even newspaper
+coddling is of no avail. Sometimes it is in late
+September, sometimes not until October, but
+when it comes there is no resisting.</p>
+
+<p>The sun goes down, leaving a clear sky
+paling to green at the horizon. A still cold
+falls upon the world, and I feel that it is
+the end. Shears in hand, I cut everything I
+can&mdash;nasturtiums down to the ground,&mdash;leaves,
+buds, and all,&mdash;feathery sprays of
+cosmos, asters by the armful. Those last
+<pb n="086"/><anchor id="Pg086"/>
+bouquets that I bring into the house are always
+the most beautiful, for I do not have to
+save buds for later cutting. There will, alas,
+be no later cutting.</p>
+
+<p>So I fill my bowls and vases, and next
+morning I go out, well knowing what I shall
+see. It is a beautiful sight, too, if one can
+forget its meaning. The whole golden-green
+world of autumn has been touched with silver.
+In the low-lying swamp beyond the
+orchard it is almost like a light snowfall.
+The meadows rising beyond the barns are
+silvered over wherever the long tree-shadows
+still lie. And in my garden, too, where the
+shadows linger, every leaf is frosted, but as
+soon as the sun warms them through, leaf and
+twig turn dark and droop to the ground. It is
+the end.</p>
+
+<p>Except, indeed, for my brave marigolds
+and calendulas and little button asters. It is
+for this reason that I have given them space
+all summer, nipping them back when they
+tried to blossom early, for they seem a bit
+crude compared with the other flowers. But
+now that frost is here, my feelings warm to
+them. I cannot criticize their color and texture,
+<pb n="087"/><anchor id="Pg087"/>
+so grateful am I to them for not giving
+up. And when last night&rsquo;s cuttings have
+faded, I shall be very glad of a glowing mass
+of marigold beside my fireplace, and of the
+yellow stars of calendula, like embodied
+sunshine, on my dining-table.</p>
+
+<p>Well, then, the frost has come! And after
+the first pang of realization, I find that, curiously
+enough, the worst is over. Since it has
+come, let it come! And now&mdash;hurrah for the
+garden house-cleaning! The garden is dead&mdash;the
+garden of yesterday! Long live the
+garden&mdash;the garden of to-morrow! For
+suddenly my mind has leaped ahead to spring.</p>
+
+<p>I can hardly wait for breakfast to be over,
+before I am out in working clothes, pulling
+up things&mdash;not weeds now, but flowers, or
+what were flowers. Nasturtiums, asters, cosmos,
+snapdragon, stock, late-blooming cornflowers&mdash;up
+they all come, all the annuals,
+and the biennials that have had their season.
+I fling them together in piles, and soon have
+small haystacks all along my grass paths, and&mdash;there
+I am! Down again to the good brown
+earth!</p>
+
+<p>It is with positive satisfaction that I stand
+<pb n="088"/><anchor id="Pg088"/>
+and survey my beds, great bare patches of
+earth, glorified here and there by low clumps
+of calendula and great bushes of marigold.
+Now, then! I can do anything! I can dig,
+and fertilize, and transplant. Best of all, I
+can plan and plan! The crisp wind stings my
+cheeks, but as I work I feel the sun hot on the
+back of my neck. I get the smell of the earth
+as I turn it over, mingled with the pungent
+tang of marigold blossoms, very pleasant out
+of doors, though almost too strong for the
+house except near a fireplace. I believe the
+most characteristic fall odors are to me this
+of marigold, mingled with the fragrance of
+apples piled in the orchard, the good smell
+of earth newly turned up, and the flavor of
+burning leaves, borne now and then on the
+wind, from the outdoor house-cleaning of the
+world.</p>
+
+<p>There is perhaps no season of all the garden
+year that brings more real delight to the
+gardener, no time so stimulating to the imagination.
+This year in the garden has been
+good, but next year shall be better. All the
+failures, or near-failures, shall of course be
+turned into successes, and the successes shall
+<pb n="089"/><anchor id="Pg089"/>
+be bettered. Last year there were not quite
+enough hollyhocks, but next year there shall
+be such glories! There are seedlings that I
+have been saving, over on the edge of the
+phlox. I dash across to look them up&mdash;yes,
+here they are, splendid little fellows, leaves
+only a bit crumpled by the frost. I dig them
+up carefully, keeping earth packed about
+their roots, and one by one I convey them
+across and set them out in a beautiful row
+where I want them to grow next year. Their
+place is beside the old stone-flagged path, and
+I picture them rising tall against the side of
+the woodshed, whose barrenness I have besides
+more than half covered with honeysuckle.</p>
+
+<p>Then, there are my foxgloves. Some of
+them I have already transplanted, but not
+all. There is a little corner full of stocky
+yearlings that I must change now. And that
+same corner can be used for poppies. I have
+kept seeds of this year&rsquo;s poppies&mdash;funny
+little brown pepper-shakers, with tiny holes
+at the end through which I shake out the fine
+seed dust. Doubtless they would attend to
+all this without my help, but I like to be sure
+<pb n="090"/><anchor id="Pg090"/>
+that even my self-seeding annuals come up
+where I most want them.</p>
+
+<p>Biennials, like the foxglove and canterbury
+bells, are of course, the difficult children
+of the garden, because you have to plan
+not only for next year but for the year after.
+Next year&rsquo;s bloom is secured&mdash;unless they
+winter-kill&mdash;in this year&rsquo;s young plants,
+growing since spring, or even since the fall
+before. These I transplant for next summer&rsquo;s
+beauty. But for the year after I like to take
+double precautions. Already I have tiny
+seedlings, started since August, but besides
+these I sow seed, too late to start before
+spring. For a severe winter may do havoc,
+and I shall then need the early start given by
+fall sowing.</p>
+
+<p>As I work on, I discover all sorts of treasures&mdash;young
+plants, seedlings from all the
+big-folk of my garden. Young larkspurs
+surround the bushy parent clumps, and
+the ground near the forget-me-nots is fairly
+carpeted with little new ones. I have found
+that, though the old forget-me-nots will live
+through, it pays to pull out the most ragged
+of them and trust to the youngsters to fill
+<pb n="091"/><anchor id="Pg091"/>
+their places. These, and English daisies, I let
+grow together about as they will. They are
+pretty together, with their mingling of pink,
+white, and blue, they never run out, and all I
+need is to keep them from spreading too far,
+or from crowding each other too much.</p>
+
+<p>When my back aches from this kind of
+sorting and shifting, I straighten up and look
+about me again. Ah! The phlox! Time now
+to attend to that!</p>
+
+<p>My white phlox is really the most distinguished
+thing in my garden. I have pink
+and lavender, too, but any one can have pink
+and lavender by ordering them from a florist.
+They can have white, too, but not my
+white. For mine never saw a florist; it is an
+inheritance.</p>
+
+<p>Sixty or seventy years ago there was a
+beautiful little garden north of the old house
+tended and loved by a beautiful lady. The
+lady died, and the garden did not long outlive
+her. Its place was taken by a crab-apple
+orchard, which flourished, bore blossom and
+fruit, until in its turn it grew old, while the
+garden had faded to a dim tradition. But one
+day in August, a few years ago, I discovered
+<pb n="092"/><anchor id="Pg092"/>
+under the shade of an old crab tree, two slender
+sprays of white phlox, trying to blossom.
+In memory of that old garden and its lady, I
+took them up and cherished them. And the
+miracle of life was again made manifest.
+For from those two little half-starved roots
+has come the most splendid part of my garden.
+All summer it makes a thick green wall
+on the garden&rsquo;s edge, beside the flagged path.
+In the other beds it rises in luxuriant masses,
+giving background and body with its wonderful
+deep green foliage, which is greener
+and thicker than any other phlox I know.
+And when its season to bloom arrives&mdash;a
+long month, from early August to mid-September&mdash;it
+is a glory of whiteness, the tallest
+sprays on a level with my eyes, the shortest
+shoulder high, except when rain weighs down
+the heavy heads and they lean across the
+paths barring my passage with their fragrant
+wetness.</p>
+
+<p>Here and there I have let the pink and
+lavender phlox come in, for they begin to
+bloom two weeks earlier, when the garden
+needs color. But always my white must
+dominate. And it does. Most wonderful of
+<pb n="093"/><anchor id="Pg093"/>
+all is it on moonlight nights of late August,
+when it broods over the garden like a white
+cloud, and the night moths come crowding
+to its fragrant feast, with their intermittent
+burring of furry wings.</p>
+
+<p>Ah, well! the phlox has passed now, and its
+trim green leaves are brown and crackly. I
+can do what I like with it after this. So when
+my other transplanting grows tiresome, I fall
+upon my phlox. Every year some of it needs
+thinning, so quickly does it spread. I take the
+spading-fork, and, with what seems like utter
+ruthlessness, I pry out from the thickest centers
+enough good roots to give the rest breathing
+and growing space. Along the path edges
+I always have to cut out encroaching roots
+each year, or else soon there would be no
+path. But all that I take out is precious,
+either to give to friends for their gardens, or
+to enlarge the edges of my own. For this
+phlox needs almost no care, and will fight
+grass and weeds for itself.</p>
+
+<p>There are phlox seedlings, too, all over the
+garden, but I have no way of telling what color
+they are, though usually I can detect the
+white by its foliage. I take them up and set
+<pb n="094"/><anchor id="Pg094"/>
+them out near the main phlox masses, and
+wait for the next season&rsquo;s blossoming before I
+give them their final place.</p>
+
+<p>This is the time of year, too, when I give
+some attention to the rocks in my garden.
+Of course, in order to have a garden at all,
+it was necessary to take out enough rock
+to build quite a respectable stone wall. But
+that was not the end. There never will be an
+end. A Connecticut garden grows rocks like
+weeds, and one must expect to keep on taking
+them out each fall. The rest of the year I try
+to ignore them, but after frost I like to make
+a fresh raid, and get rid of another wheelbarrow
+load or so. And I always notice that
+for one barrow load of stones that go out, it
+takes at least two barrow loads of earth to
+fill in. Thus an excellent circulation is maintained,
+and the garden does not stagnate.
+Moreover, I take great pleasure in showing
+my friends&mdash;especially friends from the
+more earthy sections of New York and farther
+west&mdash;the piles of rock and the parts of
+certain stone walls about the place that have
+been literally made out of the cullings of my
+garden. They never believe me.</p>
+<pb n="095"/><anchor id="Pg095"/>
+
+<p>As I am thus occupied,&mdash;digging, planting,
+thinning, sowing,&mdash;I find it one of the
+happiest seasons of the year. It is partly the
+stimulus of the autumn air, partly the pleasure
+of getting at the ground. I think there
+are some of us, city folk though we be, who
+must have the giant Antæus for ancestor. We
+still need to get in close touch with the earth
+now and then. Children have a true instinct
+with their love of barefoot play in the dirt,
+and there are grown folks who still love it&mdash;but
+we call it gardening. The sight and the
+feel and the smell of my brown garden beds
+gives me a pleasure that is very deep and
+probably very primitive.</p>
+
+<p>But there is another source of pleasure in
+my fall gardening&mdash;a pleasure not of the
+senses but of the imagination.</p>
+
+<p>For as I do my work my fancy is active.
+As I transplant my young hollyhocks, I see
+them, not little round-leaved bunches in my
+hand, but tall and stately, aflare with colors&mdash;yellows,
+whites, pinks. As I dig about my
+larkspur and stake out its seedlings, they
+spire above me in heavenly blues. As I arrange
+the clumps of coarse-leaved young
+<pb n="096"/><anchor id="Pg096"/>
+foxgloves, I seem to see their rich tower-like
+clusters of old-pink bells bending always a
+little towards the southeast, where most sun
+comes from. As I thin my forget-me-not I
+see it&mdash;in my mind&rsquo;s eye&mdash;in a blue mist
+of spring bloom. Thus, a garden rises in my
+fancy, a garden where neither beetle, borer,
+nor cutworm doth corrupt, and where the
+mole doth not break in or steal, where gentle
+rain and blessed sun come as they are needed,
+where all the flowers bloom unceasingly in
+colors of heavenly light&mdash;a garden such as
+never yet existed nor ever shall, till the tales
+of fairyland come true. I shall never see that
+garden, yet every year it blooms for me
+afresh&mdash;after frost.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="chapter05">
+<pb n="097"/><anchor id="Pg097"/>
+<index index="toc" level1="V. The Joys of Garden Stewardship"/>
+<index index="pdf" level1="V. The Joys of Garden Stewardship"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">V</head>
+<head type="sub">The Joys of Garden Stewardship</head>
+
+<p>I sometimes think I am coming to classify
+my friends according to the way they act
+when I talk about my garden. On this basis,
+there are three sorts of people.</p>
+
+<p>First there are those who are obviously not
+interested. Such as these feel no answering
+thrill, even at the sight of a florist&rsquo;s spring
+catalogue. A weed inspires in them no desire
+to pull it. They may, however, be really nice
+people if they are still young; for, except by
+special grace, no one under thirty need be
+expected to care about gardens&mdash;it is a mature
+taste. But in the mean time I turn our
+talk in other channels.</p>
+
+<p>Then there are the people who, when I
+approach the subject, brighten up, look intelligent,
+even eager, but in a moment make
+it clear that what they are eager for is a
+chance to talk about their own gardens.
+Mine is merely the stepping-stone, the bridge,
+<pb n="098"/><anchor id="Pg098"/>
+the handle. This is better than indifference,
+yet it is sometimes trying. One of my dearest
+friends thus tests my love now and then when
+she walks in my garden.</p>
+
+<p><q>Aren&rsquo;t those peonies lovely?</q> I suggest.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes,</q> dreamily; <q>you know I can&rsquo;t have
+that shade in my garden because&mdash;</q> and she
+trails off into a disquisition that I could, just
+at that moment, do without.</p>
+
+<p><q>Look at the height of that larkspur!</q> I say.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes&mdash;but, you know, it wouldn&rsquo;t do for
+me to have larkspur when I go away so early.
+What I need is things for April and May.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, I am not trying to
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">sell</hi> you any,</q> I
+am sometimes goaded into protesting. <q>I
+only wanted you to say they are pretty&mdash;pretty
+right here in <hi rend="font-style: italic">my</hi> garden.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes&mdash;yes&mdash;of course they are pretty&mdash;they&rsquo;re
+lovely&mdash;you have a lovely garden,
+you know.</q> She pulls herself up to give
+this tribute, but soon her eyes get the faraway
+look in them again, and she is murmuring,
+<q>Oh, I must write Edward to see
+about that hedge. Tell me, my dear, if you
+had a brick wall, would you have vines on it
+or wall-fruit?</q></p>
+<pb n="099"/><anchor id="Pg099"/>
+
+<p>It is of no use. I cannot hold her long. I
+sometimes think she was nicer when she had
+no garden of her own. Perhaps she thinks I
+was nicer when I had none.</p>
+
+<p>But there is another kind of garden manners&mdash;a
+kind that subtly soothes, cheers,
+perhaps inebriates. It is the manner of the
+friend who may, indeed, have a garden, but
+who looks at mine with the eye of adoption,
+temporarily at least. She walks down its
+paths, singling out this or that for notice.
+She suggests, she even criticizes, tenderly, as
+one who tells you an <q>even
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">more</hi> becoming
+way</q> to arrange your little daughter&rsquo;s hair.
+She offers you roots and seeds and seedlings
+from her garden, and&mdash;last touch of flattery&mdash;she
+begs seeds and seedlings from yours.</p>
+
+<p>For garden purposes, give me the manners
+of this third class. And, indeed, not for
+garden purposes alone. They are useful as
+applied to many things&mdash;children, particularly,
+and houses.</p>
+
+<p>Undoubtedly the demand that I make
+upon my friends is a form of vanity, yet I
+cannot seem to feel ashamed of it. I admit at
+once that not the least part of my pleasure in
+<pb n="100"/><anchor id="Pg100"/>
+my flowers is the attention they get from
+others. Moreover, it is not only from friends
+that I seek this, but from every passer-by
+along my country road. There are gardens
+and gardens. Some, set about with hedges
+tall and thick, offer the delights of exclusiveness
+and solitude. But exclusiveness and solitude
+are easily had on a Connecticut farm,
+and my garden will none of them; it flings
+forth its appeal to every wayfarer. And I
+like it. I like my garden to <q>get notice.</q> As
+people drive by I hope they enjoy my phlox.
+I furtively glance to see if they have an eye
+for the foxglove. I wonder if the calendulas
+are so tall that they hide the asters. And if,
+as I bend over my weeding, an automobile
+whirling past lets fly an appreciative phrase&mdash;<q>lovely
+flowers&mdash;</q> <q>wonderful yellow
+of&mdash;</q> <q>garden there,</q>&mdash;my ears are quick
+to receive it and I forgive the eddies of gasolene
+and dust that are also left by the vanishing
+visitant.</p>
+
+<p>About few things can one be so brazen in
+one&rsquo;s enjoyment of recognition. One&rsquo;s house,
+one&rsquo;s clothes, one&rsquo;s work, one&rsquo;s children, all
+these demand a certain modesty of demeanor,
+<pb n="101"/><anchor id="Pg101"/>
+however the inner spirit may puff.
+Not so one&rsquo;s garden. I fancy this is because,
+while I have a strong sense of ownership in it,
+I also have a strong sense of stewardship.
+As owner I must be modest, but as steward I
+may admire as openly as I will. Did I make
+my phlox? Did I fashion my asters? Am I the
+artificer of my fringed larkspur? Nay, truly,
+I am but their caretaker, and may glory in
+them as well as another, only with the added
+touch of joy that I, even I, have given them
+their opportunity. Like Paul I plant, like
+Apollos I water, but before the power that
+giveth the increase I stand back and wonder.</p>
+
+<p>But it is not alone the results of my stewardship
+that give me joy. Its very processes
+are good. Delight in the earth is a primitive
+instinct. Digging is naturally pleasant, hoeing
+is pleasant, raking is pleasant, and then
+there is the weeding. For I am not the only
+one who sows seeds in my garden. One of my
+friends remarked cheerfully that he had
+planted twenty-seven different vegetables in
+his garden, and the Lord had planted two
+hundred and twenty-seven other kinds of
+things.</p>
+<pb n="102"/><anchor id="Pg102"/>
+
+<p>This is where the weeding comes in. Now a
+good deal has been said about the labor of
+weeding, but little about the gratifications of
+weeding. I don&rsquo;t mean weeding with a hoe.
+I mean yanking up, with movements suited
+to the occasion, each individual growing
+thing that doesn&rsquo;t belong. Surely I am not
+the only one to have felt the pleasure of this.
+They come up so nicely, and leave such soft
+earth behind! And intellect is needed, too,
+for each weed demands its own way of handling:
+the adherent plantain needing a slow,
+firm, drawing motion, but very satisfactory
+when it comes; the evasive clover requiring
+that all its sprawling runners shall be gathered
+up in one gentle, tactful pull; the tender
+shepherd&rsquo;s purse coming easily on a straight
+twitch; the tough ragweed that yields to almost
+any kind of jerk. Even witch-grass, the
+bane of the farmer, has its rewarding side,
+when one really does get out its handful of
+wicked-looking, crawly, white tubers.</p>
+
+<p>Weeding is most fun when the weeds are
+not too small. Yes, from the aspect of a sport
+there is something to be said for letting weeds
+grow. Pulling out little tender ones is poor
+<pb n="103"/><anchor id="Pg103"/>
+work compared with the satisfaction of hauling
+up a spreading treelet of ragweed or a
+far-flaunting wild buckwheat. You seem to
+get so much for your effort, and it stirs up
+the ground so, and no other weeds have grown
+under the shade of the big one, so its departure
+leaves a good bit of empty brown
+earth.</p>
+
+<p>Surely, weeding is good fun. If faults could
+be yanked out of children in the same entertaining
+way, the orphan asylums would soon
+be emptied through the craze for adoption as
+a major sport.</p>
+
+<p>One of the pleasantest mornings of my life
+was spent weeding, in the rain, a long-neglected
+corner of my garden, while a young
+friend stood around the edges and explained
+the current political situation to me, and
+carted away armfuls of green stuff as I
+handed them out to him. The rain drizzled,
+and the air was fragrant with the smell of
+wet earth and bruised stems. Ideally, of
+course, weeds should never reach this state
+of sportive rankness. But most of my friends
+admit, under pressure, that there are corners
+where such things do happen.</p>
+<pb n="104"/><anchor id="Pg104"/>
+
+<p>Naturally, all this is assuming that one is
+one&rsquo;s own gardener. There may be pleasure
+in having a garden kept up by a real gardener,
+but that always seems to me a little
+like having a doll and letting somebody else
+dress and undress it. My garden must never
+grow so big that I cannot take care of it&mdash;and
+neglect it&mdash;myself.</p>
+
+<p>In saying this, however, I don&rsquo;t count
+rocks. When it comes to rocks, I call in Jonathan.
+And it often comes to rocks.</p>
+
+<p>For mine is a Connecticut garden. Now
+in the beginning Connecticut was composed
+entirely of rocks. Then the little earth
+gnomes, fearing that no one would ever come
+there to give them sport, sprinkled a little
+earth amongst the rocks, partly covered
+some, wholly covered others, and then hid to
+see what the gardeners would do about it.
+And ever since the gardeners have been patiently,
+or impatiently, tucking in their seeds
+and plants in the thimblefuls of earth left by
+the gnomes. They have been picking out the
+rocks, or blowing them up, or burying them,
+or working around them; and every winter
+the little gnomes gather and push up a new
+<pb n="105"/><anchor id="Pg105"/>
+lot from the dark storehouses of the underworld.
+In the spring the gardeners begin
+again, and the little gnomes hold their sides
+with still laughter to watch the work go on.</p>
+
+<p><q>Rocks?</q> my friends say. <q>Do you mind
+the rocks? But they are a special beauty!
+Why, I have a rock in my garden that I have
+treated&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Very well,</q> I interrupt rudely.
+<q><hi rend="font-style: italic">A rock</hi> is
+all very well. If I had <hi rend="font-style: italic">a
+rock</hi> in my garden I
+could treat it, too. But how about a garden
+that is all rocks?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh&mdash;why&mdash;choose another spot.</q></p>
+
+<p>Whereupon I reply, <q>You don&rsquo;t know
+Connecticut.</q></p>
+
+<p>Ever since I began having a garden I have
+had my troubles with the rocks, but the
+worst time came when, in a mood of enthusiastic
+and absolutely unintelligent optimism,
+I decided to have a bit of smooth grass in the
+middle of my garden. I wanted it very much.
+The place was too restless; you couldn&rsquo;t sit
+down anywhere. I felt that I had to have a
+clear green spot where I could take a chair
+and a book. I selected the spot, marked it off
+with string, and began to loosen up the earth
+<pb n="106"/><anchor id="Pg106"/>
+for a late summer planting of grass seed.
+Calendulas and poppies and cornflowers had
+bloomed there before, self-sown and able to
+look out for themselves, so I had never investigated
+the depths of the bed to see what
+the little gnomes had prepared for me. Now
+I found out. The spading-fork gave a familiar
+dull clink as it struck rock. I felt about
+for the edge; it was a big one. I got the crowbar
+and dropped it, in testing prods; it was a
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">very</hi>
+big one, and only four inches below the
+surface. Grass would never grow there in a
+dry season. I moved to another part. Another
+rock, big too! I prodded all over the
+allotted space, and found six big fellows lurking
+just below the top of the soil. Evidently
+it was a case for calling in Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p>He came, grumbling a little, as a man
+should, but very efficient, armed with two
+crowbars and equipped with a natural genius
+for manipulating rocks. He made a few
+well-placed remarks about queer people who
+choose to have grass where flowers would
+grow, and flowers where grass would grow,
+also about Connecticut being intended for a
+quarry and not for a garden anyhow. But all
+<pb n="107"/><anchor id="Pg107"/>
+this was only the necessary accompaniment of
+the crowbar-play. Soon, under the insistent
+and canny urgency of the bars, a big rock
+began to heave its shoulder into sight above
+the soil. I hovered about, chucking in stones
+and earth underneath, placing little rocks
+under the bar for fulcrums, pulling them out
+again when they were no longer needed,
+standing guard over the flowers in the rest of
+the garden, with repeated warnings. <q>Please,
+Jonathan, don&rsquo;t step back any farther; you&rsquo;ll
+trample the forget-me-nots!</q>
+<q><hi rend="font-style: italic">Could</hi> you
+manage to roll this fellow out along that
+path and not across the mangled bodies of
+the marigolds?</q> Jonathan grumbled a little
+about being expected to pick a half-ton pebble
+out of the garden with his fingers, or lead
+it out with a string.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, well, of course, if you
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">can&rsquo;t</hi> do it I&rsquo;ll
+have to let the marigolds go this year. But
+you do such wonderful things with a crowbar,
+I thought you could probably just guide it a
+little.</q> And Jonathan responds nobly to the
+flattery of this remark, and does indeed guide
+the huge thing, eases it along the narrow
+path, grazes the marigolds but leaves them
+<pb n="108"/><anchor id="Pg108"/>
+unhurt, until at last, with a careful arrangement
+of stone fulcrums and a skillful twist of
+the bars, the great rock makes its last response
+and lunges heavily past the last flower
+bed on to the grass beyond.</p>
+
+<p>When the work was done, the edge of the
+garden looked like Stonehenge, and the spot
+where my grass was to be was nothing but
+a yawning pit, crying to be filled. We surveyed
+it with interest. <q>If we had a water-supply,
+I wouldn&rsquo;t make a grass-plot,</q> I
+said; <q>I&rsquo;d make a swimming-pool. It&rsquo;s deep
+enough.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And sit in the middle with your book?</q>
+asked Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p>But there was no water-supply, so we filled
+it in with earth. Thirty wheelbarrow loads
+went in where those rocks came out. And
+the little gnomes perched on Stonehenge and
+jeered the while. I photographed it, and the
+rocks <q>took</q> well, but as regards the gnomes,
+the film was underexposed.</p>
+
+<p>Thus the grass seed was planted. And we
+reminded each other of the version of <q>America</q>
+once given, with unconscious inspiration,
+by a little friend of ours:&mdash;</p>
+<pb n="109"/><anchor id="Pg109"/>
+
+<quote rend="display">
+  <l><q rend="post: none">Land where our father died,</q></l>
+  <l><q rend="pre: none">Land where the pilgrims pried.</q></l>
+</quote>
+
+<p>It seemed to us to suit the adventure.</p>
+
+<p>As I have said, I love to have my friends
+love my garden. But there is one thing about
+it that I find does not always appeal to them
+pleasantly, and that is its color-schemes.
+Yet this is not my doing. For in nothing do
+I feel more keenly the fact of my mere stewardship
+than in this matter of color-scheme.</p>
+
+<p>I set out with a very rigid one. I was
+quite decided in my own mind that what
+I wanted was white and salmon-pink and
+lavender. Asters, phlox, sweet peas, hollyhocks,
+all were to bend themselves to my
+rules. At first affairs went very well. White
+was easy. White phlox I had, and have&mdash;an
+inheritance&mdash;which from a few roots is
+spreading and spreading in waves of whiteness
+that grow more luxuriant every year.
+But I bought roots of salmon-pink and lavender,
+and then my troubles commenced.
+About the third season strange things began
+to happen. The pink phlox had the strength
+of ten. It spread amazingly; but it forgot all
+about my rules. It degenerated, some of it&mdash;reverted
+<pb n="110"/><anchor id="Pg110"/>
+toward that magenta shade that
+nature seems so naturally to adore in the
+vegetable world. To my horror I found my
+garden blossoming into magenta pink, blue
+pink, crimson, cardinal&mdash;all the colors I had
+determined not under any circumstances to
+admit. On the other hand, the lavender
+phlox, which I particularly wanted, was
+most lovely, but frail. It refused to spread.
+It effaced itself before the rampant pink and
+its magenta-tainted brood. I vowed I would
+pull out the magentas, but each year my
+courage failed. They bloomed so bravely; I
+would wait till they were through. But by
+that time I was not quite sure which was
+which; I might pull out the wrong ones. And
+so I hesitated.</p>
+
+<p>Moreover, I discovered, lingering among
+the flowers at dusk, that there were certain
+colors, most unpleasant by daylight, which
+at that time took on a new shade, and, for
+perhaps half an hour before night fell, were
+richly lovely. This is true of some of the
+magentas, which at dusk turn suddenly to
+royal purples and deep lavender-blues that
+are wonderfully satisfying.</p>
+<pb n="111"/><anchor id="Pg111"/>
+
+<p>For that half-hour of beauty I spare them.
+While the sun shines I try to look the other
+way, and at twilight I linger near them and
+enjoy their strange, dim glories, born literally
+of the magic hour. But I have trouble explaining
+them, by daylight, to some of my
+visitors who like color-schemes.</p>
+
+<p>Insubordination is contagious. And I
+found after a while that my asters were not
+running true; queer things were happening
+among the sweet peas, and in the ranks of the
+hollyhocks all was not as it should be. And
+the last charge was made upon me by the
+children&rsquo;s gardens. Children know not color-schemes.
+What they demand is flowers, flowers&mdash;flowers
+to pick and pick, flowers to do
+things with. Snapdragon, for instance, is a
+jolly playmate, and little fingers love to
+pinch its cheeks and see its jaws yawn wide.
+But snapdragon tends dangerously toward
+the magenta. Then there was the calendula&mdash;a
+delight to the young, because it blooms
+incessantly long past the early frosts, and has
+brittle stems that yield themselves to the
+clumsiest plucking by small hands. But calendula
+ranges from a faded yellow, through
+<pb n="112"/><anchor id="Pg112"/>
+really pretty primrose shades, to a deep red-orange
+touched with maroon.</p>
+
+<p>And, finally, there was the portulaca.
+Children love it, perhaps, best of all. It offers
+them fresh blossoms and new colors each
+morning, and it is even more easy to pick
+than the calendula. Who would deny them
+portulaca? Yet if this be admitted, one may
+as well give up the battle. For, as we all
+know, there is absolutely no color, except
+green, that portulaca does not perpetrate in
+its blossoms. It knows no shame.</p>
+
+<p>In short, I am giving up. I am beginning
+to say with conviction that color-schemes are
+the mark of a narrow and rigid taste&mdash;that
+they are born of convention and are meant
+not for living things but for wall-papers and
+portières and clothes. Moreover, I am really
+growing callous&mdash;or is it, rather, broad?
+Colors in my garden that would once have
+made my teeth ache now leave them feeling
+perfectly comfortable. I find myself looking
+with unmoved flesh&mdash;no creeps nor withdrawals&mdash;upon
+a bed of mixed magentas,
+scarlets, rose-pinks, and yellow-pinks. I even
+look with pleasure. I begin to think there
+<pb n="113"/><anchor id="Pg113"/>
+may be a point beyond which discord achieves
+a higher harmony. At least, this sounds well.
+But, again, I find it hard to explain to some
+of my friends.</p>
+
+<p>Indoors, it is another story. When I bring
+in the spoils of the garden I am again mistress
+and bend all to my will. Here I&rsquo;ll have
+no tricks of color played on me. Sunshine and
+sky, perhaps, work some spell, for as soon as I
+get within four walls my prejudices return;
+scarlets and crimsons and pinks have to live
+in different rooms. I must have my color-schemes
+again, and perhaps I am as narrow
+as the worst. Except, indeed, for the children&rsquo;s
+bowls; here the pink and the magenta,
+the lamb and the lion, may lie down together.
+But it takes a little child to lead them.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>Out in my garden I feel myself less and
+less owner, more and more merely steward.
+I decree certain paths, and the phlox says,
+<q>Paths? Did you say paths?</q> and obliterates
+them in a season&rsquo;s growth, so that children
+walk by faith and not by sight. I decree
+iris in one corner, and the primroses say,
+<q>Iris? Not at all. This is our bed. Iris indeed!</q>
+<pb n="114"/><anchor id="Pg114"/>
+And I submit, and move the iris
+elsewhere.</p>
+
+<p>And yet this slipping of responsibility is
+pleasant, too. So long as my garden will let
+me dig in it and weed it and pick it, so long as
+it entertains my friends for me, so long as it
+tosses up an occasional rock so that Jonathan
+does not lose all interest in it, so long as it
+plays prettily with the children and flings gay
+greetings to every passer-by, I can find no
+fault with it.</p>
+
+<p>The joys of stewardship are great and I
+am well content.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="chapter06">
+<pb n="115"/><anchor id="Pg115"/>
+<index index="toc" level1="VI. Trout and Arbutus"/>
+<index index="pdf" level1="VI. Trout and Arbutus"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">VI</head>
+<head type="sub">Trout and Arbutus</head>
+
+<p>Every year, toward the end of March, I find
+Jonathan poking about in my sewing-box.
+And, unless I am very absent-minded, I know
+what he is after.</p>
+
+<p><q>No use looking there,</q> I remark; <q>I keep
+my silks put away.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I want red, and as strong as there is.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I know what you want. Here.</q> and I
+hand him a spool of red buttonhole twist.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ah! Just right!</q> And for the rest of the
+evening his fingers are busy.</p>
+
+<p>Over what? Mending our trout-rods, of
+course. It is pretty work, calling for strength
+and precision of grasp, and as he winds and
+winds, adjusting all the little brass leading-rings,
+or supplying new ones, and staying
+points in the bamboo where he suspects weakness,
+we talk over last year&rsquo;s trout-pools, and
+wonder what they will be like this year.</p>
+
+<p>But beyond wonder we do not get, often
+for weeks after the trout season is, legislatively,
+<pb n="116"/><anchor id="Pg116"/>
+<q>open.</q> Jonathan is <q>busy.</q> I am
+<q>busy.</q> We know that, if April passes, there
+is still May and June, and so, if at the end of
+April, or early May, we do at last pick up
+our rods,&mdash;all new-bedight with red silk
+windings, and shiny with fresh varnish,&mdash;it
+is not alone the call of the trout that decides
+us, but another call which is to me at least
+more imperious, because, if we neglect it now,
+there is no May and June in which to heed it.
+It is the call of the arbutus.</p>
+
+<p>Any one with New England traditions
+knows what this call is. Its appeal is to
+something far deeper than the love of a pretty
+flower. For it is the flower that, to our fathers
+and our grandfathers, and to their fathers and
+grandfathers, meant spring; and not spring in
+its prettiness and ease, appealing to the idler
+in us, nor spring in its melancholy, appealing
+to&mdash;shall I say the poet in us? But spring
+in its blessedness of opportunity, its joyously
+triumphant life, appealing to the worker in
+us. Here, of course, we touch hands with all
+the races of the world for whom winter has
+been the supreme menace, spring the supreme
+and saving miracle. But each race has its own
+<pb n="117"/><anchor id="Pg117"/>
+symbols, and to the New Englander the symbol
+is the arbutus.</p>
+
+<p>This may seem a bit of sentimentality.
+And, indeed, we need not expect to find it
+expressed by any New England farmer. New
+England does not go out in gay companies to
+bring back the first blossoms. But New
+England does nothing in gay companies. It
+has been taught to distrust ceremonies and
+expression of any sort. It rejoices with reticence,
+it appreciates with a reservation. And
+yet I have seen a sprig of arbutus in rough
+and clumsy buttonholes on weather-faded
+lapels which, the rest of the twelve-month
+through, know no other flower. And when,
+in unfamiliar country, I have interrupted the
+ploughing to ask for guidance, I usually get
+it:&mdash;<q>Arbutus? Yaas. The&rsquo;s a lot of it up
+along that hillside and in the woods over beyond&mdash;&rsquo;t
+was out last week, some of it, I
+happened to notice</q>&mdash;this in the apologetic
+tone of one who admits a weakness&mdash;<q>guess
+you&rsquo;ll find all you want.</q> I venture to say
+that of no other wild flower, except those
+which work specific harm or good, could I get
+such information.</p>
+<pb n="118"/><anchor id="Pg118"/>
+
+<p>To many of us, city-bred, the tradition
+comes through inheritance. It means, perhaps,
+the shy, poetic side of our father&rsquo;s boyhood,
+only half acknowledged, after the New
+England fashion, but none the less real and
+none the less our possession. It means rare
+days, when the city&mdash;whose chiefest signs
+of spring were the flare of dandelions in yards
+and parks and the chatter of English sparrows
+on ivy-clad church walls&mdash;was left behind,
+and we were <q>in the country.</q> It was a
+country excitingly different from the country
+of the summer vacation, a country not deeply
+green, but warmly brown, and sweet with the
+smell of moist, living earth. Green enough,
+indeed, in the spring-fed meadows and folds of
+the hills, where the early grass flashes into
+vividest emerald, but in the woods the soft
+mist-colored mazes of multitudinous twigs
+still show through their veilings and dustings
+of color&mdash;palest green of birches, gray-green
+of poplar, yellow-green of willows, and
+redder tones of the maples; and along the
+fence-lines and roadsides&mdash;blessed, untidy
+fence-lines and roadsides of New England&mdash;a
+fine penciling of red stems&mdash;the cut-back
+<pb n="119"/><anchor id="Pg119"/>
+maple bushes and tangled vines alive to their
+tips and just bursting into leaf. And everywhere
+in the woods, on fence-lines and roadsides,
+the white blossoms of the <q>shad-blow,</q>
+daintiest of spring trees,&mdash;too slight for a
+tree, indeed, though too tall for a bush and
+looking less like a tree in blossom than like
+floating blossoms caught for a moment among
+the twigs. A moment only, for the first gust
+loosens them again and carpets the woods
+with their petals, but while they last their
+whiteness shimmers everywhere.</p>
+
+<p>Such rare days were all blown through
+with the wonderful wind of spring. Spring
+wind is really different from any other. It is
+not a finished thing, like the mellow winds of
+summer and the cold blasts of winter. It is an
+imperfect blend of shivering reminiscence and
+eager promise. One moment it breathes sun
+and stirring earth, the next it reminds us of
+old snow in the hollows, and bleak northern
+slopes.</p>
+
+<p>When, on these days, the wind blew to us,
+almost before we saw it, the first greeting of
+the arbutus, it always seemed that the day
+had found its complete and satisfying expression.
+<pb n="120"/><anchor id="Pg120"/>
+Every one comes to realize, at
+some time in his life, the power of suggestion
+possessed by odors. Does not half the power
+of the Church lie in its incense? An odor, just
+because it is at once concrete and formless,
+can carry an appeal overwhelmingly strong
+and searching, superseding all other expression.
+This is the appeal made to me by the
+arbutus. It can never be quite precipitated
+into words, but it holds in solution all the
+things it has come to mean&mdash;dear human
+tradition and beloved companionship, the
+poetry of the land and the miracle of new
+birth.</p>
+
+<p>In late March or early April I am likely to
+see the first blossom on some friend&rsquo;s table&mdash;I
+try not to see it first in a florist&rsquo;s display!
+To my startled question she gives reassuring
+answer, <q>Oh, no, not from around here. This
+came from Virginia.</q></p>
+
+<p>Days pass, and, perhaps, the mail brings
+some to me, this time from Pennsylvania or
+New Jersey, and soon I can no longer ignore
+the trays of tight, leafless bunches for sale on
+street corners and behind plate-glass windows.
+<q>From York State,</q> they tell me. I grow
+restive.</p>
+<pb n="121"/><anchor id="Pg121"/>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan,</q> I say, holding up a spray for
+him to smell, <q>we&rsquo;ve got to go. You can&rsquo;t
+resist that. We&rsquo;ll take a day and go for it&mdash;and
+trout, too.</q></p>
+
+<p>It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout
+season, for to take a day off just to pick a
+flower might seem a little absurd. But,
+coupled with trout&mdash;all is well. Trout is
+food. One must eat. The search for food
+needs no defense, and yet, the curious fact is,
+that if you go for trout and don&rsquo;t get any, it
+doesn&rsquo;t make so much difference as you
+might suppose, but if you go for arbutus and
+don&rsquo;t get any, it makes all the difference in
+the world. And so Jonathan knows that in
+choosing his brook for that particular day,
+he must have regard primarily to the arbutus
+it will give us and only secondarily to the
+trout.</p>
+
+<p>Every one knows the kind of brook that is,
+for every one knows the kind of country
+arbutus loves&mdash;hilly country, with slopes
+toward the north; bits of woodland, preferably
+with pine in it, to give shade, but not too
+deep shade; a scrub undergrowth of laurel
+and huckleberry and bay; and always, somewhere
+<pb n="122"/><anchor id="Pg122"/>
+within sight or hearing, water. It is
+curious how arbutus, which never grows in
+wet places, yet seems to like the neighborhood
+of water. It loves the slopes above a brook
+or the shaggy hillsides overlooking a little
+pond or river.</p>
+
+<p>Fortunately, there is such a brook, in just
+such country, on our list. There are not so
+many trout as in other brooks, but enough to
+justify our rods; and not so much arbutus as
+I could find elsewhere, but enough&mdash;oh,
+enough!</p>
+
+<p>To this brook we go. We tie Kit at the
+bridge, Jonathan slings on a fish-basket, to do
+for both, and I take a box or two for the
+flowers. But from this moment on our interests
+are somewhat at variance. The fact is,
+Jonathan cares a little more about the trout
+than about the arbutus, while I care a little
+more about the arbutus than about the
+trout. His eye is keenly on the brook, mine
+is, yearningly, on the ragged hillsides that roll
+up above it.</p>
+
+<p>Jonathan feels this. <q>There isn&rsquo;t any for
+two fields yet&mdash;might as well stick to the
+brook.</q></p>
+<pb n="123"/><anchor id="Pg123"/>
+
+<p><q>I know. I thought perhaps I&rsquo;d go on
+down and let you fish this part. Then I&rsquo;d
+meet you beyond the second fence&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, no, that won&rsquo;t do at all. Why, there&rsquo;s
+a rock just below here&mdash;down by that wild
+cherry&mdash;where I took out a beauty last
+year, and left another. I want you to go
+down and get him.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You get him. I don&rsquo;t mind.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, but I mind. Here, I&rsquo;ve got it all
+planned: there&rsquo;s a bit of brush-fishing just
+below&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No brush-fishing for me, please!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>That&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;m saying, if you&rsquo;ll only
+give me time. I&rsquo;ll take that&mdash;there are
+always two or three in there&mdash;and when
+you&rsquo;ve finished here you can go around me
+and fish the bend, under the hemlocks, and
+then the first arbutus is just beside that, and
+I&rsquo;ll join you there.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well</q>&mdash;I assent grudgingly&mdash;<q>only,
+really, I&rsquo;d be just as happy if you&rsquo;d fish the
+whole thing and let me go right on down&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No, you wouldn&rsquo;t. Now, remember to
+sneak before you get to that rock. Drop in
+six feet above it and let the current do the
+<pb n="124"/><anchor id="Pg124"/>
+rest. They&rsquo;re awfully shy. I expect you to
+get at least one there, and two down at the
+bend.</q> He trudges off to his brush-fishing
+and leaves me bound in honor to extract a
+trout from under that rock. I deposit my
+boxes in the meadow above it, and <q>sneak</q>
+down. The sneak of a trout fisherman is like
+no other form of locomotion, and I am convinced
+that the human frame was not evolved
+with it in mind. But I resort to it in deference
+to Jonathan&rsquo;s prejudices&mdash;in deference,
+also, to the fact that when I do not the trout
+seldom bite. And Jonathan is so trustfully
+counting on my getting that trout!</p>
+
+<p>I did get him. I dropped in my line, as per
+directions, and let the current do the rest;
+had the thrill of feeling the line suddenly
+caught and drawn under the rock, held, then
+wiggled slightly; I struck, felt the weight,
+drew back steadily, and in a few moments
+there was a flopping in the grass behind me.</p>
+
+<p>So that was off my mind.</p>
+
+<p>I strung him on a twig of wild cherry,
+gathered up my boxes, and wandered along
+the faint path, back of the patch of brush
+where, I knew, Jonathan was cheerfully
+<pb n="125"/><anchor id="Pg125"/>
+threading his line through tangles of twig,
+briar, and vine, compared with which the
+needle&rsquo;s eye is as a yawning barn door.
+Jonathan&rsquo;s attitude toward brush-fishing is
+something which I respect without understanding.
+Down one long field I went, where
+the brook ran in shallow gayety, and there,
+ahead, was the bend, a sudden curve of
+water, deepening under the roots of an overhanging
+hemlock. I climbed the stone wall
+beside, glanced at the water&mdash;very trouty
+water indeed&mdash;glanced at the hill-pasture
+above&mdash;very arbutusy indeed&mdash;laid down
+my rod and my trout and my box, and ran
+up the low bank to a clump of bay and berry-bushes
+that I thought I remembered.&hellip;
+Yes! There it was! I had remembered! Ah!
+The dear things!</p>
+
+<p>When you first find arbutus, there is only
+one thing to do:&mdash;lie right down beside it.
+Its fragrance as it grows is different from
+what it is after it is picked, because with the
+sweetness of the blossoms is mingled the good
+smell of the earth and of the woody twigs and
+of the dried grass and leaves. And there are
+other rewards one gets by lying down. It is
+<pb n="126"/><anchor id="Pg126"/>
+all very well to talk proudly about man&rsquo;s
+walking with his head erect and his face to
+the heavens, but if we keep that posture all
+the time we miss a good deal. The attitude
+of the toad and the lizard is not to be scorned,
+though when the needs of locomotion convert
+it into the fisherman&rsquo;s <q>sneak,</q> it is, as I
+have suggested, to be sparingly indulged in.
+But if we could only nibble now and then
+from <q>the other side</q> of Alice&rsquo;s mushroom,
+what a new outlook we should get on the
+world that now lies about our feet! What
+new aspects of its beauty would be revealed
+to us: the forest grandeurs of the grass, the
+architecture of its slim shafts with their pillared
+aisles and pointed arches of interlocking
+and upspringing curves, their ceiling traceries
+of spraying tops against a far-away background
+of sky!</p>
+
+<p>To know arbutus, you must stoop to its
+level, and look across the fine, frosty fur of
+its stiff little leaves, and feel the nestle of its
+stems to the ground, the little up-fling of their
+tips toward the sun, and the neat radiance
+of its flower clusters, with their blessed
+fragrance and their pure, babyish color.</p>
+<pb n="127"/><anchor id="Pg127"/>
+
+<p>But after that? You want to pick it. Yes,
+you really want to pick it!</p>
+
+<p>In this it is different from other flowers.
+Most of them I am well content to leave
+where they grow. In fact, the love of picking
+things&mdash;flowers or anything else&mdash;is a
+youthful taste: we lose it as we grow older;
+we become more and more willing to appreciate
+without acquiring, or rather, appreciation
+becomes to us a finer and more spiritual
+form of acquiring. Is it possible that, after all,
+the old idea of heaven as a state of enraptured
+contemplation is in harmony with the trend
+of our development?</p>
+
+<p>But if there is arbutus in heaven, I shall
+need to develop a good deal further not to
+want to pick it. It suggests picking; it
+almost invites it. There is something about
+the way it nestles and hides, that makes you
+want to see it better. Here is a spray of pure
+white, living under a green tent of overlapping
+leaves; one must raise it, and nip off just one
+leaf, so that the blossoms can see out. There
+is another, a pink cluster, showing faintly
+through the dry, matted grass. You feel for
+the stem, pull it gently, and, lo, it is many
+<pb n="128"/><anchor id="Pg128"/>
+stems, which have crept their way under the
+tangle, and every one is tipped with a cluster
+of stars or round little buds each on its long
+stem, fairly begging to be picked. It gets
+picked.</p>
+
+<p>Yet sometimes its very beauty has stayed
+my hand. I shall never forget one clump I
+found, growing out of a bank of deep green
+moss, partly shaded by a great hemlock. The
+soft pink blossoms&mdash;luxuriant leafy sprays of
+them&mdash;were lying out on the moss in a pagan
+carelessness of beauty, as though some
+god had willed it there for his pleasure. I sat
+beside it a long time, and in the end I left it
+without picking it.</p>
+
+<p>On this particular day, Jonathan being
+still lost in the brush patch, I had risen
+from my visit with the first-discovered blossoms
+and wandered on, from clump to clump,
+wherever the glimpse of a leaf attracted me,
+picking the choicest here and there and
+dropping them into my box. After I do not
+know how long, I was roused by Jonathan&rsquo;s
+whistle. I was some distance up the hillside
+by this time, and he was beside the brook, at
+the bend.</p>
+<pb n="129"/><anchor id="Pg129"/>
+
+<p><q>What luck?</q> he called.</p>
+
+<p><q>Good luck! I&rsquo;ve found lots. Come up!</q></p>
+
+<p>He took a few steps up toward me, so that
+conversation could drop from shouting to
+speaking levels. <q>How many did you get?</q>
+he asked.</p>
+
+<p><q>How many?&hellip; Oh &hellip; why &hellip; Oh, I
+got one up there where you showed me&mdash;under
+the rock, you know.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good one?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eight inches. He&rsquo;s down there by the
+bars.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good! And what about the bend?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The bend? Oh, I didn&rsquo;t fish there&mdash;look
+at these! Aren&rsquo;t they beauties?</q> I
+came down the hill to hold my open box up
+to his face. But my casual word almost
+effaced the scent of the flowers.</p>
+
+<p><q>Ah&mdash;yes&mdash;delicious&mdash;didn&rsquo;t fish
+there? Why not? Did they see you?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Who? The trout? I don&rsquo;t know. But I
+saw this. And I just had to pick it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well! You&rsquo;re a great fisherman! And with
+that water right there beside you! Lord!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>With the arbutus right here beside me!
+Lord!</q></p>
+<pb n="130"/><anchor id="Pg130"/>
+
+<p><q>But the arbutus would wait.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But the trout would wait. They&rsquo;re waiting
+for you now, don&rsquo;t you hear them? Go
+and fish there!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No. That&rsquo;s your pool.</q> Jonathan has a
+way of bestowing a trout-pool on me as if it
+were a bouquet. To refuse its opportunities
+is almost like throwing his flowers back in his
+face.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;of course it&rsquo;s a beautiful pool&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Best on the brook,</q> murmured Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>But, truly, I&rsquo;d enjoy it just as much to
+have you fish it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Nobody can fish it now for a while. I
+thought you&rsquo;d be there, of course, and I came
+stamping along down, close by the bank.
+They wouldn&rsquo;t bite now&mdash;not for half an
+hour, anyway.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, then, that&rsquo;s just right. We&rsquo;ll go on
+up the hillside for half an hour, and then come
+back and fish it. Set your rod up against the
+bayberry here, and come along&mdash;look there!
+you&rsquo;re almost stepping on some!</q></p>
+
+<p>Jonathan, gradually adjusting himself to
+the turn of things, stood his rod up against
+the bush with the meticulous care of the true
+<pb n="131"/><anchor id="Pg131"/>
+sportsman. <q>Where did you leave yours?</q>
+he asked, with a suspiciousness born of a
+deep knowledge of my character.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, down by the bars.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Standing up or lying down?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Lying down, I think. It&rsquo;s all right.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It&rsquo;s not all right if it&rsquo;s lying down. Anything
+might trample on it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>For instance, what?&mdash;birds or crickets?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>For instance, people or cows.</q> He strode
+down the hill, and I saw him stoop. As he
+returned I could read disapproval in his gait.
+<q>Will you never learn how to treat a rod!
+It was lying just beyond the bars. I must
+have landed within two feet of it when I
+jumped over.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;m sorry. I meant to go back. I know
+perfectly how to treat a rod. My trouble
+comes in knowing when to apply my knowledge.&hellip;
+Well, let&rsquo;s go up there. Near those
+big hemlocks there&rsquo;s some, I remember.</q>
+And we wandered on, separating a little to
+scan the ground more widely.</p>
+
+<p>Once having pried his mind away from the
+trout, Jonathan was as keen for arbutus as I
+could wish, and soon I heard an exclamation,
+<pb n="132"/><anchor id="Pg132"/>
+and saw him kneel. <q>Oh, come over!</q> he
+called; <q>you really ought to see this growing!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But there&rsquo;s some I want, right here,
+that&rsquo;s lovely&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Never mind. Come and see this&mdash;oh,
+come!</q></p>
+
+<p>Of course I come, and of course I am glad I
+came, and of course soon I am obliged to call
+Jonathan to see some I have found&mdash;<q>Jonathan,
+it is truly the loveliest
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">yet!</hi> It&rsquo;s the
+way it grows&mdash;with the moss and all&mdash;please
+come!</q> And of course he comes.</p>
+
+<p>We had been on the hillside a long half-hour,
+much nearer an hour, when Jonathan
+began to grow restive. <q>Don&rsquo;t you think you
+have enough?</q> he suggested several times.
+Finally, he spoke plainly of the trout.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, yes, of course,</q> I said, <q>you go down
+and I&rsquo;ll follow just as soon as I&rsquo;ve gone along
+that upper path.</q></p>
+
+<p>Not at all. That was not what was wanted.
+So I turned and we went down the hill, back
+to the bend, whose seductions I had been so
+puzzlingly able to resist. I am sure Jonathan
+has never yet quite understood how I could
+<pb n="133"/><anchor id="Pg133"/>
+leave that bit of water at my left hand and
+turn away to the right.</p>
+
+<p><q>Now&mdash;sneak!</q></p>
+
+<p>We sneaked, and I sank down just back of
+the edge of the bank. Jonathan crouched
+some feet behind, coaching me:&mdash;<q>Now&mdash;draw
+out a little more line&mdash;not too much&mdash;there&mdash;and
+have some slack in your hand.
+Now, up-stream fifteen feet&mdash;allow for the
+wind&mdash;wait till that gust passes&mdash;now!
+Good! First-rate! Now let her drift&mdash;there&mdash;what
+did I tell you? Give him line! <hi rend="font-style: italic">Give</hi> him
+line! Now, feel of him&mdash;careful! You&rsquo;ll
+know when to strike &hellip; there!&hellip; Oh! too
+bad!</q></p>
+
+<p>For as I struck, my line held fast.</p>
+
+<p><q>Snagged, by gummy! Can&rsquo;t you pull
+clear?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not without stirring up the whole pool.
+You&rsquo;ll have to do the fishing, after all.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh! <hi rend="font-style: italic">too</hi>
+bad! That&rsquo;s hard luck!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not a bit. I like to watch you do it.</q></p>
+
+<p>And so indeed I did. Once having realized
+that I was temporarily laid by, Jonathan put
+his whole mind on the pool, while I, being
+honorably released from all responsibility,
+<pb n="134"/><anchor id="Pg134"/>
+except that of keeping my line taut, could
+put my whole mind on his performance.
+There is a little the same sort of pleasure in
+watching the skillful handling of a rod that
+there is in watching the bow-action of a
+violinist. Both things demand the utmost
+nicety of adjustment: body, arm, wrist, fingers
+uniting in an interplay of efficiency exactly
+adapted to the intricately shifting needs
+of each moment.</p>
+
+<p>Thus I watched, through the typical stages
+of the sport: the delicate flip of the bait into
+the current at just the right spot; its swift
+descent, imperceptibly guided by the rod&rsquo;s
+quivering tip; its slower drift toward deep
+water; its sudden vanishing, and the whir of
+the reel as the line goes out; then the pause,
+the critical moments of <q>feeling for him</q>; at
+last the strike &hellip; and then, a flopping in the
+grass behind me, and Jonathan crawling
+back to kill and unhook him.</p>
+
+<p><q>Don&rsquo;t get up. There&rsquo;s probably another
+one,</q> he said; and soon, by the same reptilian
+methods, was back for another try. There
+was another one, and yet another, and then a
+little fellow, barely hooked. <q>That&rsquo;s all,</q>
+<pb n="135"/><anchor id="Pg135"/>
+said Jonathan, as he rose to put him back into
+the pool, and we watched the pretty spotted
+creature fling himself upstream with a wild
+flourish of his gleaming body.</p>
+
+<p><q>Now I&rsquo;ll get you clear,</q> said Jonathan,
+wading out into the water, and, with sleeves
+rolled high, feeling deep, deep down under
+the opposite bank. <q>He had you all right&mdash;it&rsquo;s
+wound round a root and then jabbed
+deep into it &hellip; hard luck! I wanted you to
+get those fellows!</q> And to this day I am sure
+he remembers those trout with a tinge of
+regret.</p>
+
+<p>I had intended leaving him to fish the rest
+of the brook, while I went back to that upper
+path to look up two or three special arbutus
+clumps that I knew, but seeing his depression
+over the snag incident, I could not suggest
+this. Instead I followed the stream with him,
+accepting his urgent offer of all the best pools,
+while he, taking what was left, drew out perfectly
+good trout from the most unhopeful-looking
+bits of water. And at the end, there
+was time to return along the upper path and
+visit my old friends, so both of us were satisfied.</p>
+<pb n="136"/><anchor id="Pg136"/>
+
+<p>On such days, however, there is always one
+person who is not satisfied, and that is, Kit
+the horse. Kit has borne with our vagaries
+for many years, but she has never come to
+understand them. She never fails to greet
+our return, as our voices come within the
+range of her pricked-up ears, by a prolonged
+and reproachful whinny, which says as plainly
+as is necessary, <q>Back? Well&mdash;I should
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">think</hi> it was time!
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">I should think it was
+TIME!</hi></q> Now and then we have thought it
+would be pleasant to have a little motor-car
+that could be tucked away at any roadside,
+without reference to a good hitching-place,
+but if we had it, I am sure we should miss that
+ungracious welcoming whinny. We should
+miss, too, the exasperated violence of Kit&rsquo;s
+pace on the first bit of the home road&mdash;a
+violence expressing in the most ostentatious
+manner her opinion of folks who keep a respectable
+horse hitched by the roadside, far
+from the delights of the dim, sweet stable
+and the dusty, sneezy, munchy hay.</p>
+
+<p>But leaving out this little matter of Kit&rsquo;s
+preference, and also the other little matter of
+the trout&rsquo;s preference, I feel sure that an arbutus-trouting
+<pb n="137"/><anchor id="Pg137"/>
+is peculiarly satisfying. It meets
+every human need&mdash;the need of food and
+beauty, the need of feeling strong and skillful,
+the need of becoming deeply aware of
+nature as living and kind. Moreover, it is
+very satisfying afterwards. As we sat that
+evening, over a late supper, with a shallow
+dish of arbutus beside us, I remarked, <q>The
+advantage of getting arbutus is, that you
+bring the whole day home with you and
+have it at your elbow.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The advantage of getting trout,</q> remarked
+Jonathan dreamily, as if to himself,
+<q>is, that you bring your whole day home
+with you, and have it for breakfast.</q></p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="chapter07">
+<pb n="138"/><anchor id="Pg138"/>
+<index index="toc" level1="VII. Without the Time of Day"/>
+<index index="pdf" level1="VII. Without the Time of Day"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">VII</head>
+<head type="sub">Without the Time of Day</head>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan, did you ever live without a
+clock,&mdash;whole days, I mean,&mdash;days and
+days&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>When I was a boy&mdash;most of the time, I
+suppose. But the family didn&rsquo;t like it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Of course. But did you like it?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, I liked it all. I seem to remember
+getting pretty hungry sometimes, but it&rsquo;s all
+rather good as I look back on it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Let&rsquo;s do it!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Now?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No. Society is an enlarged family, and
+wouldn&rsquo;t like it. But this summer, when
+we camp.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>How do you know we&rsquo;re going to camp?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The things we know best we don&rsquo;t always
+know how we know.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, then,&mdash;<hi rend="font-style: italic">if</hi>
+we camp&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">When</hi>
+we camp&mdash;let&rsquo;s live without a
+watch.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You&rsquo;d need one to get there.</q></p>
+<pb n="139"/><anchor id="Pg139"/>
+
+<p><q>Take one, and let it run down.</q></p>
+
+<p>As it turned out, my <q>when</q> was truer
+than Jonathan&rsquo;s <q>if.</q> We did camp. We
+did, however, use watches to get there: when
+we expressed our baggage, when we sent our
+canoe, when we took the trolley car and the
+train; and the watch was still going as our
+laden craft nosed gently against the bank of
+the river-island that was to be our home for
+two weeks. It was late afternoon, and the
+shadows of the steep woods on the western
+bank had already turned the rocks in midstream
+from silver to gray, and dimmed the
+brightness of the swift water, almost to the
+eastern shore.</p>
+
+<p><q>Will there be time to get settled before
+dark?</q> I asked, as we stepped out into the
+shallow water and drew up the canoe to unload.</p>
+
+<p><q>Shall I look at my watch to see?</q> asked
+Jonathan, with a note of amiable derision in
+his voice.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well, I <hi rend="font-style: italic">should</hi>
+rather like to know what
+time it is. We won&rsquo;t begin till to-morrow.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You mean, we won&rsquo;t begin to stop watching.
+All right. It&rsquo;s just seventeen and a half
+<pb n="140"/><anchor id="Pg140"/>
+minutes after five. I&rsquo;ll give you the seconds
+if you like.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Minutes will do nicely, thank you.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Lots of time. You collect firewood while
+I get the tent ready. Then it&rsquo;ll need us both
+to set it up.</q></p>
+
+<p>We worked busily, happily. Ah! The joyous
+elation of the first night in camp! Is
+there anything like it? With days and days
+ahead, and not even one counted off the
+shining number! All the good things of
+childhood and maturity seem pressed into
+one mood of flawless, abounding happiness.</p>
+
+<p>By dark the tent was up, the baggage
+stowed, the canoe secured, the fire glowing
+in a bed of embers, and we sat beside it, looking
+out past the glooms of the hemlocks
+across the moonlit river,&mdash;sat and ate city-cooked
+chicken and sandwiches and drank
+thermos-bottled tea.</p>
+
+<p><q>To-morrow we&rsquo;ll cook,</q> I said. <q>To-night
+it&rsquo;s rather nice not to have to. Look at
+the moonlight on that rock! How black it
+makes the eddy below!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good bass under there,</q> said Jonathan.
+<q>We&rsquo;ll get some to-morrow.</q></p>
+<pb n="141"/><anchor id="Pg141"/>
+
+<p><q>Maybe.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, of course, it&rsquo;s always maybe, with
+bass. Well&mdash;I&rsquo;m done&mdash;and it&rsquo;s quarter to
+ten&mdash;late! Oh! Excuse me! Maybe you&rsquo;d
+rather I hadn&rsquo;t told you. By the way, do I
+wind my watch to-night or not?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not it is, then. Sure you wouldn&rsquo;t rather
+have it wound, though? We can leave it
+hanging in the tent. It won&rsquo;t break loose and
+bite you.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, it would. There would be a something&mdash;a
+taint&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, <hi rend="font-style: italic">all</hi> right!</q></p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>We slept with the murmur of the river
+running through our dreams,&mdash;a murmur of
+many voices: deep voices, high voices, grumbling
+voices as the stones go grinding and rolling
+along the ever-changing bottom,&mdash;and
+only half roused when the dawn chorus of
+the birds filled the air. That dawn chorus was
+something we should have been loath to miss.
+Through the first gray of the morning there
+comes a stir in the woods, an expectant
+tremor; a bird peeps softly and is still; then
+<pb n="142"/><anchor id="Pg142"/>
+another, and another, <q>softly conferring together.</q>
+As the light grows warmer, comes a
+clearer note from some leader, then a full,
+complete song; another, and the woods are
+awake, flinging out their wonderful song-greeting
+to the morning. There is in it a prodigality
+of swift-changing beauty like ocean
+surf: a continuous and intricate interweaving
+of rhythms, pulses and ebbings of clear tone,
+beautiful phrases rising antiphonal, showerings
+of bright notes, moments of subsidence,
+almost of pause. As the light grows and
+sharpens, the music reaches a crescendo of
+exuberance, and at last dies down as real day
+comes, bringing with it the day&rsquo;s work. On
+our island the leader of the chorus was almost
+always a song sparrow, though once or
+twice a wood thrush came over from the shore
+woods and filled the hemlock shadows with
+the limpid splendors of his song.</p>
+
+<p>Hearing the chorus through our dreams,
+we slept again, and when I really waked the
+sun was high, flecking the eastern V of our
+tent with dazzling patches. I heard Jonathan
+moving about outside, and the crackling of
+a new-made fire. I went to the front of the
+<pb n="143"/><anchor id="Pg143"/>
+tent and looked out. Yes, there they were,
+the fire and Jonathan, in a quiet space of
+shade where the early coolness still hung.
+Beyond them, half shut out from view by
+the low-spreading hemlock boughs, was the
+open river&mdash;such gayety of swift water!
+Such dazzle of midsummer morning! I drew
+back, eager to be out in it.</p>
+
+<p><q>Bacon and eggs, is it?</q> called Jonathan,
+<q>or shall I run down and try for a bass?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Don&rsquo;t!</q> I called. I knew that if he once
+got out after bass he was lost to me for the
+day. And now we had cut loose from even
+the mild tyranny of his watch. As I thought
+of this I went over to the many-forked tree,
+whose close-trimmed branches served our tent
+as hat-rack, clothes-rack, everything-that-can-hang-or-perch-rack,
+and opened Jonathan&rsquo;s
+watch.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well, what time is it?</q> Jonathan was
+peering in between the tent-flaps.</p>
+
+<p><q>Twenty-two minutes before five.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>A.M., I judge. Sorry you didn&rsquo;t let me
+wind it?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not a bit. I was just curious to see when
+it stopped, that was all.</q></p>
+<pb n="144"/><anchor id="Pg144"/>
+
+<p><q>Well, now you know. Hereafter the official
+time for the camp is
+<reg orig="4.38"><anchor id='E1'/><ref target="e1">4:38</ref></reg>&mdash;<hi
+rend="font-variant: small-caps">A.M.</hi>
+or <hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">P.M.</hi>,
+according to taste. Come along. The bacon&rsquo;s
+done, and I&rsquo;m blest if I want to drop in the
+eggs.</q></p>
+
+<p>Dropping an egg will never, I fear, be one
+of Jonathan&rsquo;s most finished performances.
+He watched me do it with generous admiration.
+<q>If you could just get over being
+scared of them,</q> I suggested, as the last one
+plumped into the pan and set up its gentle
+sizzle.</p>
+
+<p><q>No use. I <hi rend="font-style: italic">am</hi>
+scared of the things. I tap
+and tap, and nothing happens, and then I
+get mad and tap hard, and they&rsquo;re all over
+the place.</q></p>
+
+<p>By the time breakfast was over, even the
+coolness under the hemlocks was beginning to
+grow warm and aromatic. The birds in the
+shore woods were quieter, though out at the
+sunny end of our island, where the hemlocks
+gave place to low scrub growth, the song
+sparrow sang gayly now and then.</p>
+
+<p><q>Now,</q> said Jonathan, <q>what about fishing?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;let&rsquo;s fish!</q></p>
+<pb n="145"/><anchor id="Pg145"/>
+
+<p><q>One up stream and one down, or keep together?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Together,</q> I decided. <q>If we go two
+ways there&rsquo;s no telling when I&rsquo;ll ever see
+you again.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, there is: when I&rsquo;m hungry.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No; some time after you&rsquo;ve noticed
+you&rsquo;re hungry.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Now, if we had watches it would be so
+much simpler: we could meet here at, say,
+one o&rsquo;clock.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Simple, indeed! When did you ever look
+at a watch when you were fishing, unless I
+made you? No, my way is simple, but we
+stay together.</q></p>
+
+<p>Of course, in river fishing, <q>together</q> means
+simply not absolutely out of sight of each
+other. Jonathan may be up to his arm-pits in
+mid-current, or marooned on a rock above a
+swirling eddy, while I am in a similar situation
+beyond calling distance, but so long as a
+bend in the river does not cut us off, we are
+<q>together,</q> and very companionable togetherness
+it is, too. When I see Jonathan wildly
+waving to attract my attention, I know he
+has either just caught a big bass or else just
+<pb n="146"/><anchor id="Pg146"/>
+lost one, and this gives me something to smile
+over as I wonder which it is. After a time, if
+I am catching shiners and no bass, and Jonathan
+doesn&rsquo;t seem to be moving, I infer that
+his luck is better than mine, and drift along
+toward him. Or it may be the other way
+around, and he comes to look me up. Bass
+are the most uncertain of fish, and no one
+can predict when they will elect to bite, or
+where. Sometimes they are in the still water,
+deep or shallow according to their caprice;
+sometimes they hang on the edges of the
+rapids; sometimes they are in the dark,
+smooth eddies below the great boulders;
+sometimes in the clear depths around the
+rocks near shore. Each day afresh,&mdash;indeed,
+each morning and each afternoon,&mdash;the
+fisherman must try, and try, and try, until
+he discovers what their choice has been for
+that special time. Yet no fisherman who has
+once drawn out a good bass from a certain
+bit of water can help feeling, next time, that
+there is another waiting for him there. That
+is one of the reasons why he is always hopeful,
+and so always happy. The fish he has caught,
+at this well-remembered spot and that, rise
+<pb n="147"/><anchor id="Pg147"/>
+up out of the past and flick their tails at him;
+and all the stretches between&mdash;stretches of
+water that have never for him held anything
+but shiners, stretches of time diversified by
+not even a nibble&mdash;sink into pleasant insignificance.</p>
+
+<p>We banked our fire, stowed everything in
+the tent that a thunderstorm would hurt,
+and splashed out into the river. There it lay
+in all its bright, swift beauty, and we stood
+a moment, looking, feeling the push of the
+water about our knees and the warmth of the
+sun on our shoulders.</p>
+
+<p><q>It makes a difference, sleeping out in it
+all,</q> I said. <q>You feel as if it belonged to
+you so much more. I quite own the river this
+morning, don&rsquo;t you?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Quite. But not the bass in it. Bet you
+don&rsquo;t catch one!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bet I beat you!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Bass, mind you. Sunfish don&rsquo;t count.
+You&rsquo;re always catching sunfish.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>They count in the pan. But I&rsquo;ll beat you
+on bass. I know some places&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Who doesn&rsquo;t? All right, go ahead!</q></p>
+
+<p>We were off; Jonathan, as usual, wading
+<pb n="148"/><anchor id="Pg148"/>
+up to his chest or perched on a bit of boulder
+above some dark, slick rapid; I preferring
+water not more than waist-deep, and not too
+far from shore to miss the responses of the
+wood-folk to my passing: soft flurries of
+wings; shy, half-suppressed peepings; quick
+warning notes; light footfalls, hopping or
+running or galloping; the snapping of twigs
+and the crushing of leaves. Some sounds tell
+me who the creature is,&mdash;the warning of the
+blue jay, the whirr of the big ruffed grouse,
+the thud of the bounding rabbit,&mdash;but many
+others leave me guessing, which is almost
+better. When a very big stick snaps, I always
+feel sure a deer is stealing away, though Jonathan
+assures me that a chewink can break
+twigs and <q>kick up a row generally,</q> so that
+you&rsquo;d swear it was nothing smaller than a
+wild bull.</p>
+
+<p>So we fished that day. When I caught a
+bass, which was seldom, I whooped and
+waved it at Jonathan, and when I caught a
+shiner, which was rather often, I waved it
+too, just to keep his mind occupied. Hours
+passed, and we met at a bend in the river
+where the deep water glides close to shore.</p>
+<pb n="149"/><anchor id="Pg149"/>
+
+<p><q>Hungry?</q> I asked.</p>
+
+<p><q>Now you speak of it, yes.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Shall we go back?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>How can I tell? Now, if we only had that
+watch we&rsquo;d know whether we ought to be
+hungry or not.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>What does that matter, if we
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">are</hi> hungry?
+Besides, if you&rsquo;d had a watch, you&rsquo;d have
+had to carry it in your teeth. You know perfectly
+well you wouldn&rsquo;t have brought it,
+anyway.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;then, at least when we got back,
+we should have known whether we ought to
+have been hungry or not. Now we shall never
+know.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Never! Oh! Look there, Jonathan!
+We&rsquo;re going to catch it!</q> A sense of growing
+shadow in the air had made me look up, and
+there, back of the steep-rising woods, hung a
+blue-black cloud, with ragged edges crawling
+out into the brightness of the sky.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sure enough! The bass&rsquo;ll bite now, if it
+really comes. Wait till the first drops, and
+see what you see.</q></p>
+
+<p>We had not long to wait. There came that
+sudden expectancy in the air and the trees,
+<pb n="150"/><anchor id="Pg150"/>
+the strange pallor in the light, the chill sweep
+of wind gusts with warm pauses between.
+Then a few big drops splashed on the dusty,
+sun-baked stones about us.</p>
+
+<p><q>Now! Wade right out there, to the edge
+of that ledge&mdash;don&rsquo;t slip over, it&rsquo;s deep.
+I&rsquo;ll go down a little way.</q></p>
+
+<p>I waded out carefully, and cast, in the
+smooth, dark water already beginning to be
+rain-pocked. It was surprisingly shivery, that
+storm wind! I glanced toward shore to look
+for shelter&mdash;I remembered an overhanging
+ledge of rock&mdash;then my line went taut! I
+forgot about shelter, forgot about being
+chilly; I knew it was a good bass.</p>
+
+<p>I got him in&mdash;too big to go through the
+hole in my creel&mdash;cast for another&mdash;and
+another&mdash;and yet another. The rain began
+to fall in sheets, and the wind nearly blew me
+over, but who could run away from such
+fishing? The surface of the river, deep blue-gray,
+seemed rising everywhere in little jets
+to meet the rain. Rapids, eddies, still waters,
+weedy edges, all looked alike; there were
+neither waves nor swirls nor glassy slicks,
+but all were roughly furry under the multitudinous
+<pb n="151"/><anchor id="Pg151"/>
+assaults of the fierce rain-drops.
+The sky was mottled lead-color, the wind
+blew less strongly, but cold&mdash;cold. And
+under that water the bass were biting, my rod
+was bending double, my reel softly screaming
+as I gave line, and one after another I drew
+the fish alongside and dipped them out with
+my landing net.</p>
+
+<p>Then, as suddenly as they had begun, they
+stopped biting. I waited long minutes;
+nothing happened, and all at once I realized
+that I was very wet and very cold. Wading
+ashore, I saw Jonathan shivering along up
+the narrow beach toward me, his shoulders
+drawn in to half their natural spread, neck
+tucked in between his collar-bones, knees
+slightly bent.</p>
+
+<p><q>You can&rsquo;t be cold?</q> I questioned as soon
+as he was near enough to hear me through
+the slash of the rain and wind.</p>
+
+<p><q>No, of course not; are you?</q></p>
+
+<p>We didn&rsquo;t discuss it, but ran up the bank
+to the rock-ledge and crouched under it, our
+teeth literally chattering.</p>
+
+<p><q>Did you ever see such fishing?</q> I managed
+to stammer.</p>
+<pb n="152"/><anchor id="Pg152"/>
+
+<p><q>Great! But oh, <hi rend="font-style: italic">why</hi>
+didn&rsquo;t I bring the whiskey bottle?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Let&rsquo;s run for camp! We can&rsquo;t be wetter.</q></p>
+
+<p>We crawled out into the rain again, and
+first sprinted and then dog-trotted along the
+river edge. No bird notes now in the woods
+beside us, no whirring of wings; only the rain
+sounds: soft swishings and drippings and
+gusty showerings, very different from the
+flat, flicking sounds when rain first starts in
+dry woods.</p>
+
+<p>Camp looked a little cheerless, but a blazing
+fire, started with dry stuff we had stowed
+inside the tent, changed things, and dry
+clothes changed them still more, and we sat
+within the tent flaps and ate ginger-snaps in
+great contentment of spirit while we waited
+for the rain to stop.</p>
+
+<p>It did stop, and very soon the fish were
+sizzling in the pan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Of course, if we had a watch, now&mdash;</q>
+suggested Jonathan, as he carefully tucked
+under the pan little sticks of just the right
+length.</p>
+
+<p><q>What should we know more than we do
+now&mdash;that we&rsquo;re hungry?</q> I asked.</p>
+<pb n="153"/><anchor id="Pg153"/>
+
+<p><q>Well, for one thing, we&rsquo;d know what
+time it is,</q> replied Jonathan tranquilly.</p>
+
+<p><q>And for another we&rsquo;d know whether it&rsquo;s
+dinner or supper I&rsquo;m cooking,</q> I supplemented.
+<q>But does it matter? You won&rsquo;t get
+anything different, no matter which it is&mdash;just
+fish is what you&rsquo;ll get. And pretty soon
+the sun will be out, and you can set up a
+stick and watch the shadow and make a sundial
+for yourself.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, I don&rsquo;t really care which it is.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Do you suppose I don&rsquo;t know that! And
+meanwhile, you might cut the bread and
+make some toast,&mdash;there are some good
+embers on your side under the pan,&mdash;and
+I&rsquo;ll get the butter, and there we&rsquo;ll be.</q></p>
+
+<p>By the time the toast was made and the
+fish curling brownly away from the pan, the
+sun had indeed come out, at first pale and
+watery, then clear, and still high enough in
+the heavens to set the soaked earth steaming
+fragrantly with its heat. Odors of hemlock
+and wet earth mingled with odors of toast
+and fried fish.</p>
+
+<p><q>Um-m! Smell it all!</q> I said. <q>What a lot
+we should miss if we didn&rsquo;t eat in the kitchen!</q></p>
+<pb n="154"/><anchor id="Pg154"/>
+
+<p><q>Or cook in the dining-room&mdash;which?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And hear that song sparrow! Doesn&rsquo;t it
+sound as if the rain had washed his song a
+little cleaner and clearer?</q></p>
+
+<p>There followed the wonderful afterlight
+that a short, drenching rain leaves behind it&mdash;a
+hush of light, deeply pervasive and
+friendly. The sunshine slanted across the
+gleaming wet rocks in the river, lit up the
+rain-darkened trunks of the hemlocks, glinted
+on the low-hanging leaves, and flashed through
+the dripping edges of sagging fern fronds. As
+twilight came on, we canoed across to the side
+of the river where the road lay&mdash;the other side
+was steep and pathless woods&mdash;and walked
+down to the nearest farmhouse to buy eggs for
+the morning. Back again by the light of a
+low-hung moon, and across the dim water to
+our own island and the embers of our fire.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, Jonathan! We never asked them
+what time it was!</q> I said. <q>I meant to&mdash;for
+your sake&mdash;I thought you&rsquo;d sleep better if
+you knew.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Too bad! Probably I should have. I
+thought of it, of course, but was afraid that
+if I asked it would spoil your day.</q></p>
+<pb n="155"/><anchor id="Pg155"/>
+
+<p><q>It would take something pretty bad to
+spoil a day like this one,</q> I said.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>Two days later the weather turned still and
+warm, the bass refused to bite, and even the
+sunfish lay, shy or wary or indifferent, in
+their shallow, sunny pools, so we resolved to
+walk down the river to the post-office, four
+miles away, for possible mail. As we sat on
+the steps of the little store, looking it over,&mdash;<q>Here&rsquo;s
+news,</q> said Jonathan; <q>Jack and
+Molly say they&rsquo;ll run up if we want them,
+day after to-morrow&mdash;up on the morning
+train, and back on the evening.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Good! Tell them to come along.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No&mdash;it&rsquo;s to-morrow&mdash;letter&rsquo;s been here
+since yesterday. I&rsquo;ll telegraph.</q></p>
+
+<p>As we tramped home we planned the day.
+<q>We&rsquo;ll meet them and all walk up together,</q>
+said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>We&rsquo;d better catch some bass and leave
+them all hooked in a pool, ready for them to
+pull out,</q> I added; <q>otherwise they may not
+catch any. And maybe you&rsquo;d better meet
+them and I&rsquo;ll have dinner ready when you
+get back.</q></p>
+<pb n="156"/><anchor id="Pg156"/>
+
+<p><q>Nonsense! You come, and we&rsquo;ll all get
+dinner when we get back. That&rsquo;s what
+they&rsquo;re coming for&mdash;to see the whole thing.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But if it&rsquo;s late&mdash;they&rsquo;ve got to get back
+for that down train.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;time enough.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, Jonathan! What about catching that
+train?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>They&rsquo;ll have watches&mdash;watches that
+go.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But what about our meeting them? The
+train arrives at
+<reg orig="10.15"><anchor id="E2"/><ref target="e2">10:15</ref></reg>,
+they said. What does
+<reg orig="10.15"><anchor id="E3"/><ref target="e3">10:15</ref></reg>
+look like in the sky, I wonder!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Or rather, what does 8.45 look like? It
+takes an hour and a half to get there, counting
+crossing the river.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes&mdash;dear me! Well, Jonathan, we&rsquo;ll
+just have to get up early and go, and then
+wait.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Or else take our watch to the farmhouse
+and set it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan, I will not! I&rsquo;d rather start at
+daylight.</q></p>
+
+<p>Which was very nearly what we did. The
+morning opened with a sun obscured, and I
+felt sure it was stealing a march on us and
+<pb n="157"/><anchor id="Pg157"/>
+would suddenly burst out upon us from a
+noonday sky. We breakfasted hastily, ferried
+across to shore, and set a swinging pace down
+the road. As we walked, the sun burned
+through the mist, and our shadows came out,
+dim, long things, striding with the exaggerated
+gait that shadows have, over the grassy
+banks to our right.</p>
+
+<p><q>I think,</q> said Jonathan, <q>it may be as
+late as seven o&rsquo;clock, but perhaps it&rsquo;s only
+six.</q></p>
+
+<p>When we reached the station, the official
+clock registered 8.30. We strolled over to the
+store-and-post-office and got more letters&mdash;one
+from Molly and Jack saying thank you
+they&rsquo;d come. <q>They don&rsquo;t entirely understand
+our mail system up here,</q> said Jonathan.
+We got some ginger-cookies and some
+milk and had a second breakfast, and finally
+wandered back to the station to wait for the
+train. It came, bearing the expected two,
+and much friendliness. <q>Get our letter?
+There, Jack! He said you wouldn&rsquo;t, but I
+said you would. I made him send it &hellip; four
+miles to walk? What fun!</q></p>
+
+<p>It was fun, indeed, and all went well until
+<pb n="158"/><anchor id="Pg158"/>
+after dinner, when Jack&mdash;saying, <q>Well,
+maybe we&rsquo;d better be starting back for that
+train</q>&mdash;drew out his watch. He opened it,
+muttered something, put it to his ear, then
+began to wind it rapidly. He wound and
+wound. We all laughed.</p>
+
+<p><q>Looks as if you hadn&rsquo;t remembered to
+wind it last night,</q> said Jonathan, glancing
+at me.</p>
+
+<p><q>I haven&rsquo;t done that in months, hang it!
+Give me the time, will you, Jonathan?</q> said
+Jack.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sorry!</q> Jonathan was smiling genially.
+<q>Mine&rsquo;s run down too. It stopped at
+twenty-two minutes before
+five&mdash;<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">A. M.</hi>, I
+think.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>What luck! And Molly didn&rsquo;t bring
+hers.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You told me not to,</q> Molly flicked in.</p>
+
+<p><q>So here we are,</q> said Jonathan, <q>entirely
+without the time of day.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But plenty of real time all round us,</q> I
+said. <q>Let&rsquo;s use it, and start.</q> I avoided
+Jonathan&rsquo;s eye.</p>
+
+<p>We reached the station with an hour and
+ten minutes to spare&mdash;bought more ginger-cookies
+<pb n="159"/><anchor id="Pg159"/>
+and more milk. As we sat eating
+them in the midst of the preternatural calm
+that marks a country railroad station outside
+of train times, Molly remarked brightly,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><q>Well, I don&rsquo;t see but we got on just as
+well without a watch, didn&rsquo;t we, Jack? Why
+do we need watches, anyway? Do
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">you</hi> see?</q>
+she turned to us. <q>Jack does everything by
+his watch&mdash;eats and breathes and sleeps by
+it&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p>Jack returned, watch in hand&mdash;he had
+been getting railroad time from the telegraph
+operator. <q>Want to set yours while you
+think of it?</q> he asked Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sorry&mdash;thank you&mdash;didn&rsquo;t bring it,</q>
+said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>By George, man, what&rsquo;ll you do?</q> Real
+consternation sounded in Jack&rsquo;s tones.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, we&rsquo;ll get along somehow,</q> said Jonathan.
+<q>You see, we don&rsquo;t have many engagements,
+except with the bass, and they
+never meet theirs, anyhow.</q></p>
+
+<p>When the train had gone, I said, <q>Jonathan,
+why didn&rsquo;t you tell them it was my
+whim?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, I just didn&rsquo;t,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+<pb n="160"/><anchor id="Pg160"/>
+
+<p>As Jonathan had predicted, we did get
+along somehow&mdash;got along rather well, on
+the whole. There are, of course, some drawbacks
+to an unwatched life. You never want
+to start the next meal till you are hungry,
+and after that it takes one or two or three
+hours, as the case may be, to go back to
+camp and get the meal ready, and by that
+time you are almost hungrier than you like
+being. But except for this, and the little
+matter of meeting trains, it is rather pleasant
+to break away from the habit of watching the
+watch, and it was with real regret that, on the
+last night of our camp, we took our watch
+to the farmhouse to set it.</p>
+
+<p><q>Run down, did it? Guess you forgot to
+wind it. Well&mdash;we do forget things sometimes,
+all of us do,</q> the farmer&rsquo;s wife said
+comfortingly as she went to look at the clock.
+<q>Twenty minutes to seven, our clock says.
+It&rsquo;s apt to be fast, so I guess you won&rsquo;t miss
+any trains. Father he says he&rsquo;d rather have
+a clock fast than slow any day, but it don&rsquo;t
+often get more than ten minutes wrong either
+way.</q></p>
+
+<p>And to us, after our two weeks of camp,
+<pb n="161"/><anchor id="Pg161"/>
+ten minutes&rsquo; error in a clock seemed indeed
+slight.</p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan,</q> I said, as we walked back
+along the road, <q>I hate to go back to clock
+time. I like real time better.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You couldn&rsquo;t do so many things in a
+day,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>No&mdash;maybe not.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But maybe that wouldn&rsquo;t matter.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Maybe it wouldn&rsquo;t,</q> I said.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="chapter08">
+<pb n="162"/><anchor id="Pg162"/>
+<index index="toc" level1="VIII. The Ways of Griselda"/>
+<index index="pdf" level1="VIII. The Ways of Griselda"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">VIII</head>
+<head type="sub">The Ways of Griselda</head>
+
+<p><q>Of course you don&rsquo;t know what her name
+is,</q> I said, as we stood examining the sleek
+little black mare Jonathan had just brought
+up from the city.</p>
+
+<p><q>No. Forgot to ask. Don&rsquo;t believe they&rsquo;d
+have known anyway&mdash;one of a hundred or
+so.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, we&rsquo;ll name her again. Dear me&mdash;she&rsquo;s
+rather plain! Probably she&rsquo;s useful.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Hope so,</q> said Jonathan. Then, stepping
+back a little, in a slightly grieved tone, <q>But
+I don&rsquo;t call her plain. Wait till she&rsquo;s groomed
+up&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>It&rsquo;s that droop of her neck&mdash;sort of patient&mdash;and
+the way she drops one of her
+hips&mdash;if they are hips.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But we want a horse to be patient.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes. I don&rsquo;t know that I care about having
+her <hi rend="font-style: italic">look</hi> so terribly much so as this. I
+think I&rsquo;ll call her Griselda.</q></p>
+<pb n="163"/><anchor id="Pg163"/>
+
+<p><q>Now, why Griselda?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why, don&rsquo;t you know? She was that
+patient creature, with the horrid husband
+who had to keep trying to see just how patient
+she was. It&rsquo;s a hateful story&mdash;enough
+to turn any one who brooded on it into a militant
+suffragette.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But you can&rsquo;t call a horse Griselda&mdash;not
+for common stable use, you know.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Call her <q>Griz</q> for short. It does very
+well.</q></p>
+
+<p>Jonathan jeered a little, but in the family
+the name held. Our man Hiram said nothing,
+but I think in private he called her
+<q>Fan</q> or <q>Beauty</q> or <q>Lady,</q> or some
+such regulation stable name.</p>
+
+<p>Called by any name, she pleased us, and
+she <hi rend="font-style: italic">was</hi> patient. She trotted peacefully up
+hill and down, she did her best at ploughing
+and haymaking and all the odd jobs that the
+farm supplied. She stood when we left her,
+with that same demure, almost overdone
+droop of the neck that I had first noticed.
+When I met Jonathan at the station, she
+stood with her nose against a snorting train,
+looking as if nothing could rouse her.</p>
+<pb n="164"/><anchor id="Pg164"/>
+
+<p><q>Good little horse you got there,</q> remarked
+the station agent. <q>Where&rsquo;d you
+find her?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, I picked her out of a bunch down in
+the city,</q> said Jonathan casually. <q>I didn&rsquo;t
+think I knew much about horses, but I guess
+I was in luck this time.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Guess you know more about horses than
+you&rsquo;re sayin&rsquo;.</q> And Jonathan, thus pressed,
+admitted with suitable reluctance that he
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">had</hi> now and then been able to detect a good
+horse by his own observation.</p>
+
+<p>On the way home he openly congratulated
+himself on his find. <q>I really wasn&rsquo;t
+sure I knew how to pick out a horse,</q> he remarked,
+in a glow of retrospective modesty,
+<q>but I certainly got a treasure this time.</q></p>
+
+<p>Griz had been with us about two weeks,
+and all went well. Then another horse was
+needed for farm work, and one was sent up&mdash;one
+Kit by name&mdash;a big, pleasant, rather
+stupid brown mare.</p>
+
+<p><q>They do say two mares don&rsquo;t git on so
+well together as a mare &rsquo;n a horse,</q> remarked
+Hiram.</p>
+
+<p><q>But these are both such quiet creatures,</q>
+<pb n="165"/><anchor id="Pg165"/>
+I protested, to which Hiram made no answer.
+Hiram seldom made an answer unless
+fairly cornered into it.</p>
+
+<p>For two or three days after the new arrival
+nothing happened, so far as we knew,
+except that Griz always laid her ears back,
+and looked queer about her under lip, whenever
+Kit was led in or out of the stall next
+her, while Kit always huddled up close to
+her manger whenever Griz was led past her
+heels. Once or twice Griz slipped her halter
+in the stall, and Hiram said there was a place
+on Kit that looked as if she had been kicked,
+but when we scrutinized Griz, neck a-droop
+and eyes a-blink, we found it hard to think
+ill of her. Besides, Jonathan was now fairly
+committed to the opinion that he had <q>got
+a treasure this time.</q> <q>Kit may have hurt
+herself lying down,</q> he suggested, and again
+Hiram made no answer.</p>
+
+<p>Then one night, sometime during the very
+small, very dark, and very sleepy hours, we
+were awakened by awful sounds. <q>What is
+it? What <hi rend="font-style: italic">is</hi> it?</q> I gasped.</p>
+
+<p>Crash! Bang! Boom! The trampling of
+hoofs!&mdash;heavy, hollow pounding!&mdash;the
+<pb n="166"/><anchor id="Pg166"/>
+tearing and splintering of wood!&mdash;all coming
+from the barn, though loud enough, indeed,
+to have come from the next room.</p>
+
+<p>Jonathan was up in an instant muttering,
+<q>Where are my rubber boots?&mdash;and my
+coat?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan! <hi rend="font-style: italic">what</hi>
+a combination!</q></p>
+
+<p>But he was gone, and I heard the snap of
+the lantern and the slam of the back door
+almost before the rocking-chair in the sitting-room
+that he had hit&mdash;and talked to&mdash;had
+stopped rocking. Then I heard him calling
+outside Hiram&rsquo;s window and then he ran
+past our window, out to the barn. I wished
+he had waited for Hiram, but I had an undercurrent
+of pleasure in hearing him run. Jonathan&rsquo;s
+theory is that there is never any
+hurry, and now and then I like to have this
+notion jolted up a little.</p>
+
+<p>Meanwhile the awful sounds had ceased.
+There was the rumble of the stable door, a
+pause, and Jonathan&rsquo;s voice in conversational
+tones. Next came the flashing of Hiram&rsquo;s
+lantern, and the <hi rend="font-style: italic">tromp, tromp, tromp</hi>,
+in much quicker tempo than usual, of Hiram&rsquo;s
+heavy boots. Hiram&rsquo;s theory was a
+<pb n="167"/><anchor id="Pg167"/>
+good deal like Jonathan&rsquo;s, so this also gave
+me pleasure. Finally, there came the flash
+of another lantern, and I recognized the
+quick, short step of Mrs. Hiram. I smiled to
+myself, picturing the meeting between her and
+Jonathan, for I knew just how Jonathan was
+costumed. In two minutes I heard her steps
+repassing, and in five minutes Jonathan returned.
+He was chuckling quietly.</p>
+
+<p><q>I guess Griz got all she needed&mdash;didn&rsquo;t
+know either of &rsquo;em had so much spunk in &rsquo;em.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>What happened?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Don&rsquo;t know, exactly, but when I opened
+that door, there was Griz, just inside, no halter
+on, head down, meek as Moses, as far
+away from Kit&rsquo;s heels as she could get&mdash;she&rsquo;s
+got the mark of them on her leg and her flank.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Is she hurt?&mdash;or Kit?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No, not so far as we can see, not to
+amount to anything&mdash;except maybe Griz&rsquo;s
+feelings.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And what about Mrs. Hiram&rsquo;s feelings?</q></p>
+
+<p>Jonathan laughed aloud. <q>I was inside
+with Kit, and she called out to know if she
+could help.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And what did you say?</q></p>
+<pb n="168"/><anchor id="Pg168"/>
+
+<p><q>I said, <q>Not on your life.</q></q></p>
+
+<p><q>So that was why she came back. Did you
+really say,&lsquo;Not on your life,&rsquo; or did you only
+imply it in your tone, while you actually said,
+&lsquo;No, thank you very much&rsquo;?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I really said it. At least, I don&rsquo;t remember
+conversations the way you do, but I didn&rsquo;t
+feel a bit like thanking anybody, and I
+don&rsquo;t believe I did.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, I wish I&rsquo;d heard you. One misses a
+good deal&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You can see the stable to-morrow. That&rsquo;ll
+keep. They must have had a time of it!
+The walls are marked and splintered as high
+as I can reach. And I don&rsquo;t believe Kit&rsquo;ll
+cringe when Griz passes her any more.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Of course you remember Hiram
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">said</hi> two
+mares didn&rsquo;t usually get on very well, and
+even when they&rsquo;re chosen by a good judge of
+horses&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>After that the two did get along peaceably
+enough, and Jonathan assured me that all
+horses had these little affairs. One day we
+drove over to the main street of the village on
+an errand.</p>
+<pb n="169"/><anchor id="Pg169"/>
+
+<p><q>Will she stand?</q> I questioned.</p>
+
+<p><q>Better hitch her, perhaps,</q> said Jonathan,
+getting out the rope. He snapped it
+into her bit-ring, then threw the other end
+around a post and started to make a half-hitch.
+But as he drew up the rope it was suddenly
+jerked out of his hand. He looked up
+and saw Griselda&rsquo;s patient head waving high
+above him on the end of an erect and rebellious
+neck, the hitch-rope waggling in loops
+and spirals in the air, and the whole outfit
+backing away from him with speed and decision.
+He was so astonished that he did
+nothing, and in a moment Griz had stopped
+backing and stood still, her head sagging
+gently, the rope dangling.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;I&rsquo;ll&mdash;be&mdash;</q> I didn&rsquo;t try to
+remember just what Jonathan said he would
+be, because it doesn&rsquo;t really matter. We
+both stared at Griz as if we had never seen her
+before. Griz looked at nothing in particular,
+she blinked long lashes over drowsy, dark
+eyes, and sagged one hip.</p>
+
+<p><q>She&rsquo;s trying to make believe she didn&rsquo;t
+do it&mdash;but she did,</q> I said.</p>
+
+<p><q>Something must have startled her,</q> said
+<pb n="170"/><anchor id="Pg170"/>
+Jonathan, peering up and down the deserted
+street. Two roosters were crowing antiphonally
+in near-by yards, and a dog was barking
+somewhere far off.</p>
+
+<p><q>What?</q> I said.</p>
+
+<p><q>You never can tell, with a horse.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No, apparently not,</q> I said, smiling to
+myself; and I added hastily, as I saw Jonathan
+go forward to her head,
+<q><hi rend="font-style: italic">Don&rsquo;t</hi> try it
+again, please! I&rsquo;ll stay by her while you go
+in. <hi rend="font-style: italic">Please!</hi></q>
+For I had detected on Jonathan&rsquo;s
+face a look that I very well knew. It was the
+same expression he had worn that Sunday he
+led the calf to pasture. He made no answer,
+but stood examining the hitch-rope.</p>
+
+<p><q>No use,</q> he said, quietly releasing it and
+tossing its coil into the carriage, <q>It&rsquo;s too
+rotten. If it snapped, she&rsquo;d be ruined.</q></p>
+
+<p>I breathed freer. I privately hoped that all
+the hitch-ropes at the farm were rotten.</p>
+
+<p><q>Griz stands perfectly well without hitching,</q>
+I said as we drove home, <q>Why do you
+force an issue?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I didn&rsquo;t. She did. She&rsquo;s beaten me. If
+I don&rsquo;t hitch her now, she&rsquo;ll know she&rsquo;s master.</q></p>
+<pb n="171"/><anchor id="Pg171"/>
+
+<p><q>Oh, dear!</q> I sighed. <q>Let her
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">be</hi> master!
+Where&rsquo;s the harm? It&rsquo;s just your vanity.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Perhaps so,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p>When he agrees with me like that I know
+it&rsquo;s hopeless.</p>
+
+<p>The next night he wheeled in at the big gate
+bearing about his shoulders a coil of heavy
+rope.</p>
+
+<p><q>It looks like a ship&rsquo;s cable,</q> I said.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes,</q> he responded, leaning his bicycle
+against his side, and swinging the coil over
+his head. <q>I want it for mooring purposes.
+Think it&rsquo;ll moor Griz?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan!</q> I exclaimed, <q>you won&rsquo;t!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Watch me,</q> said Jonathan, and he proceeded
+to explain to me the working of the
+tackle.</p>
+
+<p>One end had a ring in it, and as nearly as
+I remember, the plan was to put the rope
+around her body, under what would be her
+arm-pits if she had arm-pits,&mdash;horses&rsquo; joints
+are never called what one would expect, of
+course,&mdash;run the end through the ring, then
+forward between her legs and through the bit-ring.</p>
+<pb n="172"/><anchor id="Pg172"/>
+
+<p><q>Then, when she sets back, it cuts her in
+two,</q> he concluded cheerfully.</p>
+
+<p><q>But you don&rsquo;t
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">want</hi> her in two,</q> I protested.</p>
+
+<p><q>She won&rsquo;t set back,</q> he responded; <q>at
+least, not more than once. To-morrow&rsquo;s Sunday;
+I&rsquo;ll have to hitch her at church.</q></p>
+
+<p>I hoped it would rain, so we needn&rsquo;t go,
+but we were having a drought and the morning
+dawned cloudless. We reached the church
+just on the last stroke of the bell. The women
+were all within; the men and boys lounging
+in the vestibule were turning reluctant feet
+to follow them.</p>
+
+<p><q>You go right in,</q> said Jonathan, <q>I&rsquo;ll be
+in soon.</q></p>
+
+<p>I turned to protest, but he was already
+driving round to the side, and a hush had
+fallen over the congregation within that made
+it embarrassing to call. Besides, one of the
+deacons stood holding open the door for me.</p>
+
+<p>I slipped into a pew near the back, with
+the apologetic feeling one often has in an old
+country church&mdash;a feeling that one is making
+the ghosts move along a little. They did
+move, of course,&mdash;probably ghosts are always
+<pb n="173"/><anchor id="Pg173"/>
+polite when one really meets them,&mdash;and
+I sat down. Indeed, I was thinking very
+little of ghosts that day, or of the minister
+either. My ears were cocked to catch and
+interpret all the noises that came in through
+the open windows on my left. My eyes wandered
+in that direction, too, though the clear
+panes revealed nothing more exciting than
+flickering maple leaves and a sky filmed over
+by veils of cloud.</p>
+
+<p>The moralists tell us that what we get out
+of any experience depends upon what we
+bring to it. What I brought to it that morning
+was a mind agog, attuned to receive these
+expected outside sounds. To all such sounds
+the service within was merely a background&mdash;a
+background which didn&rsquo;t know its
+place, since it kept pushing itself more or
+less importunately into the foreground. I sat
+there, of course, with perfect propriety of
+demeanor, but my reactions were something
+like this:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><hi rend="font-style: italic">Hymn 912</hi>
+&hellip; seven stanzas! horrors! oh!
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">omit the 3d, 5th, and
+6th</hi>&mdash;well, I should
+hope so!&hellip; I can&rsquo;t hear a thing while this
+is going on!&hellip; He hasn&rsquo;t come in yet!
+<pb n="174"/><anchor id="Pg174"/>
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Scripture reading for
+to-day</hi>&mdash;why can&rsquo;t he
+give us the passage and let us read it for ourselves?&mdash;well,
+his voice is rather high and
+uneven, I think I could make out Jonathan&rsquo;s
+through the loopholes in it.&hellip; There! What
+was that, I wonder! Sounded like shouting,&mdash;oh,
+why can&rsquo;t he talk softly! <hi rend="font-style: italic">Let us unite
+in prayer.</hi> Ah! now we&rsquo;ll have a long, quiet
+time, anyway!&hellip; if only he wouldn&rsquo;t pray
+quite so loud! Why pray aloud at all, anyway?
+I like the Quaker way best: a good long
+strip of silence, where your thoughts can
+wash around in any fashion that&mdash;There!
+No&mdash;yes&mdash;no&mdash;it&rsquo;s just people going by
+on the road.&hellip; Maybe he&rsquo;s in the back of
+the church now, waiting for the close of the
+prayer. Seems as if I had to look.&hellip; Well,
+he isn&rsquo;t.&hellip; <hi rend="font-style: italic">For
+thy name&rsquo;s sake, amen.</hi></p>
+
+<p>And then the collection, with an organ
+voluntary the while&mdash;now why an organ
+voluntary? Why not leave people to their
+thoughts some of the time?</p>
+
+<p>And at last, the sermon:&mdash;<hi rend="font-style: italic">The text to
+which I wish to call your attention this morning</hi>&mdash;my
+attention, forsooth! My attention
+was otherwise occupied. Ah! A puff of
+<pb n="175"/><anchor id="Pg175"/>
+warm, sweet air from behind me, and the soft,
+padding noise of the swinging doors, apprised
+me of an incomer. A cautious tread in
+the aisle&mdash;I moved along a little to make
+room.</p>
+
+<p>In a city church probably I should have
+thrown propriety to the winds and had the
+gist of the story out of him at once, but in a
+country church there are always such listening
+spaces,&mdash;the very pew-backs and cushions
+seem attentive, the hymnals creak in their
+racks, and the little stools cry out nervously
+when one barely touches them. It was too
+much for me. I was coerced into an outer
+semblance of decorum. However, I snatched
+a hasty glance at Jonathan&rsquo;s face. It was
+quite red and hot-looking, but calm, very
+calm, and I judged it to be the calm, not of
+defeat nor yet of settled militancy, but of
+triumph. I even thought I detected the
+flicker of a grin,&mdash;the mere atmospheric
+suggestion of a grin,&mdash;as if he felt the urgent
+if furtive appeal in my glance. At any rate,
+Jonathan was all right, that was clear. And
+as to Griz&mdash;whether she was still one mare or
+two half-mares&mdash;it didn&rsquo;t so much matter.
+<pb n="176"/><anchor id="Pg176"/>
+And now for the sermon! I gathered myself
+to attend.</p>
+
+<p>As we stood up for the last hymn, I whispered,
+<q>How did it go?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>All right. She&rsquo;s hitched,</q> was the answer.</p>
+
+<p>After church there was the usual stir of
+sociability, and when I emerged into the glare
+of the church steps, I saw Jonathan driving
+slowly around from the rear. Griz walked
+meekly, her head sagged, her eyes blinked.</p>
+
+<p><q>Good quiet little horse you&rsquo;ve got there,</q>
+said a deacon over my shoulder; <q>don&rsquo;t get
+restless standing, the way some horses do.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, she&rsquo;s very quiet,</q> I said.</p>
+
+<p>I got in, and at last, as we drove off, the
+flood-gates of my impatience broke:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><q>Well?</q> I said,&mdash;<q>well?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">Well?
+Tell</hi> me about it!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;ve told you. I hitched her.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>How did you hitch her?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Just the way I said I would.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Didn&rsquo;t she mind?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Don&rsquo;t know.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Did she make a fuss?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not much.</q></p>
+<pb n="177"/><anchor id="Pg177"/>
+
+<p><q>What do you mean by much?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, she set back a little.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Do any harm?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Hurt herself?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Guess not.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan, you drive me distracted&mdash;you
+have no more sense for a story&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>But there was nothing in particular&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Now, Jonathan, if there was nothing in
+particular, <hi rend="font-style: italic">why</hi>
+didn&rsquo;t you get into church
+till the sermon was begun, and why were you
+so red and hot?</q></p>
+
+<p>Jonathan smiled indulgently. <q>Why, of
+course, she didn&rsquo;t care about being hitched.
+I thought you knew that. But it was perfectly
+easy.</q></p>
+
+<p>And that was about all I could extract by
+the most artful questions. I took my revenge
+by telling Jonathan the deacon&rsquo;s compliment
+to Griz. <q>He said she didn&rsquo;t get restless
+standing, the way so many horses did. I
+thought of mentioning that you were a rather
+good judge of horses, in an amateur way, but
+then I thought it might seem like boasting,
+so I didn&rsquo;t.</q></p>
+<pb n="178"/><anchor id="Pg178"/>
+
+<p>After that, of course, I didn&rsquo;t really deserve
+to hear the whole story, but the next
+night I happened to be in the hammock while
+Jonathan was talking to a neighbor at the
+front gate, and he was relating the incident
+with detail enough to have satisfied the most
+hungry gossip. Only thus did I learn that
+Bill Howard, who had wound the rope twice
+round the post to give himself a little leeway,
+was drawn right up to the post when she set
+back; that they had been afraid the headstall
+would tear off; that they had been rather
+nervous about the post, and other such little
+points, which I had not been clever enough
+to elicit by my questions.</p>
+
+<p>Now, why? Probably a man likes to tell a
+story when he likes to tell it. I find myself
+wondering how much Odysseus told Penelope
+about his adventures when she got him to
+herself for a good talk. Is it significant that
+his really long story was told to the King of
+the Phæacians?</p>
+
+<p>As to Griz:&mdash;it would perhaps not be
+worth while to recount her subsequent history.
+It was a curious one, consisting of
+long stretches of continuous and ostentatious
+<pb n="179"/><anchor id="Pg179"/>
+meekness, broken by sudden flare-ups which,
+after their occurrence, always seemed incredible.
+She never again <q>set back</q> when
+Jonathan was the one to hitch her, but this
+was a concession made to him personally, and
+had no effect on her general habits. We
+talked of changing her name, but could never
+manage it. We thought of selling her, but
+she was too valuable&mdash;most of the time. And
+when we finally parted from her our relief
+was deeply tinged with regret.</p>
+
+<p>I have sometimes wondered whether such
+flare-ups were not the natural and necessary
+means of recuperation from such depths of
+meekness. I have even wondered whether
+the original Griselda may not have&mdash;but
+this is not a dissertation on early Italian
+poetry, nor on the nature of women.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: always" id="chapter09">
+<pb n="180"/><anchor id="Pg180"/>
+<index index="toc" level1="IX. A Rowboat Pilgrimage"/>
+<index index="pdf" level1="IX. A Rowboat Pilgrimage"/>
+<head rend="text-align: center">IX</head>
+<head type="sub">A Rowboat Pilgrimage</head>
+
+<p>We were glad that the plan of the rowboat
+cruise dawned upon us almost a year before
+it came to pass. We were the gainers by just
+that rich length of expectancy.</p>
+
+<p>For the joy that one gets from any cherished
+plan is always threefold: there is the joy
+of looking forward, the joy of the very doing,
+and the joy of remembering. They are all
+good, but only the last is eternal. The doing
+is hedged between limits, and its pleasures
+are often confused, overlaid with alien or accidental
+impressions. The joy of the forward
+look is pure and keen, but its bounds, too,
+are set. It begins at the moment when the
+first ray of the plan-idea dawns on one&rsquo;s
+mind, and it ends with the day of fulfillment.
+If the dawn begins long before the day, so
+much the better.</p>
+
+<p>It was early fall, and we had come in from
+a day by the river, where we had tramped
+<pb n="181"/><anchor id="Pg181"/>
+miles up, to one of its infrequent bridges, and
+miles down on the other bank. Now we sat
+before the fire, talking it over.</p>
+
+<p><q>If we only had a boat!</q> I said.</p>
+
+<p><q>Boat! What do you want a boat for?
+You wouldn&rsquo;t want to sit in a boat all day.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Who said I would? But I want to get
+into it, and float off, and get out again somewhere
+else. That&rsquo;s my idea of a boat.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, of course, a boat would be handy&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Handy! You talk as if it was a buttonhook!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well&mdash;of course it
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">is</hi> handy&mdash;as you
+call it&mdash;but a boat means such a lot of
+things&mdash;adventure, romance. When you&rsquo;re
+in a boat&mdash;a little boat&mdash;anything might
+happen.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes,</q> said Jonathan, drawing the logs
+together, <q>that&rsquo;s just the way your family
+feels about it when you&rsquo;re young.</q></p>
+
+<p>Then we both laughed, and there was a
+reminiscent pause.</p>
+
+<p><q>What became of your boat?</q> I asked
+finally.</p>
+
+<p><q>Sold. You kept yours.</q></p>
+<pb n="182"/><anchor id="Pg182"/>
+
+<p><q>Yes. It&rsquo;s in the cellar, there at Nantucket.
+I could have it sent on.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Cost as much as to buy a new one.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>A new one wouldn&rsquo;t be as good.</q> I
+bristled a little. Any one who has owned a
+boat is very sensitive about its virtues.</p>
+
+<p><q>How big?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>How should I know? A little boat&mdash;maybe
+twelve feet.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Two oars?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Four.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Round bottom?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes. She&rsquo;d ride anything.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well</q>&mdash;Jonathan suddenly
+expanded&mdash;<q>here&rsquo;s
+an idea now! How would you like
+to have it sent on to the mainland, and then
+row it the rest of the way&mdash;along the Rhode
+Island and Connecticut shores?</q></p>
+
+<p>I sat straight up. <q>Jonathan! Let&rsquo;s do it
+now!</q></p>
+
+<p>Jonathan chuckled. <q>My! What a hurry
+she&rsquo;s in!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, let&rsquo;s!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>We couldn&rsquo;t. The boat will have to be
+overhauled first.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, dear! I suppose so.</q></p>
+<pb n="183"/><anchor id="Pg183"/>
+
+<p><q>We could do it next spring, and go up the
+trout streams.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Think of that!</q> I murmured.</p>
+
+<p><q>Or in September and get the shore hunting&mdash;the
+salt marshes.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, which?&mdash;which?</q> Already I was
+following our course along curving beaches
+and amongst the yellow marshlands. But
+Jonathan&rsquo;s mind was working on more practical
+details.</p>
+
+<p><q>Twelve feet, you said?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>About that.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Pretty close stowing for our dunnage&mdash;still&mdash;let&rsquo;s
+see&mdash;two guns&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Or the rods, if we went in the spring.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And rubber coats, and blankets&mdash;</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan! Should we camp?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Might have to.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Let&rsquo;s, anyway.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>How does that coast-line run? Where&rsquo;s
+a map?</q></p>
+
+<p>All we had were some railroad maps and an
+old school geography&mdash;just enough to tantalize
+us&mdash;but we fell upon them eagerly.
+It is curious what a change comes over these
+dumb bits of colored paper at such times.
+<pb n="184"/><anchor id="Pg184"/>
+Every curve of the shore, every bay and headland
+came to life and spoke to us&mdash;called to
+us.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>We decided on the September plan, and for
+the next eleven months our casual talk was
+starred with inapropos remarks like these:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan, I know we shall forget a can-opener.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Better write it down while you think of it.
+And have you put down a hatchet?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The camera! It isn&rsquo;t on the list!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Hang it! Those charts haven&rsquo;t come yet!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>What can we take to look respectable in
+when we go ashore?</q></p>
+
+<p>Meanwhile the little boat was stirred out
+of its long sleep in the cellar, overhauled, and
+painted, and shipped to a port up in Narragansett
+Bay. And on the last day of August
+we found ourselves walking down through
+the little town. Following the instructions
+of wondering small boys, we came to a gate
+in a board fence, opened it and let ourselves
+into a typical New England seaport scene&mdash;a
+tiny garden, ablaze with sunshine and gorgeous
+with the yellows and lavenders of fall
+<pb n="185"/><anchor id="Pg185"/>
+flowers, and a narrow brick path, under a
+grape-vine arch, leading down to the sand
+and the wharf and the sparkling blue waters
+of the bay. As we passed down through the
+garden, we saw a little boat, bottom up, dazzling
+white in the sun.</p>
+
+<p><q>There it is!</q> I said, with a surge of reminiscent
+affection.</p>
+
+<p><q>That little thing!</q> said Jonathan. <q>I
+thought you said twelve feet.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, isn&rsquo;t it? Anyway,
+I said <hi rend="font-style: italic">about</hi>.
+And it&rsquo;s big enough.</q></p>
+
+<p>He was spanning its length with his hands.</p>
+
+<p><q>Eleven foot six. Oh, I suppose she&rsquo;ll do.
+My boat was fourteen.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Now, don&rsquo;t be so patronizing about your
+boat. Wait till you see how mine behaves.</q></p>
+
+<p>He dropped the discussion and got her
+launched. Is there anything prettier than a
+pretty boat floating beside a dock!</p>
+
+<p>The next morning when we came down we
+found her half full of water. <q>She&rsquo;ll be all
+right now she&rsquo;s soaked up,</q> said Jonathan,
+and we baled her dry and went off to get our
+stuff.</p>
+
+<p>I delayed to buy provisions, and when I
+<pb n="186"/><anchor id="Pg186"/>
+came back I found Jonathan standing on the
+float surrounded by plunder of all sorts. He
+answered my hail rather solemnly.</p>
+
+<p><q>See here! When this stuff&rsquo;s all stowed,
+where are we going to sit? That&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s
+worrying me.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why, won&rsquo;t it go in?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Go! It wouldn&rsquo;t go in two boats.</q></p>
+
+<p>I came down the plank. <q>Well, let&rsquo;s eliminate.</q></p>
+
+<p>We eliminated. We took out extra shoes
+and coats and <q>town clothes,</q> we cut down
+as far as we dared, and expressed a big
+bundle home. The rest we got into two
+sailor&rsquo;s dunnage bags, one waterproof, the
+other nearly so, and one big water-tight
+metal box. Then there were the guns, and
+the provisions, and the charts in a long tin
+tube, and there was a lantern&mdash;a clumsy
+thing, which we lashed to a seat. It was always
+in the way and proved of very little use,
+but we thought we ought to take it.</p>
+
+<p>While we worked, some loungers gathered
+on the wharf above and watched us with that
+tolerant curiosity that loungers know so well
+how to assume. As we got in and took up our
+<pb n="187"/><anchor id="Pg187"/>
+oars, one of them called out, <q>Now, if you
+only had a little motor there in the stern,
+you&rsquo;d be all right.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Don&rsquo;t want one,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>What? Why not?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Go too fast.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Eh? What say?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Go&mdash;too&mdash;fast.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>He heard you,</q> I said, <q>but he can&rsquo;t believe
+you really said it.</q></p>
+
+<p>The oars fell into unison, there was the dip
+of their blades, the grating chunk of the
+rowlocks&mdash;<hi rend="font-style: italic">dip-ke-chunk, dip-ke-chunk</hi>.
+As we fell into our stroke the little boat began to
+respond, the water swished at her bows and
+gurgled under her stern. The wharf fell away
+behind us, the houses back of it came into
+sight, then the wooded hills behind. The
+whole town began to draw together, with its
+church steeples as its centers.</p>
+
+<p><q>She does go!</q> remarked Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>I told you! Look at us now! Look at that
+buoy!</q></p>
+
+<p><hi rend="font-style: italic">Dip-ke-chunk, dip-ke-chunk</hi>&mdash;the
+red buoy swept by us and dropped into the blue background
+of dancing waves.</p>
+<pb n="188"/><anchor id="Pg188"/>
+
+<p><q>Are we really off? Is it really happening?</q>
+I said joyously.</p>
+
+<p><q>Do you like it?</q> said Jonathan over his
+shoulder.</p>
+
+<p><q>No. Do you?</q> To such unwisdom of
+speech do people come when they are happy.</p>
+
+<p>But there were circumstances to steady
+us.</p>
+
+<p><q>What I&rsquo;m wondering,</q> said Jonathan,
+<q>is, what&rsquo;s going to happen next&mdash;when we
+get out there.</q> He tilted his head toward the
+open bay, broad and windy, ahead of us.
+<q>There&rsquo;s some pretty interesting water out
+there beyond this lee.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, she&rsquo;ll take it all right. It&rsquo;s no worse
+than Nantucket water. It couldn&rsquo;t be.
+You&rsquo;ll see.</q></p>
+
+<p>We did see. In half an hour we were in the
+middle of upper Narragansett Bay, trying to
+make a diagonal across it to the southwest,
+while the long rollers came in steadily from
+the south, broken by a nasty chop of peaked,
+whitecapped waves. We rowed carefully, our
+heads over our right shoulders, watching
+each wave as it came on, with broken comments:&mdash;</p>
+<pb n="189"/><anchor id="Pg189"/>
+
+<p><q>That&rsquo;s a good one coming&mdash;bring her
+up now&mdash;there&mdash;all right, now let her off
+again&mdash;hold her so&mdash;there&rsquo;s another
+coming&mdash;see?&mdash;that big one, the fifth, the
+fourth, away&mdash;row, now&mdash;we beat it&mdash;there
+it goes off astern&mdash;see it break!
+Here&rsquo;s another&mdash;look out for your oar&mdash;we
+can&rsquo;t afford to miss a stroke&mdash;oh, me! Did
+that wet you too? My right shoulder is
+soaked&mdash;my left isn&rsquo;t&mdash;now it is!</q></p>
+
+<p>But half an hour of this sort of thing
+brought about two results&mdash;confidence in
+the little boat, which rode well in spite of
+her load, and confidence in each other&rsquo;s
+rowing. We found that the four oars worked
+together, our early training told, and we instinctively
+did the same things in each of the
+varied emergencies created by wind and
+wave. There was no need for orders, and our
+talk died down to an exclamation now and
+then at some especially big wave, or a laugh
+as one of us got a drenching from the white
+top of a foaming crest.</p>
+
+<p>It was not an easy day, that first one.&hellip;
+It seems, sometimes, as if there were little
+imps of malignity that hovered over one
+<pb n="190"/><anchor id="Pg190"/>
+at the beginning of an undertaking&mdash;little
+brownies, using all their charms to try to turn
+one back, discouraged. If there be such, they
+had a good time with us that long afternoon.
+First they had said that we shouldn&rsquo;t load
+our boat. Then they sent us rough water.
+Then they set the boat a-leak.</p>
+
+<p>For leak it did. The soaking over night
+had done no good. It had, indeed, been
+<q>thoroughly overhauled</q> and pronounced
+seaworthy, but there was the water, too
+much to be accounted for as spray, swashing
+over the bottom boards, growing undeniably
+and most uncomfortably deeper. The imps
+made no offer to bale for us, so we had to do
+it ourselves, losing the much-needed power
+at the oars, while one of us set to work at the
+dip-and-toss, dip-and-toss motion so familiar
+to any one who has kept company with a
+small boat.</p>
+
+<p><q>I wish my mother could see me now&mdash;</q>
+hummed Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>I wouldn&rsquo;t wish that.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why not?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>What would they all think of us if they
+could see us this minute?</q></p>
+<pb n="191"/><anchor id="Pg191"/>
+
+<p><q>Just what they have thought for a long
+time.</q></p>
+
+<p>I laughed. <q>How true that is, teacher!</q>
+I said.</p>
+
+<p>Finding us still cheerful, the imps tried
+again.</p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan&mdash;do you know&mdash;I do believe&mdash;my
+rowlock socket is working loose.</q></p>
+
+<p>He cast a quick look over his shoulder
+without breaking stroke. Then he said a few
+words, explicit and powerful, about the man
+who had <q>overhauled</q> the boat. <q>He ought
+to be put out in it, in a sea like this, and left
+to row himself home.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, of course, but instead, here we are.
+It won&rsquo;t last half an hour longer.</q></p>
+
+<p>It did not last ten minutes. There it hung,
+one screw pulled loose, the other barely
+holding.</p>
+
+<p><q>Take my knife&mdash;you can get it out of
+my hip pocket&mdash;and try to set up that screw
+with the big blade.</q></p>
+
+<p>I did so, and pulled a few strokes. Then&mdash;<q>It&rsquo;s
+come out again. It&rsquo;s no use.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>We make blamed poor headway with one
+pair of oars,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+<pb n="192"/><anchor id="Pg192"/>
+
+<p>He meditated.</p>
+
+<p><q>Where are the screw-eyes?</q> he said after
+a moment.</p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, good for you! They&rsquo;re in the metal
+box. I&rsquo;ll get them.</q></p>
+
+<p>I drew in my useless oars, turned about
+and cautiously wriggled up into the bow seat.</p>
+
+<p><q>Look out for yourself! Don&rsquo;t bullfrog
+out over the bow. I can&rsquo;t hold her any
+steadier than this.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, I&rsquo;m all right.</q></p>
+
+<p>With one hand I gripped the gunwale, with
+the other I felt down into the box and finally
+fished out the required treasures. I worked
+my way back into my own seat and tried a
+screw-eye in the empty, rusted-out hole.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Does it
+bite?<add><anchor id="E4"/><ref target="e4">&rdquo;</ref></add></p>
+
+<p><q>I don&rsquo;t know about biting, but it&rsquo;s going
+in beautifully&mdash;now it goes hard.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Perhaps I can give it a turn.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Perhaps you can&rsquo;t! Don&rsquo;t you stop rowing.
+If this boat wasn&rsquo;t held steady, she&rsquo;d&mdash;I
+don&rsquo;t know what she wouldn&rsquo;t do.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>If you stick something through the eye
+you can turn it.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes. I&rsquo;ll find
+something<corr sic=","><anchor id="E5"/><ref target="e5">.</ref></corr>
+Here&rsquo;s the can-opener.
+<pb n="193"/><anchor id="Pg193"/>
+Grand! There! It&rsquo;s solid. Now I&rsquo;ll
+do the other one the same way. Hurrah for
+the screw-eyes!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You thought of bringing them,</q> said
+Jonathan magnanimously.</p>
+
+<p><q>You thought of using them,</q> said I, not
+to be outdone.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>And so again the imps were foiled. But
+they hung over us, they slapped us with
+spray, they tossed the whitecaps, jeering, at
+our heads, over our shoulders, into our laps.
+They put up the tides to tricks of eddies and
+back-currents, so that they hindered instead
+of helping, as by calculation they should
+have done. They laid invisible hands on our
+oars and dragged them down, or held them
+up as the wave raced by, so that we missed
+a stroke. Once, in the lee of an island, we
+paused to rest and unroll our chart and get
+our bearings, while the smooth rise and fall
+of the ground swell was all there was to remind
+us of the riot of water just outside.
+Then we were off again, and the imps had
+us. They were busy, those imps, all that long,
+windy, wave-tossed, wonderful day.</p>
+<pb n="194"/><anchor id="Pg194"/>
+
+<p>For it was wonderful, and the imps were
+indeed frustrate, wholly frustrate. We pulled
+toward the quiet harbor that evening with
+aching muscles, hair and clothes matted with
+salt water, but spirits undaunted. Hungry,
+too, for we had not been able to do more than
+munch a few ship&rsquo;s biscuit while we rowed.
+Wind, tide, waves, all against us, boat leaking,
+oars disabled&mdash;and still&mdash;<q>Isn&rsquo;t it
+great!</q> we said, <q>great&mdash;great!</q></p>
+
+<p>Dusk was closing in and lights began to
+blink along the western shore. We beached
+on a sandy point and asked our way,&mdash;where
+could we put up for the night? Children,
+barelegged, waded out around the boat,
+looking at us and our funny, laden craft, with
+curious eyes. Yes, they said, there was an
+inn, farther up the harbor, where we saw
+those lights&mdash;ten minutes&rsquo; row, perhaps.
+We pulled off again, stiffly.</p>
+
+<p><q>Tired?</q> said Jonathan. <q>I&rsquo;ll take her
+in.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Indeed you won&rsquo;t! Of course I&rsquo;m tired,
+but I&rsquo;ve got to do something to keep warm.
+And I want to get in. I want supper. They&rsquo;ll
+all be in bed if we don&rsquo;t hurry.</q></p>
+<pb n="195"/><anchor id="Pg195"/>
+
+<p>Our tired muscles lent themselves mechanically
+to their work and the boat slid across
+the quiet waters of the moonlit harbor. The
+town lights grew bigger, wharves loomed
+above us, and soon we were gliding along
+under their shadow. The eddies from our
+oars went <hi rend="font-style: italic">lap-lap-lapping</hi>
+off among the great
+dark spiles and stirred up the keen smell of
+salt-soaked timbers and seaweed. Blindly
+groping, we found a rickety ladder, tied our
+boat and climbed stiffly up, and there we
+were on our feet again, feeling rather queer
+and stretchy after seven hours in our cramped
+quarters.</p>
+
+<p>Half an hour later we were sitting in the
+warm, clean kitchen of the old inn, and a
+kindly but mystified hostess was mothering
+us with eggs and ham and tea and pie and
+doughnuts and other things that a New
+England kitchen always contains. While we
+ate she sat and rocked energetically, questioning
+us with friendly curiosity and watching
+us with keen though benevolent eyes.</p>
+
+<p><q>Rowed, did you? Jim!</q> calling back over
+her shoulder through a half-open door, <q>did
+you hear that? These folks have rowed all
+<pb n="196"/><anchor id="Pg196"/>
+the way across the bay this afternoon&mdash;yes&mdash;rowed.
+What say? Yes, <hi rend="font-style: italic">she</hi> rowed, too.
+They say they&rsquo;re goin&rsquo; on to-morrow, round
+Judith.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Say, now,</q> she finally appealed to us in
+frank perplexity, <q>what&rsquo;re you doin&rsquo; it for?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>We like it,</q> said Jonathan peacefully.</p>
+
+<p><q>Like it, do you? Well, now, if that don&rsquo;t
+beat all! Say&mdash;you know? I wouldn&rsquo;t do
+that, what you&rsquo;re doin&rsquo;, not if you paid me.
+Have another cup o&rsquo; tea, do.</q></p>
+
+<p>The next morning she bade us good-bye
+with the air of entrusting us to that Providence
+which is known to have a special care
+for children and fools.</p>
+
+<p>In fact, through all the varying experiences
+of our cruise, one thing never varied. That
+was, the expression on the faces of the people
+we met. Wind and water and coast and birds
+all greeted us differently with each new day,
+but no matter
+<corr sic="now"><anchor id="E6"/><ref target="e6">how</ref></corr>
+many new faces we met,
+we found in them always the same look&mdash;a
+look at once friendly and quizzical, the look
+one casts upon nice children for whose antics
+one is not responsible, the look one casts upon
+very small dogs. Why? Is it so odd a thing
+<pb n="197"/><anchor id="Pg197"/>
+to like to row a little boat? If it had been a
+yacht, now, or even a motor-boat, the expression
+would have been different. Apparently
+the oars were what did it.</p>
+
+<p>On that particular morning, word of our
+doings must have got abroad, for as we
+stepped out on the brick sidewalk of the
+shady main street a little crowd was waiting
+for us. It was a funny procession:&mdash;Jonathan
+first, with the guns and the water-jug,
+then a boy with a wheelbarrow, on which
+were piled the two dunnage bags, the metal
+box, the lantern, the axe, the chart tube, and
+a few other things. An old man and some
+boys followed curiously, then I came, with
+two big baking-powder cans, very gorgeous
+because the red paper was not yet off them,
+full of provisions pressed on us by our friendly
+hostess. Tagging behind me, came an old
+woman, a big girl, and a half-dozen children.
+It was the kind of escort that usually attends
+the hand-organ and monkey on their infrequent
+visits.</p>
+
+<p>We loaded up the boat and pulled off, a
+little stiff but fairly fit after all. The group
+waved us off and then stood obviously talking
+<pb n="198"/><anchor id="Pg198"/>
+us over. One of the men called after us,
+with a sudden inspiration, <q>Pity ye&rsquo; hevn&rsquo;t
+got a <hi rend="font-style: italic">motor</hi> in there!</q></p>
+
+<p>Though we didn&rsquo;t want to be a motor-boat,
+we were not above receiving courtesies
+from one, and when the Providence tacitly
+invoked by our hostess sent one chugging
+along up to us, with the proposal to take us
+in tow, we accepted with great contentment.
+The morning was not half over when we made
+our next landing, and looked up the captain
+who was to tow us <q>around Judith.</q></p>
+
+<p>For in the matter of Point Judith our
+friends and advisers had been unanimously
+firm. There should be a limit, they said, even
+to the foolishness of a holiday plan. With a
+light boat, we might have braved their disapproval,
+but loaded as we were, we decided
+to be prudent.</p>
+
+<p><q>I&rsquo;d hate to lose the guns,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, and the camera,</q> I added.</p>
+
+<p>So we accepted the offer of a good friend&rsquo;s
+knockabout, and sailed around the dreaded
+Point with our little boat tailing behind at
+the end of her rope. We saw no water that
+we could not have met in her, but, as our
+<pb n="199"/><anchor id="Pg199"/>
+friends did not fail to point out, that proved
+nothing whatever.</p>
+
+<p>At Stonington we were left once more to
+our little boat and our four oars, and there we
+pulled her up and caulked her.</p>
+
+<p>Strange, how we are always trying to avoid
+mishaps, and yet when they come we are so
+often glad of them! A leaky boat had not
+been in our plans, but if we could change that
+first wild row across the big bay, if we could
+cut out that leakiness, that puddling bottom,
+the difficult shifts of baling and rowing, would
+we? We would not. Again, as we look back
+over the days of our cruise, we could ill spare
+those hours of labor on the hot stretch of
+sunny beach between the wharves, where we
+bent half-blinded over the dazzling white
+boat, our spirits irritated, our fingers aching
+as they worked at the
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">push-push-push</hi> of the
+cotton waste between the strakes. We said
+hard words of the man who thought he had
+put our boat in order for us, and yet&mdash;if we
+could cut out those hours of grumbling toil,
+would we? We would not. For one thing, we
+should perhaps have missed the precious
+word of advice given us by a man who sat and
+<pb n="200"/><anchor id="Pg200"/>
+watched us. He recommended us to put a
+little motor in the stern. He pointed out to
+us that rowing was pretty hard work. We
+said we liked it. His face wore the expression
+I have already described.</p>
+
+<p>We launched her again at dusk. Next
+morning Jonathan was a moment ahead of
+me on the wharf.</p>
+
+<p><q>Any water in her?</q> I called, following
+hard.</p>
+
+<p><q>Dry as a bone,</q> he shouted back, exultant;
+but as I came up he added, with his
+usual conservatism, <q>of course we can&rsquo;t tell
+what she may do when she&rsquo;s loaded.</q></p>
+
+<p>But our work held. For the rest of the trip
+we had a dry boat, except for what came in
+over the sides.</p>
+
+<p>Now that we were in the home State, we
+got out our guns and hugged the shore closely,
+on the lookout for plover. We drifted sometimes,
+while we studied our maps for the location
+of the salt marshes. If we were lucky, we
+had broiled birds for luncheon or supper; if
+we were not, we had tinned stuff, which is distinctly
+inferior. When we spent the night at
+an inn, we breakfasted there, but most of our
+<pb n="201"/><anchor id="Pg201"/>
+meals were eaten along the shore, or, best of
+all, on some island.</p>
+
+<p><q>Can we find an island for lunch to-day, do
+you suppose?</q> I usually asked, as we dipped
+our oars in the morning.</p>
+
+<p><q>Do you have to have an island for lunch?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I love an island!</q> choosing to ignore the
+jest. <q>That&rsquo;s one of the best things about a
+boat&mdash;that it takes you to islands.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Now, why an island?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You know as well as I do. An island
+means&mdash;oh, it means remoteness, it means
+quiet&mdash;possession; while you&rsquo;re on it, it&rsquo;s
+yours&mdash;you don&rsquo;t have every passer-by
+looking over your shoulder&mdash;you have a
+little world all to yourself.</q></p>
+
+<p>I could feel Jonathan&rsquo;s indulgent smile
+through the back of his head as he rowed.</p>
+
+<p><q>Well, you know yourself,</q> I argued.
+<q>Even a tiny bit of stone and earth, with
+moss on it, and a flower, out in the middle of
+a brook, looks different, somehow, from the
+same things on the bank. It
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">is</hi> different&mdash;it&rsquo;s
+an island.</q></p>
+
+<p>And so we sought islands&mdash;sometimes
+little ones, all rocks, too little even to have
+<pb n="202"/><anchor id="Pg202"/>
+collected driftwood for a fire, too little to have
+grown anything but wisps of beach-grass,
+low enough to be covered, perhaps, by the
+highest tides. Sometimes it was a larger
+island, big enough to have bushes on it, and
+beaches round its edges. One of these we
+remember as best of all. It lay a mile off
+shore, a long island, rocky at its ocean end
+and at its land end running out to a long
+slim line of curving beach. In the middle it
+rose to a plateau, thick-set with grass and
+goldenrod and bay bushes, from which
+floated the gay, sweet voices of song sparrows.
+Ah! There was an island for you! And
+we made a fire of driftwood, and cooked our
+luncheon, and lay back on the sand and
+drowsed, while the sea-gulls, millions of them,
+circled curiously over our heads, mewing and
+screaming as they dived and swooped, and
+behind us the notes of the song sparrows rose
+sweet.</p>
+
+<p>If we had had water enough in our jug, we
+should have camped there. We rowed away
+at last, slowly, loving it, and in our thoughts
+we still possess it. As it dropped astern I
+pulled in my oars and stood up to take its
+<pb n="203"/><anchor id="Pg203"/>
+picture&mdash;no easy task, with the boat mounting
+and plunging among the swells. But I
+have my picture, its horizon line at a noticeable
+slant, reminiscent of my unsteady balance.
+It means little to other people, but to
+us it means the sweetness of sunshine and
+wind and water, the sweetness of grass and
+bird-notes, all breathed over by the spirit of
+solitude.</p>
+
+<p>Then it melted away&mdash;our island&mdash;into
+the waste of waters, and we turned to look
+toward the misty headlands beyond our bow.
+Where the marshlands were, we followed
+them closely, but where the shore was rocky,
+or, worse still, built up with summer cottages,
+we often made a straight course from
+headland to headland, keeping well out, often
+a mile or two, to avoid tide eddies. We liked
+the feeling of being far out, the shore a dark
+blue, the cottages little dots. But we liked it,
+too, when the headland before us grew large,
+its rocks and bushes stood out, and we could
+see the white rip off its point&mdash;a rip to be
+taken with some caution if we hoped to keep
+our cargo dry. And then, the rip passed, if
+the bay beyond curved in quiet and uninhabited,
+<pb n="204"/><anchor id="Pg204"/>
+how we loved to turn and pull along
+close to shore, watching its beaches and sand-cliffs
+draw smoothly away beside our stern,
+or, best of all, pulling about and running in
+till our bow grated and we jumped to the wet
+beach and ran up the cliff to look about. Such
+moments bring in a peculiar way the thrill of
+discovery. It is one thing to go along a coast
+by land, and learn its ways so. It is a good
+thing. But it is quite another to fare over its
+waters and turn in upon it from without,
+surprising its secrets as from another world.</p>
+
+<p>But to do this, your boat must be a little
+one. As soon as you have a real keel, the case
+is altered. For a keel demands a special landing-place&mdash;a
+wharf&mdash;and a wharf means
+human habitation, and then&mdash;where is your
+thrill of discovery? Ah, no!&mdash;a little boat!
+And you can land anywhere, among rocks
+or in sandy shallows; you can explore the tide
+creeks and marshes and the little rivers; you
+can beach wherever you like, wherever the
+rippling waves themselves can go. A little
+boat for romance!</p>
+
+<p>A little boat, but a long cruise, as long as
+may be. To be sure, a boat and a bit of water
+<pb n="205"/><anchor id="Pg205"/>
+anywhere is good. Even an errand across the
+pond and back may be a joy. But if you can,
+now and then, free yourself from the there-and-back
+habit, the reward is great. The joy
+of pilgrimage&mdash;of going, not there and back,
+but on, and on, and yet on&mdash;is a joy by itself.
+The thought that each night brings
+sleep in a new and unforeseen spot, with a new
+journey on the morrow, gives special flavor
+to the journeying.</p>
+
+<p>Not the least among the pleasures of the
+cruise were the night-camps. When the shore
+looked inviting, and harborage at an inn
+seemed doubtful, we pulled our boat above
+tide-water, turned her over and tilted her up
+on her side for a wind-break, and there we
+spent the night. The half-emptied dunnage
+bags were our pillows, the sand was our bed.
+Sand, to sleep on, is harder than one might
+suppose, but it is better than earth in being
+easily scooped out to suit one&rsquo;s needs. Indeed,
+even on a pneumatic mattress, I should hardly
+have slept much that first night. It was a
+new experience. The great world of waters
+was so close that it seemed, all night long,
+like a wonderful but ever importunate presence.
+<pb n="206"/><anchor id="Pg206"/>
+The wind blew that night, too, and
+there was a low-scudding rack, and a half-smothered
+moon. As we rolled ourselves
+up in our blankets and rubber sheets and settled
+down, I looked out over the restless
+water.</p>
+
+<p><q>The bay seems very full to-night&mdash;brimming,</q>
+I said.</p>
+
+<p><q>Not brimming over, though,</q> said Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>I should hope not! But it does seem to
+me there are very few inches between it and
+our feet.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>And the tide is still rising, of course,</q>
+said Jonathan, by way of comfort.</p>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan, I know just where high-tide
+mark is, and we&rsquo;re fully twelve inches above
+it.</q></p>
+
+<p>Silence.</p>
+
+<p><q>Aren&rsquo;t we?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, was that a question?</q> murmured
+Jonathan. <q>Why, yes, I think we are at least
+that.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Of course, there are extra high tides
+sometimes.</q></p>
+
+<p>Silence.</p>
+<pb n="207"/><anchor id="Pg207"/>
+
+<p><q>Jonathan, do you know when they come?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Not exactly.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, I don&rsquo;t care. I love it, anyway.
+Only it seems so much bigger and colder at
+night, the water does.</q></p>
+
+<p>At last I drowsed, waking now and then to
+raise my head and just glance down at those
+waves&mdash;they certainly sounded as if they
+were lapping the sand close by my ear. No,
+there they were, quite within bounds, fully
+twenty feet away from my toes. Of course it
+was all right. I slept again, and dreamed that
+the tide rose and rose; the waves ran merrily
+up the beach, ran up on both sides of us,
+closed in behind us. We were lying on a little
+sand island, and the waves nibbled at its
+edges&mdash;nibbled and nibbled and nibbled&mdash;the
+island was being nibbled up. This would
+never do! We must move! And I woke.
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">Ripple, ripple, swash!</hi>
+<hi rend="font-style: italic">ripple, ripple, swash!</hi>
+went the unconscious waves. As I raised my
+head I saw the pale beach stretching off under
+the moon-washed mists of middle night. Reassured,
+I sank back, and when I waked again
+the big sun was well above the rim of the
+waters and all the little waves were dancing
+<pb n="208"/><anchor id="Pg208"/>
+and the wet curves of the beach were gleaming
+in the new day.</p>
+
+<p>The water was not always restless at night.
+The next time we camped we found a little
+harbor within a harbor, a crescent curve of
+fine white sand ending in a point of rock. In
+one of its clefts we made our fire and broiled
+our plover, ranging them on spits of bay so
+that they hung over the two edges of rock
+like people looking down into a miniature
+Grand Cañon. There were nine of them, fat
+and sputtering, and while they cooked, we
+made toast and arranged the camp. Then
+we had supper, and watched the red coals
+smouldering and the white moonlight filling
+the world with a radiance that put out the
+stars and brought the blue back to the sky.
+The little basin of the bay was quiet as a pool,
+the air was full of stillness, with now and then
+the hushed <hi rend="font-style: italic">flip-flip</hi>
+of a tiny wave that had
+somehow strayed in from the tumbling crowd
+outside.</p>
+
+<p>We slept well, but once Jonathan waked
+me. <q>Look!</q> he whispered, <q>White heron.</q></p>
+
+<p>I raised my head. There, quite near us in
+the shallow water, stood a great pale bird,
+<pb n="209"/><anchor id="Pg209"/>
+motionless, on one long, slim leg, his oval
+body, long neck, head and bill clearly outlined
+against the bright water beyond. The
+mirror of the water reflected perfectly the
+soft outline, making a double creature, one
+above and one below, with that slim stem of
+leg between.</p>
+
+<p>I watched him until my neck grew tired.
+He never moved. Out beyond him, more dim,
+stood his mate, motionless too. Now and
+then they called to each other, with queer,
+harsh talk that made the stillness all the
+stiller when it closed in again.</p>
+
+<p>When we awoke, they were gone, but we
+found the heronry that morning on one of the
+oak-covered knolls that rise like islands out of
+the heart of the great salt marshes.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>All through the cruise, the big winds were
+with us more than we had expected. They
+gave us, for the most part, a right good time.
+For even in the partly protected Sound it is
+possible to stir up a sea rough enough to keep
+one busy. Each wave, as it came galloping
+up, was an antagonist to be dealt with. If
+we met it successfully, it galloped on, and left
+<pb n="210"/><anchor id="Pg210"/>
+us none the worse for it. If we did not, it
+meant, perhaps, that its foaming white mane
+brushed our shoulders, or swept across our
+laps, or, worse still, drowned our guns. Once,
+indeed, we were threatened with something a
+little more serious. We were running down out
+of the Connecticut River, gliding smoothly
+over sleek water. It was delicious rowing, and
+the boat shot along swiftly. As we turned
+westward, it grew rougher, but we were paying
+no special heed to this when suddenly I
+became conscious of something dark over my
+right shoulder. I turned my head, and found
+myself looking up into the evil heart of a dull
+green breaker. I gasped, <q>Look out!</q> and
+dug my oar. Jonathan glanced, pulled, there
+was a moment of doubt, then the huge dark
+bulk was shouldering heavily away, off our
+starboard quarter. It was only the first of
+its ugly company. Through sheer carelessness,
+we had run, as it were, into an ambush&mdash;one
+of the worst bits of water on the Sound,
+where tide and river currents meet and
+wrangle. All around us were rearing, white-maned
+breakers, though the impression we
+got was less of their white manes than of their
+<pb n="211"/><anchor id="Pg211"/>
+dark sides as they rose over us. Our problem
+was to meet each one fairly, and yet snatch
+every moment of respite to slant off toward
+the harborage inside the breakwaters. It took
+all our strength and all our skill, and all the
+resources of the good little boat. But we
+made it, after perhaps half an hour of stiff
+work. Then we rested, breathed, and went
+on. We did not talk much about it until we
+made camp that night. Then, as we sat looking
+out over the quiet water, I told Jonathan
+about the shadow over my shoulder.</p>
+
+<p><q>It was like seeing a ghost,</q>
+I said,&mdash;<q>no&mdash;more
+like feeling the hand of an enemy
+on your shoulder.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>The Black Douglas,</q> suggested Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>Yes. Talk about the scientific attitude&mdash;you&rsquo;ve
+just got to personify things when they
+come at you like that. That wave had an expression&mdash;an
+ugly one. I don&rsquo;t wonder the
+Northmen felt as they did about the sea and
+the waves. They took it all personally&mdash;they
+had to!</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Were you frightened?</q> asked Jonathan.</p>
+
+<p><q>No, of course not,</q> I said, almost too
+promptly. Then I meditated&mdash;<q>I don&rsquo;t
+<pb n="212"/><anchor id="Pg212"/>
+know what you&rsquo;d call it&mdash;but I believe I
+understand now what people mean when they
+talk about their hearts going down into their
+boots.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Did yours?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Why, not exactly&mdash;but&mdash;well&mdash;it certainly
+did feel suddenly very thick and heavy&mdash;as
+if it had dropped&mdash;perhaps an inch
+or two.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I believe,</q> said Jonathan gently, <q>you
+might almost call that being frightened.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Yes, perhaps you might. Tell me&mdash;were
+you?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>I didn&rsquo;t like it&mdash;yes, I was anxious&mdash;and
+it made me tired to have been such a fool&mdash;the
+whole thing was absolutely unnecessary,
+if we&rsquo;d looked up the charts carefully.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Or asked a few questions. But you know
+you hate to ask questions.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>You could have asked them.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Well, anyway, aren&rsquo;t you glad it happened?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Oh, of course; it was an experience.</q></p>
+
+<p><q>Do you want to do it again?</q></p>
+
+<p><q>No</q>&mdash;he was emphatic&mdash;<q>not with
+that load.</q></p>
+<pb n="213"/><anchor id="Pg213"/>
+
+<p><q>Neither do I.</q></p>
+
+<p>If the winds sometimes wearied us a little,
+they helped us, too. We can never forget the
+evening we turned into the Thames River,
+making for the shelter of a friend&rsquo;s hospitable
+roof. We had battled most of that day with
+the diagonal onslaughts of a southeast gale,
+bringing with it the full swing of the ocean
+swell. It was easier than a southwester would
+have been, but that was the best that could
+be said for it.</p>
+
+<p>We passed the last buoy and turned our
+bow north. And suddenly, the great waves
+that had all day kept us on the defensive became
+our strong helpers. They took us up and
+swung us forward on our course with great
+sweeping rushes of motion. The tide was
+setting in, too, and with that and our oars
+we were going almost as fast as the waves
+themselves, so that when one picked us up,
+it swung us a long way before it left us. We
+learned to watch for each roller, wait till one
+came up astern, then pull with all our might
+so that we went swooping down its long slope,
+its crest at first just behind our stern, but
+drawing more and more under us, until it
+<pb n="214"/><anchor id="Pg214"/>
+passed beyond our bow and dropped us in the
+trough to wait for the next giant. It was like
+going in a swing, but with the downward rush
+very long and swift, and the upward rise short
+and slow. How long it took us to make the
+two miles to our friend&rsquo;s dock we shall never
+know. Probably only a few minutes. But it
+was not an experience in time. We had a
+sense of being at one with the great primal
+forces of wind and water, and at one with
+them, not in their moments of poise, but in
+their moments of resistless power.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="stars: 5"/>
+
+<p>After all, the only drawback to the cruise
+was that it was over too soon. When, in the
+quiet afternoon light of the last day, a familiar
+headland floated into view, my first feeling
+was one of joy; for beyond that headland,
+what friendly faces waited for us&mdash;faces
+turned even now, perhaps, toward the east for
+a first glimpse of our little boat. But hard
+after this, came a pang of regret&mdash;it was
+over, our water-pilgrimage, and I wanted it
+to go on.</p>
+
+<p>It was over. And yet, not really over after
+all. I sometimes think that pleasures ought
+<pb n="215"/><anchor id="Pg215"/>
+to be valued according to whether they are
+over when they <hi rend="font-style: italic">are</hi>
+over, or not. <q>You cannot
+eat your cake and have it too.</q> True, but
+that is because it is cake. There are other
+things which you can eat, and still have. And
+our rowboat cruise is one of these. It is over,
+and yet it is not over. It never will be. I can
+shut my eyes&mdash;indeed, I do not need even
+to shut them&mdash;and again I am under the
+open sky, I am afloat in the sun and the wind,
+with the waters all around me. I see again
+the surf-edged curves of the beaches, the lines
+of the sand-cliffs, the ragged horizon edge,
+cut and jagged by the waves. I feel the boat,
+I feel the oars, I am aware of the damp, pure
+night air, and the sounds of the waves ceaselessly
+breaking on the sand.</p>
+
+<p>It is not over. Its best things are still ours,
+and those things which were hardly pleasures
+then have become such now. As we remember
+our aching muscles and blistered hands, we
+smile. As we recall times of intense weariness,
+of irritation, of anxiety, we find ourselves
+lingering over them with enjoyment. For
+memory does something wonderful with experience.
+It is a poet, and life is its raw
+<pb n="216"/><anchor id="Pg216"/>
+material. I know that our cruise was made up
+of minutes, of oar-strokes, so many that to
+count them would be weariness unending. But
+in my memory, these things are re-created.
+I see a boundless stretch of windy or peaceful
+waters. I see the endless line of misty coast.
+I see lovely islands, sleeping alone, waiting
+to be possessed by those who come. And I see
+a little, little boat, faring along the coast-lands,
+out to the islands, over the waters&mdash;going
+on, and on, and on.</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb"/>
+
+<p rend="text-align: center">THE END</p>
+
+<!-- <pb n="217"/><anchor id="Pg217"/>
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+</div>
+
+</body>
+
+<back>
+  <div rend="page-break-before: right; text-align: center" id="colophon">
+    <index index="toc"/>
+    <index index="pdf"/>
+    <head rend="text-align: center">Colophon</head>
+
+    <pb n="218"/><anchor id="Pg218"/>
+    <p rend="font-size: small">The Riverside Press</p>
+
+    <p rend="font-size: x-small">CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS</p>
+
+    <p rend="font-size: x-small">U . S . A</p>
+  </div>
+
+  <div rend="page-break-before: right; text-align: center" id="appendix">
+    <index index="toc"/>
+    <index index="pdf"/>
+    <head rend="text-align: center">Appendix A: Extra Front Pages</head>
+    <pb n="i"/><anchor id="Pgi"/>
+    
+    <p rend="font-size: small">
+    By Elisabeth Woodbridge</p>
+
+    <milestone unit="tb" rend="rule: 10%"/>
+    
+    <p rend="font-size: xx-small">MORE JONATHAN PAPERS.<lb/>
+    THE JONATHAN PAPERS.</p>
+    
+    <p rend="font-size: x-small">HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY<lb/>
+    <hi rend="font-size: xx-small; font-variant: small-caps">
+      Boston And New York
+    </hi></p>
+
+    <milestone unit="tb"/>
+
+    <pb n="ii"/><anchor id="Pgii"/>
+    
+    <p>More Jonathan Papers</p>
+
+    <!-- <pb n="iii"/><anchor id="Pgiii"/>
+    Blank Page -->
+  </div>
+
+  <div rend="page-break-before: right">
+    <index index="toc"/>
+    <index index="pdf"/>
+    <head rend="text-align: center">Errata</head>
+  
+    <list><anchor id='e1'/>
+      <item>Chapter VII</item>
+      <item>Changed camp is <hi rend="font-weight: bold"><ref
+      target="E1">4.38</ref></hi>&mdash;<hi rend="font-variant:
+      small-caps">A.M.</hi> to camp is <hi rend="font-weight:
+      bold">4:38</hi>&mdash;<hi rend="font-variant:
+      small-caps">A.M.</hi></item>
+    </list>
+    
+    <list><anchor id='e2'/>
+      <item>Chapter VII</item>
+      <item>Changed arrives at <hi rend="font-weight: bold"><ref
+      target="E2">10.15</ref></hi>, they to arrives at <hi
+      rend="font-weight: bold">10:15</hi>, they</item>
+    </list>
+    
+    <list><anchor id='e3'/>
+      <item>Chapter VII</item>
+      <item>Changed What does <hi rend="font-weight: bold"><ref
+      target="E3">10.15</ref></hi> look to What does <hi
+      rend="font-weight: bold">10:15</hi> look</item>
+    </list>
+    
+    <list><anchor id='e4'/>
+      <item>Chapter VIII</item>
+      <item>Changed &ldquo;Does it bite?<ref target="E4">&nbsp;</ref> to
+      &ldquo;Does it bite?<hi rend="font-weight: bold">&rdquo;</hi>
+      </item>
+    </list>
+    
+    <list><anchor id='e5'/>
+      <item>Chapter VIIII</item>
+      <item>Changed find something<hi rend="font-weight:
+      bold"><ref target="E5">,</ref></hi> Here&rsquo;s to find
+      something<hi rend="font-weight: bold">.</hi> Here&rsquo;s</item>
+    </list>
+    
+    <list><anchor id='e6'/>
+      <item>Chapter VIIII</item>
+      <item>Changed no matter <hi rend="font-weight: bold"><ref
+      target="E6">now</ref></hi> many to no matter <hi rend="font-weight:
+      bold">how</hi> many</item>
+    </list>
+  </div>
+
+<div rend="page-break-before: right">
+<divGen type="pgfooter" />
+</div>
+
+</back>
+
+</text>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth
+Woodbridge
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no
+restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under
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+
+Title: More Jonathan Papers
+
+Author: Elisabeth Woodbridge
+
+Release Date: December 19, 2006 [Ebook #20141]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: US-ASCII
+
+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORE JONATHAN PAPERS***
+
+
+
+
+
+                          More Jonathan Papers
+
+                                   By
+                          Elisabeth Woodbridge
+
+BOSTON AND NEW YORK
+HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
+The Riverside Press Cambridge
+1915
+
+
+
+
+
+             COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY ELISABETH WOODBRIDGE MORRIS
+
+                           ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+                        _Published November 1915_
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   TO
+                                 JONATHAN
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CONTENTS
+
+
+I. The Searchings of Jonathan
+II. Sap-Time
+III. Evenings on the Farm
+IV. After Frost
+V. The Joys of Garden Stewardship
+VI. Trout and Arbutus
+VII. Without the Time of Day
+VIII. The Ways of Griselda
+IX. A Rowboat Pilgrimage
+Colophon
+Appendix A: Extra Front Pages
+Errata
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                           More Jonathan Papers
+
+
+                                    I
+
+
+                        The Searchings of Jonathan
+
+
+"What I find it hard to understand is, why a person who can see a spray of
+fringed gentian in the middle of a meadow can't see a book on the
+sitting-room table."
+
+"The reason why I can see the gentian," said Jonathan, "is because the
+gentian is there."
+
+"So is the book," I responded.
+
+"Which table?" he asked.
+
+"The one with the lamp on it. It's a red book, about _so_ big."
+
+"It isn't there; but, just to satisfy you, I'll look again."
+
+He returned in a moment with an argumentative expression of countenance.
+"It isn't there," he said firmly. "Will anything else do instead?"
+
+"No, I wanted you to read that special thing. Oh, dear! And I have all
+these things in my lap! And I know it _is_ there."
+
+"And I _know_ it isn't." He stretched himself out in the hammock and
+watched me as I rather ostentatiously laid down thimble, scissors, needle,
+cotton, and material and set out for the sitting-room table. There were a
+number of books on it, to be sure. I glanced rapidly through the piles,
+fingered the lower books, pushed aside a magazine, and pulled out from
+beneath it the book I wanted. I returned to the hammock and handed it
+over. Then, after possessing myself, again rather ostentatiously, of
+material, cotton, needle, scissors, and thimble, I sat down.
+
+"It's the second essay I specially thought we'd like," I said.
+
+"Just for curiosity," said Jonathan, with an impersonal air, "where did
+you find it?"
+
+"Find what?" I asked innocently.
+
+"The book."
+
+"Oh! On the table."
+
+"Which table?"
+
+"The one with the lamp on it."
+
+"I should like to know where."
+
+"Why--just there--on the table. There was an 'Atlantic' on top of it, to be
+sure."
+
+"I saw the 'Atlantic.' Blest if it looked as though it had anything under
+it! Besides, I was looking for it on top of things. You said you laid it
+down there just before luncheon, and I didn't think it could have crawled
+in under so quick."
+
+"When you're looking for a thing," I said, "you mustn't think, you must
+look. Now go ahead and read."
+
+If this were a single instance, or even if it were one of many
+illustrating a common human frailty, it would hardly be worth setting
+down. But the frailty under consideration has come to seem to me rather
+particularly masculine. Are not all the Jonathans in the world continually
+being sent to some sitting-room table for something, and coming back to
+assert, with more or less pleasantness, according to their temperament,
+that it is not there? The incident, then, is not isolated; it is typical
+of a vast group. For Jonathan, read Everyman; for the red book, read any
+particular thing that you want Him to bring; for the sitting-room table,
+read the place where you know it is and Everyman says it isn't.
+
+This, at least, is my thesis. It is not, however, unchallenged. Jonathan
+has challenged it when, from time to time, as occasion offered, I have
+lightly sketched it out for him. Sometimes he argues that my instances are
+really isolated cases and that their evidence is not cumulative, at others
+he takes refuge in a _tu quoque_--in itself a confession of weakness--and
+alludes darkly to "top shelves" and "bottom drawers." But let us have no
+mysteries. These phrases, considered as arguments, have their origin in
+certain incidents which, that all the evidence may be in, I will here set
+down.
+
+Once upon a time I asked Jonathan to get me something from the top shelf
+in the closet. He went, and failed to find it. Then I went, and took it
+down. Jonathan, watching over my shoulder, said, "But that wasn't the top
+shelf, I suppose you will admit."
+
+Sure enough! There was a shelf above. "Oh, yes; but I don't count that
+shelf. We never use it, because nobody can reach it."
+
+"How do you expect me to know which shelves you count and which you
+don't?"
+
+"Of course, anatomically--structurally--it is one, but functionally it isn't
+there at all."
+
+"I see," said Jonathan, so contentedly that I knew he was filing this
+affair away for future use.
+
+On another occasion I asked him to get something for me from the top
+drawer of the old "high-boy" in the dining-room. He was gone a long while,
+and at last, growing impatient, I followed. I found him standing on an old
+wooden-seated chair, screw-driver in hand. A drawer on a level with his
+head was open, and he had hanging over his arm a gaudy collection of
+ancient table-covers and embroidered scarfs, mostly in shades of magenta.
+
+"She stuck, but I've got her open now. I don't see any pillow-cases,
+though. It's all full of these things." He pumped his laden arm up and
+down, and the table-covers wagged gayly.
+
+I sank into the chair and laughed. "Oh! Have you been prying at that all
+this time? Of _course_ there's nothing in _that_ drawer."
+
+"There's where you're wrong. There's a great deal in it; I haven't taken
+out half. If you want to see--"
+
+"I _don't_ want to see! There's nothing I want less! What I mean is--I
+never put anything there."
+
+"It's the top drawer." He was beginning to lay back the table-covers.
+
+"But I can't reach it. And it's been stuck for ever so long."
+
+"You said the top drawer."
+
+"Yes, I suppose I did. Of course what I meant was the top one of the ones
+I use."
+
+"I see, my dear. When you say top shelf you don't mean top shelf, and when
+you say top drawer you don't mean top drawer; in fact, when you say top
+you don't mean top at all--you mean the height of your head. Everything
+above that doesn't count."
+
+Jonathan was so pleased with this formulation of my attitude that he was
+not in the least irritated to have put out unnecessary work. And his
+satisfaction was deepened by one more incident. I had sent him to the
+bottom drawer of my bureau to get a shawl. He returned without it, and I
+was puzzled. "Now, Jonathan, it's there, and it's the top thing."
+
+"The real top," murmured Jonathan, "or just what you call top?"
+
+"It's right in front," I went on; "and I don't see how even a man could
+fail to find it."
+
+He proceeded to enumerate the contents of the drawer in such strange
+fashion that I began to wonder where he had been.
+
+"I said my bureau."
+
+"I went to your bureau."
+
+"The bottom drawer."
+
+"The bottom drawer. There was nothing but a lot of little boxes and--"
+
+"Oh, _I_ know what you did! You went to the secret drawer."
+
+"Isn't that the bottom one?"
+
+"Why, yes, in a way--of course it is; but it doesn't exactly count--it's not
+one of the regular drawers--it hasn't any knobs, or anything--"
+
+"But it's a perfectly good drawer."
+
+"Yes. But nobody is supposed to know it's there; it looks like a molding--"
+
+"But I know it's there."
+
+"Yes, of course."
+
+"And you know I know it's there."
+
+"Yes, yes; but I just don't think about that one in counting up. I see
+what you mean, of course."
+
+"And I see what you mean. You mean that your shawl is in the bottom one of
+the regular drawers--with knobs--that can be alluded to in general
+conversation. Now I think I can find it."
+
+He did. And in addition he amused himself by working out phrases about
+"when is a bottom drawer not a bottom drawer?" and "when is a top shelf
+not a top shelf?"
+
+It is to these incidents--which I regard as isolated and negligible, and he
+regards as typical and significant--that he alludes on the occasions when
+he is unable to find a red book on the sitting-room table. In vain do I
+point out that when language is variable and fluid it is alive, and that
+there may be two opinions about the structural top and the functional top,
+whereas there can be but one as to the book being or not being on the
+table. He maintains a quiet cheerfulness, as of one who is conscious of
+being, if not invulnerable, at least well armed.
+
+For a time he even tried to make believe that he was invulnerable as
+well--to set up the thesis that if the book was really on the table he
+could find it. But in this he suffered so many reverses that only strong
+natural pertinacity kept him from capitulation.
+
+Is it necessary to recount instances? Every family can furnish them. As I
+allow myself to float off into a reminiscent dream I find my mind
+possessed by a continuous series of dissolving views in which Jonathan is
+always coming to me saying, "It isn't there," and I am always saying,
+"Please look again."
+
+Though everything in the house seems to be in a conspiracy against him, it
+is perhaps with the fishing-tackle that he has most constant difficulties.
+
+"My dear, have you any idea where my rod is? No, don't get up--I'll look if
+you'll just tell me where--"
+
+"Probably in the corner behind the chest in the orchard room."
+
+"I've looked there."
+
+"Well, then, did you take it in from the wagon last night?"
+
+"Yes, I remember doing it."
+
+"What about the little attic? You might have put it up there to dry out."
+
+"No. I took my wading boots up, but that was all."
+
+"The dining-room? You came in that way."
+
+He goes and returns. "Not there." I reflect deeply.
+
+"Jonathan, are you _sure_ it's not in that corner of the orchard room?"
+
+"Yes, I'm sure; but I'll look again." He disappears, but in a moment I
+hear his voice calling, "No! Yours is here, but not mine."
+
+I perceive that it is a case for me, and I get up. "You go and harness.
+I'll find it," I call.
+
+There was a time when, under such conditions, I should have begun by
+hunting in all the unlikely places I could think of. Now I know better. I
+go straight to the corner of the orchard room. Then I call to Jonathan,
+just to relieve his mind.
+
+"All right! I've found it."
+
+"Where?"
+
+"Here, in the orchard room."
+
+"_Where_ in the orchard room?"
+
+"In the corner."
+
+"What corner?"
+
+"The usual corner--back of the chest."
+
+"The devil!" Then he comes back to put his head in at the door. "What are
+you laughing at?"
+
+"Nothing. What are you talking about the devil for? Anyway, it isn't the
+devil; it's the brownie."
+
+For there seems no doubt that the things he hunts for are possessed of
+supernatural powers; and the theory of a brownie in the house, with a
+special grudge against Jonathan, would perhaps best account for the way in
+which they elude his search but leap into sight at my approach. There is,
+to be sure, one other explanation, but it is one that does not suggest
+itself to him, or appeal to him when suggested by me, so there is no need
+to dwell upon it.
+
+If it isn't the rod, it is the landing-net, which has hung itself on a
+nail a little to the left or right of the one he had expected to see it
+on; or his reel, which has crept into a corner of the tackle drawer and
+held a ball of string in front of itself to distract his vision; or a
+bunch of snell hooks, which, aware of its protective coloring, has
+snuggled up against the shady side of the drawer and tucked its
+pink-papered head underneath a gay pickerel-spoon.
+
+Fishing-tackle is, clearly, "possessed," but in other fields Jonathan is
+not free from trouble. Finding anything on a bureau seems to offer
+peculiar obstacles. It is perhaps a big, black-headed pin that I want. "On
+the pincushion, Jonathan."
+
+He goes, and returns with two sizes of safety-pins and one long hat-pin.
+
+"No, dear, those won't do. A small, black-headed one--at least small
+compared with a hat-pin, large compared with an ordinary pin."
+
+"Common or house pin?" he murmurs, quoting a friend's phrase.
+
+"Do look again! I hate to drop this to go myself."
+
+"When a man does a job, he gets his tools together first."
+
+"Yes; but they say women shouldn't copy men, they should develop along
+their own lines. Please go."
+
+He goes, and comes back. "You don't want fancy gold pins, I suppose?"
+
+"No, no! Here, you hold this, and I'll go." I dash to the bureau. Sure
+enough, he is right about the cushion. I glance hastily about. There, in a
+little saucer, are a half-dozen of the sort I want. I snatch some and run
+back.
+
+"Well, it wasn't in the cushion, I bet."
+
+"No," I admit; "it was in a saucer just behind the cushion."
+
+"You said cushion."
+
+"I know. It's all right."
+
+"Now, if you had said simply 'bureau,' I'd have looked in other places on
+it."
+
+"Yes, you'd have _looked_ in other places!" I could not forbear
+responding. There is, I grant, another side to this question. One evening
+when I went upstairs I found a partial presentation of it, in the form of
+a little newspaper clipping, pinned on my cushion. It read as follows:--
+
+
+    "My dear," said she, "please run and bring me the needle from the
+    haystack."
+
+    "Oh, I don't know which haystack."
+
+    "Look in all the haystacks--you can't miss it; there's only one
+    needle."
+
+
+Jonathan was in the cellar at the moment. When he came up, he said, "Did I
+hear any one laughing?"
+
+"I don't know. Did you?"
+
+"I thought maybe it was you."
+
+"It might have been. Something amused me--I forget what."
+
+I accused Jonathan of having written it himself, but he denied it. Some
+other Jonathan, then; for, as I said, this is not a personal matter, it is
+a world matter. Let us grant, then, a certain allowance for those who hunt
+in woman-made haystacks. But what about pockets? Is not a man lord over
+his own pockets? And are they not nevertheless as so many haystacks piled
+high for his confusion? Certain it is that Jonathan has nearly as much
+trouble with his pockets as he does with the corners and cupboards and
+shelves and drawers of his house. It usually happens over our late supper,
+after his day in town. He sets down his teacup, struck with a sudden
+memory. He feels in his vest pockets--first the right, then the left. He
+proceeds to search himself, murmuring, "I thought something came to-day
+that I wanted to show you--oh, here! no, that isn't it. I thought I put
+it--no, those are to be--what's this? No, that's a memorandum. Now, where
+in--" He runs through the papers in his pockets twice over, and in the
+second round I watch him narrowly, and perhaps see a corner of an envelope
+that does not look like office work. "There, Jonathan! What's that? No,
+not that--that!"
+
+He pulls it out with an air of immense relief. "There! I knew I had
+something. That's it."
+
+When we travel, the same thing happens with the tickets, especially if
+they chance to be costly and complicated ones, with all the shifts and
+changes of our journey printed thick upon their faces. The conductor
+appears at the other end of the car. Jonathan begins vaguely to fumble
+without lowering his paper. Pocket after pocket is browsed through in this
+way. Then the paper slides to his knee and he begins a more thorough
+investigation, with all the characteristic clapping and diving motions
+that seem to be necessary. Some pockets must always be clapped and others
+dived into to discover their contents.
+
+No tickets. The conductor is halfway up the car. Jonathan's face begins to
+grow serious. He rises and looks on the seat and under it. He sits down
+and takes out packet after packet of papers and goes over them with
+scrupulous care. At this point I used to become really anxious--to make
+hasty calculations as to our financial resources, immediate and
+ultimate--to wonder if conductors ever really put nice people like us off
+trains. But that was long ago. I know now that Jonathan has never lost a
+ticket in his life. So I glance through the paper that he has dropped or
+watch the landscape until he reaches a certain stage of calm and definite
+pessimism, when he says, "I must have pulled them out when I took out
+those postcards in the other car. Yes, that's just what has happened."
+Then, the conductor being only a few seats away, I beg Jonathan to look
+once more in his vest pocket, where he always puts them. To oblige me he
+looks, though without faith, and lo! this time the tickets fairly fling
+themselves upon him, with smiles almost curling up their corners. Does the
+brownie travel with us, then?
+
+I begin to suspect that some of the good men who have been blamed for
+forgetting to mail letters in their pockets have been, not indeed
+blameless, but at least misunderstood. Probably they do not forget.
+Probably they hunt for the letters and cannot find them, and conclude that
+they have already mailed them.
+
+In the matter of the home haystacks Jonathan's confidence in himself has
+at last been shaken. For a long time, when he returned to me after some
+futile search, he used to say, "Of course you can look for it if you like,
+but it is _not_ there." But man is a reasoning, if not altogether a
+reasonable, being, and with a sufficient accumulation of evidence,
+especially when there is some one constantly at hand to interpret its
+teachings, almost any set of opinions, however fixed, may be shaken. So
+here.
+
+Once when we shut up the farm for the winter I left my fountain pen
+behind. This was little short of a tragedy, but I comforted myself with
+the knowledge that Jonathan was going back that week-end for a day's hunt.
+
+"Be sure to get the pen first of all," I said, "and put it in your
+pocket."
+
+"Where is it?" he asked.
+
+"In the little medicine cupboard over the fireplace in the orchard room,
+standing up at the side of the first shelf."
+
+"Why not on your desk?" he asked.
+
+"Because I was writing tags in there, and set it up so it would be out of
+the way."
+
+"And it _was_ out of the way. All right. I'll collect it."
+
+He went, and on his return I met him with eager hand--"My pen!"
+
+"I'm sorry," he began.
+
+"You didn't forget!" I exclaimed.
+
+"No. But it wasn't there."
+
+"But--did you look?"
+
+"Yes, I looked."
+
+"Thoroughly?"
+
+"Yes. I lit three matches."
+
+"Matches! Then you didn't get it when you first got there!"
+
+"Why--no--I had the dog to attend to--and--but I had plenty of time when I got
+back, and it _wasn't_ there."
+
+"Well--Dear me! Did you look anywhere else? I suppose I may be mistaken.
+Perhaps I did take it back to the desk."
+
+"That's just what I thought myself," said Jonathan. "So I went there, and
+looked, and then I looked on all the mantelpieces and your bureau. You
+must have put it in your bag the last minute--bet it's there now!"
+
+"Bet it isn't."
+
+It wasn't. For two weeks more I was driven to using other pens--strange and
+distracting to the fingers and the eyes and the mind. Then Jonathan was to
+go up again.
+
+"Please look once more," I begged, "and don't expect not to see it. I can
+fairly see it myself, this minute, standing up there on the right-hand
+side, just behind the machine oil can."
+
+"Oh, I'll look," he promised. "If it's there, I'll find it."
+
+He returned penless. I considered buying another. But we were planning to
+go up together the last week of the hunting season, and I thought I would
+wait on the chance.
+
+We got off at the little station and hunted our way up, making great
+sweeps and jogs, as hunters must, to take in certain spots we thought
+promising--certain ravines and swamp edges where we are always sure of
+hearing the thunderous whir of partridge wings, or the soft, shrill
+whistle of woodcock. At noon we broiled chops and rested in the lee of the
+wood edge, where, even in the late fall, one can usually find spots that
+are warm and still. It was dusk by the time we came over the crest of the
+farm ledges and saw the huddle of the home buildings below us, and quite
+dark when we reached the house. Fires had been made and coals smouldered
+on the hearth in the sitting-room.
+
+"You light the lamp," I said, "and I'll just take a match and go through
+to see if that pen _should_ happen to be there."
+
+"No use doing anything to-night," said Jonathan. "To-morrow morning you
+can have a thorough hunt."
+
+But I took my match, felt my way into the next room, past the fireplace,
+up to the cupboard, then struck my match. In its first flare-up I glanced
+in. Then I chuckled.
+
+Jonathan had gone out to the dining-room, but he has perfectly good ears.
+
+"NO!" he roared, and his tone of dismay, incredulity, rage, sent me off
+into gales of unscrupulous laughter. He was striding in, candle in hand,
+shouting, "It was _not there!_"
+
+"Look yourself," I managed to gasp.
+
+This time, somehow, he could see it.
+
+"You planted it! You brought it up and planted it!"
+
+"I never! Oh, dear me! It pays for going without it for weeks!"
+
+"_Nothing_ will ever make me believe that that pen was standing there when
+I looked for it!" said Jonathan, with vehement finality.
+
+"All right," I sighed happily. "You don't have to believe it."
+
+But in his heart perhaps he does believe it. At any rate, since that time
+he has adopted a new formula: "My dear, it may be there, of course, but I
+don't see it." And this position I regard as unassailable.
+
+One triumph he has had. I wanted something that was stored away in the
+shut-up town house.
+
+"Do you suppose you could find it?" I said, as gently as possible.
+
+"I can try," he said.
+
+"I think it is in a box about this shape--see?--a gray box, in the attic
+closet, the farthest-in corner."
+
+"Are you sure it's in the house? If it's in the house, I think I can find
+it."
+
+"Yes, I'm sure of that."
+
+When he returned that night, his face wore a look of satisfaction very
+imperfectly concealed beneath a mask of nonchalance.
+
+"_Good_ for you! Was it where I said?"
+
+"No."
+
+"Was it in a different corner?"
+
+"No."
+
+"Where was it?"
+
+"It wasn't in a corner at all. It wasn't in that closet."
+
+"It wasn't! Where, then?"
+
+"Downstairs in the hall closet." He paused, then could not forbear adding,
+"And it wasn't in a gray box; it was in a big hat-box with violets all
+over it."
+
+"Why, _Jonathan!_ Aren't you grand! How did you ever find it? I couldn't
+have done better myself."
+
+Under such praise he expanded. "The fact is," he said confidentially, "I
+had given it up. And then suddenly I changed my mind. I said to myself,
+'Jonathan, don't be a man! Think what she'd do if she were here now.' And
+then I got busy and found it."
+
+"Jonathan!" I could almost have wept if I had not been laughing.
+
+"Well," he said, proud, yet rather sheepish, "what is there so funny about
+that? I gave up half a day to it."
+
+"Funny! It isn't funny--exactly. You don't mind my laughing a little? Why,
+you've lived down the fountain pen--we'll forget the pen--"
+
+"Oh, no, you won't forget the pen either," he said, with a certain
+pleasant grimness.
+
+"Well, perhaps not--of course it would be a pity to forget that. Suppose I
+say, then, that we'll always regard the pen in the light of the violet
+hat-box?"
+
+"I think that might do." Then he had an alarming afterthought. "But, see
+here--you won't expect me to do things like that often?"
+
+"Dear me, no! People can't live always on their highest levels. Perhaps
+you'll _never_ do it again." Jonathan looked distinctly relieved. "I'll
+accept it as a unique effort--like Dante's angel and Raphael's sonnet."
+
+"Jonathan," I said that evening, "what do you know about St. Anthony of
+Padua?"
+
+"Not much."
+
+"Well, you ought to. He helped you to-day. He's the saint who helps people
+to find lost articles. Every man ought to take him as a patron saint."
+
+"And do you know which saint it is who helps people to find lost
+virtues--like humility, for instance?"
+
+"No. I don't, really."
+
+"I didn't suppose you did," said Jonathan.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    II
+
+
+                                 Sap-Time
+
+
+It was a little tree-toad that began it. In a careless moment he had come
+down to the bench that connects the big maple tree with the old locust
+stump, and when I went out at dusk to wait for Jonathan, there he sat, in
+plain sight. A few experimental pokes sent him back to the tree, and I
+studied him there, marveling at the way he assimilated with its bark. As
+Jonathan came across the grass I called softly, and pointed to the tree.
+
+"Well?" he said.
+
+"Don't you see?"
+
+"No. What?"
+
+"Look--I thought you had eyes!"
+
+"Oh, what a little beauty!"
+
+"And isn't his back just like bark and lichens! And what are those things
+in the tree beside him?"
+
+"Plugs, I suppose."
+
+"Plugs?"
+
+"Yes. After tapping. Uncle Ben used to tap these trees, I believe."
+
+"You mean for sap? Maple syrup?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Jonathan! I didn't know these were sugar maples."
+
+"Oh, yes. These on the road."
+
+"The whole row? Why, there are ten or fifteen of them! And you never told
+me!"
+
+"I thought you knew."
+
+"Knew! I don't know anything--I should think you'd know that, by this time.
+Do you suppose, if I had known, I should have let all these years go
+by--oh, dear--think of all the fun we've missed! And syrup!"
+
+"You'd have to come up in February."
+
+"Well, then, I'll _come_ in February. Who's afraid of February?"
+
+"All right. Try it next year."
+
+I did. But not in February. Things happened, as things do, and it was
+early April before I got to the farm. But it had been a wintry March, and
+the farmers told me that the sap had not been running except for a few
+days in a February thaw. Anyway, it was worth trying.
+
+Jonathan could not come with me. He was to join me later. But Hiram found
+a bundle of elder spouts in the attic, and with these and an auger we went
+out along the snowy, muddy road. The hole was bored--a pair of them--in the
+first tree, and the spouts driven in. I knelt, watching--in fact, peering
+up the spout-hole to see what might happen. Suddenly a drop, dim with
+sawdust, appeared--gathered, hesitated, then ran down gayly and leapt off
+the end.
+
+"Look! Hiram! It's running!" I called.
+
+Hiram, boring the next tree, made no response. He evidently expected it to
+run. Jonathan would have acted just like that, too, I felt sure. Is it a
+masculine quality, I wonder, to be unmoved when the theoretically expected
+becomes actual? Or is it that some temperaments have naturally a certain
+large confidence in the sway of law, and refuse to wonder at its
+individual workings? To me the individual workings give an ever fresh
+thrill because they bring a new realization of the mighty powers behind
+them. It seems to depend on which end you begin at.
+
+But though the little drops thrilled me, I was not beyond setting a pail
+underneath to catch them. And as Hiram went on boring, I followed with my
+pails. Pails, did I say? Pails by courtesy. There were, indeed, a few real
+pails--berry-pails, lard-pails, and water-pails--but for the most part the
+sap fell into pitchers, or tin saucepans, stew-kettles of aluminum or
+agate ware, blue and gray and white and mottled, or big yellow earthenware
+bowls. It was a strange collection of receptacles that lined the roadside
+when we had finished our progress. As I looked along the row, I laughed,
+and even Hiram smiled.
+
+But what next? Every utensil in the house was out there, sitting in the
+road. There was nothing left but the wash-boiler. Now, I had heard tales
+of amateur syrup-boilings, and I felt that the wash-boiler would not do.
+Besides, I meant to work outdoors--no kitchen stove for me! I must have a
+pan, a big, flat pan. I flew to the telephone, and called up the village
+plumber, three miles away. Could he build me a pan? Oh, say, two feet by
+three feet, and five inches high--yes, right away. Yes, Hiram would call
+for it in the afternoon.
+
+I felt better. And now for a fireplace! Oh, Jonathan! Why did you have to
+be away! For Jonathan loves a stone and knows how to put stones together,
+as witness the stone "Eyrie" and the stile in the lane. However, there
+Jonathan wasn't. So I went out into the swampy orchard behind the house
+and looked about--no lack of stones, at any rate. I began to collect
+material, and Hiram, seeing my purpose, helped with the big stones.
+Somehow my fireplace got made--two side walls, one end wall, the other end
+left open for stoking. It was not as pretty as if Jonathan had done it,
+but "'t was enough, 't would serve." I collected fire-wood, and there I
+was, ready for my pan, and the afternoon was yet young, and the sap was
+drip-drip-dripping from all the spouts. I could begin to boil next day. I
+felt that I was being borne along on the providential wave that so often
+floats the inexperienced to success.
+
+That night I emptied all my vessels into the boiler and set them out once
+more. A neighbor drove by and pulled up to comment benevolently on my
+work.
+
+"Will it run to-night?" I asked him.
+
+"No--no--'t won't run to-night. Too cold. 'T won't run any to-night. You can
+sleep all right."
+
+This was pleasant to hear. There was a moon, to be sure, but it was
+growing colder, and at the idea of crawling along that road in the middle
+of the night even my enthusiasm shivered a little.
+
+So I made my rounds at nine, in the white moonlight, and went to sleep.
+
+I was awakened the next morning to a consciousness of flooding sunshine
+and Hiram's voice outside my window.
+
+"Got anything I can empty sap into? I've got everything all filled up."
+
+"Sap! Why, it isn't running yet, is it?"
+
+"Pails were flowin' over when I came out."
+
+"Flowing over! They said the sap wouldn't run last night."
+
+"I guest there don't nobody know when sap'll run and when it won't," said
+Hiram peacefully, as he tramped off to the barn.
+
+In a few minutes I was outdoors. Sure enough, Hiram had everything
+full--old boilers, feed-pails, water-pails. But we found some three-gallon
+milk-cans and used them. A farm is like a city. There are always things
+enough in it for all purposes. It is only a question of using its
+resources.
+
+Then, in the clear April sunshine, I went out and surveyed the row of
+maples. How they did drip! Some of them almost ran. I felt as if I had
+turned on the faucets of the universe and didn't know how to turn them off
+again.
+
+However, there was my new pan. I set it over my oven walls and began to
+pour in sap. Hiram helped me. He seemed to think he needed his feed-pails.
+We poured in sap and we poured in sap. Never did I see anything hold so
+much as that pan. Even Hiram was stirred out of his usual calm to remark,
+"It beats all, how much that holds." Of course Jonathan would have had its
+capacity all calculated the day before, but my methods are empirical, and
+so I was surprised as well as pleased when all my receptacles emptied
+themselves into its shallow breadths and still there was a good inch to
+allow for boiling up. Yes, Providence--my exclusive little fool's
+Providence--was with me. The pan, and the oven, were a success, and when
+Jonathan came that night I led him out with unconcealed pride and showed
+him the pan--now a heaving, frothing mass of sap-about-to-be-syrup, sending
+clouds of white steam down the wind. As he looked at the oven walls, I
+fancied his fingers ached to get at them, but he offered no criticism,
+seeing that they worked.
+
+The next day began overcast, but Providence was merely preparing for me a
+special little gift in the form of a miniature snowstorm. It was quite
+real while it lasted. It whitened the grass and the road, it piled itself
+softly among the clusters of swelling buds on the apple trees, and made
+the orchard look as though it had burst into bloom in an hour. Then the
+sun came out, there were a few dazzling moments when the world was all
+blue and silver, and then the whiteness faded.
+
+And the sap! How it dripped! Once an hour I had to make the rounds,
+bringing back gallons each time, and the fire under my pan was kept up so
+that the boiling down might keep pace with the new supply.
+
+"They do say snow makes it run," shouted a passer-by, and another called,
+"You want to keep skimmin'!" Whereupon I seized my long-handled skimmer
+and fell to work. Southern Connecticut does not know much about syrup, but
+by the avenue of the road I was gradually accumulating such wisdom as it
+possessed.
+
+The syrup was made. No worse accident befell than the occasional
+overflowing of a pail too long neglected. The syrup was made, and bottled,
+and distributed to friends, and was the pride of the household through the
+year.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+"This time I will go early," I said to Jonathan; "they say the late
+running is never quite so good."
+
+It was early March when I got up there this time--early March after a
+winter whose rigor had known practically no break. Again Jonathan could
+not come, but Cousin Janet could, and we met at the little station, where
+Hiram was waiting with Kit and the surrey. The sun was warm, but the air
+was keen and the woods hardly showed spring at all yet, even in that first
+token of it, the slight thickening of their millions of little tips,
+through the swelling of the buds. The city trees already showed this, but
+the country ones still kept their wintry penciling of vanishing lines.
+
+Spring was in the road, however. "There ain't no bottom to this road now,
+it's just dropped clean out," remarked a fellow teamster as we wallowed
+along companionably through the woods. But, somehow, we reached the farm.
+Again we bored our holes, and again I was thrilled as the first bright
+drops slipped out and jeweled the ends of the spouts. I watched Janet. She
+was interested but calm, classing herself at once with Hiram and Jonathan.
+We unearthed last year's oven and dug out its inner depths--leaves and dirt
+and apples and ashes--it was like excavating through the seven Troys to get
+to bottom. We brought down the big pan, now clothed in the honors of a
+season's use, and cleaned off the cobwebs incident to a year's sojourn in
+the attic. By sunset we had a panful of sap boiling merrily and already
+taking on a distinctly golden tinge. We tasted it. It was very syrupy.
+Letting the fire die down, we went in to get supper in the utmost content
+of spirit.
+
+"It's so much simpler than last year," I said, as we sat over our cozy
+"tea,"--"having the pan and the oven ready-made, and all--"
+
+"You don't suppose anything could happen to it while we're in here?"
+suggested Janet. "Shan't I just run out and see?"
+
+"No, sit still. What could happen? The fire's going out."
+
+"Yes, I know." But her voice was uncertain.
+
+"You see, I've been all through it once," I reassured her.
+
+As we rose, Janet said, "Let's go out before we do the dishes." And to
+humor her I agreed. We lighted the lantern and stepped out on the back
+porch. It was quite dark, and as we looked off toward the fireplace we saw
+gleams of red.
+
+"How funny!" I murmured. "I didn't think there was so much fire left."
+
+We felt our way over, through the yielding mud of the orchard, and as I
+raised the lantern we stared in dazed astonishment. The pan was a
+blackened mass, lit up by winking red eyes of fire. I held the lantern
+more closely. I seized a stick and poked--the crisp black stuff broke and
+crumbled into an empty and blackening pan. A curious odor arose.
+
+"It couldn't have!" gasped Janet.
+
+"It couldn't--but it has!" I said.
+
+It was a matter for tears, or rage, or laughter. And laughter won. When we
+recovered a little we took up the black shell of carbon that had once been
+syrup-froth; we laid it gently beside the oven, for a keepsake. Then we
+poured water in the pan, and steam rose hissing to the stars.
+
+"Does it leak?" faltered Janet.
+
+"Leak!" I said. I was on my knees now, watching the water stream through
+the parted seam of the pan bottom, down into the ashes below.
+
+"The question is," I went on as I got up, "did it boil away because it
+leaked, or did it leak because it boiled away?"
+
+"I don't see that it matters much," said Janet. She was showing symptoms
+of depression at this point.
+
+"It matters a great deal," I said. "Because, you see, we've got to tell
+Jonathan, and it makes all the difference how we put it."
+
+"I see," said Janet; then she added, experimentally, "Why tell Jonathan?"
+
+"Why, Janet, you know better! I wouldn't miss telling Jonathan for
+anything. What is Jonathan _for!_"
+
+"Well--of course," she conceded. "Let's do dishes."
+
+We sat before the fire that evening and I read while Janet knitted.
+Between my eyes and the printed page there kept rising a vision--a vision
+of black crust, with winking red embers smoldering along its broken edges.
+I found it distracting in the extreme....
+
+At some time unknown, out of the blind depths of the night, I was awakened
+by a voice:--
+
+"It's beginning to rain. I think I'll just go out and empty what's near
+the house."
+
+"Janet!" I murmured, "don't be absurd."
+
+"But it will dilute all that sap."
+
+"There isn't any sap to dilute. It won't be running at night." After a
+while the voice, full of propitiatory intonations, resumed:--
+
+"My dear, you don't mind if I slip out. It will only take a minute."
+
+"I do mind. Go to sleep!"
+
+Silence. Then:--
+
+"It's raining harder. I hate to think of all that sap--"
+
+"You don't _have_ to think!" I was quite savage. "Just go to sleep--and let
+me!" Another silence. Then a fresh downpour. The voice was pleading:--
+
+"_Please_ let me go! I'll be back in a minute. And it's not cold."
+
+"Oh, well--I'm awake now, anyway. _I'll_ go." My voice was tinged with that
+high resignation that is worse than anger. Janet's tone changed
+instantly:--
+
+"No, no! Don't! Please don't! I'm going. I truly don't mind."
+
+"_I'm_ going. I don't mind, either, not at all."
+
+"Oh, dear! Then let's not either of us go."
+
+"That was my idea in the first place."
+
+"Well, then, we won't. Go to sleep, and I will too."
+
+"Not at all! I've decided to go."
+
+"But it's stopped raining. Probably it won't rain any more."
+
+"Then what are you making all this fuss for?"
+
+"I didn't make a fuss. I just thought I could slip out--"
+
+"Well, you couldn't. And it's raining very hard again. And I'm going."
+
+"Oh, don't! You'll get drenched."
+
+"Of course. But I can't bear to have all that sap diluted."
+
+"It doesn't run at night. You said it didn't."
+
+"You said it did."
+
+"But I don't really know. You know best."
+
+"Why didn't you think of that sooner? Anyway, I'm going."
+
+"Oh, dear! You make me feel as if I'd stirred you up--"
+
+"You have," I interrupted, sweetly. "I won't deny that you _have_ stirred
+me up. But now that you have mentioned it"--I felt for a match--"now that
+you have mentioned it, I see that this was the one thing needed to make my
+evening complete, or perhaps it's morning--I don't know."
+
+We found the dining-room warm, and soon we were equipped in those curious
+compromises of vesture that people adopt under such circumstances, and,
+with lantern and umbrella, we fumbled our way out to the trees. The rain
+was driving in sheets, and we plodded up the road in the yellow circle of
+lantern-light wavering uncertainly over the puddles, while under our feet
+the mud gave and sucked.
+
+"It's diluted, sure enough," I said, as we emptied the pails. We crawled
+slowly back, with our heavy milk-can full of sap-and-rain-water, and went
+in.
+
+The warm dining-room was pleasant to return to, and we sat down to cookies
+and milk, feeling almost cozy.
+
+"I've always wanted to know how it would be to go out in the middle of the
+night this way," I remarked, "and now I know."
+
+"Aren't you hateful!" said Janet.
+
+"Not at all. Just appreciative. But now, if you haven't any _other_ plan,
+we'll go back to bed."
+
+It was half-past eight when we waked next morning. But there was nothing
+to wake up for. The old house was filled with the rain-noises that only
+such an old house knows. On the little windows the drops pricked sharply;
+in the fireplace with the straight flue they fell, hissing, on the embers.
+On the porch roofs the rain made a dull patter of sound; on the tin roof
+of the "little attic" over the kitchen it beat with flat resonance. In the
+big attic, when we went up to see if all was tight, it filled the place
+with a multitudinous clamor; on the sides of the house it drove with a
+fury that re-echoed dimly within doors.
+
+Outside, everything was afloat. We visited the trees and viewed with
+consternation the torrents of rain-water pouring into the pails. We tried
+fastening pans over the spouts to protect them. The wind blew them merrily
+down the road. It would have been easy enough to cover the pails, but how
+to let the sap drip in and the rain drip out--that was the question.
+
+"It seems as if there was a curse on the syrup this year," said Janet.
+
+"The trouble is," I said, "I know just enough to have lost my hold on the
+fool's Providence, and not enough really to take care of myself."
+
+"Superstition!" said Janet.
+
+"What do you call your idea of the curse?" I retorted. "Anyway, I have an
+idea! Look, Janet! We'll just cut up these enamel-cloth table-covers here
+by the sink and everywhere, and tack them around the spouts."
+
+Janet's thrifty spirit was doubtful. "Don't you need them?"
+
+"Not half so much as the trees do. Come on! Pull them off. We'll have to
+have fresh ones this summer, anyway."
+
+We stripped the kitchen tables and the pantry and the milk-room. We got
+tacks and a hammer and scissors, and out we went again. We cut a piece for
+each tree, just enough to go over each pair of spouts and protect the
+pail. When tacked on, it had the appearance of a neat bib, and as the
+pattern was a blue and white check, the effect, as one looked down the
+road at the twelve trees, was very fresh and pleasing. It seemed to cheer
+the people who drove by, too.
+
+But the bibs served their purpose, and the sap dripped cozily into the
+pails without any distraction from alien elements. Sap doesn't run in the
+rain, they say, but this sap did. Probably Hiram was right, and you can't
+tell. I am glad if you can't. The physical mysteries of the universe are
+being unveiled so swiftly that one likes to find something that still
+keeps its secret--though, indeed, the spiritual mysteries seem in no danger
+of such enforcement.
+
+The next day the rain stopped, the floods began to subside, and Jonathan
+managed to arrive, though the roads had even less "bottom to 'em" than
+before. The sun blazed out, and the sap ran faster, and, after Jonathan
+had fully enjoyed them, the blue and white bibs were taken off. Somehow in
+the clear March sunshine they looked almost shocking. By the next day we
+had syrup enough to try for sugar.
+
+For on sugar my heart was set. Syrup was all very well for the first year,
+but now it had to be sugar. Moreover, as I explained to Janet, when it
+came to sugar, being absolutely ignorant, I was again in a position to
+expect the aid of the fool's Providence.
+
+"How much _do_ you know about it?" asked Janet.
+
+"Oh, just what people say. It seems to be partly like fudge and partly
+like molasses candy. You boil it, and then you beat it, and then you pour
+it off."
+
+"I've got more to go on than that," said Jonathan. "I came up on the train
+with the Judge. He used to see it done."
+
+"You've got to drive Janet over to her train to-night; Hiram can't," I
+said.
+
+"All right. There's time enough."
+
+We sat down to early supper, and took turns running out to the kitchen to
+"try" the syrup as it boiled down. At least we said we would take turns,
+but usually we all three went. Supper seemed distinctly a side issue.
+
+"I'm going to take it off now," said Jonathan. "Look out!"
+
+"Do you think it's time?" I demurred.
+
+"We'll know soon," said Jonathan, with his usual composure.
+
+We hung over him. "Now you beat it," I said. But he was already beating.
+
+"Get some cold water to set it in," he commanded. We brought the dishpan
+with water from the well, where ice still floated.
+
+"Maybe you oughtn't to stir so much--do you think?" I suggested, helpfully.
+"Beat it more--up, you know."
+
+"More the way you would eggs," said Janet.
+
+"I'll show you." I lunged at the spoon.
+
+"Go away! This isn't eggs," said Jonathan, beating steadily.
+
+"Your arm must be tired. Let me take it," pleaded Janet.
+
+"No, me!" I said. "Janet, you've got to get your coat and things. You'll
+have to start in fifteen minutes. Here, Jonathan, you need a fresh arm."
+
+"I'm fresh enough."
+
+"And I really don't think you have the motion."
+
+"I have motion enough. This is my job. You go and help Janet."
+
+"Janet's all right."
+
+"So am I. See how white it's getting. The Judge said--"
+
+"Here come Hiram and Kit," announced Janet, returning with bag and wraps.
+"But you have ten minutes. Can't I help?"
+
+"He won't let us. He's that 'sot,'" I murmured. "He'll make you miss your
+train."
+
+"You _could_ butter the pans," he counter charged, "and you haven't."
+
+We flew to prepare, and the pouring began. It was a thrilling moment. The
+syrup, or sugar, now a pale hay color, poured out thickly, blob-blob-blob,
+into the little pans. Janet moved them up as they were needed, and I
+snatched the spoon, at last, and encouraged the stuff to fall where it
+should. But Jonathan got it from me again, and scraped out the remnant,
+making designs of clovers and polliwogs on the tops of the cakes. Then a
+dash for coats and hats and a rush to the carriage.
+
+When the surrey disappeared around the turn of the road, I went back,
+shivering, to the house. It seemed very empty, as houses will, being
+sensitive things. I went to the kitchen. There on the table sat a huddle
+of little pans, to cheer me, and I fell to work getting things in order to
+be left in the morning. Then I went back to the fire and waited for
+Jonathan. I picked up a book and tried to read, but the stillness of the
+house was too importunate, it had to be listened to. I leaned back and
+watched the fire, and the old house and I held communion together.
+
+Perhaps in no other way is it possible to get quite what I got that
+evening. It was partly my own attitude; I was going away in the morning,
+and I had, in a sense, no duties toward the place. The magazines of last
+fall lay on the tables, the newspapers of last fall lay beside them. The
+dust of last fall was, doubtless, in the closets and on the floors. It did
+not matter. For though I was the mistress of the house, I was for the
+moment even more its guest, and guests do not concern themselves with such
+things as these.
+
+If it had been really an empty house, I should have been obliged to think
+of these things, for in an empty house the dust speaks and the house is
+still, dumbly imprisoned in its own past. On the other hand, when a house
+is filled with life, it is still, too; it is absorbed in its own present.
+But when one sojourns in a house that is merely resting, full of the life
+that has only for a brief season left it, ready for the life that is soon
+to return--then one is in the midst of silences that are not empty and
+hollow, but richly eloquent. The house is the link that joins and
+interprets the living past and the living future.
+
+Something of this I came to feel as I sat there in the wonderful
+stillness. There were no house noises such as generally form the unnoticed
+background of one's consciousness--the steps overhead, the distant voices,
+the ticking of the clock, the breathing of the dog in the corner. Even the
+mice and the chimney-swallows had not come back, and I missed the
+scurrying in the walls and the flutter of wings in the chimney. The fire
+purred low, now and then the wind sighed gently about the corner of the
+"new part," and a loose door-latch clicked as the draught shook it. A
+branch drew back and forth across a window-pane with the faintest squeak.
+And little by little the old house opened its heart. All that it told me I
+hardly yet know myself. It gathered up for me all its past, the past that
+I had known and the past that I had not known. Time fell away. My own
+importance dwindled. I seemed a very small part of the life of the
+house--very small, yet wholly belonging to it. I felt that it absorbed me
+as it absorbed the rest--those before and after me--for time was not.
+
+There was the sound of slow wheels outside, the long roll of the
+carriage-house door, and the trampling of hoofs on the flooring within.
+Then the clinking of the lantern and the even tread of feet on the path
+behind the house, a gust of raw snow-air--and the house fell silent so that
+Jonathan might come in.
+
+"Your sugar is hardening nicely, I see," he said, rubbing his hands before
+the fire.
+
+"Yes," I said. "You know I _told_ Janet that for this part of the affair
+we could trust to the fool's Providence."
+
+"Thank you," said Jonathan.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   III
+
+
+                           Evenings on the Farm
+
+
+          I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
+          I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
+          (And wait to watch the water clear, I may);
+          I shan't be gone long.--You come too.
+
+          I'm going out to fetch the little calf
+          That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
+          It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
+          I shan't be gone long.--You come too.
+
+          ROBERT FROST.
+
+
+When we first planned to take up the farm we looked forward with especial
+pleasure to our evenings. They were to be the quiet rounding-in of our
+days, full of companionship, full of meditation. "We'll do lots of reading
+aloud," I said. "And we'll have long walks. There won't be much to do
+_but_ walk and read. I can hardly wait." And I chose our summer books with
+special reference to reading aloud.
+
+"Of course," I said, as we fell to work at our packing, "we'll have to do
+all sorts of things first. But the days are so long up there, and the life
+is very simple. And in the evenings you'll help. We ought to be settled in
+a week."
+
+"Or two--or three," suggested Jonathan.
+
+"Three! What is there to do?"
+
+"Farm-life isn't so blamed simple as you think."
+
+"But what _is_ there to do? Now, listen! One day for trunks, one day for
+boxes and barrels, one day for closets, that's three, one for curtains,
+four, one day for--for the garret, that's five. Well--one day for odds and
+ends that I haven't thought of. That's liberal, I'm sure."
+
+"Better say the rest of your life for the odds and ends you haven't
+thought of," said Jonathan, as he drove the last nail in a neatly headed
+barrel.
+
+"Jonathan, why are you such a pessimist?"
+
+"I'm not, except when you're such an optimist."
+
+"If I'd begun by saying it would take a month, would you have said a
+week?"
+
+"Can't tell. Might have."
+
+"Anyway, there's nothing bad about odds and ends. They're about all women
+have much to do with most of their lives."
+
+"That's what I said. And you called me a pessimist."
+
+"I didn't call you one. I said, why were you one."
+
+"I'm sorry. My mistake," said Jonathan with the smile of one who scores.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+And so we went.
+
+One day for trunks was all right. Any one can manage trunks. And the
+second day, the boxes were emptied and sent flying out to the barn.
+Curtains I decided to keep for evening work, while Jonathan read. That
+left the closets and the attic, or rather the attics, for there was one
+over the main house and one over the "new part,"--still "new," although now
+some seventy years old. They were known as the attic and the little attic.
+I thought I would do the closets first, and I began with the one in the
+parlor. This was built into the chimney, over the fireplace. It was low,
+and as long as the mantelpiece itself. It had two long shelves shut away
+behind three glass doors through which the treasures within were dimly
+visible. When I swung these open it felt like opening a tomb--cold, musty
+air hung about my face. I brushed it aside, and considered where to begin.
+It was a depressing collection. There were photographs and photographs,
+some in frames, the rest of them tied up in packages or lying in piles. A
+few had names or messages written on the back, but most gave no clue; and
+all of them gazed out at me with that expression of complete
+respectability that constitutes so impenetrable a mask for the personality
+behind. Most of us wear such masks, but the older photographers seem to
+have been singularly successful in concentrating attention on them. Then
+there were albums, with more photographs, of people and of "views." There
+was a big Bible, some prayer-books, and a few other books elaborately
+bound with that heavy fancifulness that we are learning to call Victorian.
+One of these was on "The Wonders of the Great West"; another was about
+"The Female Saints of America." I took it down and glanced through it, but
+concluded that one had to be a female saint, or at least an aspirant, to
+appreciate it. Then there were things made out of dried flowers, out of
+hair, out of shells, out of pine-cones. There were vases and other
+ornamental bits of china and glass, also Victorian, looking as if they
+were meant to be continually washed or dusted by the worn, busy fingers of
+the female saints. As I came to fuller realization of all these relics, my
+resolution flickered out and there fell upon me a strange numbness of
+spirit. I seemed under a spell of inaction. Everything behind those glass
+doors had been cherished too long to be lightly thrown away, yet was not
+old enough to be valuable nor useful enough to keep. I spent a long
+day--one of the longest days of my life--browsing through the books, trying
+to sort the photographs, and glancing through a few old letters. I did
+nothing in particular with anything, and in the late afternoon I roused
+myself, put them all back, and shut the glass doors. I had nothing to show
+for my day's experience except a deep little round ache in the back of my
+neck and a faint brassy taste in my mouth. I complained of it to Jonathan
+later.
+
+"It always tasted just that way to me when I was a boy," he said, "but I
+never thought much about it--I thought it was just a closet-taste."
+
+"And it isn't only the taste," I went on. "It does something to me, to my
+state of mind. I'm afraid to try the garret."
+
+"Garrets are different," said Jonathan. "But I'd leave them. They can
+wait."
+
+"They've waited a good while, of course," I said.
+
+And so we left the garrets. We came back to them later, and were glad we
+had done so. But that is a story by itself.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+Meanwhile, in the evenings, Jonathan helped.
+
+"I'm afraid you were more or less right about the odd jobs," I admitted
+one night. "They do seem to accumulate." I was holding a candle while he
+set up a loose latch.
+
+"They've been accumulating a good many years," said Jonathan.
+
+"Yes, that's it. And so the doors all stick, and the latches won't latch,
+and the shades are sulky or wild, and the pantry shelves--have you
+noticed?--they're all warped so they rock when you set a dish on them."
+
+"And the chairs pull apart," added Jonathan.
+
+"Yes. Of course after we catch up we'll be all right."
+
+"I wouldn't count too much on catching up."
+
+"Why not?" I asked.
+
+"The farm has had a long start."
+
+"But you're a Yankee," I argued; "the Yankee nature fairly feeds on such
+jobs--'putter jobs,' you know."
+
+"Yes, I know."
+
+"Only, of course, you get on faster if you're not too particular about
+having the exact tool--"
+
+Considered as a Yankee, Jonathan's only fault is that when he does a job
+he likes to have a very special tool to do it with. Often it is so special
+that I have never heard its name before and then I consider he is going
+too far. He merely thinks I haven't gone far enough. Perhaps such matters
+must always remain matters of opinion. But even with this handicap we did
+begin to catch up, and we could have done this a good deal faster if it
+had not been for the pump.
+
+The pump was a clear case of new wine in an old bottle. It was large and
+very strong. The people who worked it were strong too. But the walls and
+floor to which it was attached were not strong at all. And so, one night,
+when Jonathan wanted a walk I was obliged instead to suggest the pump.
+
+"What's the matter there?"
+
+"Why, it seems to have pulled clear of its moorings. You look at it."
+
+He looked, with that expression of meditative resourcefulness peculiar to
+the true Yankee countenance. "H'm--needs new wood there,--and there; that
+stuff'll never hold." And so the old bottle was patched with new skin at
+the points of strain, and in the zest of reconstruction Jonathan almost
+forgot to regret the walk. "We'll have it to-morrow night," he said: "the
+moon will be better."
+
+The next evening I met him below the turn of the road. "Wonderful night
+it's going to be," he said, as he pushed his wheel up the last hill.
+
+"Yes--" I said, a little uneasily. I was thinking of the kitchen pump.
+Finally I brought myself to face it.
+
+"There seems to be some trouble--with the pump," I said apologetically. I
+felt that it was my fault, though I knew it wasn't.
+
+"More trouble? What sort of trouble?"
+
+"Oh, it wheezes and makes funny sucking noises, and the water spits and
+spits, and then bursts out, and then doesn't come at all. It sounds a
+little like a cat with a bone in its throat."
+
+"Probably just that," said Jonathan: "grain of sand in the valve, very
+likely."
+
+"Shall I get a plumber?"
+
+"Plumber! I'll fix it myself in three shakes of a lamb's tail."
+
+"Well," I said, relieved: "you can do that after supper while I see that
+all the chickens are in, and those turkeys, and then we'll have our walk."
+
+Accordingly I went off on my tour. When I returned the pale moon-shadows
+were already beginning to show in the lingering dusk of the fading
+daylight. Indoors seemed very dark, but on the kitchen floor a candle sat,
+flaring and dipping.
+
+"Jonathan," I called, "I'm ready."
+
+"Well, I'm not," said a voice at my feet.
+
+"Why, where are you? Oh, there!" I bent down and peered under the sink at
+a shape crouched there. "Haven't you finished?"
+
+"Finished! I've just got the thing apart."
+
+"I should say you had!" I regarded the various pieces of iron and leather
+and wood as they lay, mere dismembered shapes, about the dim kitchen.
+
+"It doesn't seem as if it would ever come together again--to be a pump," I
+said in some depression.
+
+"Oh, that's easy! It's just a question of time."
+
+"How much time?"
+
+"Heaven knows."
+
+"Was it the valve?"
+
+"It was--several things."
+
+His tone had the vagueness born of concentration. I could see that this
+was no time to press for information. Besides, in the field of mechanics,
+as Jonathan has occasionally pointed out to me, I am rather like a
+traveler who has learned to ask questions in a foreign tongue, but not to
+understand the answers.
+
+"Well, I'll bring my sewing out here--or would you rather have me read to
+you? There's something in the last number of--"
+
+"No--get your sewing--blast that screw! Why doesn't it start?"
+
+Evidently sewing was better than the last number of anything. I settled
+myself under a lamp, while Jonathan, in the twilight beneath the sink,
+continued his mystic rites, with an accompaniment of mildly vituperative
+or persuasive language, addressed sometimes to his tools, sometimes to the
+screws and nuts and other parts, sometimes against the men who made them
+or the plumbers who put them in. Now and then I held a candle, or steadied
+some perverse bit of metal while he worked his will upon it. And at last
+the phoenix did indeed rise, the pump was again a pump,--at least it looked
+like one.
+
+"Suppose it doesn't work," I suggested.
+
+"Suppose it does," said Jonathan.
+
+He began to pump furiously. "Pour in water there!" he directed. "Keep on
+pouring--don't stop--never mind if she does spout." I poured and he pumped,
+and there were the usual sounds of a pump resuming activity: gurglings and
+spittings, suckings and sudden spoutings; but at last it seemed to get its
+breath--a few more long strokes of the handle, and the water poured.
+
+"What time is it?" he asked.
+
+"Oh, fairly late--about ten--ten minutes past."
+
+Instead of our walk, we stood for a moment under the big maples before the
+house and looked out into a sea of moonlight. It silvered the sides of the
+old gray barns and washed over the blossoming apple trees beyond the
+house. Is there anything more sweetly still than the stillness of
+moonlight over apple blossoms! As we went out to the barns to lock up,
+even the little hencoops looked poetic. Passing one of them, we half
+roused the feathered family within and heard muffled peepings and a
+smothered _clk-clk_. Jonathan was by this time so serene that I felt I
+could ask him a question that had occurred to me.
+
+"Jonathan, how long _is_ three shakes of a lamb's tail?"
+
+"Apparently, my dear, it is the whole evening," he answered unruffled.
+
+The next night was drizzly. Well, we would have books instead of a walk.
+We lighted a fire, May though it was, and settled down before it. "What
+shall we read?" I asked, feeling very cozy.
+
+Jonathan was filling his pipe with a leisurely deliberation good to look
+upon. With the match in his hand he paused--"Oh, I meant to tell you--those
+young turkeys of yours--they were still out when I came through the yard. I
+wonder if they went in all right."
+
+I have always noticed that if the turkeys grow up very fat and strutty and
+suggestive of Thanksgiving, Jonathan calls them "our turkeys," but in the
+spring, when they are committing all the naughtinesses of wild and silly
+youth, he is apt to allude to them as "those young turkeys of yours."
+
+I rose wearily. "No. They never go in all right when they get out at this
+time--especially on wet nights. I'll have to find them and stow them."
+
+Jonathan got up, too, and laid down his pipe. "You'll need the lantern,"
+he said.
+
+We went out together into the May drizzle--a good thing to be out in, too,
+if you are out for the fun of it. But when you are hunting silly little
+turkeys who literally don't know enough to go in when it rains, and when
+you expected and wanted to be doing something else, then it seems
+different, the drizzle seems peculiarly drizzly, the silliness of the
+turkeys seems particularly and unendurably silly.
+
+We waded through the drenched grass and the tall, dripping weeds,
+listening for the faint, foolish peeping of the wanderers. Some we found
+under piled fence rails, some under burdock leaves, some under nothing
+more protective than a plantain leaf. By ones and twos we collected them,
+half drowned yet shrilly remonstrant, and dropped them into the dry shed
+where they belonged. Then we returned to the house, very wet, feeling the
+kind of discouragement that usually besets those who are forced to furnish
+prudence to fools.
+
+"Nine o'clock," said Jonathan, "and we're too wet to sit down. If you
+could just shut in those turkeys on wet days--"
+
+"Shut them in! Didn't I shut them in! They must have got out since four
+o'clock."
+
+"Isn't the shed tight?" he asked.
+
+"Chicken-tight, but not turkey-tight, apparently. Nothing is
+turkey-tight."
+
+"They're bigger than chickens."
+
+"Not in any one spot they aren't. They're like coiled wire--when they
+stretch out to get through a crack they have _no_ dimension except length,
+their bodies are mere imaginary points to hang feathers on. You don't know
+little turkeys."
+
+It might be said that, having undertaken to raise turkeys, we had to
+expect them to act like turkeys. But there were other interruptions in our
+evenings where our share of responsibility was not so plain. For example,
+one wet evening in early June we had kindled a little fire and I had
+brought the lamp forward. The pump was quiescent, the little turkeys were
+all tucked up in the turkey equivalent for bed, the farm seemed to be
+cuddling down into itself for the night. We sat for a moment luxuriously
+regarding the flames, listening to the sighing of the wind, feeling the
+sweet damp air as it blew in through the open windows. I was considering
+which book it should be and at last rose to possess myself of two or
+three.
+
+"Sh--h--h!" said Jonathan, a warning finger raised.
+
+I stood listening.
+
+"I don't hear anything," I said.
+
+"Sh--h!" he repeated. "There!"
+
+This time, indeed, I heard faint bird-notes.
+
+"Young robins!" He sprang up and made for the back door with long strides.
+
+I peered out through the window of the orchard room, but saw only the
+reflection of the firelight and the lamp. Suddenly I heard Jonathan
+whistle and I ran to the back porch. Blackness pressed against my eyes.
+
+"Where are you?" I called into it.
+
+The whistle again, quite near me, apparently out of the air.
+
+"Bring a lantern," came a whisper.
+
+I got it and came back and down the steps to the path, holding up my light
+and peering about in search of the voice.
+
+"Where are you? I can't see you at all."
+
+"Right here--look--here--up!" The voice was almost over my head.
+
+I searched the dark masses of the tree--oh, yes! the lantern revealed the
+heel of a shoe in a crotch, and above,--yes, undoubtedly, the rest of
+Jonathan, stretched out along a limb.
+
+"Oh! What are you doing up there?"
+
+"Get me a long stick--hoe--clothes-pole--anything I can poke with. Quick! The
+cat's up here. I can hear her, but I can't see her."
+
+I found the rake and reached it up to him. From the dark beyond him came a
+distressed mew.
+
+"Now the lantern. Hang it on the teeth." He drew it up to him, then, rake
+in one hand and lantern in the other, proceeded to squirm out along the
+limb.
+
+"Now I see her."
+
+I saw her too--a huddle of yellow, crouched close.
+
+"I'll have her in a minute. She'll either have to drop or be caught."
+
+And in fact this distressing dilemma was already becoming plain to the
+marauder herself. Her mewings grew louder and more frequent. A few more
+contortions brought the climber nearer his victim. A little judicious
+urging with the rake and she was within reach. The rake came down to me,
+and a long, wild mew announced that Jonathan had clutched.
+
+"I don't see how you're going to get down," I said, mopping the rain-mist
+out of my eyes.
+
+"Watch me," panted the contortionist.
+
+I watched a curious mass descend the tree, the lantern, swinging and
+jerking, fitfully illumined the pair, and I could see, now a knee and an
+ear, now a hand and a yellow furry shape, now a white collar, nose, and
+chin. There was a last, long, scratching slide. I snatched the lantern,
+and Jonathan stood beside me, holding by the scruff of her neck a very
+much frazzled yellow cat. We returned to the porch where her victims
+were--one alive, in a basket, two dead, beside it, and Jonathan, kneeling,
+held the cat's nose close to the little bodies while he boxed her
+ears--once, twice; remonstrant mews rose wild, and with a desperate twist
+the culprit backed out under his arm and leaped into the blackness.
+
+"Don't believe she'll eat young robin for a day or two," said Jonathan.
+
+"Is that what they were? Where were they?"
+
+"Under the tree. She'd knocked them out."
+
+"Could you put this one back? He seems all right--only sort of naked in
+spots."
+
+"We'll half cover the basket and hang it in the tree. His folks'll take
+care of him."
+
+Next morning early there began the greatest to-do among the robins in the
+orchard. They shrieked their comments on the affair at the top of their
+lungs. They screamed abusively at Jonathan and me as we stood watching.
+"They say we did it!" said Jonathan. "I call that gratitude!"
+
+I wish I could record that from that evening the cat was a reformed
+character. An impression had indeed been made. All next day she stayed
+under the porch, two glowing eyes in the dark. The second day she came
+out, walking indifferent and debonair, as cats do. But when Jonathan took
+down the basket from the tree and made her smell of it, she flattened her
+ears against her head and shot under the porch again.
+
+But lessons grow dim and temptation is freshly importunate. It was not two
+weeks before Jonathan was up another tree on the same errand, and when I
+considered the number of nests in our orchard, and the number of cats--none
+of them really our cats--on the place, I felt that the position of
+overruling Providence was almost more than we could undertake, if we hoped
+to do anything else.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+These things--tinkering of latches and chairs, pump-mending, rescue work in
+the orchard and among the poultry--filled our evenings fairly full. Yet
+these are only samples, and not particularly representative samples
+either. They were the sort of things that happened oftenest, the common
+emergencies incidental to the life. But there were also the uncommon
+emergencies, each occurring seldom but each adding its own touch of
+variety to the tale of our evenings.
+
+For instance, there was the time of the great drought, when Jonathan,
+coming in from a tour of the farm at dusk, said, "I've got to go up and
+dig out the spring-hole across the swamp. Everything else is dry, and the
+cattle are getting crazy."
+
+"Can I help?" I asked, not without regrets for our books and our
+evening--it was a black night, and I had had hopes.
+
+"Yes. Come and hold the lantern."
+
+We went. The spring-hole had been trodden by the poor, eager creatures
+into a useless jelly of mud. Jonathan fell to work, while I held the
+lantern high. But soon it became more than a mere matter of holding the
+lantern. There was a crashing in the blackness about us and a huge horned
+head emerged behind my shoulder, another loomed beyond Jonathan's stooping
+bulk.
+
+"Keep 'em back," he said. "They'll have it all trodden up again--Hi! You!
+Ge' back 'ere!" There is as special a lingo for talking to cattle as there
+is for talking to babies. I used it as well as I could. I swung the
+lantern in their faces, I brandished the hoe-handle at them, I jabbed at
+them recklessly. They snorted and backed and closed in again,--crazy, poor
+things, with the smell of the water. It was an evening's battle for us.
+Jonathan dug and dug, and then laid rails, and the precious water filled
+in slowly, grew to a dark pool, and the thirsty creatures panted and
+snuffed in the dark just outside the radius of the hoe-handle, until at
+last we could let them in. I had forgotten my books, for we had come close
+to the earth and the creatures of the earth. The cows were our sisters and
+the steers our brothers that night.
+
+Sometimes the emergency was in the barn--a broken halter and trouble among
+the horses, or perhaps a new calf. Sometimes a stray creature,--cow or
+horse,--grazing along the roadside, got into our yard and threatened our
+corn and squashes and my poor, struggling flower-beds. Once it was a break
+in the wire fence around Jonathan's muskmelon patch in the barn meadow.
+The cows had just been turned in, and if it wasn't mended that evening it
+meant no melons that season, also melon-tainted cream for days.
+
+Once or twice each year it was the drainpipe from the sink. The drain,
+like the pump, was an innovation. Our ancestors had always carried out
+whatever they couldn't use or burn, and dumped it on the far edge of the
+orchard. In a thinly settled community, there is much to be said for this
+method: you know just where you are. But we had the drain, and
+occasionally we didn't know just where we were.
+
+"Coffee grounds," Jonathan would suggest, with a touch of sternness.
+
+"No," I would reply firmly; "coffee grounds are always burned."
+
+"What then?"
+
+"Don't know. I've poked and poked."
+
+A gleam in the corner of Jonathan's eye--"What with?"
+
+"Oh, everything."
+
+"Yes, I suppose so. For instance what?"
+
+"Why--hair-pin first, of course, and then scissors, and then
+button-hook--you needn't smile. Button-hooks are wonderful for cleaning out
+pipes. And then I took a pail-handle and straightened it out--" Jonathan
+was laughing by this time--"Well, I have to use what I have, don't I?"
+
+"Yes, of course. And after the pail-handle?"
+
+"After that--oh, yes. I tried your cleaning-rod."
+
+"The devil you did!"
+
+"Not at all. It wasn't hurt a bit. It just wouldn't go down, that's all.
+So then I thought I'd wait for you."
+
+"And now what do you expect?"
+
+"I expect you to fix it."
+
+Of course, after that, there was nothing for Jonathan to do but fix it.
+Usually it did not take long. Sometimes it did. Once it took a whole
+evening, and required the services of a young tree, which Jonathan went
+out and cut and trimmed and forced through a section of the pipe which he
+had taken up and laid out for the operation on the kitchen floor. It was a
+warm evening, too, and friends had driven over to visit us. We received
+them warmly in the kitchen. We explained that we believed in making them
+members of the family, and that members of the family always helped in
+whatever was being done. So they helped. They took turns gripping the pipe
+while Jonathan and I persuaded the young tree through it. It required
+great strength and some skill because it was necessary to make the tree
+and the pipe perform spirally rotatory movements each antagonistic and
+complementary to the other. We were all rather tired and very hot before
+anything began to happen. Then it happened all at once: the tree burst
+through--and not alone. A good deal came with it. The kitchen floor was a
+sight, and there was--undoubtedly there was--a strong smell of coffee.
+Jonathan smiled. Then he went down cellar and restored the pipe to its
+position, while the rest of us cleared up the kitchen,--it's astonishing
+what a little job like that can make a kitchen look like,--and as our
+friends started to go a voice from beneath us, like the ghost in "Hamlet,"
+shouted, "Hold 'em! There's half a freezer of ice-cream down here we can
+finish." Sure enough there was! And then he wouldn't have to pack it down.
+We had it up. We looted the pantry as only irresponsible adults can loot,
+in their own pantry, and the evening ended in luxurious ease. Some time in
+the black of the night our friends left, and I suppose the sound of their
+carriage-wheels along the empty road set many a neighbor wondering,
+through his sleep, "Who's sick now?" How could they know it was only a
+plumbing party?
+
+As I look back on this evening it seems one of the pleasantest of the
+year. It isn't so much what you do, of course, as the way you feel about
+it, that makes the difference between pleasant and unpleasant. Shall we
+say of that evening that we meant to read aloud? Or that we meant to have
+a quiet evening with friends? Not at all. We say, with all the conviction
+in the world, that we meant, on that particular evening, to have a
+plumbing party, with the drain as the _piA"ce de rA(C)sistance_. Toward this
+our lives had been yearning, and lo! they had arrived!
+
+Some few things, however, are hard to meet in that spirit. When the pigs
+broke out of the pen, about nine o'clock, and Hiram was away, and Mrs.
+Hiram needed our help to get them in--there was no use in pretending that
+we meant to do it. Moreover, the labor of rounding up pigs is one of
+mingled arduousness and delicacy. Pigs in clover was once a popular game,
+but pigs in a dark orchard is not a game at all, and it will, I am firmly
+convinced, never be popular. It is, I repeat, not a game, yet probably the
+only way to keep one's temper at all is to regard it, for the time being,
+as a major sport, like football and deep-sea fishing and
+mountain-climbing, where you are expected to take some risks and not think
+too much about results as such. On this basis it has, perhaps, its own
+rewards. But the attitude is difficult to maintain, especially late at
+night.
+
+On that particular evening, as we returned, breathless and worn, to the
+house, I could not refrain from saying, with some edge, "I never wanted to
+keep pigs anyway."
+
+"Who says we're keeping them?" remarked Jonathan; and then we laughed and
+laughed.
+
+"You needn't think I'm laughing because you said anything specially
+funny," I said. "It's only because I'm tired enough to laugh at anything."
+
+The pump, too, tried my philosophy now and then. One evening when I had
+worn my hands to the bone cutting out thick leather washers for Jonathan
+to insert somewhere in the circulatory system of that same monster, I
+finally broke out, "Oh, dear! I hate the pump! I wanted a moonlight walk!"
+
+"I'll have the thing together now in a jiffy," said Jonathan.
+
+"Jiffy! There's no use talking about jiffies at half-past ten at night," I
+snarled. I was determined anyway to be as cross as I liked. "Why can't we
+find a really simple way of living? This isn't simple. It's highly complex
+and very difficult."
+
+"You cut those washers very well," suggested Jonathan soothingly, but I
+was not prepared to be soothed.
+
+"It was hateful work, though. Now, look what we've done this evening!
+We've shut up a setting hen, and housed the little turkeys, and driven
+that cow back into the road, and mended a window-shade and the dog's
+chain, and now we've fixed the pump--and it won't stay fixed at that!"
+
+"Fair evening's work," murmured Jonathan as he rapidly assembled the pump.
+
+"Yes, as work. But all I mean is--it isn't _simple_. Farm life has a
+reputation for simplicity that I begin to think is overdone. It doesn't
+seem to me that my evening has been any more simple than if we had dressed
+for dinner and gone to the opera or played bridge. In fact, at this
+distance, that, compared with this, has the simplicity of a--I don't know
+what!"
+
+"I like your climaxes," said Jonathan, and we both laughed. "There! I'm
+done. Now suppose we go, in our simple way, and lock up the barns and
+chicken-houses."
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+And so the evenings came and went, each offering a prospect of fair and
+quiet things--books and firelight and moonlight and talk; many in
+retrospect full of things quite different--drains and latches and
+fledglings and cows and pigs. Many, but not all. For the evenings did now
+and then come when the pump ceased from troubling and the "critters" were
+at rest. Evenings when we sat under the lamp and read, when we walked and
+walked along moonlit roads or lay on the slopes of moon-washed meadows. It
+was on such an evening that we faced the vagaries of farm life and
+searched for a philosophy to cover them.
+
+"I'm beginning to see that it will never be any better," I said.
+
+"Probably not," said Jonathan, talking around his pipe.
+
+"You seem contented enough about it."
+
+"I am."
+
+"I don't know that I'm contented, but perhaps I'm resigned. I believe it's
+necessary."
+
+"Of course it's necessary."
+
+Jonathan often has the air of having known since infancy the great truths
+about life that I have just discovered. I overlooked this, and went on,
+"You see, we're right down close to the earth that is the ultimate basis
+of everything, and all the caprices of things touch us immediately and we
+have to make immediate adjustments to them."
+
+"And that knocks the bottom out of our evenings."
+
+"Now if we're in the city, playing bridge, somebody else is making those
+adjustments for us. We're like the princess with seventeen mattresses
+between her and the pea."
+
+"She felt it, though," said Jonathan. "It kept her awake."
+
+"I know. She had a poor night. But even she would hardly have maintained
+that she felt it as she would have done if the mattresses hadn't been
+there."
+
+"True," said Jonathan.
+
+"Farm life is the pea without the mattresses--" I went on.
+
+"Sounds a little cheerless," said Jonathan.
+
+"Well--of course, it isn't really cheerless at all. But neither is it easy.
+It's full of remorseless demands for immediate adjustment."
+
+"That was the way the princess felt about her pea."
+
+"The princess was a snippy little thing. But after all, probably her life
+was full of adjustments of other sorts. She couldn't call her soul her own
+a minute, I suppose."
+
+"Perhaps that was why she ran away," suggested Jonathan.
+
+"Of course it was. She ran away to find the simple life and didn't find
+it."
+
+"No. She found the pea--even with all those mattresses."
+
+"And we've run away, and found several peas, and fewer mattresses," said
+Jonathan.
+
+"Let's not get confused--"
+
+"I'm not confused," said Jonathan.
+
+"Well, I shall be in a minute if I don't look out. You can't follow a
+parallel too far. What I mean is, that if you run away from one kind of
+complexity you run into another kind."
+
+"What are you going to do about it?"
+
+"I'm going to like it all," I answered, "and make believe I meant to do
+it."
+
+After that we were silent awhile. Then I tried again. "You know your trick
+of waltzing with a glass of water on your head?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Well, I wonder if we couldn't do that with our souls."
+
+"That suggests to me a rather curious picture," said Jonathan.
+
+"Well--you know what I mean. When you do that, your body takes up all the
+jolts and jiggles before they get to the top of your head, so the glass
+stays quiet."
+
+"Well--"
+
+"Well, I don't see why--only, of course, our souls aren't really anything
+like glasses of water, and it would be perfectly detestable to think of
+carrying them around carefully like that."
+
+"Perhaps you'd better back out of that figure of speech," suggested
+Jonathan. "Go back to your princess. Say, 'every man his own mattress.' "
+
+"No. Any figure is wrong. The trouble with all of them is that as soon as
+you use one it begins to get in your way, and say all sorts of things for
+you that you never meant at all. And then if you notice it, it bothers
+you, and if you don't notice it, you get drawn into crooked thinking."
+
+"And yet you can't think without them."
+
+"No, you can't think without them."
+
+"Well--where are we, anyway?" he asked placidly.
+
+"I don't know at all. Only I feel sure that leading the simple life
+doesn't depend on the things you do it _with_. Feeding your own cows and
+pigs and using pumps and candles brings you no nearer to it than marketing
+by telephone and using city water supply and electric lighting. I don't
+know what does bring you nearer, but I'm sure it must be something inside
+you."
+
+"That sounds rather reasonable," said Jonathan; "almost scriptural--"
+
+"Yes, I know," I said.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    IV
+
+
+                               After Frost
+
+
+It is late afternoon in mid-September. I stand in my garden sniffing the
+raw air, and wondering, as always at this season, _will_ there be frost
+to-night or will there not? Of course if I were a woodchuck or a muskrat,
+or any other really intelligent creature, I should know at once and act
+accordingly, but being only a stupid human being, I am thrown back on
+conjecture, assisted by the thermometer, and an appeal to Jonathan.
+
+"Too much wind for frost," says he.
+
+"Sure? I'd hate to lose my nasturtiums quite so early."
+
+"You won't lose 'em. Look at the thermometer if you don't believe me. If
+it's above forty you're safe."
+
+I look, and try to feel reassured. But I am not quite easy in my mind
+until next morning when, running out before breakfast, I make the rounds
+and find everything untouched.
+
+But a few days later the alarm comes again. There is no wind this time,
+and, what is worse, an ominous silence falls at dusk over the orchard and
+meadow. "Why is everything so still?" I ask myself. "Oh, of course--the
+katydids aren't talking--and the crickets, and all the other whirr-y
+things. Ah! That means business! My poor garden!"
+
+"Jonathan!" I call, as I feel rather than see his shape whirling
+noiselessly in at the big gate after his ride up from the station. "Help
+me cover my nasturtiums. There'll be frost to-night."
+
+"Maybe," says Jonathan's voice.
+
+"Not maybe at all--surely. Listen to the katydids!"
+
+"You mean, listen to the absence of katydids."
+
+"Very well. The point is, I want newspapers."
+
+"No. The point is, I am to bring newspapers."
+
+"Exactly."
+
+"And tuck up your nasturtiums for the night in your peculiarly ridiculous
+fashion--"
+
+"I know it looks ridiculous, but really it's sensible. There may be weeks
+of summer after this."
+
+And so the nasturtiums are tucked up, cozily hidden under the big layers
+of sheets, whose corners we fasten down with stones. To be sure, the
+garden _is_ rather a funny sight, with these pale shapes sprawling over
+its beds. But it pays. For in the morning, though over in the vegetable
+garden the squash leaves and lima beans are blackened and limp, my
+nasturtiums are still pert and crisp. I pull off the papers, wondering
+what the passers-by have thought, and lo! my gay garden, good for perhaps
+two weeks more!
+
+But a day arrives when even newspaper coddling is of no avail. Sometimes
+it is in late September, sometimes not until October, but when it comes
+there is no resisting.
+
+The sun goes down, leaving a clear sky paling to green at the horizon. A
+still cold falls upon the world, and I feel that it is the end. Shears in
+hand, I cut everything I can--nasturtiums down to the ground,--leaves, buds,
+and all,--feathery sprays of cosmos, asters by the armful. Those last
+bouquets that I bring into the house are always the most beautiful, for I
+do not have to save buds for later cutting. There will, alas, be no later
+cutting.
+
+So I fill my bowls and vases, and next morning I go out, well knowing what
+I shall see. It is a beautiful sight, too, if one can forget its meaning.
+The whole golden-green world of autumn has been touched with silver. In
+the low-lying swamp beyond the orchard it is almost like a light snowfall.
+The meadows rising beyond the barns are silvered over wherever the long
+tree-shadows still lie. And in my garden, too, where the shadows linger,
+every leaf is frosted, but as soon as the sun warms them through, leaf and
+twig turn dark and droop to the ground. It is the end.
+
+Except, indeed, for my brave marigolds and calendulas and little button
+asters. It is for this reason that I have given them space all summer,
+nipping them back when they tried to blossom early, for they seem a bit
+crude compared with the other flowers. But now that frost is here, my
+feelings warm to them. I cannot criticize their color and texture, so
+grateful am I to them for not giving up. And when last night's cuttings
+have faded, I shall be very glad of a glowing mass of marigold beside my
+fireplace, and of the yellow stars of calendula, like embodied sunshine,
+on my dining-table.
+
+Well, then, the frost has come! And after the first pang of realization, I
+find that, curiously enough, the worst is over. Since it has come, let it
+come! And now--hurrah for the garden house-cleaning! The garden is dead--the
+garden of yesterday! Long live the garden--the garden of to-morrow! For
+suddenly my mind has leaped ahead to spring.
+
+I can hardly wait for breakfast to be over, before I am out in working
+clothes, pulling up things--not weeds now, but flowers, or what were
+flowers. Nasturtiums, asters, cosmos, snapdragon, stock, late-blooming
+cornflowers--up they all come, all the annuals, and the biennials that have
+had their season. I fling them together in piles, and soon have small
+haystacks all along my grass paths, and--there I am! Down again to the good
+brown earth!
+
+It is with positive satisfaction that I stand and survey my beds, great
+bare patches of earth, glorified here and there by low clumps of calendula
+and great bushes of marigold. Now, then! I can do anything! I can dig, and
+fertilize, and transplant. Best of all, I can plan and plan! The crisp
+wind stings my cheeks, but as I work I feel the sun hot on the back of my
+neck. I get the smell of the earth as I turn it over, mingled with the
+pungent tang of marigold blossoms, very pleasant out of doors, though
+almost too strong for the house except near a fireplace. I believe the
+most characteristic fall odors are to me this of marigold, mingled with
+the fragrance of apples piled in the orchard, the good smell of earth
+newly turned up, and the flavor of burning leaves, borne now and then on
+the wind, from the outdoor house-cleaning of the world.
+
+There is perhaps no season of all the garden year that brings more real
+delight to the gardener, no time so stimulating to the imagination. This
+year in the garden has been good, but next year shall be better. All the
+failures, or near-failures, shall of course be turned into successes, and
+the successes shall be bettered. Last year there were not quite enough
+hollyhocks, but next year there shall be such glories! There are seedlings
+that I have been saving, over on the edge of the phlox. I dash across to
+look them up--yes, here they are, splendid little fellows, leaves only a
+bit crumpled by the frost. I dig them up carefully, keeping earth packed
+about their roots, and one by one I convey them across and set them out in
+a beautiful row where I want them to grow next year. Their place is beside
+the old stone-flagged path, and I picture them rising tall against the
+side of the woodshed, whose barrenness I have besides more than half
+covered with honeysuckle.
+
+Then, there are my foxgloves. Some of them I have already transplanted,
+but not all. There is a little corner full of stocky yearlings that I must
+change now. And that same corner can be used for poppies. I have kept
+seeds of this year's poppies--funny little brown pepper-shakers, with tiny
+holes at the end through which I shake out the fine seed dust. Doubtless
+they would attend to all this without my help, but I like to be sure that
+even my self-seeding annuals come up where I most want them.
+
+Biennials, like the foxglove and canterbury bells, are of course, the
+difficult children of the garden, because you have to plan not only for
+next year but for the year after. Next year's bloom is secured--unless they
+winter-kill--in this year's young plants, growing since spring, or even
+since the fall before. These I transplant for next summer's beauty. But
+for the year after I like to take double precautions. Already I have tiny
+seedlings, started since August, but besides these I sow seed, too late to
+start before spring. For a severe winter may do havoc, and I shall then
+need the early start given by fall sowing.
+
+As I work on, I discover all sorts of treasures--young plants, seedlings
+from all the big-folk of my garden. Young larkspurs surround the bushy
+parent clumps, and the ground near the forget-me-nots is fairly carpeted
+with little new ones. I have found that, though the old forget-me-nots
+will live through, it pays to pull out the most ragged of them and trust
+to the youngsters to fill their places. These, and English daisies, I let
+grow together about as they will. They are pretty together, with their
+mingling of pink, white, and blue, they never run out, and all I need is
+to keep them from spreading too far, or from crowding each other too much.
+
+When my back aches from this kind of sorting and shifting, I straighten up
+and look about me again. Ah! The phlox! Time now to attend to that!
+
+My white phlox is really the most distinguished thing in my garden. I have
+pink and lavender, too, but any one can have pink and lavender by ordering
+them from a florist. They can have white, too, but not my white. For mine
+never saw a florist; it is an inheritance.
+
+Sixty or seventy years ago there was a beautiful little garden north of
+the old house tended and loved by a beautiful lady. The lady died, and the
+garden did not long outlive her. Its place was taken by a crab-apple
+orchard, which flourished, bore blossom and fruit, until in its turn it
+grew old, while the garden had faded to a dim tradition. But one day in
+August, a few years ago, I discovered under the shade of an old crab tree,
+two slender sprays of white phlox, trying to blossom. In memory of that
+old garden and its lady, I took them up and cherished them. And the
+miracle of life was again made manifest. For from those two little
+half-starved roots has come the most splendid part of my garden. All
+summer it makes a thick green wall on the garden's edge, beside the
+flagged path. In the other beds it rises in luxuriant masses, giving
+background and body with its wonderful deep green foliage, which is
+greener and thicker than any other phlox I know. And when its season to
+bloom arrives--a long month, from early August to mid-September--it is a
+glory of whiteness, the tallest sprays on a level with my eyes, the
+shortest shoulder high, except when rain weighs down the heavy heads and
+they lean across the paths barring my passage with their fragrant wetness.
+
+Here and there I have let the pink and lavender phlox come in, for they
+begin to bloom two weeks earlier, when the garden needs color. But always
+my white must dominate. And it does. Most wonderful of all is it on
+moonlight nights of late August, when it broods over the garden like a
+white cloud, and the night moths come crowding to its fragrant feast, with
+their intermittent burring of furry wings.
+
+Ah, well! the phlox has passed now, and its trim green leaves are brown
+and crackly. I can do what I like with it after this. So when my other
+transplanting grows tiresome, I fall upon my phlox. Every year some of it
+needs thinning, so quickly does it spread. I take the spading-fork, and,
+with what seems like utter ruthlessness, I pry out from the thickest
+centers enough good roots to give the rest breathing and growing space.
+Along the path edges I always have to cut out encroaching roots each year,
+or else soon there would be no path. But all that I take out is precious,
+either to give to friends for their gardens, or to enlarge the edges of my
+own. For this phlox needs almost no care, and will fight grass and weeds
+for itself.
+
+There are phlox seedlings, too, all over the garden, but I have no way of
+telling what color they are, though usually I can detect the white by its
+foliage. I take them up and set them out near the main phlox masses, and
+wait for the next season's blossoming before I give them their final
+place.
+
+This is the time of year, too, when I give some attention to the rocks in
+my garden. Of course, in order to have a garden at all, it was necessary
+to take out enough rock to build quite a respectable stone wall. But that
+was not the end. There never will be an end. A Connecticut garden grows
+rocks like weeds, and one must expect to keep on taking them out each
+fall. The rest of the year I try to ignore them, but after frost I like to
+make a fresh raid, and get rid of another wheelbarrow load or so. And I
+always notice that for one barrow load of stones that go out, it takes at
+least two barrow loads of earth to fill in. Thus an excellent circulation
+is maintained, and the garden does not stagnate. Moreover, I take great
+pleasure in showing my friends--especially friends from the more earthy
+sections of New York and farther west--the piles of rock and the parts of
+certain stone walls about the place that have been literally made out of
+the cullings of my garden. They never believe me.
+
+As I am thus occupied,--digging, planting, thinning, sowing,--I find it one
+of the happiest seasons of the year. It is partly the stimulus of the
+autumn air, partly the pleasure of getting at the ground. I think there
+are some of us, city folk though we be, who must have the giant AntA|us
+for ancestor. We still need to get in close touch with the earth now and
+then. Children have a true instinct with their love of barefoot play in
+the dirt, and there are grown folks who still love it--but we call it
+gardening. The sight and the feel and the smell of my brown garden beds
+gives me a pleasure that is very deep and probably very primitive.
+
+But there is another source of pleasure in my fall gardening--a pleasure
+not of the senses but of the imagination.
+
+For as I do my work my fancy is active. As I transplant my young
+hollyhocks, I see them, not little round-leaved bunches in my hand, but
+tall and stately, aflare with colors--yellows, whites, pinks. As I dig
+about my larkspur and stake out its seedlings, they spire above me in
+heavenly blues. As I arrange the clumps of coarse-leaved young foxgloves,
+I seem to see their rich tower-like clusters of old-pink bells bending
+always a little towards the southeast, where most sun comes from. As I
+thin my forget-me-not I see it--in my mind's eye--in a blue mist of spring
+bloom. Thus, a garden rises in my fancy, a garden where neither beetle,
+borer, nor cutworm doth corrupt, and where the mole doth not break in or
+steal, where gentle rain and blessed sun come as they are needed, where
+all the flowers bloom unceasingly in colors of heavenly light--a garden
+such as never yet existed nor ever shall, till the tales of fairyland come
+true. I shall never see that garden, yet every year it blooms for me
+afresh--after frost.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    V
+
+
+                      The Joys of Garden Stewardship
+
+
+I sometimes think I am coming to classify my friends according to the way
+they act when I talk about my garden. On this basis, there are three sorts
+of people.
+
+First there are those who are obviously not interested. Such as these feel
+no answering thrill, even at the sight of a florist's spring catalogue. A
+weed inspires in them no desire to pull it. They may, however, be really
+nice people if they are still young; for, except by special grace, no one
+under thirty need be expected to care about gardens--it is a mature taste.
+But in the mean time I turn our talk in other channels.
+
+Then there are the people who, when I approach the subject, brighten up,
+look intelligent, even eager, but in a moment make it clear that what they
+are eager for is a chance to talk about their own gardens. Mine is merely
+the stepping-stone, the bridge, the handle. This is better than
+indifference, yet it is sometimes trying. One of my dearest friends thus
+tests my love now and then when she walks in my garden.
+
+"Aren't those peonies lovely?" I suggest.
+
+"Yes," dreamily; "you know I can't have that shade in my garden because--"
+and she trails off into a disquisition that I could, just at that moment,
+do without.
+
+"Look at the height of that larkspur!" I say.
+
+"Yes--but, you know, it wouldn't do for me to have larkspur when I go away
+so early. What I need is things for April and May."
+
+"Well, I am not trying to _sell_ you any," I am sometimes goaded into
+protesting. "I only wanted you to say they are pretty--pretty right here in
+_my_ garden."
+
+"Yes--yes--of course they are pretty--they're lovely--you have a lovely
+garden, you know." She pulls herself up to give this tribute, but soon her
+eyes get the faraway look in them again, and she is murmuring, "Oh, I must
+write Edward to see about that hedge. Tell me, my dear, if you had a brick
+wall, would you have vines on it or wall-fruit?"
+
+It is of no use. I cannot hold her long. I sometimes think she was nicer
+when she had no garden of her own. Perhaps she thinks I was nicer when I
+had none.
+
+But there is another kind of garden manners--a kind that subtly soothes,
+cheers, perhaps inebriates. It is the manner of the friend who may,
+indeed, have a garden, but who looks at mine with the eye of adoption,
+temporarily at least. She walks down its paths, singling out this or that
+for notice. She suggests, she even criticizes, tenderly, as one who tells
+you an "even _more_ becoming way" to arrange your little daughter's hair.
+She offers you roots and seeds and seedlings from her garden, and--last
+touch of flattery--she begs seeds and seedlings from yours.
+
+For garden purposes, give me the manners of this third class. And, indeed,
+not for garden purposes alone. They are useful as applied to many
+things--children, particularly, and houses.
+
+Undoubtedly the demand that I make upon my friends is a form of vanity,
+yet I cannot seem to feel ashamed of it. I admit at once that not the
+least part of my pleasure in my flowers is the attention they get from
+others. Moreover, it is not only from friends that I seek this, but from
+every passer-by along my country road. There are gardens and gardens.
+Some, set about with hedges tall and thick, offer the delights of
+exclusiveness and solitude. But exclusiveness and solitude are easily had
+on a Connecticut farm, and my garden will none of them; it flings forth
+its appeal to every wayfarer. And I like it. I like my garden to "get
+notice." As people drive by I hope they enjoy my phlox. I furtively glance
+to see if they have an eye for the foxglove. I wonder if the calendulas
+are so tall that they hide the asters. And if, as I bend over my weeding,
+an automobile whirling past lets fly an appreciative phrase--"lovely
+flowers--" "wonderful yellow of--" "garden there,"--my ears are quick to
+receive it and I forgive the eddies of gasolene and dust that are also
+left by the vanishing visitant.
+
+About few things can one be so brazen in one's enjoyment of recognition.
+One's house, one's clothes, one's work, one's children, all these demand a
+certain modesty of demeanor, however the inner spirit may puff. Not so
+one's garden. I fancy this is because, while I have a strong sense of
+ownership in it, I also have a strong sense of stewardship. As owner I
+must be modest, but as steward I may admire as openly as I will. Did I
+make my phlox? Did I fashion my asters? Am I the artificer of my fringed
+larkspur? Nay, truly, I am but their caretaker, and may glory in them as
+well as another, only with the added touch of joy that I, even I, have
+given them their opportunity. Like Paul I plant, like Apollos I water, but
+before the power that giveth the increase I stand back and wonder.
+
+But it is not alone the results of my stewardship that give me joy. Its
+very processes are good. Delight in the earth is a primitive instinct.
+Digging is naturally pleasant, hoeing is pleasant, raking is pleasant, and
+then there is the weeding. For I am not the only one who sows seeds in my
+garden. One of my friends remarked cheerfully that he had planted
+twenty-seven different vegetables in his garden, and the Lord had planted
+two hundred and twenty-seven other kinds of things.
+
+This is where the weeding comes in. Now a good deal has been said about
+the labor of weeding, but little about the gratifications of weeding. I
+don't mean weeding with a hoe. I mean yanking up, with movements suited to
+the occasion, each individual growing thing that doesn't belong. Surely I
+am not the only one to have felt the pleasure of this. They come up so
+nicely, and leave such soft earth behind! And intellect is needed, too,
+for each weed demands its own way of handling: the adherent plantain
+needing a slow, firm, drawing motion, but very satisfactory when it comes;
+the evasive clover requiring that all its sprawling runners shall be
+gathered up in one gentle, tactful pull; the tender shepherd's purse
+coming easily on a straight twitch; the tough ragweed that yields to
+almost any kind of jerk. Even witch-grass, the bane of the farmer, has its
+rewarding side, when one really does get out its handful of
+wicked-looking, crawly, white tubers.
+
+Weeding is most fun when the weeds are not too small. Yes, from the aspect
+of a sport there is something to be said for letting weeds grow. Pulling
+out little tender ones is poor work compared with the satisfaction of
+hauling up a spreading treelet of ragweed or a far-flaunting wild
+buckwheat. You seem to get so much for your effort, and it stirs up the
+ground so, and no other weeds have grown under the shade of the big one,
+so its departure leaves a good bit of empty brown earth.
+
+Surely, weeding is good fun. If faults could be yanked out of children in
+the same entertaining way, the orphan asylums would soon be emptied
+through the craze for adoption as a major sport.
+
+One of the pleasantest mornings of my life was spent weeding, in the rain,
+a long-neglected corner of my garden, while a young friend stood around
+the edges and explained the current political situation to me, and carted
+away armfuls of green stuff as I handed them out to him. The rain
+drizzled, and the air was fragrant with the smell of wet earth and bruised
+stems. Ideally, of course, weeds should never reach this state of sportive
+rankness. But most of my friends admit, under pressure, that there are
+corners where such things do happen.
+
+Naturally, all this is assuming that one is one's own gardener. There may
+be pleasure in having a garden kept up by a real gardener, but that always
+seems to me a little like having a doll and letting somebody else dress
+and undress it. My garden must never grow so big that I cannot take care
+of it--and neglect it--myself.
+
+In saying this, however, I don't count rocks. When it comes to rocks, I
+call in Jonathan. And it often comes to rocks.
+
+For mine is a Connecticut garden. Now in the beginning Connecticut was
+composed entirely of rocks. Then the little earth gnomes, fearing that no
+one would ever come there to give them sport, sprinkled a little earth
+amongst the rocks, partly covered some, wholly covered others, and then
+hid to see what the gardeners would do about it. And ever since the
+gardeners have been patiently, or impatiently, tucking in their seeds and
+plants in the thimblefuls of earth left by the gnomes. They have been
+picking out the rocks, or blowing them up, or burying them, or working
+around them; and every winter the little gnomes gather and push up a new
+lot from the dark storehouses of the underworld. In the spring the
+gardeners begin again, and the little gnomes hold their sides with still
+laughter to watch the work go on.
+
+"Rocks?" my friends say. "Do you mind the rocks? But they are a special
+beauty! Why, I have a rock in my garden that I have treated--"
+
+"Very well," I interrupt rudely. "_A rock_ is all very well. If I had _a
+rock_ in my garden I could treat it, too. But how about a garden that is
+all rocks?"
+
+"Oh--why--choose another spot."
+
+Whereupon I reply, "You don't know Connecticut."
+
+Ever since I began having a garden I have had my troubles with the rocks,
+but the worst time came when, in a mood of enthusiastic and absolutely
+unintelligent optimism, I decided to have a bit of smooth grass in the
+middle of my garden. I wanted it very much. The place was too restless;
+you couldn't sit down anywhere. I felt that I had to have a clear green
+spot where I could take a chair and a book. I selected the spot, marked it
+off with string, and began to loosen up the earth for a late summer
+planting of grass seed. Calendulas and poppies and cornflowers had bloomed
+there before, self-sown and able to look out for themselves, so I had
+never investigated the depths of the bed to see what the little gnomes had
+prepared for me. Now I found out. The spading-fork gave a familiar dull
+clink as it struck rock. I felt about for the edge; it was a big one. I
+got the crowbar and dropped it, in testing prods; it was a _very_ big one,
+and only four inches below the surface. Grass would never grow there in a
+dry season. I moved to another part. Another rock, big too! I prodded all
+over the allotted space, and found six big fellows lurking just below the
+top of the soil. Evidently it was a case for calling in Jonathan.
+
+He came, grumbling a little, as a man should, but very efficient, armed
+with two crowbars and equipped with a natural genius for manipulating
+rocks. He made a few well-placed remarks about queer people who choose to
+have grass where flowers would grow, and flowers where grass would grow,
+also about Connecticut being intended for a quarry and not for a garden
+anyhow. But all this was only the necessary accompaniment of the
+crowbar-play. Soon, under the insistent and canny urgency of the bars, a
+big rock began to heave its shoulder into sight above the soil. I hovered
+about, chucking in stones and earth underneath, placing little rocks under
+the bar for fulcrums, pulling them out again when they were no longer
+needed, standing guard over the flowers in the rest of the garden, with
+repeated warnings. "Please, Jonathan, don't step back any farther; you'll
+trample the forget-me-nots!" "_Could_ you manage to roll this fellow out
+along that path and not across the mangled bodies of the marigolds?"
+Jonathan grumbled a little about being expected to pick a half-ton pebble
+out of the garden with his fingers, or lead it out with a string.
+
+"Oh, well, of course, if you _can't_ do it I'll have to let the marigolds
+go this year. But you do such wonderful things with a crowbar, I thought
+you could probably just guide it a little." And Jonathan responds nobly to
+the flattery of this remark, and does indeed guide the huge thing, eases
+it along the narrow path, grazes the marigolds but leaves them unhurt,
+until at last, with a careful arrangement of stone fulcrums and a skillful
+twist of the bars, the great rock makes its last response and lunges
+heavily past the last flower bed on to the grass beyond.
+
+When the work was done, the edge of the garden looked like Stonehenge, and
+the spot where my grass was to be was nothing but a yawning pit, crying to
+be filled. We surveyed it with interest. "If we had a water-supply, I
+wouldn't make a grass-plot," I said; "I'd make a swimming-pool. It's deep
+enough."
+
+"And sit in the middle with your book?" asked Jonathan.
+
+But there was no water-supply, so we filled it in with earth. Thirty
+wheelbarrow loads went in where those rocks came out. And the little
+gnomes perched on Stonehenge and jeered the while. I photographed it, and
+the rocks "took" well, but as regards the gnomes, the film was
+underexposed.
+
+Thus the grass seed was planted. And we reminded each other of the version
+of "America" once given, with unconscious inspiration, by a little friend
+of ours:--
+
+
+    "Land where our father died,
+    Land where the pilgrims pried."
+
+
+It seemed to us to suit the adventure.
+
+As I have said, I love to have my friends love my garden. But there is one
+thing about it that I find does not always appeal to them pleasantly, and
+that is its color-schemes. Yet this is not my doing. For in nothing do I
+feel more keenly the fact of my mere stewardship than in this matter of
+color-scheme.
+
+I set out with a very rigid one. I was quite decided in my own mind that
+what I wanted was white and salmon-pink and lavender. Asters, phlox, sweet
+peas, hollyhocks, all were to bend themselves to my rules. At first
+affairs went very well. White was easy. White phlox I had, and have--an
+inheritance--which from a few roots is spreading and spreading in waves of
+whiteness that grow more luxuriant every year. But I bought roots of
+salmon-pink and lavender, and then my troubles commenced. About the third
+season strange things began to happen. The pink phlox had the strength of
+ten. It spread amazingly; but it forgot all about my rules. It
+degenerated, some of it--reverted toward that magenta shade that nature
+seems so naturally to adore in the vegetable world. To my horror I found
+my garden blossoming into magenta pink, blue pink, crimson, cardinal--all
+the colors I had determined not under any circumstances to admit. On the
+other hand, the lavender phlox, which I particularly wanted, was most
+lovely, but frail. It refused to spread. It effaced itself before the
+rampant pink and its magenta-tainted brood. I vowed I would pull out the
+magentas, but each year my courage failed. They bloomed so bravely; I
+would wait till they were through. But by that time I was not quite sure
+which was which; I might pull out the wrong ones. And so I hesitated.
+
+Moreover, I discovered, lingering among the flowers at dusk, that there
+were certain colors, most unpleasant by daylight, which at that time took
+on a new shade, and, for perhaps half an hour before night fell, were
+richly lovely. This is true of some of the magentas, which at dusk turn
+suddenly to royal purples and deep lavender-blues that are wonderfully
+satisfying.
+
+For that half-hour of beauty I spare them. While the sun shines I try to
+look the other way, and at twilight I linger near them and enjoy their
+strange, dim glories, born literally of the magic hour. But I have trouble
+explaining them, by daylight, to some of my visitors who like
+color-schemes.
+
+Insubordination is contagious. And I found after a while that my asters
+were not running true; queer things were happening among the sweet peas,
+and in the ranks of the hollyhocks all was not as it should be. And the
+last charge was made upon me by the children's gardens. Children know not
+color-schemes. What they demand is flowers, flowers--flowers to pick and
+pick, flowers to do things with. Snapdragon, for instance, is a jolly
+playmate, and little fingers love to pinch its cheeks and see its jaws
+yawn wide. But snapdragon tends dangerously toward the magenta. Then there
+was the calendula--a delight to the young, because it blooms incessantly
+long past the early frosts, and has brittle stems that yield themselves to
+the clumsiest plucking by small hands. But calendula ranges from a faded
+yellow, through really pretty primrose shades, to a deep red-orange
+touched with maroon.
+
+And, finally, there was the portulaca. Children love it, perhaps, best of
+all. It offers them fresh blossoms and new colors each morning, and it is
+even more easy to pick than the calendula. Who would deny them portulaca?
+Yet if this be admitted, one may as well give up the battle. For, as we
+all know, there is absolutely no color, except green, that portulaca does
+not perpetrate in its blossoms. It knows no shame.
+
+In short, I am giving up. I am beginning to say with conviction that
+color-schemes are the mark of a narrow and rigid taste--that they are born
+of convention and are meant not for living things but for wall-papers and
+portiA"res and clothes. Moreover, I am really growing callous--or is it,
+rather, broad? Colors in my garden that would once have made my teeth ache
+now leave them feeling perfectly comfortable. I find myself looking with
+unmoved flesh--no creeps nor withdrawals--upon a bed of mixed magentas,
+scarlets, rose-pinks, and yellow-pinks. I even look with pleasure. I begin
+to think there may be a point beyond which discord achieves a higher
+harmony. At least, this sounds well. But, again, I find it hard to explain
+to some of my friends.
+
+Indoors, it is another story. When I bring in the spoils of the garden I
+am again mistress and bend all to my will. Here I'll have no tricks of
+color played on me. Sunshine and sky, perhaps, work some spell, for as
+soon as I get within four walls my prejudices return; scarlets and
+crimsons and pinks have to live in different rooms. I must have my
+color-schemes again, and perhaps I am as narrow as the worst. Except,
+indeed, for the children's bowls; here the pink and the magenta, the lamb
+and the lion, may lie down together. But it takes a little child to lead
+them.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+Out in my garden I feel myself less and less owner, more and more merely
+steward. I decree certain paths, and the phlox says, "Paths? Did you say
+paths?" and obliterates them in a season's growth, so that children walk
+by faith and not by sight. I decree iris in one corner, and the primroses
+say, "Iris? Not at all. This is our bed. Iris indeed!" And I submit, and
+move the iris elsewhere.
+
+And yet this slipping of responsibility is pleasant, too. So long as my
+garden will let me dig in it and weed it and pick it, so long as it
+entertains my friends for me, so long as it tosses up an occasional rock
+so that Jonathan does not lose all interest in it, so long as it plays
+prettily with the children and flings gay greetings to every passer-by, I
+can find no fault with it.
+
+The joys of stewardship are great and I am well content.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    VI
+
+
+                            Trout and Arbutus
+
+
+Every year, toward the end of March, I find Jonathan poking about in my
+sewing-box. And, unless I am very absent-minded, I know what he is after.
+
+"No use looking there," I remark; "I keep my silks put away."
+
+"I want red, and as strong as there is."
+
+"I know what you want. Here." and I hand him a spool of red buttonhole
+twist.
+
+"Ah! Just right!" And for the rest of the evening his fingers are busy.
+
+Over what? Mending our trout-rods, of course. It is pretty work, calling
+for strength and precision of grasp, and as he winds and winds, adjusting
+all the little brass leading-rings, or supplying new ones, and staying
+points in the bamboo where he suspects weakness, we talk over last year's
+trout-pools, and wonder what they will be like this year.
+
+But beyond wonder we do not get, often for weeks after the trout season
+is, legislatively, "open." Jonathan is "busy." I am "busy." We know that,
+if April passes, there is still May and June, and so, if at the end of
+April, or early May, we do at last pick up our rods,--all new-bedight with
+red silk windings, and shiny with fresh varnish,--it is not alone the call
+of the trout that decides us, but another call which is to me at least
+more imperious, because, if we neglect it now, there is no May and June in
+which to heed it. It is the call of the arbutus.
+
+Any one with New England traditions knows what this call is. Its appeal is
+to something far deeper than the love of a pretty flower. For it is the
+flower that, to our fathers and our grandfathers, and to their fathers and
+grandfathers, meant spring; and not spring in its prettiness and ease,
+appealing to the idler in us, nor spring in its melancholy, appealing
+to--shall I say the poet in us? But spring in its blessedness of
+opportunity, its joyously triumphant life, appealing to the worker in us.
+Here, of course, we touch hands with all the races of the world for whom
+winter has been the supreme menace, spring the supreme and saving miracle.
+But each race has its own symbols, and to the New Englander the symbol is
+the arbutus.
+
+This may seem a bit of sentimentality. And, indeed, we need not expect to
+find it expressed by any New England farmer. New England does not go out
+in gay companies to bring back the first blossoms. But New England does
+nothing in gay companies. It has been taught to distrust ceremonies and
+expression of any sort. It rejoices with reticence, it appreciates with a
+reservation. And yet I have seen a sprig of arbutus in rough and clumsy
+buttonholes on weather-faded lapels which, the rest of the twelve-month
+through, know no other flower. And when, in unfamiliar country, I have
+interrupted the ploughing to ask for guidance, I usually get it:--"Arbutus?
+Yaas. The's a lot of it up along that hillside and in the woods over
+beyond--'t was out last week, some of it, I happened to notice"--this in the
+apologetic tone of one who admits a weakness--"guess you'll find all you
+want." I venture to say that of no other wild flower, except those which
+work specific harm or good, could I get such information.
+
+To many of us, city-bred, the tradition comes through inheritance. It
+means, perhaps, the shy, poetic side of our father's boyhood, only half
+acknowledged, after the New England fashion, but none the less real and
+none the less our possession. It means rare days, when the city--whose
+chiefest signs of spring were the flare of dandelions in yards and parks
+and the chatter of English sparrows on ivy-clad church walls--was left
+behind, and we were "in the country." It was a country excitingly
+different from the country of the summer vacation, a country not deeply
+green, but warmly brown, and sweet with the smell of moist, living earth.
+Green enough, indeed, in the spring-fed meadows and folds of the hills,
+where the early grass flashes into vividest emerald, but in the woods the
+soft mist-colored mazes of multitudinous twigs still show through their
+veilings and dustings of color--palest green of birches, gray-green of
+poplar, yellow-green of willows, and redder tones of the maples; and along
+the fence-lines and roadsides--blessed, untidy fence-lines and roadsides of
+New England--a fine penciling of red stems--the cut-back maple bushes and
+tangled vines alive to their tips and just bursting into leaf. And
+everywhere in the woods, on fence-lines and roadsides, the white blossoms
+of the "shad-blow," daintiest of spring trees,--too slight for a tree,
+indeed, though too tall for a bush and looking less like a tree in blossom
+than like floating blossoms caught for a moment among the twigs. A moment
+only, for the first gust loosens them again and carpets the woods with
+their petals, but while they last their whiteness shimmers everywhere.
+
+Such rare days were all blown through with the wonderful wind of spring.
+Spring wind is really different from any other. It is not a finished
+thing, like the mellow winds of summer and the cold blasts of winter. It
+is an imperfect blend of shivering reminiscence and eager promise. One
+moment it breathes sun and stirring earth, the next it reminds us of old
+snow in the hollows, and bleak northern slopes.
+
+When, on these days, the wind blew to us, almost before we saw it, the
+first greeting of the arbutus, it always seemed that the day had found its
+complete and satisfying expression. Every one comes to realize, at some
+time in his life, the power of suggestion possessed by odors. Does not
+half the power of the Church lie in its incense? An odor, just because it
+is at once concrete and formless, can carry an appeal overwhelmingly
+strong and searching, superseding all other expression. This is the appeal
+made to me by the arbutus. It can never be quite precipitated into words,
+but it holds in solution all the things it has come to mean--dear human
+tradition and beloved companionship, the poetry of the land and the
+miracle of new birth.
+
+In late March or early April I am likely to see the first blossom on some
+friend's table--I try not to see it first in a florist's display! To my
+startled question she gives reassuring answer, "Oh, no, not from around
+here. This came from Virginia."
+
+Days pass, and, perhaps, the mail brings some to me, this time from
+Pennsylvania or New Jersey, and soon I can no longer ignore the trays of
+tight, leafless bunches for sale on street corners and behind plate-glass
+windows. "From York State," they tell me. I grow restive.
+
+"Jonathan," I say, holding up a spray for him to smell, "we've got to go.
+You can't resist that. We'll take a day and go for it--and trout, too."
+
+It is as well that arbutus comes in the trout season, for to take a day
+off just to pick a flower might seem a little absurd. But, coupled with
+trout--all is well. Trout is food. One must eat. The search for food needs
+no defense, and yet, the curious fact is, that if you go for trout and
+don't get any, it doesn't make so much difference as you might suppose,
+but if you go for arbutus and don't get any, it makes all the difference
+in the world. And so Jonathan knows that in choosing his brook for that
+particular day, he must have regard primarily to the arbutus it will give
+us and only secondarily to the trout.
+
+Every one knows the kind of brook that is, for every one knows the kind of
+country arbutus loves--hilly country, with slopes toward the north; bits of
+woodland, preferably with pine in it, to give shade, but not too deep
+shade; a scrub undergrowth of laurel and huckleberry and bay; and always,
+somewhere within sight or hearing, water. It is curious how arbutus, which
+never grows in wet places, yet seems to like the neighborhood of water. It
+loves the slopes above a brook or the shaggy hillsides overlooking a
+little pond or river.
+
+Fortunately, there is such a brook, in just such country, on our list.
+There are not so many trout as in other brooks, but enough to justify our
+rods; and not so much arbutus as I could find elsewhere, but enough--oh,
+enough!
+
+To this brook we go. We tie Kit at the bridge, Jonathan slings on a
+fish-basket, to do for both, and I take a box or two for the flowers. But
+from this moment on our interests are somewhat at variance. The fact is,
+Jonathan cares a little more about the trout than about the arbutus, while
+I care a little more about the arbutus than about the trout. His eye is
+keenly on the brook, mine is, yearningly, on the ragged hillsides that
+roll up above it.
+
+Jonathan feels this. "There isn't any for two fields yet--might as well
+stick to the brook."
+
+"I know. I thought perhaps I'd go on down and let you fish this part. Then
+I'd meet you beyond the second fence--"
+
+"Oh, no, that won't do at all. Why, there's a rock just below here--down by
+that wild cherry--where I took out a beauty last year, and left another. I
+want you to go down and get him."
+
+"You get him. I don't mind."
+
+"Oh, but I mind. Here, I've got it all planned: there's a bit of
+brush-fishing just below--"
+
+"No brush-fishing for me, please!"
+
+"That's what I'm saying, if you'll only give me time. I'll take that--there
+are always two or three in there--and when you've finished here you can go
+around me and fish the bend, under the hemlocks, and then the first
+arbutus is just beside that, and I'll join you there."
+
+"Well"--I assent grudgingly--"only, really, I'd be just as happy if you'd
+fish the whole thing and let me go right on down--"
+
+"No, you wouldn't. Now, remember to sneak before you get to that rock.
+Drop in six feet above it and let the current do the rest. They're awfully
+shy. I expect you to get at least one there, and two down at the bend." He
+trudges off to his brush-fishing and leaves me bound in honor to extract a
+trout from under that rock. I deposit my boxes in the meadow above it, and
+"sneak" down. The sneak of a trout fisherman is like no other form of
+locomotion, and I am convinced that the human frame was not evolved with
+it in mind. But I resort to it in deference to Jonathan's prejudices--in
+deference, also, to the fact that when I do not the trout seldom bite. And
+Jonathan is so trustfully counting on my getting that trout!
+
+I did get him. I dropped in my line, as per directions, and let the
+current do the rest; had the thrill of feeling the line suddenly caught
+and drawn under the rock, held, then wiggled slightly; I struck, felt the
+weight, drew back steadily, and in a few moments there was a flopping in
+the grass behind me.
+
+So that was off my mind.
+
+I strung him on a twig of wild cherry, gathered up my boxes, and wandered
+along the faint path, back of the patch of brush where, I knew, Jonathan
+was cheerfully threading his line through tangles of twig, briar, and
+vine, compared with which the needle's eye is as a yawning barn door.
+Jonathan's attitude toward brush-fishing is something which I respect
+without understanding. Down one long field I went, where the brook ran in
+shallow gayety, and there, ahead, was the bend, a sudden curve of water,
+deepening under the roots of an overhanging hemlock. I climbed the stone
+wall beside, glanced at the water--very trouty water indeed--glanced at the
+hill-pasture above--very arbutusy indeed--laid down my rod and my trout and
+my box, and ran up the low bank to a clump of bay and berry-bushes that I
+thought I remembered.... Yes! There it was! I had remembered! Ah! The dear
+things!
+
+When you first find arbutus, there is only one thing to do:--lie right down
+beside it. Its fragrance as it grows is different from what it is after it
+is picked, because with the sweetness of the blossoms is mingled the good
+smell of the earth and of the woody twigs and of the dried grass and
+leaves. And there are other rewards one gets by lying down. It is all very
+well to talk proudly about man's walking with his head erect and his face
+to the heavens, but if we keep that posture all the time we miss a good
+deal. The attitude of the toad and the lizard is not to be scorned, though
+when the needs of locomotion convert it into the fisherman's "sneak," it
+is, as I have suggested, to be sparingly indulged in. But if we could only
+nibble now and then from "the other side" of Alice's mushroom, what a new
+outlook we should get on the world that now lies about our feet! What new
+aspects of its beauty would be revealed to us: the forest grandeurs of the
+grass, the architecture of its slim shafts with their pillared aisles and
+pointed arches of interlocking and upspringing curves, their ceiling
+traceries of spraying tops against a far-away background of sky!
+
+To know arbutus, you must stoop to its level, and look across the fine,
+frosty fur of its stiff little leaves, and feel the nestle of its stems to
+the ground, the little up-fling of their tips toward the sun, and the neat
+radiance of its flower clusters, with their blessed fragrance and their
+pure, babyish color.
+
+But after that? You want to pick it. Yes, you really want to pick it!
+
+In this it is different from other flowers. Most of them I am well content
+to leave where they grow. In fact, the love of picking things--flowers or
+anything else--is a youthful taste: we lose it as we grow older; we become
+more and more willing to appreciate without acquiring, or rather,
+appreciation becomes to us a finer and more spiritual form of acquiring.
+Is it possible that, after all, the old idea of heaven as a state of
+enraptured contemplation is in harmony with the trend of our development?
+
+But if there is arbutus in heaven, I shall need to develop a good deal
+further not to want to pick it. It suggests picking; it almost invites it.
+There is something about the way it nestles and hides, that makes you want
+to see it better. Here is a spray of pure white, living under a green tent
+of overlapping leaves; one must raise it, and nip off just one leaf, so
+that the blossoms can see out. There is another, a pink cluster, showing
+faintly through the dry, matted grass. You feel for the stem, pull it
+gently, and, lo, it is many stems, which have crept their way under the
+tangle, and every one is tipped with a cluster of stars or round little
+buds each on its long stem, fairly begging to be picked. It gets picked.
+
+Yet sometimes its very beauty has stayed my hand. I shall never forget one
+clump I found, growing out of a bank of deep green moss, partly shaded by
+a great hemlock. The soft pink blossoms--luxuriant leafy sprays of
+them--were lying out on the moss in a pagan carelessness of beauty, as
+though some god had willed it there for his pleasure. I sat beside it a
+long time, and in the end I left it without picking it.
+
+On this particular day, Jonathan being still lost in the brush patch, I
+had risen from my visit with the first-discovered blossoms and wandered
+on, from clump to clump, wherever the glimpse of a leaf attracted me,
+picking the choicest here and there and dropping them into my box. After I
+do not know how long, I was roused by Jonathan's whistle. I was some
+distance up the hillside by this time, and he was beside the brook, at the
+bend.
+
+"What luck?" he called.
+
+"Good luck! I've found lots. Come up!"
+
+He took a few steps up toward me, so that conversation could drop from
+shouting to speaking levels. "How many did you get?" he asked.
+
+"How many?... Oh ... why ... Oh, I got one up there where you showed me--under
+the rock, you know."
+
+"Good one?"
+
+"Eight inches. He's down there by the bars."
+
+"Good! And what about the bend?"
+
+"The bend? Oh, I didn't fish there--look at these! Aren't they beauties?" I
+came down the hill to hold my open box up to his face. But my casual word
+almost effaced the scent of the flowers.
+
+"Ah--yes--delicious--didn't fish there? Why not? Did they see you?"
+
+"Who? The trout? I don't know. But I saw this. And I just had to pick it."
+
+"Well! You're a great fisherman! And with that water right there beside
+you! Lord!"
+
+"With the arbutus right here beside me! Lord!"
+
+"But the arbutus would wait."
+
+"But the trout would wait. They're waiting for you now, don't you hear
+them? Go and fish there!"
+
+"No. That's your pool." Jonathan has a way of bestowing a trout-pool on me
+as if it were a bouquet. To refuse its opportunities is almost like
+throwing his flowers back in his face.
+
+"Well--of course it's a beautiful pool--"
+
+"Best on the brook," murmured Jonathan.
+
+"But, truly, I'd enjoy it just as much to have you fish it."
+
+"Nobody can fish it now for a while. I thought you'd be there, of course,
+and I came stamping along down, close by the bank. They wouldn't bite
+now--not for half an hour, anyway."
+
+"Well, then, that's just right. We'll go on up the hillside for half an
+hour, and then come back and fish it. Set your rod up against the bayberry
+here, and come along--look there! you're almost stepping on some!"
+
+Jonathan, gradually adjusting himself to the turn of things, stood his rod
+up against the bush with the meticulous care of the true sportsman. "Where
+did you leave yours?" he asked, with a suspiciousness born of a deep
+knowledge of my character.
+
+"Oh, down by the bars."
+
+"Standing up or lying down?"
+
+"Lying down, I think. It's all right."
+
+"It's not all right if it's lying down. Anything might trample on it."
+
+"For instance, what?--birds or crickets?"
+
+"For instance, people or cows." He strode down the hill, and I saw him
+stoop. As he returned I could read disapproval in his gait. "Will you
+never learn how to treat a rod! It was lying just beyond the bars. I must
+have landed within two feet of it when I jumped over."
+
+"I'm sorry. I meant to go back. I know perfectly how to treat a rod. My
+trouble comes in knowing when to apply my knowledge.... Well, let's go up
+there. Near those big hemlocks there's some, I remember." And we wandered
+on, separating a little to scan the ground more widely.
+
+Once having pried his mind away from the trout, Jonathan was as keen for
+arbutus as I could wish, and soon I heard an exclamation, and saw him
+kneel. "Oh, come over!" he called; "you really ought to see this growing!"
+
+"But there's some I want, right here, that's lovely--"
+
+"Never mind. Come and see this--oh, come!"
+
+Of course I come, and of course I am glad I came, and of course soon I am
+obliged to call Jonathan to see some I have found--"Jonathan, it is truly
+the loveliest _yet!_ It's the way it grows--with the moss and all--please
+come!" And of course he comes.
+
+We had been on the hillside a long half-hour, much nearer an hour, when
+Jonathan began to grow restive. "Don't you think you have enough?" he
+suggested several times. Finally, he spoke plainly of the trout.
+
+"Oh, yes, of course," I said, "you go down and I'll follow just as soon as
+I've gone along that upper path."
+
+Not at all. That was not what was wanted. So I turned and we went down the
+hill, back to the bend, whose seductions I had been so puzzlingly able to
+resist. I am sure Jonathan has never yet quite understood how I could
+leave that bit of water at my left hand and turn away to the right.
+
+"Now--sneak!"
+
+We sneaked, and I sank down just back of the edge of the bank. Jonathan
+crouched some feet behind, coaching me:--"Now--draw out a little more
+line--not too much--there--and have some slack in your hand. Now, up-stream
+fifteen feet--allow for the wind--wait till that gust passes--now! Good!
+First-rate! Now let her drift--there--what did I tell you? Give him line!
+_Give_ him line! Now, feel of him--careful! You'll know when to strike ...
+there!... Oh! too bad!"
+
+For as I struck, my line held fast.
+
+"Snagged, by gummy! Can't you pull clear?"
+
+"Not without stirring up the whole pool. You'll have to do the fishing,
+after all."
+
+"Oh! _too_ bad! That's hard luck!"
+
+"Not a bit. I like to watch you do it."
+
+And so indeed I did. Once having realized that I was temporarily laid by,
+Jonathan put his whole mind on the pool, while I, being honorably released
+from all responsibility, except that of keeping my line taut, could put my
+whole mind on his performance. There is a little the same sort of pleasure
+in watching the skillful handling of a rod that there is in watching the
+bow-action of a violinist. Both things demand the utmost nicety of
+adjustment: body, arm, wrist, fingers uniting in an interplay of
+efficiency exactly adapted to the intricately shifting needs of each
+moment.
+
+Thus I watched, through the typical stages of the sport: the delicate flip
+of the bait into the current at just the right spot; its swift descent,
+imperceptibly guided by the rod's quivering tip; its slower drift toward
+deep water; its sudden vanishing, and the whir of the reel as the line
+goes out; then the pause, the critical moments of "feeling for him"; at
+last the strike ... and then, a flopping in the grass behind me, and
+Jonathan crawling back to kill and unhook him.
+
+"Don't get up. There's probably another one," he said; and soon, by the
+same reptilian methods, was back for another try. There was another one,
+and yet another, and then a little fellow, barely hooked. "That's all,"
+said Jonathan, as he rose to put him back into the pool, and we watched
+the pretty spotted creature fling himself upstream with a wild flourish of
+his gleaming body.
+
+"Now I'll get you clear," said Jonathan, wading out into the water, and,
+with sleeves rolled high, feeling deep, deep down under the opposite bank.
+"He had you all right--it's wound round a root and then jabbed deep into it
+... hard luck! I wanted you to get those fellows!" And to this day I am sure
+he remembers those trout with a tinge of regret.
+
+I had intended leaving him to fish the rest of the brook, while I went
+back to that upper path to look up two or three special arbutus clumps
+that I knew, but seeing his depression over the snag incident, I could not
+suggest this. Instead I followed the stream with him, accepting his urgent
+offer of all the best pools, while he, taking what was left, drew out
+perfectly good trout from the most unhopeful-looking bits of water. And at
+the end, there was time to return along the upper path and visit my old
+friends, so both of us were satisfied.
+
+On such days, however, there is always one person who is not satisfied,
+and that is, Kit the horse. Kit has borne with our vagaries for many
+years, but she has never come to understand them. She never fails to greet
+our return, as our voices come within the range of her pricked-up ears, by
+a prolonged and reproachful whinny, which says as plainly as is necessary,
+"Back? Well--I should _think_ it was time! _I should think it was TIME!_"
+Now and then we have thought it would be pleasant to have a little
+motor-car that could be tucked away at any roadside, without reference to
+a good hitching-place, but if we had it, I am sure we should miss that
+ungracious welcoming whinny. We should miss, too, the exasperated violence
+of Kit's pace on the first bit of the home road--a violence expressing in
+the most ostentatious manner her opinion of folks who keep a respectable
+horse hitched by the roadside, far from the delights of the dim, sweet
+stable and the dusty, sneezy, munchy hay.
+
+But leaving out this little matter of Kit's preference, and also the other
+little matter of the trout's preference, I feel sure that an
+arbutus-trouting is peculiarly satisfying. It meets every human need--the
+need of food and beauty, the need of feeling strong and skillful, the need
+of becoming deeply aware of nature as living and kind. Moreover, it is
+very satisfying afterwards. As we sat that evening, over a late supper,
+with a shallow dish of arbutus beside us, I remarked, "The advantage of
+getting arbutus is, that you bring the whole day home with you and have it
+at your elbow."
+
+"The advantage of getting trout," remarked Jonathan dreamily, as if to
+himself, "is, that you bring your whole day home with you, and have it for
+breakfast."
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   VII
+
+
+                         Without the Time of Day
+
+
+"Jonathan, did you ever live without a clock,--whole days, I mean,--days and
+days--"
+
+"When I was a boy--most of the time, I suppose. But the family didn't like
+it."
+
+"Of course. But did you like it?"
+
+"Yes, I liked it all. I seem to remember getting pretty hungry sometimes,
+but it's all rather good as I look back on it."
+
+"Let's do it!"
+
+"Now?"
+
+"No. Society is an enlarged family, and wouldn't like it. But this summer,
+when we camp."
+
+"How do you know we're going to camp?"
+
+"The things we know best we don't always know how we know."
+
+"Well, then,--_if_ we camp--"
+
+"_When_ we camp--let's live without a watch."
+
+"You'd need one to get there."
+
+"Take one, and let it run down."
+
+As it turned out, my "when" was truer than Jonathan's "if." We did camp.
+We did, however, use watches to get there: when we expressed our baggage,
+when we sent our canoe, when we took the trolley car and the train; and
+the watch was still going as our laden craft nosed gently against the bank
+of the river-island that was to be our home for two weeks. It was late
+afternoon, and the shadows of the steep woods on the western bank had
+already turned the rocks in midstream from silver to gray, and dimmed the
+brightness of the swift water, almost to the eastern shore.
+
+"Will there be time to get settled before dark?" I asked, as we stepped
+out into the shallow water and drew up the canoe to unload.
+
+"Shall I look at my watch to see?" asked Jonathan, with a note of amiable
+derision in his voice.
+
+"Well, I _should_ rather like to know what time it is. We won't begin till
+to-morrow."
+
+"You mean, we won't begin to stop watching. All right. It's just seventeen
+and a half minutes after five. I'll give you the seconds if you like."
+
+"Minutes will do nicely, thank you."
+
+"Lots of time. You collect firewood while I get the tent ready. Then it'll
+need us both to set it up."
+
+We worked busily, happily. Ah! The joyous elation of the first night in
+camp! Is there anything like it? With days and days ahead, and not even
+one counted off the shining number! All the good things of childhood and
+maturity seem pressed into one mood of flawless, abounding happiness.
+
+By dark the tent was up, the baggage stowed, the canoe secured, the fire
+glowing in a bed of embers, and we sat beside it, looking out past the
+glooms of the hemlocks across the moonlit river,--sat and ate city-cooked
+chicken and sandwiches and drank thermos-bottled tea.
+
+"To-morrow we'll cook," I said. "To-night it's rather nice not to have to.
+Look at the moonlight on that rock! How black it makes the eddy below!"
+
+"Good bass under there," said Jonathan. "We'll get some to-morrow."
+
+"Maybe."
+
+"Well, of course, it's always maybe, with bass. Well--I'm done--and it's
+quarter to ten--late! Oh! Excuse me! Maybe you'd rather I hadn't told you.
+By the way, do I wind my watch to-night or not?"
+
+"Not."
+
+"Not it is, then. Sure you wouldn't rather have it wound, though? We can
+leave it hanging in the tent. It won't break loose and bite you."
+
+"Yes, it would. There would be a something--a taint--"
+
+"Oh, _all_ right!"
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+We slept with the murmur of the river running through our dreams,--a murmur
+of many voices: deep voices, high voices, grumbling voices as the stones
+go grinding and rolling along the ever-changing bottom,--and only half
+roused when the dawn chorus of the birds filled the air. That dawn chorus
+was something we should have been loath to miss. Through the first gray of
+the morning there comes a stir in the woods, an expectant tremor; a bird
+peeps softly and is still; then another, and another, "softly conferring
+together." As the light grows warmer, comes a clearer note from some
+leader, then a full, complete song; another, and the woods are awake,
+flinging out their wonderful song-greeting to the morning. There is in it
+a prodigality of swift-changing beauty like ocean surf: a continuous and
+intricate interweaving of rhythms, pulses and ebbings of clear tone,
+beautiful phrases rising antiphonal, showerings of bright notes, moments
+of subsidence, almost of pause. As the light grows and sharpens, the music
+reaches a crescendo of exuberance, and at last dies down as real day
+comes, bringing with it the day's work. On our island the leader of the
+chorus was almost always a song sparrow, though once or twice a wood
+thrush came over from the shore woods and filled the hemlock shadows with
+the limpid splendors of his song.
+
+Hearing the chorus through our dreams, we slept again, and when I really
+waked the sun was high, flecking the eastern V of our tent with dazzling
+patches. I heard Jonathan moving about outside, and the crackling of a
+new-made fire. I went to the front of the tent and looked out. Yes, there
+they were, the fire and Jonathan, in a quiet space of shade where the
+early coolness still hung. Beyond them, half shut out from view by the
+low-spreading hemlock boughs, was the open river--such gayety of swift
+water! Such dazzle of midsummer morning! I drew back, eager to be out in
+it.
+
+"Bacon and eggs, is it?" called Jonathan, "or shall I run down and try for
+a bass?"
+
+"Don't!" I called. I knew that if he once got out after bass he was lost
+to me for the day. And now we had cut loose from even the mild tyranny of
+his watch. As I thought of this I went over to the many-forked tree, whose
+close-trimmed branches served our tent as hat-rack, clothes-rack,
+everything-that-can-hang-or-perch-rack, and opened Jonathan's watch.
+
+"Well, what time is it?" Jonathan was peering in between the tent-flaps.
+
+"Twenty-two minutes before five."
+
+"A.M., I judge. Sorry you didn't let me wind it?"
+
+"Not a bit. I was just curious to see when it stopped, that was all."
+
+"Well, now you know. Hereafter the official time for the camp is 4:38--A.M.
+or P.M., according to taste. Come along. The bacon's done, and I'm blest
+if I want to drop in the eggs."
+
+Dropping an egg will never, I fear, be one of Jonathan's most finished
+performances. He watched me do it with generous admiration. "If you could
+just get over being scared of them," I suggested, as the last one plumped
+into the pan and set up its gentle sizzle.
+
+"No use. I _am_ scared of the things. I tap and tap, and nothing happens,
+and then I get mad and tap hard, and they're all over the place."
+
+By the time breakfast was over, even the coolness under the hemlocks was
+beginning to grow warm and aromatic. The birds in the shore woods were
+quieter, though out at the sunny end of our island, where the hemlocks
+gave place to low scrub growth, the song sparrow sang gayly now and then.
+
+"Now," said Jonathan, "what about fishing?"
+
+"Well--let's fish!"
+
+"One up stream and one down, or keep together?"
+
+"Together," I decided. "If we go two ways there's no telling when I'll
+ever see you again."
+
+"Yes, there is: when I'm hungry."
+
+"No; some time after you've noticed you're hungry."
+
+"Now, if we had watches it would be so much simpler: we could meet here
+at, say, one o'clock."
+
+"Simple, indeed! When did you ever look at a watch when you were fishing,
+unless I made you? No, my way is simple, but we stay together."
+
+Of course, in river fishing, "together" means simply not absolutely out of
+sight of each other. Jonathan may be up to his arm-pits in mid-current, or
+marooned on a rock above a swirling eddy, while I am in a similar
+situation beyond calling distance, but so long as a bend in the river does
+not cut us off, we are "together," and very companionable togetherness it
+is, too. When I see Jonathan wildly waving to attract my attention, I know
+he has either just caught a big bass or else just lost one, and this gives
+me something to smile over as I wonder which it is. After a time, if I am
+catching shiners and no bass, and Jonathan doesn't seem to be moving, I
+infer that his luck is better than mine, and drift along toward him. Or it
+may be the other way around, and he comes to look me up. Bass are the most
+uncertain of fish, and no one can predict when they will elect to bite, or
+where. Sometimes they are in the still water, deep or shallow according to
+their caprice; sometimes they hang on the edges of the rapids; sometimes
+they are in the dark, smooth eddies below the great boulders; sometimes in
+the clear depths around the rocks near shore. Each day afresh,--indeed,
+each morning and each afternoon,--the fisherman must try, and try, and try,
+until he discovers what their choice has been for that special time. Yet
+no fisherman who has once drawn out a good bass from a certain bit of
+water can help feeling, next time, that there is another waiting for him
+there. That is one of the reasons why he is always hopeful, and so always
+happy. The fish he has caught, at this well-remembered spot and that, rise
+up out of the past and flick their tails at him; and all the stretches
+between--stretches of water that have never for him held anything but
+shiners, stretches of time diversified by not even a nibble--sink into
+pleasant insignificance.
+
+We banked our fire, stowed everything in the tent that a thunderstorm
+would hurt, and splashed out into the river. There it lay in all its
+bright, swift beauty, and we stood a moment, looking, feeling the push of
+the water about our knees and the warmth of the sun on our shoulders.
+
+"It makes a difference, sleeping out in it all," I said. "You feel as if
+it belonged to you so much more. I quite own the river this morning, don't
+you?"
+
+"Quite. But not the bass in it. Bet you don't catch one!"
+
+"Bet I beat you!"
+
+"Bass, mind you. Sunfish don't count. You're always catching sunfish."
+
+"They count in the pan. But I'll beat you on bass. I know some places--"
+
+"Who doesn't? All right, go ahead!"
+
+We were off; Jonathan, as usual, wading up to his chest or perched on a
+bit of boulder above some dark, slick rapid; I preferring water not more
+than waist-deep, and not too far from shore to miss the responses of the
+wood-folk to my passing: soft flurries of wings; shy, half-suppressed
+peepings; quick warning notes; light footfalls, hopping or running or
+galloping; the snapping of twigs and the crushing of leaves. Some sounds
+tell me who the creature is,--the warning of the blue jay, the whirr of the
+big ruffed grouse, the thud of the bounding rabbit,--but many others leave
+me guessing, which is almost better. When a very big stick snaps, I always
+feel sure a deer is stealing away, though Jonathan assures me that a
+chewink can break twigs and "kick up a row generally," so that you'd swear
+it was nothing smaller than a wild bull.
+
+So we fished that day. When I caught a bass, which was seldom, I whooped
+and waved it at Jonathan, and when I caught a shiner, which was rather
+often, I waved it too, just to keep his mind occupied. Hours passed, and
+we met at a bend in the river where the deep water glides close to shore.
+
+"Hungry?" I asked.
+
+"Now you speak of it, yes."
+
+"Shall we go back?"
+
+"How can I tell? Now, if we only had that watch we'd know whether we ought
+to be hungry or not."
+
+"What does that matter, if we _are_ hungry? Besides, if you'd had a watch,
+you'd have had to carry it in your teeth. You know perfectly well you
+wouldn't have brought it, anyway."
+
+"Well--then, at least when we got back, we should have known whether we
+ought to have been hungry or not. Now we shall never know."
+
+"Never! Oh! Look there, Jonathan! We're going to catch it!" A sense of
+growing shadow in the air had made me look up, and there, back of the
+steep-rising woods, hung a blue-black cloud, with ragged edges crawling
+out into the brightness of the sky.
+
+"Sure enough! The bass'll bite now, if it really comes. Wait till the
+first drops, and see what you see."
+
+We had not long to wait. There came that sudden expectancy in the air and
+the trees, the strange pallor in the light, the chill sweep of wind gusts
+with warm pauses between. Then a few big drops splashed on the dusty,
+sun-baked stones about us.
+
+"Now! Wade right out there, to the edge of that ledge--don't slip over,
+it's deep. I'll go down a little way."
+
+I waded out carefully, and cast, in the smooth, dark water already
+beginning to be rain-pocked. It was surprisingly shivery, that storm wind!
+I glanced toward shore to look for shelter--I remembered an overhanging
+ledge of rock--then my line went taut! I forgot about shelter, forgot about
+being chilly; I knew it was a good bass.
+
+I got him in--too big to go through the hole in my creel--cast for
+another--and another--and yet another. The rain began to fall in sheets, and
+the wind nearly blew me over, but who could run away from such fishing?
+The surface of the river, deep blue-gray, seemed rising everywhere in
+little jets to meet the rain. Rapids, eddies, still waters, weedy edges,
+all looked alike; there were neither waves nor swirls nor glassy slicks,
+but all were roughly furry under the multitudinous assaults of the fierce
+rain-drops. The sky was mottled lead-color, the wind blew less strongly,
+but cold--cold. And under that water the bass were biting, my rod was
+bending double, my reel softly screaming as I gave line, and one after
+another I drew the fish alongside and dipped them out with my landing net.
+
+Then, as suddenly as they had begun, they stopped biting. I waited long
+minutes; nothing happened, and all at once I realized that I was very wet
+and very cold. Wading ashore, I saw Jonathan shivering along up the narrow
+beach toward me, his shoulders drawn in to half their natural spread, neck
+tucked in between his collar-bones, knees slightly bent.
+
+"You can't be cold?" I questioned as soon as he was near enough to hear me
+through the slash of the rain and wind.
+
+"No, of course not; are you?"
+
+We didn't discuss it, but ran up the bank to the rock-ledge and crouched
+under it, our teeth literally chattering.
+
+"Did you ever see such fishing?" I managed to stammer.
+
+"Great! But oh, _why_ didn't I bring the whiskey bottle?"
+
+"Let's run for camp! We can't be wetter."
+
+We crawled out into the rain again, and first sprinted and then
+dog-trotted along the river edge. No bird notes now in the woods beside
+us, no whirring of wings; only the rain sounds: soft swishings and
+drippings and gusty showerings, very different from the flat, flicking
+sounds when rain first starts in dry woods.
+
+Camp looked a little cheerless, but a blazing fire, started with dry stuff
+we had stowed inside the tent, changed things, and dry clothes changed
+them still more, and we sat within the tent flaps and ate ginger-snaps in
+great contentment of spirit while we waited for the rain to stop.
+
+It did stop, and very soon the fish were sizzling in the pan.
+
+"Of course, if we had a watch, now--" suggested Jonathan, as he carefully
+tucked under the pan little sticks of just the right length.
+
+"What should we know more than we do now--that we're hungry?" I asked.
+
+"Well, for one thing, we'd know what time it is," replied Jonathan
+tranquilly.
+
+"And for another we'd know whether it's dinner or supper I'm cooking," I
+supplemented. "But does it matter? You won't get anything different, no
+matter which it is--just fish is what you'll get. And pretty soon the sun
+will be out, and you can set up a stick and watch the shadow and make a
+sundial for yourself."
+
+"Oh, I don't really care which it is."
+
+"Do you suppose I don't know that! And meanwhile, you might cut the bread
+and make some toast,--there are some good embers on your side under the
+pan,--and I'll get the butter, and there we'll be."
+
+By the time the toast was made and the fish curling brownly away from the
+pan, the sun had indeed come out, at first pale and watery, then clear,
+and still high enough in the heavens to set the soaked earth steaming
+fragrantly with its heat. Odors of hemlock and wet earth mingled with
+odors of toast and fried fish.
+
+"Um-m! Smell it all!" I said. "What a lot we should miss if we didn't eat
+in the kitchen!"
+
+"Or cook in the dining-room--which?"
+
+"And hear that song sparrow! Doesn't it sound as if the rain had washed
+his song a little cleaner and clearer?"
+
+There followed the wonderful afterlight that a short, drenching rain
+leaves behind it--a hush of light, deeply pervasive and friendly. The
+sunshine slanted across the gleaming wet rocks in the river, lit up the
+rain-darkened trunks of the hemlocks, glinted on the low-hanging leaves,
+and flashed through the dripping edges of sagging fern fronds. As twilight
+came on, we canoed across to the side of the river where the road lay--the
+other side was steep and pathless woods--and walked down to the nearest
+farmhouse to buy eggs for the morning. Back again by the light of a
+low-hung moon, and across the dim water to our own island and the embers
+of our fire.
+
+"Oh, Jonathan! We never asked them what time it was!" I said. "I meant
+to--for your sake--I thought you'd sleep better if you knew."
+
+"Too bad! Probably I should have. I thought of it, of course, but was
+afraid that if I asked it would spoil your day."
+
+"It would take something pretty bad to spoil a day like this one," I said.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+Two days later the weather turned still and warm, the bass refused to
+bite, and even the sunfish lay, shy or wary or indifferent, in their
+shallow, sunny pools, so we resolved to walk down the river to the
+post-office, four miles away, for possible mail. As we sat on the steps of
+the little store, looking it over,--"Here's news," said Jonathan; "Jack and
+Molly say they'll run up if we want them, day after to-morrow--up on the
+morning train, and back on the evening."
+
+"Good! Tell them to come along."
+
+"No--it's to-morrow--letter's been here since yesterday. I'll telegraph."
+
+As we tramped home we planned the day. "We'll meet them and all walk up
+together," said Jonathan.
+
+"We'd better catch some bass and leave them all hooked in a pool, ready
+for them to pull out," I added; "otherwise they may not catch any. And
+maybe you'd better meet them and I'll have dinner ready when you get
+back."
+
+"Nonsense! You come, and we'll all get dinner when we get back. That's
+what they're coming for--to see the whole thing."
+
+"But if it's late--they've got to get back for that down train."
+
+"Well--time enough."
+
+"Oh, Jonathan! What about catching that train?"
+
+"They'll have watches--watches that go."
+
+"But what about our meeting them? The train arrives at 10:15, they said.
+What does 10:15 look like in the sky, I wonder!"
+
+"Or rather, what does 8.45 look like? It takes an hour and a half to get
+there, counting crossing the river."
+
+"Yes--dear me! Well, Jonathan, we'll just have to get up early and go, and
+then wait."
+
+"Or else take our watch to the farmhouse and set it."
+
+"Jonathan, I will not! I'd rather start at daylight."
+
+Which was very nearly what we did. The morning opened with a sun obscured,
+and I felt sure it was stealing a march on us and would suddenly burst out
+upon us from a noonday sky. We breakfasted hastily, ferried across to
+shore, and set a swinging pace down the road. As we walked, the sun burned
+through the mist, and our shadows came out, dim, long things, striding
+with the exaggerated gait that shadows have, over the grassy banks to our
+right.
+
+"I think," said Jonathan, "it may be as late as seven o'clock, but perhaps
+it's only six."
+
+When we reached the station, the official clock registered 8.30. We
+strolled over to the store-and-post-office and got more letters--one from
+Molly and Jack saying thank you they'd come. "They don't entirely
+understand our mail system up here," said Jonathan. We got some
+ginger-cookies and some milk and had a second breakfast, and finally
+wandered back to the station to wait for the train. It came, bearing the
+expected two, and much friendliness. "Get our letter? There, Jack! He said
+you wouldn't, but I said you would. I made him send it ... four miles to
+walk? What fun!"
+
+It was fun, indeed, and all went well until after dinner, when
+Jack--saying, "Well, maybe we'd better be starting back for that
+train"--drew out his watch. He opened it, muttered something, put it to his
+ear, then began to wind it rapidly. He wound and wound. We all laughed.
+
+"Looks as if you hadn't remembered to wind it last night," said Jonathan,
+glancing at me.
+
+"I haven't done that in months, hang it! Give me the time, will you,
+Jonathan?" said Jack.
+
+"Sorry!" Jonathan was smiling genially. "Mine's run down too. It stopped
+at twenty-two minutes before five--A. M., I think."
+
+"What luck! And Molly didn't bring hers."
+
+"You told me not to," Molly flicked in.
+
+"So here we are," said Jonathan, "entirely without the time of day."
+
+"But plenty of real time all round us," I said. "Let's use it, and start."
+I avoided Jonathan's eye.
+
+We reached the station with an hour and ten minutes to spare--bought more
+ginger-cookies and more milk. As we sat eating them in the midst of the
+preternatural calm that marks a country railroad station outside of train
+times, Molly remarked brightly,--
+
+"Well, I don't see but we got on just as well without a watch, didn't we,
+Jack? Why do we need watches, anyway? Do _you_ see?" she turned to us.
+"Jack does everything by his watch--eats and breathes and sleeps by it--"
+
+Jack returned, watch in hand--he had been getting railroad time from the
+telegraph operator. "Want to set yours while you think of it?" he asked
+Jonathan.
+
+"Sorry--thank you--didn't bring it," said Jonathan.
+
+"By George, man, what'll you do?" Real consternation sounded in Jack's
+tones.
+
+"Oh, we'll get along somehow," said Jonathan. "You see, we don't have many
+engagements, except with the bass, and they never meet theirs, anyhow."
+
+When the train had gone, I said, "Jonathan, why didn't you tell them it
+was my whim?"
+
+"Oh, I just didn't," said Jonathan.
+
+As Jonathan had predicted, we did get along somehow--got along rather well,
+on the whole. There are, of course, some drawbacks to an unwatched life.
+You never want to start the next meal till you are hungry, and after that
+it takes one or two or three hours, as the case may be, to go back to camp
+and get the meal ready, and by that time you are almost hungrier than you
+like being. But except for this, and the little matter of meeting trains,
+it is rather pleasant to break away from the habit of watching the watch,
+and it was with real regret that, on the last night of our camp, we took
+our watch to the farmhouse to set it.
+
+"Run down, did it? Guess you forgot to wind it. Well--we do forget things
+sometimes, all of us do," the farmer's wife said comfortingly as she went
+to look at the clock. "Twenty minutes to seven, our clock says. It's apt
+to be fast, so I guess you won't miss any trains. Father he says he'd
+rather have a clock fast than slow any day, but it don't often get more
+than ten minutes wrong either way."
+
+And to us, after our two weeks of camp, ten minutes' error in a clock
+seemed indeed slight.
+
+"Jonathan," I said, as we walked back along the road, "I hate to go back
+to clock time. I like real time better."
+
+"You couldn't do so many things in a day," said Jonathan.
+
+"No--maybe not."
+
+"But maybe that wouldn't matter."
+
+"Maybe it wouldn't," I said.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   VIII
+
+
+                           The Ways of Griselda
+
+
+"Of course you don't know what her name is," I said, as we stood examining
+the sleek little black mare Jonathan had just brought up from the city.
+
+"No. Forgot to ask. Don't believe they'd have known anyway--one of a
+hundred or so."
+
+"Well, we'll name her again. Dear me--she's rather plain! Probably she's
+useful."
+
+"Hope so," said Jonathan. Then, stepping back a little, in a slightly
+grieved tone, "But I don't call her plain. Wait till she's groomed up--"
+
+"It's that droop of her neck--sort of patient--and the way she drops one of
+her hips--if they are hips."
+
+"But we want a horse to be patient."
+
+"Yes. I don't know that I care about having her _look_ so terribly much so
+as this. I think I'll call her Griselda."
+
+"Now, why Griselda?"
+
+"Why, don't you know? She was that patient creature, with the horrid
+husband who had to keep trying to see just how patient she was. It's a
+hateful story--enough to turn any one who brooded on it into a militant
+suffragette."
+
+"But you can't call a horse Griselda--not for common stable use, you know."
+
+"Call her 'Griz' for short. It does very well."
+
+Jonathan jeered a little, but in the family the name held. Our man Hiram
+said nothing, but I think in private he called her "Fan" or "Beauty" or
+"Lady," or some such regulation stable name.
+
+Called by any name, she pleased us, and she _was_ patient. She trotted
+peacefully up hill and down, she did her best at ploughing and haymaking
+and all the odd jobs that the farm supplied. She stood when we left her,
+with that same demure, almost overdone droop of the neck that I had first
+noticed. When I met Jonathan at the station, she stood with her nose
+against a snorting train, looking as if nothing could rouse her.
+
+"Good little horse you got there," remarked the station agent. "Where'd
+you find her?"
+
+"Oh, I picked her out of a bunch down in the city," said Jonathan
+casually. "I didn't think I knew much about horses, but I guess I was in
+luck this time."
+
+"Guess you know more about horses than you're sayin'." And Jonathan, thus
+pressed, admitted with suitable reluctance that he _had_ now and then been
+able to detect a good horse by his own observation.
+
+On the way home he openly congratulated himself on his find. "I really
+wasn't sure I knew how to pick out a horse," he remarked, in a glow of
+retrospective modesty, "but I certainly got a treasure this time."
+
+Griz had been with us about two weeks, and all went well. Then another
+horse was needed for farm work, and one was sent up--one Kit by name--a big,
+pleasant, rather stupid brown mare.
+
+"They do say two mares don't git on so well together as a mare 'n a
+horse," remarked Hiram.
+
+"But these are both such quiet creatures," I protested, to which Hiram
+made no answer. Hiram seldom made an answer unless fairly cornered into
+it.
+
+For two or three days after the new arrival nothing happened, so far as we
+knew, except that Griz always laid her ears back, and looked queer about
+her under lip, whenever Kit was led in or out of the stall next her, while
+Kit always huddled up close to her manger whenever Griz was led past her
+heels. Once or twice Griz slipped her halter in the stall, and Hiram said
+there was a place on Kit that looked as if she had been kicked, but when
+we scrutinized Griz, neck a-droop and eyes a-blink, we found it hard to
+think ill of her. Besides, Jonathan was now fairly committed to the
+opinion that he had "got a treasure this time." "Kit may have hurt herself
+lying down," he suggested, and again Hiram made no answer.
+
+Then one night, sometime during the very small, very dark, and very sleepy
+hours, we were awakened by awful sounds. "What is it? What _is_ it?" I
+gasped.
+
+Crash! Bang! Boom! The trampling of hoofs!--heavy, hollow pounding!--the
+tearing and splintering of wood!--all coming from the barn, though loud
+enough, indeed, to have come from the next room.
+
+Jonathan was up in an instant muttering, "Where are my rubber boots?--and
+my coat?"
+
+"Jonathan! _what_ a combination!"
+
+But he was gone, and I heard the snap of the lantern and the slam of the
+back door almost before the rocking-chair in the sitting-room that he had
+hit--and talked to--had stopped rocking. Then I heard him calling outside
+Hiram's window and then he ran past our window, out to the barn. I wished
+he had waited for Hiram, but I had an undercurrent of pleasure in hearing
+him run. Jonathan's theory is that there is never any hurry, and now and
+then I like to have this notion jolted up a little.
+
+Meanwhile the awful sounds had ceased. There was the rumble of the stable
+door, a pause, and Jonathan's voice in conversational tones. Next came the
+flashing of Hiram's lantern, and the _tromp, tromp, tromp_, in much
+quicker tempo than usual, of Hiram's heavy boots. Hiram's theory was a
+good deal like Jonathan's, so this also gave me pleasure. Finally, there
+came the flash of another lantern, and I recognized the quick, short step
+of Mrs. Hiram. I smiled to myself, picturing the meeting between her and
+Jonathan, for I knew just how Jonathan was costumed. In two minutes I
+heard her steps repassing, and in five minutes Jonathan returned. He was
+chuckling quietly.
+
+"I guess Griz got all she needed--didn't know either of 'em had so much
+spunk in 'em."
+
+"What happened?"
+
+"Don't know, exactly, but when I opened that door, there was Griz, just
+inside, no halter on, head down, meek as Moses, as far away from Kit's
+heels as she could get--she's got the mark of them on her leg and her
+flank."
+
+"Is she hurt?--or Kit?"
+
+"No, not so far as we can see, not to amount to anything--except maybe
+Griz's feelings."
+
+"And what about Mrs. Hiram's feelings?"
+
+Jonathan laughed aloud. "I was inside with Kit, and she called out to know
+if she could help."
+
+"And what did you say?"
+
+"I said, 'Not on your life.' "
+
+"So that was why she came back. Did you really say,'Not on your life,' or
+did you only imply it in your tone, while you actually said, 'No, thank
+you very much'?"
+
+"I really said it. At least, I don't remember conversations the way you
+do, but I didn't feel a bit like thanking anybody, and I don't believe I
+did."
+
+"Well, I wish I'd heard you. One misses a good deal--"
+
+"You can see the stable to-morrow. That'll keep. They must have had a time
+of it! The walls are marked and splintered as high as I can reach. And I
+don't believe Kit'll cringe when Griz passes her any more."
+
+"Of course you remember Hiram _said_ two mares didn't usually get on very
+well, and even when they're chosen by a good judge of horses--"
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+After that the two did get along peaceably enough, and Jonathan assured me
+that all horses had these little affairs. One day we drove over to the
+main street of the village on an errand.
+
+"Will she stand?" I questioned.
+
+"Better hitch her, perhaps," said Jonathan, getting out the rope. He
+snapped it into her bit-ring, then threw the other end around a post and
+started to make a half-hitch. But as he drew up the rope it was suddenly
+jerked out of his hand. He looked up and saw Griselda's patient head
+waving high above him on the end of an erect and rebellious neck, the
+hitch-rope waggling in loops and spirals in the air, and the whole outfit
+backing away from him with speed and decision. He was so astonished that
+he did nothing, and in a moment Griz had stopped backing and stood still,
+her head sagging gently, the rope dangling.
+
+"Well--I'll--be--" I didn't try to remember just what Jonathan said he would
+be, because it doesn't really matter. We both stared at Griz as if we had
+never seen her before. Griz looked at nothing in particular, she blinked
+long lashes over drowsy, dark eyes, and sagged one hip.
+
+"She's trying to make believe she didn't do it--but she did," I said.
+
+"Something must have startled her," said Jonathan, peering up and down the
+deserted street. Two roosters were crowing antiphonally in near-by yards,
+and a dog was barking somewhere far off.
+
+"What?" I said.
+
+"You never can tell, with a horse."
+
+"No, apparently not," I said, smiling to myself; and I added hastily, as I
+saw Jonathan go forward to her head, "_Don't_ try it again, please! I'll
+stay by her while you go in. _Please!_" For I had detected on Jonathan's
+face a look that I very well knew. It was the same expression he had worn
+that Sunday he led the calf to pasture. He made no answer, but stood
+examining the hitch-rope.
+
+"No use," he said, quietly releasing it and tossing its coil into the
+carriage, "It's too rotten. If it snapped, she'd be ruined."
+
+I breathed freer. I privately hoped that all the hitch-ropes at the farm
+were rotten.
+
+"Griz stands perfectly well without hitching," I said as we drove home,
+"Why do you force an issue?"
+
+"I didn't. She did. She's beaten me. If I don't hitch her now, she'll know
+she's master."
+
+"Oh, dear!" I sighed. "Let her _be_ master! Where's the harm? It's just
+your vanity."
+
+"Perhaps so," said Jonathan.
+
+When he agrees with me like that I know it's hopeless.
+
+The next night he wheeled in at the big gate bearing about his shoulders a
+coil of heavy rope.
+
+"It looks like a ship's cable," I said.
+
+"Yes," he responded, leaning his bicycle against his side, and swinging
+the coil over his head. "I want it for mooring purposes. Think it'll moor
+Griz?"
+
+"Jonathan!" I exclaimed, "you won't!"
+
+"Watch me," said Jonathan, and he proceeded to explain to me the working
+of the tackle.
+
+One end had a ring in it, and as nearly as I remember, the plan was to put
+the rope around her body, under what would be her arm-pits if she had
+arm-pits,--horses' joints are never called what one would expect, of
+course,--run the end through the ring, then forward between her legs and
+through the bit-ring.
+
+"Then, when she sets back, it cuts her in two," he concluded cheerfully.
+
+"But you don't _want_ her in two," I protested.
+
+"She won't set back," he responded; "at least, not more than once.
+To-morrow's Sunday; I'll have to hitch her at church."
+
+I hoped it would rain, so we needn't go, but we were having a drought and
+the morning dawned cloudless. We reached the church just on the last
+stroke of the bell. The women were all within; the men and boys lounging
+in the vestibule were turning reluctant feet to follow them.
+
+"You go right in," said Jonathan, "I'll be in soon."
+
+I turned to protest, but he was already driving round to the side, and a
+hush had fallen over the congregation within that made it embarrassing to
+call. Besides, one of the deacons stood holding open the door for me.
+
+I slipped into a pew near the back, with the apologetic feeling one often
+has in an old country church--a feeling that one is making the ghosts move
+along a little. They did move, of course,--probably ghosts are always
+polite when one really meets them,--and I sat down. Indeed, I was thinking
+very little of ghosts that day, or of the minister either. My ears were
+cocked to catch and interpret all the noises that came in through the open
+windows on my left. My eyes wandered in that direction, too, though the
+clear panes revealed nothing more exciting than flickering maple leaves
+and a sky filmed over by veils of cloud.
+
+The moralists tell us that what we get out of any experience depends upon
+what we bring to it. What I brought to it that morning was a mind agog,
+attuned to receive these expected outside sounds. To all such sounds the
+service within was merely a background--a background which didn't know its
+place, since it kept pushing itself more or less importunately into the
+foreground. I sat there, of course, with perfect propriety of demeanor,
+but my reactions were something like this:--
+
+_Hymn 912_ ... seven stanzas! horrors! oh! _omit the 3d, 5th, and 6th_--well,
+I should hope so!... I can't hear a thing while this is going on!... He hasn't
+come in yet! _Scripture reading for to-day_--why can't he give us the
+passage and let us read it for ourselves?--well, his voice is rather high
+and uneven, I think I could make out Jonathan's through the loopholes in
+it.... There! What was that, I wonder! Sounded like shouting,--oh, why can't
+he talk softly! _Let us unite in prayer._ Ah! now we'll have a long, quiet
+time, anyway!... if only he wouldn't pray quite so loud! Why pray aloud at
+all, anyway? I like the Quaker way best: a good long strip of silence,
+where your thoughts can wash around in any fashion that--There!
+No--yes--no--it's just people going by on the road.... Maybe he's in the back
+of the church now, waiting for the close of the prayer. Seems as if I had
+to look.... Well, he isn't.... _For thy name's sake, amen._
+
+And then the collection, with an organ voluntary the while--now why an
+organ voluntary? Why not leave people to their thoughts some of the time?
+
+And at last, the sermon:--_The text to which I wish to call your attention
+this morning_--my attention, forsooth! My attention was otherwise occupied.
+Ah! A puff of warm, sweet air from behind me, and the soft, padding noise
+of the swinging doors, apprised me of an incomer. A cautious tread in the
+aisle--I moved along a little to make room.
+
+In a city church probably I should have thrown propriety to the winds and
+had the gist of the story out of him at once, but in a country church
+there are always such listening spaces,--the very pew-backs and cushions
+seem attentive, the hymnals creak in their racks, and the little stools
+cry out nervously when one barely touches them. It was too much for me. I
+was coerced into an outer semblance of decorum. However, I snatched a
+hasty glance at Jonathan's face. It was quite red and hot-looking, but
+calm, very calm, and I judged it to be the calm, not of defeat nor yet of
+settled militancy, but of triumph. I even thought I detected the flicker
+of a grin,--the mere atmospheric suggestion of a grin,--as if he felt the
+urgent if furtive appeal in my glance. At any rate, Jonathan was all
+right, that was clear. And as to Griz--whether she was still one mare or
+two half-mares--it didn't so much matter. And now for the sermon! I
+gathered myself to attend.
+
+As we stood up for the last hymn, I whispered, "How did it go?"
+
+"All right. She's hitched," was the answer.
+
+After church there was the usual stir of sociability, and when I emerged
+into the glare of the church steps, I saw Jonathan driving slowly around
+from the rear. Griz walked meekly, her head sagged, her eyes blinked.
+
+"Good quiet little horse you've got there," said a deacon over my
+shoulder; "don't get restless standing, the way some horses do."
+
+"Yes, she's very quiet," I said.
+
+I got in, and at last, as we drove off, the flood-gates of my impatience
+broke:--
+
+"Well?" I said,--"well?"
+
+"Well--" said Jonathan.
+
+"_Well? Tell_ me about it!"
+
+"I've told you. I hitched her."
+
+"How did you hitch her?"
+
+"Just the way I said I would."
+
+"Didn't she mind?"
+
+"Don't know."
+
+"Did she make a fuss?"
+
+"Not much."
+
+"What do you mean by much?"
+
+"Oh, she set back a little."
+
+"Do any harm?"
+
+"No."
+
+"Hurt herself?"
+
+"Guess not."
+
+"Jonathan, you drive me distracted--you have no more sense for a story--"
+
+"But there was nothing in particular--"
+
+"Now, Jonathan, if there was nothing in particular, _why_ didn't you get
+into church till the sermon was begun, and why were you so red and hot?"
+
+Jonathan smiled indulgently. "Why, of course, she didn't care about being
+hitched. I thought you knew that. But it was perfectly easy."
+
+And that was about all I could extract by the most artful questions. I
+took my revenge by telling Jonathan the deacon's compliment to Griz. "He
+said she didn't get restless standing, the way so many horses did. I
+thought of mentioning that you were a rather good judge of horses, in an
+amateur way, but then I thought it might seem like boasting, so I didn't."
+
+After that, of course, I didn't really deserve to hear the whole story,
+but the next night I happened to be in the hammock while Jonathan was
+talking to a neighbor at the front gate, and he was relating the incident
+with detail enough to have satisfied the most hungry gossip. Only thus did
+I learn that Bill Howard, who had wound the rope twice round the post to
+give himself a little leeway, was drawn right up to the post when she set
+back; that they had been afraid the headstall would tear off; that they
+had been rather nervous about the post, and other such little points,
+which I had not been clever enough to elicit by my questions.
+
+Now, why? Probably a man likes to tell a story when he likes to tell it. I
+find myself wondering how much Odysseus told Penelope about his adventures
+when she got him to herself for a good talk. Is it significant that his
+really long story was told to the King of the PhA|acians?
+
+As to Griz:--it would perhaps not be worth while to recount her subsequent
+history. It was a curious one, consisting of long stretches of continuous
+and ostentatious meekness, broken by sudden flare-ups which, after their
+occurrence, always seemed incredible. She never again "set back" when
+Jonathan was the one to hitch her, but this was a concession made to him
+personally, and had no effect on her general habits. We talked of changing
+her name, but could never manage it. We thought of selling her, but she
+was too valuable--most of the time. And when we finally parted from her our
+relief was deeply tinged with regret.
+
+I have sometimes wondered whether such flare-ups were not the natural and
+necessary means of recuperation from such depths of meekness. I have even
+wondered whether the original Griselda may not have--but this is not a
+dissertation on early Italian poetry, nor on the nature of women.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    IX
+
+
+                           A Rowboat Pilgrimage
+
+
+We were glad that the plan of the rowboat cruise dawned upon us almost a
+year before it came to pass. We were the gainers by just that rich length
+of expectancy.
+
+For the joy that one gets from any cherished plan is always threefold:
+there is the joy of looking forward, the joy of the very doing, and the
+joy of remembering. They are all good, but only the last is eternal. The
+doing is hedged between limits, and its pleasures are often confused,
+overlaid with alien or accidental impressions. The joy of the forward look
+is pure and keen, but its bounds, too, are set. It begins at the moment
+when the first ray of the plan-idea dawns on one's mind, and it ends with
+the day of fulfillment. If the dawn begins long before the day, so much
+the better.
+
+It was early fall, and we had come in from a day by the river, where we
+had tramped miles up, to one of its infrequent bridges, and miles down on
+the other bank. Now we sat before the fire, talking it over.
+
+"If we only had a boat!" I said.
+
+"Boat! What do you want a boat for? You wouldn't want to sit in a boat all
+day."
+
+"Who said I would? But I want to get into it, and float off, and get out
+again somewhere else. That's my idea of a boat."
+
+"Oh, of course, a boat would be handy--"
+
+"Handy! You talk as if it was a buttonhook!"
+
+"Well?"
+
+"Well--of course it _is_ handy--as you call it--but a boat means such a lot
+of things--adventure, romance. When you're in a boat--a little boat--anything
+might happen."
+
+"Yes," said Jonathan, drawing the logs together, "that's just the way your
+family feels about it when you're young."
+
+Then we both laughed, and there was a reminiscent pause.
+
+"What became of your boat?" I asked finally.
+
+"Sold. You kept yours."
+
+"Yes. It's in the cellar, there at Nantucket. I could have it sent on."
+
+"Cost as much as to buy a new one."
+
+"A new one wouldn't be as good." I bristled a little. Any one who has
+owned a boat is very sensitive about its virtues.
+
+"How big?"
+
+"How should I know? A little boat--maybe twelve feet."
+
+"Two oars?"
+
+"Four."
+
+"Round bottom?"
+
+"Yes. She'd ride anything."
+
+"Well"--Jonathan suddenly expanded--"here's an idea now! How would you like
+to have it sent on to the mainland, and then row it the rest of the
+way--along the Rhode Island and Connecticut shores?"
+
+I sat straight up. "Jonathan! Let's do it now!"
+
+Jonathan chuckled. "My! What a hurry she's in!"
+
+"Well, let's!"
+
+"We couldn't. The boat will have to be overhauled first."
+
+"Oh, dear! I suppose so."
+
+"We could do it next spring, and go up the trout streams."
+
+"Think of that!" I murmured.
+
+"Or in September and get the shore hunting--the salt marshes."
+
+"Oh, which?--which?" Already I was following our course along curving
+beaches and amongst the yellow marshlands. But Jonathan's mind was working
+on more practical details.
+
+"Twelve feet, you said?"
+
+"About that."
+
+"Pretty close stowing for our dunnage--still--let's see--two guns--"
+
+"Or the rods, if we went in the spring."
+
+"And rubber coats, and blankets--"
+
+"Jonathan! Should we camp?"
+
+"Might have to."
+
+"Let's, anyway."
+
+"How does that coast-line run? Where's a map?"
+
+All we had were some railroad maps and an old school geography--just enough
+to tantalize us--but we fell upon them eagerly. It is curious what a change
+comes over these dumb bits of colored paper at such times. Every curve of
+the shore, every bay and headland came to life and spoke to us--called to
+us.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+We decided on the September plan, and for the next eleven months our
+casual talk was starred with inapropos remarks like these:--
+
+"Jonathan, I know we shall forget a can-opener."
+
+"Better write it down while you think of it. And have you put down a
+hatchet?"
+
+"The camera! It isn't on the list!"
+
+"Hang it! Those charts haven't come yet!"
+
+"What can we take to look respectable in when we go ashore?"
+
+Meanwhile the little boat was stirred out of its long sleep in the cellar,
+overhauled, and painted, and shipped to a port up in Narragansett Bay. And
+on the last day of August we found ourselves walking down through the
+little town. Following the instructions of wondering small boys, we came
+to a gate in a board fence, opened it and let ourselves into a typical New
+England seaport scene--a tiny garden, ablaze with sunshine and gorgeous
+with the yellows and lavenders of fall flowers, and a narrow brick path,
+under a grape-vine arch, leading down to the sand and the wharf and the
+sparkling blue waters of the bay. As we passed down through the garden, we
+saw a little boat, bottom up, dazzling white in the sun.
+
+"There it is!" I said, with a surge of reminiscent affection.
+
+"That little thing!" said Jonathan. "I thought you said twelve feet."
+
+"Well, isn't it? Anyway, I said _about_. And it's big enough."
+
+He was spanning its length with his hands.
+
+"Eleven foot six. Oh, I suppose she'll do. My boat was fourteen."
+
+"Now, don't be so patronizing about your boat. Wait till you see how mine
+behaves."
+
+He dropped the discussion and got her launched. Is there anything prettier
+than a pretty boat floating beside a dock!
+
+The next morning when we came down we found her half full of water.
+"She'll be all right now she's soaked up," said Jonathan, and we baled her
+dry and went off to get our stuff.
+
+I delayed to buy provisions, and when I came back I found Jonathan
+standing on the float surrounded by plunder of all sorts. He answered my
+hail rather solemnly.
+
+"See here! When this stuff's all stowed, where are we going to sit? That's
+what's worrying me."
+
+"Why, won't it go in?"
+
+"Go! It wouldn't go in two boats."
+
+I came down the plank. "Well, let's eliminate."
+
+We eliminated. We took out extra shoes and coats and "town clothes," we
+cut down as far as we dared, and expressed a big bundle home. The rest we
+got into two sailor's dunnage bags, one waterproof, the other nearly so,
+and one big water-tight metal box. Then there were the guns, and the
+provisions, and the charts in a long tin tube, and there was a lantern--a
+clumsy thing, which we lashed to a seat. It was always in the way and
+proved of very little use, but we thought we ought to take it.
+
+While we worked, some loungers gathered on the wharf above and watched us
+with that tolerant curiosity that loungers know so well how to assume. As
+we got in and took up our oars, one of them called out, "Now, if you only
+had a little motor there in the stern, you'd be all right."
+
+"Don't want one," said Jonathan.
+
+"What? Why not?"
+
+"Go too fast."
+
+"Eh? What say?"
+
+"Go--too--fast."
+
+"He heard you," I said, "but he can't believe you really said it."
+
+The oars fell into unison, there was the dip of their blades, the grating
+chunk of the rowlocks--_dip-ke-chunk, dip-ke-chunk_. As we fell into our
+stroke the little boat began to respond, the water swished at her bows and
+gurgled under her stern. The wharf fell away behind us, the houses back of
+it came into sight, then the wooded hills behind. The whole town began to
+draw together, with its church steeples as its centers.
+
+"She does go!" remarked Jonathan.
+
+"I told you! Look at us now! Look at that buoy!"
+
+_Dip-ke-chunk, dip-ke-chunk_--the red buoy swept by us and dropped into the
+blue background of dancing waves.
+
+"Are we really off? Is it really happening?" I said joyously.
+
+"Do you like it?" said Jonathan over his shoulder.
+
+"No. Do you?" To such unwisdom of speech do people come when they are
+happy.
+
+But there were circumstances to steady us.
+
+"What I'm wondering," said Jonathan, "is, what's going to happen next--when
+we get out there." He tilted his head toward the open bay, broad and
+windy, ahead of us. "There's some pretty interesting water out there
+beyond this lee."
+
+"Oh, she'll take it all right. It's no worse than Nantucket water. It
+couldn't be. You'll see."
+
+We did see. In half an hour we were in the middle of upper Narragansett
+Bay, trying to make a diagonal across it to the southwest, while the long
+rollers came in steadily from the south, broken by a nasty chop of peaked,
+whitecapped waves. We rowed carefully, our heads over our right shoulders,
+watching each wave as it came on, with broken comments:--
+
+"That's a good one coming--bring her up now--there--all right, now let her
+off again--hold her so--there's another coming--see?--that big one, the fifth,
+the fourth, away--row, now--we beat it--there it goes off astern--see it
+break! Here's another--look out for your oar--we can't afford to miss a
+stroke--oh, me! Did that wet you too? My right shoulder is soaked--my left
+isn't--now it is!"
+
+But half an hour of this sort of thing brought about two
+results--confidence in the little boat, which rode well in spite of her
+load, and confidence in each other's rowing. We found that the four oars
+worked together, our early training told, and we instinctively did the
+same things in each of the varied emergencies created by wind and wave.
+There was no need for orders, and our talk died down to an exclamation now
+and then at some especially big wave, or a laugh as one of us got a
+drenching from the white top of a foaming crest.
+
+It was not an easy day, that first one.... It seems, sometimes, as if there
+were little imps of malignity that hovered over one at the beginning of an
+undertaking--little brownies, using all their charms to try to turn one
+back, discouraged. If there be such, they had a good time with us that
+long afternoon. First they had said that we shouldn't load our boat. Then
+they sent us rough water. Then they set the boat a-leak.
+
+For leak it did. The soaking over night had done no good. It had, indeed,
+been "thoroughly overhauled" and pronounced seaworthy, but there was the
+water, too much to be accounted for as spray, swashing over the bottom
+boards, growing undeniably and most uncomfortably deeper. The imps made no
+offer to bale for us, so we had to do it ourselves, losing the much-needed
+power at the oars, while one of us set to work at the dip-and-toss,
+dip-and-toss motion so familiar to any one who has kept company with a
+small boat.
+
+"I wish my mother could see me now--" hummed Jonathan.
+
+"I wouldn't wish that."
+
+"Why not?"
+
+"What would they all think of us if they could see us this minute?"
+
+"Just what they have thought for a long time."
+
+I laughed. "How true that is, teacher!" I said.
+
+Finding us still cheerful, the imps tried again.
+
+"Jonathan--do you know--I do believe--my rowlock socket is working loose."
+
+He cast a quick look over his shoulder without breaking stroke. Then he
+said a few words, explicit and powerful, about the man who had
+"overhauled" the boat. "He ought to be put out in it, in a sea like this,
+and left to row himself home."
+
+"Yes, of course, but instead, here we are. It won't last half an hour
+longer."
+
+It did not last ten minutes. There it hung, one screw pulled loose, the
+other barely holding.
+
+"Take my knife--you can get it out of my hip pocket--and try to set up that
+screw with the big blade."
+
+I did so, and pulled a few strokes. Then--"It's come out again. It's no
+use."
+
+"We make blamed poor headway with one pair of oars," said Jonathan.
+
+He meditated.
+
+"Where are the screw-eyes?" he said after a moment.
+
+"Oh, good for you! They're in the metal box. I'll get them."
+
+I drew in my useless oars, turned about and cautiously wriggled up into
+the bow seat.
+
+"Look out for yourself! Don't bullfrog out over the bow. I can't hold her
+any steadier than this."
+
+"Oh, I'm all right."
+
+With one hand I gripped the gunwale, with the other I felt down into the
+box and finally fished out the required treasures. I worked my way back
+into my own seat and tried a screw-eye in the empty, rusted-out hole.
+
+"Does it bite?"
+
+"I don't know about biting, but it's going in beautifully--now it goes
+hard."
+
+"Perhaps I can give it a turn."
+
+"Perhaps you can't! Don't you stop rowing. If this boat wasn't held
+steady, she'd--I don't know what she wouldn't do."
+
+"If you stick something through the eye you can turn it."
+
+"Yes. I'll find something. Here's the can-opener. Grand! There! It's
+solid. Now I'll do the other one the same way. Hurrah for the screw-eyes!"
+
+"You thought of bringing them," said Jonathan magnanimously.
+
+"You thought of using them," said I, not to be outdone.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+And so again the imps were foiled. But they hung over us, they slapped us
+with spray, they tossed the whitecaps, jeering, at our heads, over our
+shoulders, into our laps. They put up the tides to tricks of eddies and
+back-currents, so that they hindered instead of helping, as by calculation
+they should have done. They laid invisible hands on our oars and dragged
+them down, or held them up as the wave raced by, so that we missed a
+stroke. Once, in the lee of an island, we paused to rest and unroll our
+chart and get our bearings, while the smooth rise and fall of the ground
+swell was all there was to remind us of the riot of water just outside.
+Then we were off again, and the imps had us. They were busy, those imps,
+all that long, windy, wave-tossed, wonderful day.
+
+For it was wonderful, and the imps were indeed frustrate, wholly
+frustrate. We pulled toward the quiet harbor that evening with aching
+muscles, hair and clothes matted with salt water, but spirits undaunted.
+Hungry, too, for we had not been able to do more than munch a few ship's
+biscuit while we rowed. Wind, tide, waves, all against us, boat leaking,
+oars disabled--and still--"Isn't it great!" we said, "great--great!"
+
+Dusk was closing in and lights began to blink along the western shore. We
+beached on a sandy point and asked our way,--where could we put up for the
+night? Children, barelegged, waded out around the boat, looking at us and
+our funny, laden craft, with curious eyes. Yes, they said, there was an
+inn, farther up the harbor, where we saw those lights--ten minutes' row,
+perhaps. We pulled off again, stiffly.
+
+"Tired?" said Jonathan. "I'll take her in."
+
+"Indeed you won't! Of course I'm tired, but I've got to do something to
+keep warm. And I want to get in. I want supper. They'll all be in bed if
+we don't hurry."
+
+Our tired muscles lent themselves mechanically to their work and the boat
+slid across the quiet waters of the moonlit harbor. The town lights grew
+bigger, wharves loomed above us, and soon we were gliding along under
+their shadow. The eddies from our oars went _lap-lap-lapping_ off among
+the great dark spiles and stirred up the keen smell of salt-soaked timbers
+and seaweed. Blindly groping, we found a rickety ladder, tied our boat and
+climbed stiffly up, and there we were on our feet again, feeling rather
+queer and stretchy after seven hours in our cramped quarters.
+
+Half an hour later we were sitting in the warm, clean kitchen of the old
+inn, and a kindly but mystified hostess was mothering us with eggs and ham
+and tea and pie and doughnuts and other things that a New England kitchen
+always contains. While we ate she sat and rocked energetically,
+questioning us with friendly curiosity and watching us with keen though
+benevolent eyes.
+
+"Rowed, did you? Jim!" calling back over her shoulder through a half-open
+door, "did you hear that? These folks have rowed all the way across the
+bay this afternoon--yes--rowed. What say? Yes, _she_ rowed, too. They say
+they're goin' on to-morrow, round Judith."
+
+"Say, now," she finally appealed to us in frank perplexity, "what're you
+doin' it for?"
+
+"We like it," said Jonathan peacefully.
+
+"Like it, do you? Well, now, if that don't beat all! Say--you know? I
+wouldn't do that, what you're doin', not if you paid me. Have another cup
+o' tea, do."
+
+The next morning she bade us good-bye with the air of entrusting us to
+that Providence which is known to have a special care for children and
+fools.
+
+In fact, through all the varying experiences of our cruise, one thing
+never varied. That was, the expression on the faces of the people we met.
+Wind and water and coast and birds all greeted us differently with each
+new day, but no matter how many new faces we met, we found in them always
+the same look--a look at once friendly and quizzical, the look one casts
+upon nice children for whose antics one is not responsible, the look one
+casts upon very small dogs. Why? Is it so odd a thing to like to row a
+little boat? If it had been a yacht, now, or even a motor-boat, the
+expression would have been different. Apparently the oars were what did
+it.
+
+On that particular morning, word of our doings must have got abroad, for
+as we stepped out on the brick sidewalk of the shady main street a little
+crowd was waiting for us. It was a funny procession:--Jonathan first, with
+the guns and the water-jug, then a boy with a wheelbarrow, on which were
+piled the two dunnage bags, the metal box, the lantern, the axe, the chart
+tube, and a few other things. An old man and some boys followed curiously,
+then I came, with two big baking-powder cans, very gorgeous because the
+red paper was not yet off them, full of provisions pressed on us by our
+friendly hostess. Tagging behind me, came an old woman, a big girl, and a
+half-dozen children. It was the kind of escort that usually attends the
+hand-organ and monkey on their infrequent visits.
+
+We loaded up the boat and pulled off, a little stiff but fairly fit after
+all. The group waved us off and then stood obviously talking us over. One
+of the men called after us, with a sudden inspiration, "Pity ye' hevn't
+got a _motor_ in there!"
+
+Though we didn't want to be a motor-boat, we were not above receiving
+courtesies from one, and when the Providence tacitly invoked by our
+hostess sent one chugging along up to us, with the proposal to take us in
+tow, we accepted with great contentment. The morning was not half over
+when we made our next landing, and looked up the captain who was to tow us
+"around Judith."
+
+For in the matter of Point Judith our friends and advisers had been
+unanimously firm. There should be a limit, they said, even to the
+foolishness of a holiday plan. With a light boat, we might have braved
+their disapproval, but loaded as we were, we decided to be prudent.
+
+"I'd hate to lose the guns," said Jonathan.
+
+"Yes, and the camera," I added.
+
+So we accepted the offer of a good friend's knockabout, and sailed around
+the dreaded Point with our little boat tailing behind at the end of her
+rope. We saw no water that we could not have met in her, but, as our
+friends did not fail to point out, that proved nothing whatever.
+
+At Stonington we were left once more to our little boat and our four oars,
+and there we pulled her up and caulked her.
+
+Strange, how we are always trying to avoid mishaps, and yet when they come
+we are so often glad of them! A leaky boat had not been in our plans, but
+if we could change that first wild row across the big bay, if we could cut
+out that leakiness, that puddling bottom, the difficult shifts of baling
+and rowing, would we? We would not. Again, as we look back over the days
+of our cruise, we could ill spare those hours of labor on the hot stretch
+of sunny beach between the wharves, where we bent half-blinded over the
+dazzling white boat, our spirits irritated, our fingers aching as they
+worked at the _push-push-push_ of the cotton waste between the strakes. We
+said hard words of the man who thought he had put our boat in order for
+us, and yet--if we could cut out those hours of grumbling toil, would we?
+We would not. For one thing, we should perhaps have missed the precious
+word of advice given us by a man who sat and watched us. He recommended us
+to put a little motor in the stern. He pointed out to us that rowing was
+pretty hard work. We said we liked it. His face wore the expression I have
+already described.
+
+We launched her again at dusk. Next morning Jonathan was a moment ahead of
+me on the wharf.
+
+"Any water in her?" I called, following hard.
+
+"Dry as a bone," he shouted back, exultant; but as I came up he added,
+with his usual conservatism, "of course we can't tell what she may do when
+she's loaded."
+
+But our work held. For the rest of the trip we had a dry boat, except for
+what came in over the sides.
+
+Now that we were in the home State, we got out our guns and hugged the
+shore closely, on the lookout for plover. We drifted sometimes, while we
+studied our maps for the location of the salt marshes. If we were lucky,
+we had broiled birds for luncheon or supper; if we were not, we had tinned
+stuff, which is distinctly inferior. When we spent the night at an inn, we
+breakfasted there, but most of our meals were eaten along the shore, or,
+best of all, on some island.
+
+"Can we find an island for lunch to-day, do you suppose?" I usually asked,
+as we dipped our oars in the morning.
+
+"Do you have to have an island for lunch?"
+
+"I love an island!" choosing to ignore the jest. "That's one of the best
+things about a boat--that it takes you to islands."
+
+"Now, why an island?"
+
+"You know as well as I do. An island means--oh, it means remoteness, it
+means quiet--possession; while you're on it, it's yours--you don't have
+every passer-by looking over your shoulder--you have a little world all to
+yourself."
+
+I could feel Jonathan's indulgent smile through the back of his head as he
+rowed.
+
+"Well, you know yourself," I argued. "Even a tiny bit of stone and earth,
+with moss on it, and a flower, out in the middle of a brook, looks
+different, somehow, from the same things on the bank. It _is_
+different--it's an island."
+
+And so we sought islands--sometimes little ones, all rocks, too little even
+to have collected driftwood for a fire, too little to have grown anything
+but wisps of beach-grass, low enough to be covered, perhaps, by the
+highest tides. Sometimes it was a larger island, big enough to have bushes
+on it, and beaches round its edges. One of these we remember as best of
+all. It lay a mile off shore, a long island, rocky at its ocean end and at
+its land end running out to a long slim line of curving beach. In the
+middle it rose to a plateau, thick-set with grass and goldenrod and bay
+bushes, from which floated the gay, sweet voices of song sparrows. Ah!
+There was an island for you! And we made a fire of driftwood, and cooked
+our luncheon, and lay back on the sand and drowsed, while the sea-gulls,
+millions of them, circled curiously over our heads, mewing and screaming
+as they dived and swooped, and behind us the notes of the song sparrows
+rose sweet.
+
+If we had had water enough in our jug, we should have camped there. We
+rowed away at last, slowly, loving it, and in our thoughts we still
+possess it. As it dropped astern I pulled in my oars and stood up to take
+its picture--no easy task, with the boat mounting and plunging among the
+swells. But I have my picture, its horizon line at a noticeable slant,
+reminiscent of my unsteady balance. It means little to other people, but
+to us it means the sweetness of sunshine and wind and water, the sweetness
+of grass and bird-notes, all breathed over by the spirit of solitude.
+
+Then it melted away--our island--into the waste of waters, and we turned to
+look toward the misty headlands beyond our bow. Where the marshlands were,
+we followed them closely, but where the shore was rocky, or, worse still,
+built up with summer cottages, we often made a straight course from
+headland to headland, keeping well out, often a mile or two, to avoid tide
+eddies. We liked the feeling of being far out, the shore a dark blue, the
+cottages little dots. But we liked it, too, when the headland before us
+grew large, its rocks and bushes stood out, and we could see the white rip
+off its point--a rip to be taken with some caution if we hoped to keep our
+cargo dry. And then, the rip passed, if the bay beyond curved in quiet and
+uninhabited, how we loved to turn and pull along close to shore, watching
+its beaches and sand-cliffs draw smoothly away beside our stern, or, best
+of all, pulling about and running in till our bow grated and we jumped to
+the wet beach and ran up the cliff to look about. Such moments bring in a
+peculiar way the thrill of discovery. It is one thing to go along a coast
+by land, and learn its ways so. It is a good thing. But it is quite
+another to fare over its waters and turn in upon it from without,
+surprising its secrets as from another world.
+
+But to do this, your boat must be a little one. As soon as you have a real
+keel, the case is altered. For a keel demands a special landing-place--a
+wharf--and a wharf means human habitation, and then--where is your thrill of
+discovery? Ah, no!--a little boat! And you can land anywhere, among rocks
+or in sandy shallows; you can explore the tide creeks and marshes and the
+little rivers; you can beach wherever you like, wherever the rippling
+waves themselves can go. A little boat for romance!
+
+A little boat, but a long cruise, as long as may be. To be sure, a boat
+and a bit of water anywhere is good. Even an errand across the pond and
+back may be a joy. But if you can, now and then, free yourself from the
+there-and-back habit, the reward is great. The joy of pilgrimage--of going,
+not there and back, but on, and on, and yet on--is a joy by itself. The
+thought that each night brings sleep in a new and unforeseen spot, with a
+new journey on the morrow, gives special flavor to the journeying.
+
+Not the least among the pleasures of the cruise were the night-camps. When
+the shore looked inviting, and harborage at an inn seemed doubtful, we
+pulled our boat above tide-water, turned her over and tilted her up on her
+side for a wind-break, and there we spent the night. The half-emptied
+dunnage bags were our pillows, the sand was our bed. Sand, to sleep on, is
+harder than one might suppose, but it is better than earth in being easily
+scooped out to suit one's needs. Indeed, even on a pneumatic mattress, I
+should hardly have slept much that first night. It was a new experience.
+The great world of waters was so close that it seemed, all night long,
+like a wonderful but ever importunate presence. The wind blew that night,
+too, and there was a low-scudding rack, and a half-smothered moon. As we
+rolled ourselves up in our blankets and rubber sheets and settled down, I
+looked out over the restless water.
+
+"The bay seems very full to-night--brimming," I said.
+
+"Not brimming over, though," said Jonathan.
+
+"I should hope not! But it does seem to me there are very few inches
+between it and our feet."
+
+"And the tide is still rising, of course," said Jonathan, by way of
+comfort.
+
+"Jonathan, I know just where high-tide mark is, and we're fully twelve
+inches above it."
+
+Silence.
+
+"Aren't we?"
+
+"Oh, was that a question?" murmured Jonathan. "Why, yes, I think we are at
+least that."
+
+"Of course, there are extra high tides sometimes."
+
+Silence.
+
+"Jonathan, do you know when they come?"
+
+"Not exactly."
+
+"Well, I don't care. I love it, anyway. Only it seems so much bigger and
+colder at night, the water does."
+
+At last I drowsed, waking now and then to raise my head and just glance
+down at those waves--they certainly sounded as if they were lapping the
+sand close by my ear. No, there they were, quite within bounds, fully
+twenty feet away from my toes. Of course it was all right. I slept again,
+and dreamed that the tide rose and rose; the waves ran merrily up the
+beach, ran up on both sides of us, closed in behind us. We were lying on a
+little sand island, and the waves nibbled at its edges--nibbled and nibbled
+and nibbled--the island was being nibbled up. This would never do! We must
+move! And I woke. _Ripple, ripple, swash!_ _ripple, ripple, swash!_ went
+the unconscious waves. As I raised my head I saw the pale beach stretching
+off under the moon-washed mists of middle night. Reassured, I sank back,
+and when I waked again the big sun was well above the rim of the waters
+and all the little waves were dancing and the wet curves of the beach were
+gleaming in the new day.
+
+The water was not always restless at night. The next time we camped we
+found a little harbor within a harbor, a crescent curve of fine white sand
+ending in a point of rock. In one of its clefts we made our fire and
+broiled our plover, ranging them on spits of bay so that they hung over
+the two edges of rock like people looking down into a miniature Grand
+CaA+-on. There were nine of them, fat and sputtering, and while they
+cooked, we made toast and arranged the camp. Then we had supper, and
+watched the red coals smouldering and the white moonlight filling the
+world with a radiance that put out the stars and brought the blue back to
+the sky. The little basin of the bay was quiet as a pool, the air was full
+of stillness, with now and then the hushed _flip-flip_ of a tiny wave that
+had somehow strayed in from the tumbling crowd outside.
+
+We slept well, but once Jonathan waked me. "Look!" he whispered, "White
+heron."
+
+I raised my head. There, quite near us in the shallow water, stood a great
+pale bird, motionless, on one long, slim leg, his oval body, long neck,
+head and bill clearly outlined against the bright water beyond. The mirror
+of the water reflected perfectly the soft outline, making a double
+creature, one above and one below, with that slim stem of leg between.
+
+I watched him until my neck grew tired. He never moved. Out beyond him,
+more dim, stood his mate, motionless too. Now and then they called to each
+other, with queer, harsh talk that made the stillness all the stiller when
+it closed in again.
+
+When we awoke, they were gone, but we found the heronry that morning on
+one of the oak-covered knolls that rise like islands out of the heart of
+the great salt marshes.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+All through the cruise, the big winds were with us more than we had
+expected. They gave us, for the most part, a right good time. For even in
+the partly protected Sound it is possible to stir up a sea rough enough to
+keep one busy. Each wave, as it came galloping up, was an antagonist to be
+dealt with. If we met it successfully, it galloped on, and left us none
+the worse for it. If we did not, it meant, perhaps, that its foaming white
+mane brushed our shoulders, or swept across our laps, or, worse still,
+drowned our guns. Once, indeed, we were threatened with something a little
+more serious. We were running down out of the Connecticut River, gliding
+smoothly over sleek water. It was delicious rowing, and the boat shot
+along swiftly. As we turned westward, it grew rougher, but we were paying
+no special heed to this when suddenly I became conscious of something dark
+over my right shoulder. I turned my head, and found myself looking up into
+the evil heart of a dull green breaker. I gasped, "Look out!" and dug my
+oar. Jonathan glanced, pulled, there was a moment of doubt, then the huge
+dark bulk was shouldering heavily away, off our starboard quarter. It was
+only the first of its ugly company. Through sheer carelessness, we had
+run, as it were, into an ambush--one of the worst bits of water on the
+Sound, where tide and river currents meet and wrangle. All around us were
+rearing, white-maned breakers, though the impression we got was less of
+their white manes than of their dark sides as they rose over us. Our
+problem was to meet each one fairly, and yet snatch every moment of
+respite to slant off toward the harborage inside the breakwaters. It took
+all our strength and all our skill, and all the resources of the good
+little boat. But we made it, after perhaps half an hour of stiff work.
+Then we rested, breathed, and went on. We did not talk much about it until
+we made camp that night. Then, as we sat looking out over the quiet water,
+I told Jonathan about the shadow over my shoulder.
+
+"It was like seeing a ghost," I said,--"no--more like feeling the hand of an
+enemy on your shoulder."
+
+"The Black Douglas," suggested Jonathan.
+
+"Yes. Talk about the scientific attitude--you've just got to personify
+things when they come at you like that. That wave had an expression--an
+ugly one. I don't wonder the Northmen felt as they did about the sea and
+the waves. They took it all personally--they had to!"
+
+"Were you frightened?" asked Jonathan.
+
+"No, of course not," I said, almost too promptly. Then I meditated--"I
+don't know what you'd call it--but I believe I understand now what people
+mean when they talk about their hearts going down into their boots."
+
+"Did yours?"
+
+"Why, not exactly--but--well--it certainly did feel suddenly very thick and
+heavy--as if it had dropped--perhaps an inch or two."
+
+"I believe," said Jonathan gently, "you might almost call that being
+frightened."
+
+"Yes, perhaps you might. Tell me--were you?"
+
+"I didn't like it--yes, I was anxious--and it made me tired to have been
+such a fool--the whole thing was absolutely unnecessary, if we'd looked up
+the charts carefully."
+
+"Or asked a few questions. But you know you hate to ask questions."
+
+"You could have asked them."
+
+"Well, anyway, aren't you glad it happened?"
+
+"Oh, of course; it was an experience."
+
+"Do you want to do it again?"
+
+"No"--he was emphatic--"not with that load."
+
+"Neither do I."
+
+If the winds sometimes wearied us a little, they helped us, too. We can
+never forget the evening we turned into the Thames River, making for the
+shelter of a friend's hospitable roof. We had battled most of that day
+with the diagonal onslaughts of a southeast gale, bringing with it the
+full swing of the ocean swell. It was easier than a southwester would have
+been, but that was the best that could be said for it.
+
+We passed the last buoy and turned our bow north. And suddenly, the great
+waves that had all day kept us on the defensive became our strong helpers.
+They took us up and swung us forward on our course with great sweeping
+rushes of motion. The tide was setting in, too, and with that and our oars
+we were going almost as fast as the waves themselves, so that when one
+picked us up, it swung us a long way before it left us. We learned to
+watch for each roller, wait till one came up astern, then pull with all
+our might so that we went swooping down its long slope, its crest at first
+just behind our stern, but drawing more and more under us, until it passed
+beyond our bow and dropped us in the trough to wait for the next giant. It
+was like going in a swing, but with the downward rush very long and swift,
+and the upward rise short and slow. How long it took us to make the two
+miles to our friend's dock we shall never know. Probably only a few
+minutes. But it was not an experience in time. We had a sense of being at
+one with the great primal forces of wind and water, and at one with them,
+not in their moments of poise, but in their moments of resistless power.
+
+                                * * * * *
+
+After all, the only drawback to the cruise was that it was over too soon.
+When, in the quiet afternoon light of the last day, a familiar headland
+floated into view, my first feeling was one of joy; for beyond that
+headland, what friendly faces waited for us--faces turned even now,
+perhaps, toward the east for a first glimpse of our little boat. But hard
+after this, came a pang of regret--it was over, our water-pilgrimage, and I
+wanted it to go on.
+
+It was over. And yet, not really over after all. I sometimes think that
+pleasures ought to be valued according to whether they are over when they
+_are_ over, or not. "You cannot eat your cake and have it too." True, but
+that is because it is cake. There are other things which you can eat, and
+still have. And our rowboat cruise is one of these. It is over, and yet it
+is not over. It never will be. I can shut my eyes--indeed, I do not need
+even to shut them--and again I am under the open sky, I am afloat in the
+sun and the wind, with the waters all around me. I see again the
+surf-edged curves of the beaches, the lines of the sand-cliffs, the ragged
+horizon edge, cut and jagged by the waves. I feel the boat, I feel the
+oars, I am aware of the damp, pure night air, and the sounds of the waves
+ceaselessly breaking on the sand.
+
+It is not over. Its best things are still ours, and those things which
+were hardly pleasures then have become such now. As we remember our aching
+muscles and blistered hands, we smile. As we recall times of intense
+weariness, of irritation, of anxiety, we find ourselves lingering over
+them with enjoyment. For memory does something wonderful with experience.
+It is a poet, and life is its raw material. I know that our cruise was
+made up of minutes, of oar-strokes, so many that to count them would be
+weariness unending. But in my memory, these things are re-created. I see a
+boundless stretch of windy or peaceful waters. I see the endless line of
+misty coast. I see lovely islands, sleeping alone, waiting to be possessed
+by those who come. And I see a little, little boat, faring along the
+coast-lands, out to the islands, over the waters--going on, and on, and on.
+
+
+
+                                 THE END
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 COLOPHON
+
+
+                           The Riverside Press
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+                        CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS
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+                                U . S . A
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+
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+                      APPENDIX A: EXTRA FRONT PAGES
+
+
+                         By Elisabeth Woodbridge
+
+                                 -------
+
+                          MORE JONATHAN PAPERS.
+                           THE JONATHAN PAPERS.
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+                           More Jonathan Papers
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+                                  ERRATA
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+      Chapter VII
+      Changed camp is *4.38*--A.M. to camp is *4:38*--A.M.
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+      Chapter VII
+      Changed arrives at *10.15*, they to arrives at *10:15*, they
+
+      Chapter VII
+      Changed What does *10.15* look to What does *10:15* look
+
+      Chapter VIII
+      Changed "Does it bite?  to "Does it bite?*"*
+
+      Chapter VIIII
+      Changed find something*,* Here's to find something*.* Here's
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+      Chapter VIIII
+      Changed no matter *now* many to no matter *how* many
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