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diff --git a/old/20141-0.txt b/old/20141-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6eb9e94 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/20141-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5365 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth +Woodbridge + + + +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 +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: More Jonathan Papers + +Author: Elisabeth Woodbridge + +Release Date: December 19, 2006 [Ebook #20141] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***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 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 + + U . S . 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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/20141-0.zip b/old/20141-0.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5e465f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/20141-0.zip diff --git a/old/20141-8.txt b/old/20141-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b688671 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/20141-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5365 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth +Woodbridge + + + +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 +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: More Jonathan Papers + +Author: Elisabeth Woodbridge + +Release Date: December 19, 2006 [Ebook #20141] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO 8859-1 + + +***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 + + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORE JONATHAN PAPERS*** + + + +CREDITS + + +December 19, 2006 + + Project Gutenberg Edition + Roland Schlenker and + Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + +A WORD FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG + + +This file should be named 20141-8.txt or 20141-8.zip. + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + + + http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/1/4/20141/ + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one -- the old editions will be +renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one +owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and +you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission +and without paying copyright royalties. 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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> + </div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<div id="pgfooter" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"><pre class="pre tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em">***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORE JONATHAN PAPERS*** +</pre><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em"><a name="rightpageheader26" id="rightpageheader26"></a><a name="pgtoc27" id="pgtoc27"></a><a name="pdf28" id="pdf28"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; 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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’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’s a red +book, about <hi rend="font-style: italic">so</hi> big.</q></p> + +<p><q>It isn’t there; but, just to satisfy you, +I’ll look again.</q></p> + +<p>He returned in a moment with an argumentative +expression of countenance. <q>It +isn’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’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’s the second essay I specially thought +we’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—just there—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’t think it could have crawled +in under so quick.</q></p> + +<p><q>When you’re looking for a thing,</q> I said, +<q>you mustn’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’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>—in +itself a confession of weakness—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’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’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’t?</q></p> + +<p><q>Of course, anatomically—structurally—it +is one, but functionally it isn’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’ve got her open now. +I don’t see any pillow-cases, though. It’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’s nothing in +<hi rend="font-style: italic">that</hi> drawer.</q></p> +<pb n="006"/><anchor id="Pg006"/> + +<p><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—</q></p> + +<p><q>I <hi rend="font-style: italic">don’t</hi> want to see! +There’s nothing I +want less! What I mean is—I never put +anything there.</q></p> + +<p><q>It’s the top drawer.</q> He was beginning +to lay back the table-covers.</p> + +<p><q>But I can’t reach it. And it’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’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.</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’s there, and it’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’s right in front,</q> I went on; <q>and I +don’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—</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’t that the bottom one?</q></p> + +<p><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—</q></p> + +<p><q>But it’s a perfectly good drawer.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes. But nobody is supposed to know +it’s there; it looks like a molding—</q></p> + +<p><q>But I know it’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’s there.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes, yes; but I just don’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—with knobs—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—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> +<pb n="009"/><anchor id="Pg009"/> + +<p>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>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’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’t get up—I’ll look if you’ll +just tell me where—</q></p> + +<p><q>Probably in the corner behind the chest +in the orchard room.</q></p> + +<p><q>I’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’s not in that corner of the orchard room?</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes, I’m sure; but I’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’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’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—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’t the devil; it’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’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’t do. A small, black-headed +one—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’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’t copy +men, they should develop along their own +lines. Please go.</q></p> + +<p>He goes, and comes back. <q>You don’t +want fancy gold pins, I suppose?</q></p> + +<p><q>No, no! Here, you hold this, and I’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’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’s all right.</q></p> + +<p><q>Now, if you had said simply <q>bureau,</q> I’d +have looked in other places on it.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes, you’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:—</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’t know which haystack.</q></p> + + <p><q>Look in all the haystacks—you + can’t miss it; there’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’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—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—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—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—</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’s that? No, not +that—that!</q></p> + +<p>He pulls it out with an air of immense +relief. <q>There! I knew I had something. +That’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’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—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, <q>I must have pulled +them out when I took out those postcards in +the other car. Yes, that’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’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’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’ll +collect it.</q></p> + +<p>He went, and on his return I met him with +eager hand—<q>My pen!</q></p> + +<p><q>I’m sorry,</q> he began.</p> + +<p><q>You didn’t forget!</q> I exclaimed.</p> + +<p><q>No. But it wasn’t there.</q></p> + +<p><q>But—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’t get it when +you first got there!</q></p> + +<p><q>Why—no—I had the dog to attend +to—and—but I had plenty of time when I +got back, and it <hi rend="font-style: italic">wasn’t</hi> +there.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well—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’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—bet it’s there now!</q></p> + +<p><q>Bet it isn’t.</q></p> + +<p>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><q>Please look once more,</q> I begged, <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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, I’ll look,</q> he promised. <q>If +it’s there, I’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—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’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’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’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—see?—a +gray box, in the attic closet, the +farthest-in corner.</q></p> + +<p><q>Are you sure it’s in the house? If it’s in +the house, I think I can find it.</q></p> +<pb n="022"/><anchor id="Pg022"/> + +<p><q>Yes, I’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’t in a corner at all. It wasn’t in +that closet.</q></p> + +<p><q>It wasn’t! Where, then?</q></p> + +<p><q>Downstairs in the hall closet.</q> He paused, +then could not forbear adding, <q>And it wasn’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’t you grand! How +did you ever find it? I couldn’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’t +be a man! Think what she’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’t funny—exactly. You +don’t mind my laughing a little? Why, you’ve +lived down the fountain pen—we’ll forget +the pen—</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, no, you won’t forget the pen either,</q> +he said, with a certain pleasant grimness.</p> + +<p><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?</q></p> + +<p><q>I think that might do.</q> Then he had an +alarming afterthought. <q>But, see here—you +won’t expect me to do things like that often?</q></p> + +<p><q>Dear me, no! People can’t live always on +their highest levels. Perhaps you’ll +<hi rend="font-style: italic">never</hi> +do it again.</q> Jonathan looked distinctly relieved. +<q>I’ll accept it as a unique effort—like +Dante’s angel and Raphael’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’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—like humility, +for instance?</q></p> + +<p><q>No. I don’t, really.</q></p> + +<p><q>I didn’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’t you see?</q></p> + +<p><q>No. What?</q></p> + +<p><q>Look—I thought you had eyes!</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, what a little beauty!</q></p> + +<p><q>And isn’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’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’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!</q></p> + +<p><q>You’d have to come up in February.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well, then, I’ll +<hi rend="font-style: italic">come</hi> in February. Who’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—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><q>Look! Hiram! It’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—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>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>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’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 <q>’t was enough, ’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—no—’t won’t run to-night. Too +<pb n="030"/><anchor id="Pg030"/> +cold. ’T won’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’s +voice outside my window.</p> + +<p><q>Got anything I can empty sap into? I’ve +got everything all filled up.</q></p> + +<p><q>Sap! Why, it isn’t running yet, is it?</q></p> + +<p><q>Pails were flowin’ over when I came out.</q></p> + +<p><q>Flowing over! They said the sap wouldn’t +run last night.</q></p> + +<p><q>I guest there don’t nobody know when +sap’ll run and when it won’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—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’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—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 +<pb n="032"/><anchor id="Pg032"/> +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>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’!</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—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’t no bottom to this road now, it’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’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><q>It’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>—<q>having +the pan and the oven ready-made, and +all—</q></p> + +<p><q>You don’t suppose anything could happen +to it while we’re in here?</q> suggested +Janet. <q>Shan’t I just run out and see?</q></p> + +<p><q>No, sit still. What could happen? The +fire’s going out.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes, I know.</q> But her voice was uncertain.</p> + +<p><q>You see, I’ve been all through it once,</q> I +reassured her.</p> + +<p>As we rose, Janet said, <q>Let’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’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—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’t have!</q> gasped Janet.</p> + +<p><q>It couldn’t—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’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’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’t +miss telling Jonathan for anything. What is +Jonathan <hi rend="font-style: italic">for!</hi></q></p> + +<p><q>Well—of course,</q> she conceded. <q>Let’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—a +vision of black crust, with winking red +embers smoldering along its broken edges. I +found it distracting in the extreme.…</p> + +<p>At some time unknown, out of the blind +depths of the night, I was awakened by a +voice:—</p> + +<p><q>It’s beginning to rain. I think I’ll just +go out and empty what’s near the house.</q></p> + +<p><q>Janet!</q> I murmured, <q>don’t be absurd.</q></p> + +<p><q>But it will dilute all that sap.</q></p> + +<p><q>There isn’t any sap to dilute. It won’t +be running at night.</q> After a while the voice, +full of propitiatory intonations, resumed:—</p> + +<p><q>My dear, you don’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:—</p> + +<p><q>It’s raining harder. I hate to think of all +that sap—</q></p> + +<p><q>You don’t <hi rend="font-style: italic">have</hi> +to think!</q> I was quite +savage. <q>Just go to sleep—and let me!</q> +Another silence. Then a fresh downpour. +The voice was pleading:—</p> + +<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">Please</hi> +let me go! I’ll be back in a minute. +And it’s not cold.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, well—I’m awake now, anyway. +<hi rend="font-style: italic">I’ll</hi> +go.</q> My voice was tinged with that high +resignation that is worse than anger. Janet’s +tone changed instantly:—</p> + +<p><q>No, no! Don’t! Please don’t! I’m going. +I truly don’t mind.</q></p> + +<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">I’m</hi> +going. I don’t mind, either, not at all.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, dear! Then let’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’t. Go to sleep, and I +will too.</q></p> + +<p><q>Not at all! I’ve decided to go.</q></p> + +<p><q>But it’s stopped raining. Probably it +won’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’t make a fuss. I just thought I +could slip out—</q></p> + +<p><q>Well, you couldn’t. And it’s raining very +hard again. And I’m going.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, don’t! You’ll get drenched.</q></p> + +<p><q>Of course. But I can’t bear to have all +that sap diluted.</q></p> + +<p><q>It doesn’t run at night. You said it +didn’t.</q></p> + +<p><q>You said it did.</q></p> + +<p><q>But I don’t really know. You know best.</q></p> + +<p><q>Why didn’t you think of that sooner? +Anyway, I’m going.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, dear! You make me feel as if I’d +stirred you up—</q></p> + +<p><q>You have,</q> I interrupted, sweetly. <q>I +won’t deny that you +<hi rend="font-style: italic">have</hi> stirred me up. But +now that you have mentioned it</q>—I felt +for a match—<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.</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’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’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’t you hateful!</q> said Janet.</p> + +<p><q>Not at all. Just appreciative. But now, +if you haven’t any +<hi rend="font-style: italic">other</hi> plan, we’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—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’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’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’s thrifty spirit was doubtful. <q>Don’t +you need them?</q></p> + +<p><q>Not half so much as the trees do. Come +on! Pull them off. We’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’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 +<pb n="043"/><anchor id="Pg043"/> +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>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 ’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’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’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’ve got to drive Janet over to her +train to-night; Hiram can’t,</q> I said.</p> + +<p><q>All right. There’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’m going to take it off now,</q> said Jonathan. +<q>Look out!</q></p> + +<p><q>Do you think it’s time?</q> I demurred.</p> + +<p><q>We’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’t to stir so much—do +you think?</q> I suggested, helpfully. <q>Beat +it more—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’ll show you.</q> I lunged at the spoon.</p> + +<p><q>Go away! This isn’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’ve got to +get your coat and things. You’ll have to start +in fifteen minutes. Here, Jonathan, you need +a fresh arm.</q></p> + +<p><q>I’m fresh enough.</q></p> + +<p><q>And I really don’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’s all right.</q></p> + +<p><q>So am I. See how white it’s getting. The +Judge said—</q></p> + +<p><q>Here come Hiram and Kit,</q> announced +Janet, returning with bag and wraps. <q>But +you have ten minutes. Can’t I help?</q></p> + +<p><q>He won’t let us. He’s that +‘sot,’</q> I murmured. <q>He’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’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—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’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 <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—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>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—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’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’m going out to clean the pasture spring;</l> + <l>I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away</l> + <l>(And wait to watch the water clear, I may);</l> + <l>I shan’t be gone long.—You come too.</l> + <l> </l> + <l>I’m going out to fetch the little calf</l> + <l>That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,</l> + <l>It totters when she licks it with her tongue.</l> + <l>I shan’t be gone long.—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’ll do lots of +reading aloud,</q> I said. <q>And we’ll have long +walks. There won’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’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’ll help. We ought to be settled in a +week.</q></p> + +<p><q>Or two—or three,</q> suggested Jonathan.</p> + +<p><q>Three! What is there to do?</q></p> + +<p><q>Farm-life isn’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’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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Better say the rest of your life for the +odds and ends you haven’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’m not, except when you’re such an +optimist.</q></p> + +<p><q>If I’d begun by saying it would take a +month, would you have said a week?</q></p> + +<p><q>Can’t tell. Might have.</q></p> + +<p><q>Anyway, there’s nothing bad about odds +and ends. They’re about all women have +much to do with most of their lives.</q></p> +<pb n="052"/><anchor id="Pg052"/> + +<p><q>That’s what I said. And you called me a +pessimist.</q></p> + +<p><q>I didn’t call you one. I said, why were +you one.</q></p> + +<p><q>I’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>—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—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—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><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—I thought it was just a +closet-taste.</q></p> +<pb n="055"/><anchor id="Pg055"/> + +<p><q>And it isn’t only the taste,</q> I went on. +<q>It does something to me, to my state of +mind. I’m afraid to try the garret.</q></p> + +<p><q>Garrets are different,</q> said Jonathan. +<q>But I’d leave them. They can wait.</q></p> + +<p><q>They’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’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’ve been accumulating a good many +years,</q> said Jonathan.</p> + +<p><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.</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’ll be +all right.</q></p> + +<p><q>I wouldn’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’re a Yankee,</q> I argued; <q>the +Yankee nature fairly feeds on such jobs—‘putter +jobs,’ you know.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes, I know.</q></p> + +<p><q>Only, of course, you get on faster if you’re +not too particular about having the exact +tool—</q></p> + +<p>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>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’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’m—needs new +wood there,—and there; that stuff’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’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’s going to be,</q> +he said, as he pushed his wheel up the last hill.</p> + +<p><q>Yes—</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—with +the pump,</q> I said apologetically. I felt that +it was my fault, though I knew it wasn’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’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’ll fix it myself in three shakes +of a lamb’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’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’m ready.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well, I’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’t you finished?</q></p> +<pb n="059"/><anchor id="Pg059"/> + +<p><q>Finished! I’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’t seem as if it would ever come +together again—to be a pump,</q> I said in +some depression.</p> + +<p><q>Oh, that’s easy! It’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—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’ll bring my sewing out here—or +would you rather have me read to you? +There’s something in the last number of—</q></p> + +<p><q>No—get your sewing—blast that +screw! Why doesn’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 +phœnix did indeed rise, the pump was again +a pump,—at least it looked like one.</p> + +<p><q>Suppose it doesn’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—don’t +stop—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—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—about ten—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’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—<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.</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—especially +on wet nights. I’ll have to find them +and stow them.</q></p> + +<p>Jonathan got up, too, and laid down his +pipe. <q>You’ll need the lantern,</q> he said.</p> + +<p>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 +<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’clock,</q> said Jonathan, <q>and we’re +too wet to sit down. If you could just shut in +those turkeys on wet days—</q></p> + +<p><q>Shut them in! Didn’t I shut them in! +They must have got out since four o’clock.</q></p> + +<p><q>Isn’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’re bigger than chickens.</q></p> + +<p><q>Not in any one spot they aren’t. They’re +<pb n="064"/><anchor id="Pg064"/> +like coiled wire—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’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—h—h!</q> said Jonathan, a warning +finger raised.</p> + +<p>I stood listening.</p> + +<p><q>I don’t hear anything,</q> I said.</p> +<pb n="065"/><anchor id="Pg065"/> + +<p><q>Sh—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’t see you at all.</q></p> + +<p><q>Right here—look—here—up!</q> The +voice was almost over my head.</p> + +<p>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><q>Oh! What are you doing up there?</q></p> + +<p><q>Get me a long stick—hoe—clothes-pole—anything +<pb n="066"/><anchor id="Pg066"/> +I can poke with. Quick! +The cat’s up here. I can hear her, but I can’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—a huddle of yellow, +crouched close.</p> + +<p><q>I’ll have her in a minute. She’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’t see how you’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—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><q>Don’t believe she’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’d knocked them +out.</q></p> + +<p><q>Could you put this one back? He seems +all right—only sort of naked in spots.</q></p> +<pb n="068"/><anchor id="Pg068"/> + +<p><q>We’ll half cover the basket and hang it +in the tree. His folks’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—none of them really our cats—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—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>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’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—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’s stooping bulk.</p> + +<p><q>Keep ’em back,</q> he said. <q>They’ll have +it all trodden up again—Hi! You! Ge’ +back ’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,—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> +<pb n="071"/><anchor id="Pg071"/> + +<p>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>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><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’t know. I’ve poked and poked.</q></p> + +<p>A gleam in the corner of Jonathan’s eye—<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—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—</q> Jonathan +was laughing by this time—<q>Well, I +have to use what I have, don’t I?</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes, of course. And after the pail-handle?</q></p> + +<p><q>After that—oh, yes. I tried your cleaning-rod.</q></p> + +<p><q>The devil you did!</q></p> + +<p><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.</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—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 +<pb n="074"/><anchor id="Pg074"/> +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 <q>Hamlet,</q> shouted, <q>Hold ’em! There’s +half a freezer of ice-cream down here we can +finish.</q> 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, <q>Who’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’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’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>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’re keeping them?</q> remarked +Jonathan; and then we laughed and laughed.</p> + +<p><q>You needn’t think I’m laughing because +you said anything specially funny,</q> I said. +<q>It’s only because I’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’ll have the thing together now in a +jiffy,</q> said Jonathan.</p> + +<p><q>Jiffy! There’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’t we find a really simple +way of living? This isn’t simple. It’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’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!</q></p> + +<p><q>Fair evening’s work,</q> murmured Jonathan +as he rapidly assembled the pump.</p> + +<p><q>Yes, as work. But all I mean is—it isn’t +<hi rend="font-style: italic">simple</hi>. +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!</q></p> + +<p><q>I like your climaxes,</q> said Jonathan, and +we both laughed. <q>There! I’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—books +and firelight and moonlight and talk; +<pb n="078"/><anchor id="Pg078"/> +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 <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’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’t know that I’m contented, but +perhaps I’m resigned. I believe it’s necessary.</q></p> + +<p><q>Of course it’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’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’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.</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’t been there.</q></p> + +<p><q>True,</q> said Jonathan.</p> + +<p><q>Farm life is the pea without the mattresses—</q> +I went on.</p> + +<p><q>Sounds a little cheerless,</q> said Jonathan.</p> + +<p><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.</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’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’t find it.</q></p> + +<p><q>No. She found the pea—even with all +those mattresses.</q></p> + +<p><q>And we’ve run away, and found several +peas, and fewer mattresses,</q> said Jonathan.</p> + +<p><q>Let’s not get confused—</q></p> + +<p><q>I’m not confused,</q> said Jonathan.</p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>What are you going to do about it?</q></p> + +<p><q>I’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’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—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—</q></p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Perhaps you’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’t notice it, you get drawn +into crooked thinking.</q></p> + +<p><q>And yet you can’t think without them.</q></p> +<pb n="082"/><anchor id="Pg082"/> + +<p><q>No, you can’t think without them.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well—where are we, anyway?</q> he +asked placidly.</p> + +<p><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 <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’t know what does bring +you nearer, but I’m sure it must be something +inside you.</q></p> + +<p><q>That sounds rather reasonable,</q> said +Jonathan; <q>almost scriptural—</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’d hate to lose my nasturtiums +quite so early.</q></p> + +<p><q>You won’t lose ’em. Look at the thermometer +if you don’t believe me. If it’s +above forty you’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—the +katydids aren’t talking—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’ll +be frost to-night.</q></p> + +<p><q>Maybe,</q> says Jonathan’s voice.</p> + +<p><q>Not maybe at all—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—</q></p> +<pb n="085"/><anchor id="Pg085"/> + +<p><q>I know it looks ridiculous, but really it’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—nasturtiums down to the ground,—leaves, +buds, and all,—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’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—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>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>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—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’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 +<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’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>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 +<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’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>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’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—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> +<pb n="095"/><anchor id="Pg095"/> + +<p>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>But there is another source of pleasure in +my fall gardening—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—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—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> + +<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’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>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’t those peonies lovely?</q> I suggest.</p> + +<p><q>Yes,</q> dreamily; <q>you know I can’t have +that shade in my garden because—</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—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.</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—pretty +right here in <hi rend="font-style: italic">my</hi> garden.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes—yes—of course they are pretty—they’re +lovely—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—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’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>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>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—<q>lovely +flowers—</q> <q>wonderful yellow +of—</q> <q>garden there,</q>—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’s enjoyment of recognition. One’s house, +one’s clothes, one’s work, one’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’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’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>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’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>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>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—</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—why—choose another spot.</q></p> + +<p>Whereupon I reply, <q>You don’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’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’t step back any farther; you’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’t</hi> 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.</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’t make a grass-plot,</q> I +said; <q>I’d make a swimming-pool. It’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:—</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—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 +<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—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’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 +<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—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 +<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’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> + +<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’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’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,—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>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 +<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:—<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</q>—this in the apologetic +tone of one who admits a weakness—<q>guess +you’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’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 <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—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 +<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,—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—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’s table—I +try not to see it first in a florist’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’ve got to go. You can’t +resist that. We’ll take a day and go for it—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—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>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 +<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—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’t any for +two fields yet—might as well stick to the +brook.</q></p> +<pb n="123"/><anchor id="Pg123"/> + +<p><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—</q></p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>You get him. I don’t mind.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, but I mind. Here, I’ve got it all +planned: there’s a bit of brush-fishing just +below—</q></p> + +<p><q>No brush-fishing for me, please!</q></p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well</q>—I assent grudgingly—<q>only, +really, I’d be just as happy if you’d fish the +whole thing and let me go right on down—</q></p> + +<p><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 +<pb n="124"/><anchor id="Pg124"/> +rest. They’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’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>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’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>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 +<pb n="126"/><anchor id="Pg126"/> +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 <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’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—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>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—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>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> +<pb n="129"/><anchor id="Pg129"/> + +<p><q>What luck?</q> he called.</p> + +<p><q>Good luck! I’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?… Oh … why … Oh, I +got one up there where you showed me—under +the rock, you know.</q></p> + +<p><q>Good one?</q></p> + +<p><q>Eight inches. He’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’t fish there—look +at these! Aren’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—yes—delicious—didn’t fish +there? Why not? Did they see you?</q></p> + +<p><q>Who? The trout? I don’t know. But I +saw this. And I just had to pick it.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well! You’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’re waiting +for you now, don’t you hear them? Go +and fish there!</q></p> + +<p><q>No. That’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—of course it’s a beautiful pool—</q></p> + +<p><q>Best on the brook,</q> murmured Jonathan.</p> + +<p><q>But, truly, I’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’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.</q></p> + +<p><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!</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’s all right.</q></p> + +<p><q>It’s not all right if it’s lying down. Anything +might trample on it.</q></p> + +<p><q>For instance, what?—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’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.</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’s some I want, right here, +that’s lovely—</q></p> + +<p><q>Never mind. Come and see this—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—<q>Jonathan, +it is truly the loveliest +<hi rend="font-style: italic">yet!</hi> It’s the +way it grows—with the moss and all—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’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’ll follow just as soon as I’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—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:—<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! <hi rend="font-style: italic">Give</hi> him +line! Now, feel of him—careful! You’ll +know when to strike … there!… Oh! too +bad!</q></p> + +<p>For as I struck, my line held fast.</p> + +<p><q>Snagged, by gummy! Can’t you pull +clear?</q></p> + +<p><q>Not without stirring up the whole pool. +You’ll have to do the fishing, after all.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh! <hi rend="font-style: italic">too</hi> +bad! That’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’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 … and then, a flopping in the +grass behind me, and Jonathan crawling +back to kill and unhook him.</p> + +<p><q>Don’t get up. There’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’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’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—it’s +wound round a root and then jabbed +deep into it … 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—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’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>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 +<pb n="137"/><anchor id="Pg137"/> +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, <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,—whole days, I mean,—days and +days—</q></p> + +<p><q>When I was a boy—most of the time, I +suppose. But the family didn’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’s all +rather good as I look back on it.</q></p> + +<p><q>Let’s do it!</q></p> + +<p><q>Now?</q></p> + +<p><q>No. Society is an enlarged family, and +wouldn’t like it. But this summer, when +we camp.</q></p> + +<p><q>How do you know we’re going to camp?</q></p> + +<p><q>The things we know best we don’t always +know how we know.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well, then,—<hi rend="font-style: italic">if</hi> +we camp—</q></p> + +<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">When</hi> +we camp—let’s live without a +watch.</q></p> + +<p><q>You’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’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’t begin till to-morrow.</q></p> + +<p><q>You mean, we won’t begin to stop watching. +All right. It’s just seventeen and a half +<pb n="140"/><anchor id="Pg140"/> +minutes after five. I’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’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,—sat and ate city-cooked +chicken and sandwiches and drank +thermos-bottled tea.</p> + +<p><q>To-morrow we’ll cook,</q> I said. <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!</q></p> + +<p><q>Good bass under there,</q> said Jonathan. +<q>We’ll get some to-morrow.</q></p> +<pb n="141"/><anchor id="Pg141"/> + +<p><q>Maybe.</q></p> + +<p><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?</q></p> + +<p><q>Not.</q></p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes, it would. There would be a something—a +taint—</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,—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 +<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’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—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’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’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’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>—<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’s +done, and I’m blest if I want to drop in the +eggs.</q></p> + +<p>Dropping an egg will never, I fear, be one +of Jonathan’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’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—let’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’s no telling when I’ll ever see +you again.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes, there is: when I’m hungry.</q></p> + +<p><q>No; some time after you’ve noticed +you’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’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’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 +<pb n="147"/><anchor id="Pg147"/> +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>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’t you?</q></p> + +<p><q>Quite. But not the bass in it. Bet you +don’t catch one!</q></p> + +<p><q>Bet I beat you!</q></p> + +<p><q>Bass, mind you. Sunfish don’t count. +You’re always catching sunfish.</q></p> + +<p><q>They count in the pan. But I’ll beat you +on bass. I know some places—</q></p> + +<p><q>Who doesn’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,—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 <q>kick up a row generally,</q> so that +you’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’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’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.</q></p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Never! Oh! Look there, Jonathan! +We’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’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—don’t slip over, it’s deep. +I’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—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>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 +<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—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’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’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’t I bring the whiskey bottle?</q></p> + +<p><q>Let’s run for camp! We can’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—</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—that we’re hungry?</q> I asked.</p> +<pb n="153"/><anchor id="Pg153"/> + +<p><q>Well, for one thing, we’d know what +time it is,</q> replied Jonathan tranquilly.</p> + +<p><q>And for another we’d know whether it’s +dinner or supper I’m cooking,</q> I supplemented. +<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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, I don’t really care which it is.</q></p> + +<p><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.</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’t eat in the kitchen!</q></p> +<pb n="154"/><anchor id="Pg154"/> + +<p><q>Or cook in the dining-room—which?</q></p> + +<p><q>And hear that song sparrow! Doesn’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—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><q>Oh, Jonathan! We never asked them +what time it was!</q> I said. <q>I meant to—for +your sake—I thought you’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,—<q>Here’s +news,</q> said Jonathan; <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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Good! Tell them to come along.</q></p> + +<p><q>No—it’s to-morrow—letter’s been here +since yesterday. I’ll telegraph.</q></p> + +<p>As we tramped home we planned the day. +<q>We’ll meet them and all walk up together,</q> +said Jonathan.</p> + +<p><q>We’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’d better meet +them and I’ll have dinner ready when you +get back.</q></p> +<pb n="156"/><anchor id="Pg156"/> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>But if it’s late—they’ve got to get back +for that down train.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well—time enough.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, Jonathan! What about catching that +train?</q></p> + +<p><q>They’ll have watches—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—dear me! Well, Jonathan, we’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’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’clock, but perhaps it’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—one +from Molly and Jack saying thank you +they’d come. <q>They don’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’t, but I +said you would. I made him send it … 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—saying, <q>Well, +maybe we’d better be starting back for that +train</q>—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’t remembered to +wind it last night,</q> said Jonathan, glancing +at me.</p> + +<p><q>I haven’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’s run down too. It stopped at +twenty-two minutes before +five—<hi rend="font-variant: small-caps">A. M.</hi>, I +think.</q></p> + +<p><q>What luck! And Molly didn’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’s use it, and start.</q> I avoided +Jonathan’s eye.</p> + +<p>We reached the station with an hour and +ten minutes to spare—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,—</p> + +<p><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 +<hi rend="font-style: italic">you</hi> see?</q> +she turned to us. <q>Jack does everything by +his watch—eats and breathes and sleeps by +it—</q></p> + +<p>Jack returned, watch in hand—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—thank you—didn’t bring it,</q> +said Jonathan.</p> + +<p><q>By George, man, what’ll you do?</q> Real +consternation sounded in Jack’s tones.</p> + +<p><q>Oh, we’ll get along somehow,</q> said Jonathan. +<q>You see, we don’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’t you tell them it was my +whim?</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, I just didn’t,</q> said Jonathan.</p> +<pb n="160"/><anchor id="Pg160"/> + +<p>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><q>Run down, did it? Guess you forgot to +wind it. Well—we do forget things sometimes, +all of us do,</q> the farmer’s wife said +comfortingly as she went to look at the clock. +<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.</q></p> + +<p>And to us, after our two weeks of camp, +<pb n="161"/><anchor id="Pg161"/> +ten minutes’ 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’t do so many things in a +day,</q> said Jonathan.</p> + +<p><q>No—maybe not.</q></p> + +<p><q>But maybe that wouldn’t matter.</q></p> + +<p><q>Maybe it wouldn’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’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’t believe they’d +have known anyway—one of a hundred or +so.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well, we’ll name her again. Dear me—she’s +rather plain! Probably she’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’t call her plain. Wait till she’s groomed +up—</q></p> + +<p><q>It’s that droop of her neck—sort of patient—and +the way she drops one of her +hips—if they are hips.</q></p> + +<p><q>But we want a horse to be patient.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes. I don’t know that I care about having +her <hi rend="font-style: italic">look</hi> so terribly much so as this. I +think I’ll call her Griselda.</q></p> +<pb n="163"/><anchor id="Pg163"/> + +<p><q>Now, why Griselda?</q></p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>But you can’t call a horse Griselda—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’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’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’re sayin’.</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’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—one +Kit by name—a big, pleasant, rather +stupid brown mare.</p> + +<p><q>They do say two mares don’t git on so +well together as a mare ’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!—heavy, hollow pounding!—the +<pb n="166"/><anchor id="Pg166"/> +tearing and splintering of wood!—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?—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—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>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 <hi rend="font-style: italic">tromp, tromp, tromp</hi>, +in much quicker tempo than usual, of Hiram’s +heavy boots. Hiram’s theory was a +<pb n="167"/><anchor id="Pg167"/> +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><q>I guess Griz got all she needed—didn’t +know either of ’em had so much spunk in ’em.</q></p> + +<p><q>What happened?</q></p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Is she hurt?—or Kit?</q></p> + +<p><q>No, not so far as we can see, not to +amount to anything—except maybe Griz’s +feelings.</q></p> + +<p><q>And what about Mrs. Hiram’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,‘Not on your life,’ or did you only +imply it in your tone, while you actually said, +‘No, thank you very much’?</q></p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well, I wish I’d heard you. One misses a +good deal—</q></p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Of course you remember Hiram +<hi rend="font-style: italic">said</hi> two +mares didn’t usually get on very well, and +even when they’re chosen by a good judge of +horses—</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’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—I’ll—be—</q> 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><q>She’s trying to make believe she didn’t +do it—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’t</hi> try it +again, please! I’ll stay by her while you go +in. <hi rend="font-style: italic">Please!</hi></q> +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><q>No use,</q> he said, quietly releasing it and +tossing its coil into the carriage, <q>It’s too +rotten. If it snapped, she’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’t. She did. She’s beaten me. If +I don’t hitch her now, she’ll know she’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’s the harm? It’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’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’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’ll moor Griz?</q></p> + +<p><q>Jonathan!</q> I exclaimed, <q>you won’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,—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> +<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’t +<hi rend="font-style: italic">want</hi> her in two,</q> I protested.</p> + +<p><q>She won’t set back,</q> he responded; <q>at +least, not more than once. To-morrow’s Sunday; +I’ll have to hitch her at church.</q></p> + +<p>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><q>You go right in,</q> said Jonathan, <q>I’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—a feeling that one is making +the ghosts move along a little. They did +move, of course,—probably ghosts are always +<pb n="173"/><anchor id="Pg173"/> +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>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><hi rend="font-style: italic">Hymn 912</hi> +… seven stanzas! horrors! oh! +<hi rend="font-style: italic">omit the 3d, 5th, and +6th</hi>—well, I should +hope so!… I can’t hear a thing while this +is going on!… He hasn’t come in yet! +<pb n="174"/><anchor id="Pg174"/> +<hi rend="font-style: italic">Scripture reading for +to-day</hi>—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! <hi rend="font-style: italic">Let us unite +in prayer.</hi> 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.… <hi rend="font-style: italic">For +thy name’s sake, amen.</hi></p> + +<p>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>And at last, the sermon:—<hi rend="font-style: italic">The text to +which I wish to call your attention this morning</hi>—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—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,—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. +<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’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’ve got there,</q> +said a deacon over my shoulder; <q>don’t get +restless standing, the way some horses do.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes, she’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:—</p> + +<p><q>Well?</q> I said,—<q>well?</q></p> + +<p><q>Well—</q> said Jonathan.</p> + +<p><q><hi rend="font-style: italic">Well? +Tell</hi> me about it!</q></p> + +<p><q>I’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’t she mind?</q></p> + +<p><q>Don’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—you +have no more sense for a story—</q></p> + +<p><q>But there was nothing in particular—</q></p> + +<p><q>Now, Jonathan, if there was nothing in +particular, <hi rend="font-style: italic">why</hi> +didn’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’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’s compliment +to Griz. <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.</q></p> +<pb n="178"/><anchor id="Pg178"/> + +<p>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>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:—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—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—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’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’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’s my idea of a boat.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, of course, a boat would be handy—</q></p> + +<p><q>Handy! You talk as if it was a buttonhook!</q></p> + +<p><q>Well?</q></p> + +<p><q>Well—of course it +<hi rend="font-style: italic">is</hi> 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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes,</q> said Jonathan, drawing the logs +together, <q>that’s just the way your family +feels about it when you’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’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’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—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’d ride anything.</q></p> + +<p><q>Well</q>—Jonathan suddenly +expanded—<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?</q></p> + +<p>I sat straight up. <q>Jonathan! Let’s do it +now!</q></p> + +<p>Jonathan chuckled. <q>My! What a hurry +she’s in!</q></p> + +<p><q>Well, let’s!</q></p> + +<p><q>We couldn’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—the +salt marshes.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, which?—which?</q> 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><q>Twelve feet, you said?</q></p> + +<p><q>About that.</q></p> + +<p><q>Pretty close stowing for our dunnage—still—let’s +see—two guns—</q></p> + +<p><q>Or the rods, if we went in the spring.</q></p> + +<p><q>And rubber coats, and blankets—</q></p> + +<p><q>Jonathan! Should we camp?</q></p> + +<p><q>Might have to.</q></p> + +<p><q>Let’s, anyway.</q></p> + +<p><q>How does that coast-line run? Where’s +a map?</q></p> + +<p>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. +<pb n="184"/><anchor id="Pg184"/> +Every curve of the shore, every bay and headland +came to life and spoke to us—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:—</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’t on the list!</q></p> + +<p><q>Hang it! Those charts haven’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—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’t it? Anyway, +I said <hi rend="font-style: italic">about</hi>. +And it’s big enough.</q></p> + +<p>He was spanning its length with his hands.</p> + +<p><q>Eleven foot six. Oh, I suppose she’ll do. +My boat was fourteen.</q></p> + +<p><q>Now, don’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’ll be all +right now she’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’s all stowed, +where are we going to sit? That’s what’s +worrying me.</q></p> + +<p><q>Why, won’t it go in?</q></p> + +<p><q>Go! It wouldn’t go in two boats.</q></p> + +<p>I came down the plank. <q>Well, let’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’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>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’d be all right.</q></p> + +<p><q>Don’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—too—fast.</q></p> + +<p><q>He heard you,</q> I said, <q>but he can’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—<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>—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’m wondering,</q> said Jonathan, +<q>is, what’s going to happen next—when we +get out there.</q> He tilted his head toward the +open bay, broad and windy, ahead of us. +<q>There’s some pretty interesting water out +there beyond this lee.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, she’ll take it all right. It’s no worse +than Nantucket water. It couldn’t be. +You’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:—</p> +<pb n="189"/><anchor id="Pg189"/> + +<p><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!</q></p> + +<p>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>It was not an easy day, that first one.… +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—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>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—</q> +hummed Jonathan.</p> + +<p><q>I wouldn’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—do you know—I do believe—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’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—you can get it out of +my hip pocket—and try to set up that screw +with the big blade.</q></p> + +<p>I did so, and pulled a few strokes. Then—<q>It’s +come out again. It’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’re in the metal +box. I’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’t bullfrog +out over the bow. I can’t hold her any +steadier than this.</q></p> + +<p><q>Oh, I’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>“Does it +bite?<add><anchor id="E4"/><ref target="e4">”</ref></add></p> + +<p><q>I don’t know about biting, but it’s going +in beautifully—now it goes hard.</q></p> + +<p><q>Perhaps I can give it a turn.</q></p> + +<p><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.</q></p> + +<p><q>If you stick something through the eye +you can turn it.</q></p> + +<p><q>Yes. I’ll find +something<corr sic=","><anchor id="E5"/><ref target="e5">.</ref></corr> +Here’s the can-opener. +<pb n="193"/><anchor id="Pg193"/> +Grand! There! It’s solid. Now I’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’s biscuit while we rowed. +Wind, tide, waves, all against us, boat leaking, +oars disabled—and still—<q>Isn’t it +great!</q> we said, <q>great—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,—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><q>Tired?</q> said Jonathan. <q>I’ll take her +in.</q></p> + +<p><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.</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—yes—rowed. +What say? Yes, <hi rend="font-style: italic">she</hi> rowed, too. +They say they’re goin’ on to-morrow, round +Judith.</q></p> + +<p><q>Say, now,</q> she finally appealed to us in +frank perplexity, <q>what’re you doin’ 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’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.</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—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:—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’ hevn’t +got a <hi rend="font-style: italic">motor</hi> in there!</q></p> + +<p>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 <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’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’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—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’t tell +what she may do when she’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’s one of the best things about a +boat—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—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.</q></p> + +<p>I could feel Jonathan’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—it’s +an island.</q></p> + +<p>And so we sought islands—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—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—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, +<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—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>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—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>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. +<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—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’re fully twelve inches above +it.</q></p> + +<p>Silence.</p> + +<p><q>Aren’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’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—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. +<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—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,—<q>no—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—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!</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—<q>I don’t +<pb n="212"/><anchor id="Pg212"/> +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.</q></p> + +<p><q>Did yours?</q></p> + +<p><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.</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—were +you?</q></p> + +<p><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.</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’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>—he was emphatic—<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’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’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—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>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—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>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—going +on, and on, and on.</p> + +<milestone unit="tb"/> + +<p rend="text-align: center">THE END</p> + +<!-- <pb n="217"/><anchor id="Pg217"/> +Blank Page --> +</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>—<hi rend="font-variant: + small-caps">A.M.</hi> to camp is <hi rend="font-weight: + bold">4:38</hi>—<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 “Does it bite?<ref target="E4"> </ref> to + “Does it bite?<hi rend="font-weight: bold">”</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’s to find + something<hi rend="font-weight: bold">.</hi> Here’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> + +</TEI.2> + +<!-- +A WORD FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG + + +This file should be named 20141-tei.txt or 20141-tei.zip. + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + + + http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/1/4/20141/ + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one — the old editions will be +renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one +owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and +you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission +and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +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 + + CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS + + U . S . 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