New England bygones . grown famous in theworld, hammered away, all his davs, at horses feet in a villagesmithy. There is no v\A to these rememlierc(l representative characters;quaint and positive, alwavs grand, because underlaid bv sim-plicity and fidelity to right. These farmers did not adorn their houses much. (Mther in-doorsor out, for thev wove almost alwavs work-diiveii and took up their task where tliey left it. They plantedfences and gates and well-sweej)S. She, with her frosts andstains and mosses, tumbled and emliellished them. The sa])lingsthev started grew into prim ji
New England bygones . grown famous in theworld, hammered away, all his davs, at horses feet in a villagesmithy. There is no v\A to these rememlierc(l representative characters;quaint and positive, alwavs grand, because underlaid bv sim-plicity and fidelity to right. These farmers did not adorn their houses much. (Mther in-doorsor out, for thev wove almost alwavs work-diiveii and took up their task where tliey left it. They plantedfences and gates and well-sweej)S. She, with her frosts andstains and mosses, tumbled and emliellished them. The sa])lingsthev started grew into prim jiojilars and diiise. ill-bearing or-chards; but there was about these half-worthless trees, in theirmoss-clad old age, a kind of fitnc^ss which served its time and[)urpose. When the square, brown firm-houses began to decay. KTLlliyiS. 43 and farmers to graft their newly-planted stoeks, the poplars andshaggy old apple-trees Ijegan also to die. Each was a sort ofapjiendage to the other, and so they passed away The sweetest and most natural outgrowth of old-time pastoralHfe was a love of, and clinging to, the old homesteads. OnceNew England was full of them; great, brown, roomy, homelyhouses, facing the south; led to by green lanes; shut in by 44 Xh 11 ? I:X( HAM) /!)(i()^ hy. iUUCstral lirlils: stainlint; ijuitc IVcii willi the uTceiiswanl. AvliiditlKV mot with low-lvhii;- stoius (hig- out tVom tlicir own | had itf^ taiiiilv lMirial-|ihu(\—blessed spot. They were allIieh in springs ami lirooks and woodlands. They had added tothcni, vear after vear. tlie glorv oi trees and Imshes and vines ;the wild uiowth oi seeds, llung hy the winds into the crevicesof and uinised places. Thai which was peculiar to them,that which could not he simulated hv art, was a certain hiautygiven to them hv time and use antl d(.cav,—a sort of mellowinu-into the landscape of the ])iles and theii adjuncts, hy which eachh(.)mestead took unto itself an indi\idual expression f
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