Barn doors and byways . XIVNIGHT WO small boys and a dog were hurryingalong through the woods in the earlyspring twilight. The ice was out of the streamsand the sap was running, but there were no leavesyet, only a haze of frail green like the ghost of aveil when you looked over the trees into the the hemlocks, however, it was as shadowedas in June, and with the coming of night the trailwas almost indistinguishable. The dog smelledit out. The small boys found it by the feel oftheir feet and by looking up and following thethread of open sky. They kept ever closer to-gether and spoke li
Barn doors and byways . XIVNIGHT WO small boys and a dog were hurryingalong through the woods in the earlyspring twilight. The ice was out of the streamsand the sap was running, but there were no leavesyet, only a haze of frail green like the ghost of aveil when you looked over the trees into the the hemlocks, however, it was as shadowedas in June, and with the coming of night the trailwas almost indistinguishable. The dog smelledit out. The small boys found it by the feel oftheir feet and by looking up and following thethread of open sky. They kept ever closer to-gether and spoke little. It was very dark and 280 BARN DOORS AND BYWAYS terrifying among those great hemlocks. Thewind sighed eternally, like a human, unknown pattered off through the under-growth. The boys unconsciously broke into adog-trot. Then suddenly ahead they saw the light of theclearing, beyond the swamp. The trail grewfaintly visible, like a gray ribbon. It crossed theswamp brook on a bridge and wound off through
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