. Next to the ground; chronicles of a countryside. Natural history. IT means so much to grow up next to the ground. There are no playmates like grass and orchard trees^ colts in the pasture, chickens in the yard, nor any story-tellers to match the winds when they play with the leaves, or dance a sword-dance through fields of yellowing -wheat. The fields too are rare gossips, if only you take the trouble to under- stand. The pity of it is that one can never write down the charm of their living voices! They have something almost epic in their gossip- ing, yet always something new to tell. What f
. Next to the ground; chronicles of a countryside. Natural history. IT means so much to grow up next to the ground. There are no playmates like grass and orchard trees^ colts in the pasture, chickens in the yard, nor any story-tellers to match the winds when they play with the leaves, or dance a sword-dance through fields of yellowing -wheat. The fields too are rare gossips, if only you take the trouble to under- stand. The pity of it is that one can never write down the charm of their living voices! They have something almost epic in their gossip- ing, yet always something new to tell. What follows does not claim to tell all the field story. Who can put adequately into words, the dew, the dawn, the quickening of springtime, summer's golden heat, the subtile odors of ripen- ing grain ? But it is a record at first hand of much that comes to pass between the time of summer fallows and the gathering of next year's Idiosyncrasy is one charm of every countryside —as one star differeth from another in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McCulloch-Williams, Martha, b. ca. 1857. New York, McClure, Philips & Co.
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