The farmer's boy . tle screech-owl. Its tremulous and long-drawn wail suggested that 96 The Farmers Boy some one human was in the orchard crying out in his lastfeeble agonies. The boy was scared when he heard thescreech-owl. The great and only holiday of the summer was Fourthof July. The boy \ery likely did not know or especially care about the philosophic mean-ing of the day. As he under-stood it, the occasion was onewhose first recjuirement was lotsof noise. To furnish this inplenty, he was willing to beginthe day by getting up at mid-night to parade the village streetwith the rest of the bo
The farmer's boy . tle screech-owl. Its tremulous and long-drawn wail suggested that 96 The Farmers Boy some one human was in the orchard crying out in his lastfeeble agonies. The boy was scared when he heard thescreech-owl. The great and only holiday of the summer was Fourthof July. The boy \ery likely did not know or especially care about the philosophic mean-ing of the day. As he under-stood it, the occasion was onewhose first recjuirement was lotsof noise. To furnish this inplenty, he was willing to beginthe day by getting up at mid-night to parade the village streetwith the rest of the boys, andtoot horns and set otf fire-crackers, and liven up the sleepyoccupants of the liomes bymaking i)articular eiforts beforeeach dwelling. The serenadershad a care in their operationsto be on guard, that they miglithasten to a safe distance if anyone rushed out to lecture orchastise them; but when every-thing continued (juiet within doors, thiy would hoot andhowl for some time, and e\en blow up the mail-box with. Fourth oj July Siiiiinier 97 a cannon cracker, or commit other mild depredations, toadd to the glory of the occasion. When some particu-larly brilliant brain conceived the idea of getting all the
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