Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . whom we often went for an lived in four rooms in a little tene-ment, one on each floor for the antiques,while the other two made up all he hadof a home. In summer it was a pretty place, thewindows lined with blue plates and cupsand pitchers, the gabled roof and thelittle pointed protection to the faced on a yard decked in reds andblacks and blues on the wash-day whenwe first went there. Before the doorthere was a line of maple trees and aroad and a lawn, half sunny. Mr. B was a short, somewhat corpulent man, had a double
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . whom we often went for an lived in four rooms in a little tene-ment, one on each floor for the antiques,while the other two made up all he hadof a home. In summer it was a pretty place, thewindows lined with blue plates and cupsand pitchers, the gabled roof and thelittle pointed protection to the faced on a yard decked in reds andblacks and blues on the wash-day whenwe first went there. Before the doorthere was a line of maple trees and aroad and a lawn, half sunny. Mr. B was a short, somewhat corpulent man, had a double chin andlegs accentuated in their bow by theuncreased trousers that reached onlybelow the shoe tops. He liked a capon the back of his head, partly gray,-119-. and a red crocheted coat. His doublechin and set bull-doggish mouth gavehim a serious expression except whenthe crows feet came around his smallblue eyes and a laugh released thetension of his jaw. The first time I met him he gave mea feeling of security, a sort of a confi-dence in the man, even though he pre-tended to be an antiquary and I aninnocent. I looked at a table, a roundcentre one, that he probably has yet,because of his honesty. Half a dozenhave been on the point of buying thattable, when he tells them the top hasbeen cut down fi-om another they donot take it, but they come back, perhapsto buy, he says. I looked at that tableand I have gone back a good manytimes. -120-
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