Boone County Recorder . (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.). Pulling Up Stakes We had fcean in the country close onto two years. Straight from the heart-of-ft--etty-to- ttas-s^clusion of a could have Ueen.,no more vividcontrast; no more radical change. Wehid gono from the clang of gongs, thetolling of bells. th-> shriek of locomo-tives, the blare of brass bands,_thedoleful piping- of corner bands, thecries of newsboy a, and the oboe honkof the automobile horn to the pipingof crickets and the matins of thrushand robin, the warbling of bluebirdsand orchard orioles. We had been ITT6ro


Boone County Recorder . (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.). Pulling Up Stakes We had fcean in the country close onto two years. Straight from the heart-of-ft--etty-to- ttas-s^clusion of a could have Ueen.,no more vividcontrast; no more radical change. Wehid gono from the clang of gongs, thetolling of bells. th-> shriek of locomo-tives, the blare of brass bands,_thedoleful piping- of corner bands, thecries of newsboy a, and the oboe honkof the automobile horn to the pipingof crickets and the matins of thrushand robin, the warbling of bluebirdsand orchard orioles. We had been ITT6roughly forgottenby our friends in the city, and had(stepped tacitly to an unrecognizedplace in the human procession whorethere was no possibility of our beingnumbered with those who are sup-posed to lead the strenuous , so-called, was merely an ab-straction; Ihose whohave been lodged on some secureshelf on a cliff wh^re they could seethe flood go by while they watchedfind waited. Two years before we hadbeen of that clamorous a


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