Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . MOTTOEg FOR SHIPTER YII. If tl]ou art worri arjd Igard beset Witt) sorrow^s ^v^]ich thjou wouldst forget^—If th)ou -wouldgt read a leggon tl^at -will keepThy Ijeart fronj fainting, and thy goul from sleep,©o to the ?wood© aijd tjillg : no teargOim the gweet look thjat nature wears. Longfellow : Sunrise on the Hills. ?With) farrger ^llan at t?)e farm abode. Tennyson Dora. J^orror, tyrant of the tl^robbiigg breast. Gray : The Bard. T^hy tuw
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . MOTTOEg FOR SHIPTER YII. If tl]ou art worri arjd Igard beset Witt) sorrow^s ^v^]ich thjou wouldst forget^—If th)ou -wouldgt read a leggon tl^at -will keepThy Ijeart fronj fainting, and thy goul from sleep,©o to the ?wood© aijd tjillg : no teargOim the gweet look thjat nature wears. Longfellow : Sunrise on the Hills. ?With) farrger ^llan at t?)e farm abode. Tennyson Dora. J^orror, tyrant of the tl^robbiigg breast. Gray : The Bard. T^hy tuwhits are lulled I wot,T^hy tuw?)oos of yegtep ijig^jfejWhich upon th)e dark afloatSo took echo wit?) deligh)t,So took ecV)o -with deligVjt,Vhat Ijer voice ur)tur)eful gpowr)W^earg all day a faiijter tor)e ! * I WT-ould nrjock thy chaunt arjew,^ut I carjnot n^irqic it ;J^ot a wl]it of tt)y tuwl]oo,Vhee to woo to thy tuwhit,T^b)ee to -woo to tb)y tu-whit,Wit>) a ler)gthened loud halloo,Tuwh|it, tuwhit, tuwhit, tuwhoo^o^ : To the Owl. 94. CHAPTER YIL e;- UEINGr all this time I liad beenthe possessor of a farm, though,it must be confessed, twas avery wild, rude, and rough one;—a new farm, which, by meansof hired labor, I had been for anumber of years preceding thedate of the incidents narratedin Chapter I. of this work, en-gaged in creating out of chaos, orat least carving out of a wilder-ness as wild as Siberian had purchased a piece offorest land lying some milesfrom the town out toward thenorth, a few acres of groundnear the middle of which I hadhad cleared by contract; I hadTeared a small house, and, emplojdng a man to act as farmer,while his wife filled the responsible position of housekeeper,I had begun farming in tolerably fair form. I had purchaseda brindled cow, a lineal descendant of that celebrated animalreputed to have jumped over the moon; a yoke of broad-homed, awkward, but very strong and serviceable oxen con-stituted our team; and we had
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