. In God's out-of-doors. Natural history. ^N ruddy, luscious scions ' *' of the house of apple. What a day that was! I can not for- get it; and, to be plain I have not tried to. That was my day of vindication. 1 was like Job when his trouble was over—I felt good. I felt very good. "Apples! apples! " 1 cried, instead of calling out that ancient word (so archaic), "Eureka!" That same day 1 picked pears (not from the apple-trees), and some late peaches ( hard as biscuits new wives bake ). But providence has vindi- cated me. Those who thought me mad (and what is worse, told me
. In God's out-of-doors. Natural history. ^N ruddy, luscious scions ' *' of the house of apple. What a day that was! I can not for- get it; and, to be plain I have not tried to. That was my day of vindication. 1 was like Job when his trouble was over—I felt good. I felt very good. "Apples! apples! " 1 cried, instead of calling out that ancient word (so archaic), "Eureka!" That same day 1 picked pears (not from the apple-trees), and some late peaches ( hard as biscuits new wives bake ). But providence has vindi- cated me. Those who thought me mad (and what is worse, told me and others what they thought) are now humiliated, and 1, to use the psalmist's phrase, may stand by and say, "Aha! 200 a good Kansas breeze of apples. I do not despair. "They also serve who only stand and wait," says my special friend, Milton. This being so, 1 am a high-grade servant of the apple crop. 1 stand and wait. This fall 1 went through the orchard, and ('say it with no haste, nor yet "trip- pingly on the tongue," but with studied delibera- tion, as a man would kiss his sweetheart), 1 found apples, big and. X. 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 Quayle, William A. (William Alfred), 1860-1925. Cincinnati, Jennings & Pye; New York, Eaton & Mains
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