. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. nil; \oi!iisri;(iM : iiksiihack oy hksidkmi, or \;\ winj: sun /. •?WAIvMT (.l:ij\ I, 1 AK,\| \>.. A:>,i -N. \l . Ill THE VILLAGE OF BEAUTIFUL HOMES. 145 H Zvuc Stor^ of ®lb XTimcs in dFanninaton. C!3 ^^ EVENTY-FIVE years ago : no ^^^ railroads, no telegraphs,—but^T^f liearts were brave or cowardly,true or false, just as now. Itwas an evening in late Octo-ber ; the sun had set clear; and frostwas in the chilly air. .\wa\- up on themount;iiti mail, in the lowbrowedwide spreading farniJKjuse, Air. Brown-
. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. nil; \oi!iisri;(iM : iiksiihack oy hksidkmi, or \;\ winj: sun /. •?WAIvMT (.l:ij\ I, 1 AK,\| \>.. A:>,i -N. \l . Ill THE VILLAGE OF BEAUTIFUL HOMES. 145 H Zvuc Stor^ of ®lb XTimcs in dFanninaton. C!3 ^^ EVENTY-FIVE years ago : no ^^^ railroads, no telegraphs,—but^T^f liearts were brave or cowardly,true or false, just as now. Itwas an evening in late Octo-ber ; the sun had set clear; and frostwas in the chilly air. .\wa\- up on themount;iiti mail, in the lowbrowedwide spreading farniJKjuse, Air. Brown-low looked around with a sigh of con-tent on the ohcery square roimi wlierethe famil\ would spend a peacefulevening. He rejected that his stockwas well cared for, that his barns werefull, that he was able to assist thosewho were poorer than himself: andafter praising the especially delicioussupper which his wife and sisters hadprepared, he threw fresh sticks on theIlre, and settled down for the enjoy-ment of the WcclAy Courant, whichhe had brought from the village thatafternoon. With his reading he mingled running remarks: Goodapple cr
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