. Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's dovecot. The story of a short life . BOSTONROBERTS BROTHERS 1887 SUMMERS afternoon. Earlyin the summer, and late inthe afternoon; with odorsand colors deepening, andshadows lengthening, tow-ards evening. Two gaffers gossiping,seated side by side upon aYorkshire wall. A wall ofsandstone of many colors,glowing redder and yel-lower as the sun goes down; well cushioned with moss and lichen, and deep set inrank grass on this side, where the path runs, and inblue hyacinths on that side, where the wood is, andwhere—on the gray and still naked branches ofyoung o
. Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's dovecot. The story of a short life . BOSTONROBERTS BROTHERS 1887 SUMMERS afternoon. Earlyin the summer, and late inthe afternoon; with odorsand colors deepening, andshadows lengthening, tow-ards evening. Two gaffers gossiping,seated side by side upon aYorkshire wall. A wall ofsandstone of many colors,glowing redder and yel-lower as the sun goes down; well cushioned with moss and lichen, and deep set inrank grass on this side, where the path runs, and inblue hyacinths on that side, where the wood is, andwhere—on the gray and still naked branches ofyoung oaks — sit divers crows, not less solemn thanthe gaffers, and also gossiping. One gaffer in work-day clothes, not unpicturesqueof form and hue. Gray, home-knit stockings, andcoat and knee-breeches of corduroy, which takes tintsfrom Time and Weather as harmoniously as woodenpalings do ; so that field laborers (like some insects) 6 DARBY AND JOAN. seem to absorb or mimic the colors of the vegetationround them and of their native soil. That is, onwork-days. Sunday-best is a different matter, and int
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