A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath . erhaps saved his very life. It would be easyto trap him. His eye should be made to distrustevery well-arranged pile of sticks under whichlurks a morsel. To-night I called upon Georgiana and sketchedthe arrested tragedy of the morning. Shewatched me curiously, and then dashed into a104 little treatise on the celebrated friendships of manfor the lower creatures, in fact and fiction, fromcamels down to white mice. Her father musthave been a remarkably learned man. I didntlike this. It made me somehow feel as thoughI were one of /Esops Fables, or were beingtr
A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath . erhaps saved his very life. It would be easyto trap him. His eye should be made to distrustevery well-arranged pile of sticks under whichlurks a morsel. To-night I called upon Georgiana and sketchedthe arrested tragedy of the morning. Shewatched me curiously, and then dashed into a104 little treatise on the celebrated friendships of manfor the lower creatures, in fact and fiction, fromcamels down to white mice. Her father musthave been a remarkably learned man. I didntlike this. It made me somehow feel as thoughI were one of /Esops Fables, or were beingtranslated into English as that old school-roomhorror of Androclus and the Lion. In the bot-tom of my soul I dont believe that Georgianacares for birds, or knows the difference betweena blackbird and a crow. I am going to send hera little story, The Passion of the Walters is now confident that Georgianaregrets having broken off her engagement. Butthen Mrs. Walters can be a great fool when sheputs her whole mind to it. ios ^J. XIV *N APRIL I commence toscratch and dig in my gar-den. To-day as I was raking off my strawberry bed, Georgi- ana, whom I have not seen since the night when she satirized me, called from the window: What are you going to plantthis year? Oh, a little of everything, I answered,under my hat. What are you going to plantthis year ? Are you going to have many strawber-ries ? Its too soon to tell: they havent bloomed106
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