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India is one vast farm one almost interminable stretch of fields with mud fences between. . . Think of the above facts; and consider what an incredible aggregate of poverty they place before you. The first Bearer that applied, waited below and sent up his recommendations. That was the first morning in Bombay. We read them over; carefully, cautiously, thoughtfully.
The landlord backed away, and the men in the tavern began to press around us expectantly. "Gallop into him, Andy!" cried one. "Don't let him git near no fences, stranger," said another. Mr. Jackson turned on this man with such truculence that he edged away to the rear of the room. "Step out, sir," said Mr. Jackson, starting for the door before I could reply.
The fences were very high and had their tops cut in points, and over them here and there drooped the heavy bough of a fruit-tree or a long tendril of grapevine, as if there were delightful gardens inside. The sidewalks were very narrow underneath these fences, so that Betty often walked in the street to be alongside her companion.
It won't be very long now before they come.... The pain's bad, I know." Gerda's head was hot and felt giddy. She moved it restlessly. Urgent thoughts pestered her; her normal reticences lay like broken fences about her. "Nan." "Yes. Shall I raise your head a little?" "No, it's all right.... About Barry, Nan." Nan grew rigid, strung up to endure. "And what about Barry?" "Just that I love him.
Once having done this, he grew more reconciled, and, as he found that his new companion was very beautiful, he began to forget his wives and children, and in time although not without many struggles to get out and many savage onslaughts at the fences he settled down into an ordinary African farm ostrich, and was perhaps just as contented as any of his companions.
The crops have neither the luxuriance of the richer land nor the signs of neglect so often seen, and there were fences and meadows here and there. Most of this land was poor, and beneath the notice of the slave-baron, before the war. Since then his poor relations and foreign immigrants have seized it.
The fairies are thought to engage in warfare with one another, and in the year 1800 a specially sanguinary battle was believed to have been fought between two clans of the fairies in county Kilkenny. In the morning the hawthorns along the fences were found crushed to pieces and drenched with blood.
We saw men loading hay in the meadows that were bounded by rail fences, and the fragrance from the fields was wafted to us as we passed.
Gayly in light, graceful abandonment, the friendly talk played round that circle; for the burden was rolled from every heart; the barriers of Ceremony, which are indeed the laws of polite living, had melted as into vapor; and the poor claims of Me and Thee, no longer parted by rigid fences, now flowed softly into one another; and Life lay all harmonious, many-tinted, like some fair royal champaign, the sovereign and owner of which were Love only.
My boy remembered coming from Cincinnati in the stage when he was so young that it must have been when he first came to the Boy's Town. The distance was twenty miles, and the stage made it in four hours. It was this furious speed which gave the child his earliest illusion of trees and fences racing by while the stage seemed to stand still.
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