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There was no one in sight, but some one certainly must have been there, for by the door of the house rose a wonderful triumphal arch, made of two tall bean-poles tied together at the top, and thickly covered with fir-branches. A large piece of card-board hung down from the arch, and swung back and forth in the wind, and something was written on it in big letters.
It was his wife who had worried him into it, and yet now probably she would begin to snivel. Indeed, she had just taken her handkerchief out of her pocket and raised it to her eyes, when suddenly her face changed: "Good gracious! our bean-poles are still in the garden! I'm not going to leave them behind. Fancy it's only occurring to me now!" She was hurrying out.
Those which were then jestingly called bean-poles are to-day far the most beautiful objects noticeable in our streets. They are worth all and more than they have cost, though one of the selectmen, while setting them out, took the cold which occasioned his death, if only because they have filled the open eyes of children with their rich color unstintedly so many Octobers.
Hawthorne has sold the grass for thirty dollars. He has cut his bean-poles in his own woods. We find The Wayside prettier and prettier. Baby keeps pulling my arm. Your child, SOPHY. The letters to Mrs. Peabody sketch on: He came here with his carpet-bag, and there seemed nothing to be done but to ask him to stay with us while in town.
"Have to do what?" demanded Hiram. "Cut off his ears and tail. That's the only way to get him out from under the charm." But Hiram, squinting up to assure himself that the calf was comfortable, pushed Mr. Gammon back and made him sit down on a pile of bean-poles. "Better put your hat between your knees," he suggested, noting the way Mr. Gammon's thin knees were jigging.
When they presently drove down the green length of the old road, the visiting cousin spied interestedly at Sylvia's house and Sylvia's own delicate profile frilled about with lace, drooping like the raceme of some white flower in one of the windows. "That's her at the window," whispered the Pembroke woman, "an' there's Richard out there in the bean-poles."
None of our troops ever stray this fair west. 'Tis out of United States territory. The Texans claim it. But those are not Texans: they are uniformed, and carry lances. Your old friends, the Rangers, don't affect that sort of thing." "No," responds Wilder, with a contemptuous toss of the head, "I shedn't think they did. We niver tuk to them long sticks; 'bout as much use as bean-poles.
The trusty henchman immediately gave warning to Tod, who was at work in the lower hold arranging a bundle of bean-poles which had drifted inshore the night before part of the deck-load, doubtless, of some passing vessel. "Ay, ay, sir!" cried the henchman with a hoist of his knee-pants, as a prelude to his announcement. "Ay, ay, yerself!" rumbled back the reply. "What's up?"
He was the attorney of the indigenous plants, and owned to a preference of the weeds to the imported plants, as of the Indian to the civilized man, and noticed, with pleasure, that the willow bean-poles of his neighbor had grown more than his beans.
Such is human nature, ever prone to be more impressed by a disappointment of its own momentary gratification than by the most obvious well-being of a nation; but, glad or sorry, of Fort Edward was not left one stone upon another. Several single stones lay about promiscuous rather than belligerent. Flag-staff and palisades lived only in a few straggling bean-poles.
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