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Updated: July 20, 2025
Ten minutes ago the gaslighted house behind her had seemed like a prison. She felt that she must have air, space, and freedom. She would have liked a long ride on the buffalo-track. That, she felt, would clear her mind. She was no romantic creature out of her sphere, no exotic. She was country-born and bred, and her blood had been charged by a prairie instinct passing through three generations.
And presently the junior clerk, with the aid of a few wafers, fixed the announcement in the window which looked out on the Market-Place, and people began to gather round and to read it, and, after the usual fashion of country-born folk, then went away to talk about it.
I have estimated that all the young men in America of approximately Washington's age at that time could probably have been gathered into the Roman colosseum back of the Pantheon; at any rate, into an American university stadium. They could have been reached by the voice of one man. They were practically all country-born. There were, indeed, no great cities in which to be born.
It is often argued that the rural question, or any phase of it, as for instance the question of the rural church, is important because the country supplies the best blood to the city and a roll-call of the famous country-born is read to prove the point. This may be all true.
They heard the whirr of prairie chickens' wings among the golden stubble on the hillside, and the glamor of some old forgotten afternoon stole over them. Men and women country-born who had forgotten the voices of their youth, heard them calling across the years, and heard them, too, with opened hearts and sudden tears.
The woman gave a flattered little laugh which tapered to a sigh. "You, too, were meant for something wider than Tuscarora," she returned; "and you will get it, get it here, perhaps. The great New Yorkers are usually country-born, you know. You'll find your niche no small one; find it and fill it; while I ? Ah, well; this isn't the talk for your holiday."
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