crawport

Updated: May 25, 2025

Tim Shekles, the blacksmith, would be at work, and old Mother Crawport would be digging in her garden, early as it was; and out in the fields the crows would be hunting corn; and pretty soon down would go the wheels into the soft, clean gravel of the brook that crossed the turnpike and out again on the other side dripping puddles in the dirt; and soon the big trees would begin, and keep on and on and on, away up to the tops of the mountains, the morning sun silvering the mists sweeping up their sides, and

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women