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"I wish," said Ulysses, "that you who speak this, and myself, were to be tried at any task-work, that I had a good crooked scythe put in my hand, that was sharp and strong, and you such another, where the grass grew longest, to be up by day-break, mowing the meadows till the sun went down, not tasting of food till we had finished, or that we were set to plough four acres in one day of good glebe land, to see whose furrows were evenest and cleanest, or that we might have one wrestling-bout together, or that in our right hands a good steel-headed lance were placed, to try whose blows fell heaviest and thickest upon the adversary's head-piece.
The grass-fields, cut smooth and close, and of the softest and evenest green, seemed kept for show rather than for use. The bottom of the valley along which we drove, was filled with an unbroken pine forest, inclosing here and there a lake, "Where Heaven itself, brought down to Earth, Seemed fairer than above;" while the opposite mountain rose rich with harvest fields and farmhouses.
"You remember that that was his favorite figure of rhetoric, and he repeated it several times?" "Don't know anything about figger of retterick," growled Abe, who, his comrades said, had the evenest temper in the regiment, "for he was always mad.
If he were surprised at seeing me in Cripple Creek when I should have been well on my way to the Pacific Coast, he was quite as evidently disappointed. "I thought you had started for California," he said in his evenest tones. "I thought so, too; but it was only a false start." Then I had it out with him.
I suppose, then, you did not observe that his teeth are the whitest, evenest." "They make them cheaply over here, I'm told," he retorted, setting his heel emphatically down and annihilating a red and black caterpillar. "Now, why did you do that? I must say you English are rather brutal?" "I can't abide worms."
There are the highest trees, and grow up the evenest, that ever I saw; many of them are bored through with pipes for water to ascend and to fall from the top down one against another; and likewise there are many fountains in the side of this walk, and the longest walks of elms I ever saw in my life. The park is well stored with English oaks and elms, and deer; and the Tagus makes it an island.
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