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Updated: May 17, 2025
Voting will not be compulsory; the shrinking violets will not be torn from their shady fence-corner; the "home bodies" will be able to still sit in rapt contemplation of their own fireside. We will not force the vote upon them, but why should they force their votelessness upon us?
And he started off at once across the field, taking the jug with him. "I'll leave the jug among the brakes in the fence-corner," he called, as he trotted away. Now, Johnnie Green took the jug with him because he needed it. It was part of his plan for punishing the Bumblebee family. And instead of going straight to the fence-corner, Johnnie made at once for the Bumblebee family's front door.
He hid away his book in the fence-corner, and by concealing himself a few minutes in the weeds while he waited for the plough, he could manage to learn something in a day. After he grew larger the Squire failed to send him to school. When asked about it, he said, "Wal, I 'low he knows a good deal more'n I do now, an' 'taint no sort o' use to learn so much. Spiles a boy to fill him chock full."
Just as Keith approached the gate on his return home, a figure rose up from a fence-corner and stood before him in the starlight. "Good even'n', Mr. Keith." The voice was Dave Dennison's. Keith greeted him wonderingly. What on earth could have brought the boy out at that time of the night? "Would you mind jest comin' down this a-way a little piece?" Keith walked back a short distance.
She laughed as she struck at the goat with her empty gauntlet, and shrank back out of the way of his horns. There was no embarrassment over her informal dinner, eaten as she sat squat in a fence-corner, an anchor-stone for a table, and a pile of spars for a chair.
"We found him jest off the railroad, in a fence-corner," said one of the countrymen. "He'll never git up an' walk agin." "Has he said anything?" This last question was put by Harper Elliston. "Nary word. He fell off 'n ther train last night, I reckon." Elliston knelt and felt the man's pulse. "He lives," said the New Yorker, "but there isn't much life; he cannot last long."
The carriage was forthwith stopped and sent around to the stables, while the two friends went on foot through the village. Every house, every fence-corner, every lilac-bush or clump of hollyhocks, or row of currant-bushes in the gardens, suggested some reminiscence, and the two old ladies were presently laughing and crying at once.
"Suppose," said Fido to the yellow-bird, "suppose you fly to the window 'way up there and see what the little boy is doing. Sing him one of your pretty songs, and tell him we are lonesome without him; that we are waiting for him in the old fence-corner."
Humphreys came out upon the upper porch and looked sharply up and down the road. August felt instinctively that he was the object of search and slunk into a fence-corner, remembering that he was now a burglar and at the mercy of the man whose face was enough to show him unrelenting. Presently Humphreys turned and went in, and then August came out of the shadow and hurried away.
I want to call particular attention to one thing which the picture under consideration emphasizes very forcibly, and that is the unstudied informality of it. It seems to have planned itself. It is like one of Nature's fence-corner bits of gardening. For use in the background we have several most excellent plants.
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