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The peat-moss from which they cut their fuel, was at some distance from the castle, on the outskirts of the hill-farm. It was the nearest moss to the glen, and the old chief, when he parted with so much of the land, took care to except it, knowing well that his remaining people could not without it live through a winter.
In these days one would hardly tell him to remove it, let alone hustling him off the steps. The incident shows how far education, prosperity, wealth, and forty years of public life had transformed the father of Miss Sedgwick from the country boy of a hill-farm in Connecticut.
The lime and bricks from my own works will not cost me much more than the expense of bringing them up here. 'And a very pretty little hill-farm you'll make of it, James, replied Thomas Wyley admiringly. 'I should not wonder now if you got £20 a year rent for it. 'I shall get £25 in a few years, said the other one: 'just think of the run for ponies on the hill, to say nothing of sheep.
To have come from a stony hill-farm and a bare small wooden house, was like a cave-dweller's coming to make a permanent home in an art museum, such had seemed the elaborateness and elegance of Miss Pyne's fashion of life; and Martha's simple brain was slow enough in its processes and recognitions.
Their carefully-saved money and their patriotism sustained our great war. Whoever was a boy on a hill-farm during the war remembers the neighbors stumbling over the stony roads at twilight, when the day's work was done, to hear the daily paper read at the farmhouse on The Corners, eager to know the worst or the best every night.
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