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Updated: May 13, 2025
An old hill-farmer must be beloved of Hermes, he so understands the arts of gain. If he wants to buy anything, he takes a sap-bucketful of eggs to the village, and makes a point of bringing back a part of the money. When in town he does not dine at a tavern, but on some crackers and cheese: he says baker's bread tastes like wasps' nests, and city fare in general is light and dry.
The tramp hired man entertains inverted financial ideas, and a creed that would probably read, "Strike a man on his right cheek, and if he don't turn his left, boot him;" and the tramp hired man lies en grand tells lies two days long when he finds a listener. The old hill-farmer never wastes nor wears out things.
Whether the dogs understood it or not, one of them never went to church again. Another luxury of the hill-farmer is unabridged hospitality. He would agree with Doctor Johnson that nothing promotes happiness so much as conversation. Blazing fires beacons of company often flame up his best rooms' chimney-stacks, pouring their blue wood-smoke high in the clear air of the hills.
Why, Gosh Almighty! get out, or I'll thrash the daylights out of your darned rotten hide!" So ended the squire's reproof. The old hill-farmer has an old dog grown from indulgence, like his horses, in the habit of going his own gait. He will trot to church on Sundays, and trot, trot, down the aisle after meeting has begun, or, if he likes, up into the gallery.
James Fern was silent again for some minutes, leaning back upon his pillow, with his eyes closed, and his thoughts gone back to the old times. 'If I'd only been like mother, you'd have been a hill-farmer now, Steve, he continued, in a tone of regret; 'she plotted out in her own mind to take in the green before us, for rearing young lambs, and ducks, and goslings.
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