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Updated: June 18, 2025
And then he wuz gone; I see 'em divide into four parties, and go towards the woods, and towards the hills, and towards the creek, and towards the beaver medder, each party havin' a rope, and I sez solemn like, before I thought "May God have mercy on your poor soul!"
Then she returned the wing to its place and leaned back in her chair, gazing absently at the shining andirons. "Well," she said, "Henrietta Parkman was in this mornin', and she told me you'd bought the medder; but I didn't hardly believe it." "Yes," said Myron.
"'Yes, sez Josiah, 'let me catch the Loontown and Shackville Powers tryin' to divide Jonesville into pieces and grabbin' the pieces and dividin' 'em up amongst 'em and turnin' us out of house and hum, I guess them powers would find they had got hold of a Boxer when they come to cut up my paster and divide it and the medder back of the house where grandfather Allen's grandpa and great-grandma lays with a white railin' round 'em, kep' up by the Allens two hundred years.
"Say," said Scattergood, changing the subject, "ever try drainin' that marsh in the fork? Looks like it could be done. Might make a good medder." Landers laughed. "If you want to try," he chuckled, "I'll trade it to you for this here mowin' machine." "Hum!..." grunted Scattergood, and higgled and argued, but ended by accepting a deed for the land and turning over the machine to Landers.
The stream, after it comes down from the mountain, runs through half a mile of medder land before it strikes into the woods agen.
"Do you own this boat?" the girl suddenly and somewhat anxiously asked. "Well, I thought I did, Miss, until you arrived, but now I ain't quite sartin. I feel somethin' like Bill Slocum said he did when a bear dropped in on him one night when he was campin' out on his back medder." "What did he do?" "Oh, Bill, jist lit out an' left the bear in charge, the same as any sensible man would do."
Sometimes he kicked abstractedly at dandelions that curved over the walk. Any one could see that he was much troubled. "There's Sickles's colt over in the medder, Jimmie," said the old man. "Don't you wish you owned one like him?" "Um," said the boy, with a strange lack of interest. He continued his reflections. Then finally he ventured, "Grandpa now was that true what you was telling those men?"
Carder, poor dumb automaton, volunteered a remark; and the most silver-tongued orator could not have better pleased Geraldine with eloquence. "Used to be quite a lot grow down in the medder," she said. Geraldine's heart beat like a little triphammer, but she did not look up from her plate, nor change her listless expression. "I'd like to go and see if there are any," she said. "I love them.
He married a girl from Cranberry Medder, and they went down East. I have heard that they were doing fust-rate." After riding for some time through low, woody places, where the grass grew on each side of the horse's track, we came to the main traveled road. Thistles were blooming and going to seed, all on one stock. Flax-birds were flying among them filling the air with their sweet notes.
Then she shut her eyes, and looked so white that Ben hurried away, and burst upon old Mrs. Paine, placidly knitting at the end door, so suddenly that, as she afterward said, "It sca't her like a clap o' thunder." "Ain't a man nowheres around. All down in the big medder gettin' in hay," was her reply to Ben's breathless demand for "everybody to come and see to Miss Celia."
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