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Updated: May 8, 2025
"No, it is no disrespect to the minister, but I canna hear his words to-day." And up the hill he went to the pasture-bars, and through the pasture "to Pine-tree Hollow," Katie thought, as her eyes followed him anxiously. "But He may show him His face, up yonder," said Katie, with tears; "and I am sure, and so is Miss Betsey, that she is no' so very ill."
Behind me, Cato struck flint and lighted two tall candles; outside the lawn, near the stockade, a stable-lad set a conch-horn to his lips, blowing a deep, melodious cattle-call, and far away I heard them coming tin, ton! tin, ton! tinkle! through the woods, slowly, slowly, till in the freshening dusk I smelled their milk and heard them lowing at the unseen pasture-bars.
Well, you might step over as far as the pasture-bars and see if all is right with old Kelso and her foal, for here come the bairns and their mother, and there will be no peace with them till they get their supper, and your head will be none the better for their noise." And so she got him away, going with him a few steps up the field.
Soon we turned into a lane, and came to the pasture-bars, Mr. Wetherell said: "You stay here with Darby, and I will drive the steers up to the bars, and salt them." I got out of the wagon, and unchecked Darby's head, and led him up to a plot of white clover, to get a lunch.
There surely must be some stories about its being haunted. We will ask Miss Honora." And we climbed over the boards which were put up like pasture-bars across the wide front gateway. "We shall certainly meet a ghost," said Kate.
He unhitched the colt himself, while his father trembled by with bent knees; he clapped the colt on the haunch and started him through the pasture-bars with a gay shout, and then put his arm round Clementina's waist, and walked her into the kitchen amidst the grins of his mother and sisters, who said he ought to be ashamed.
"I like to watch them," said Katie, "and, grandfather, doesna it mind you of the waves of the sea?" Her grandfather shook his head. "It's a bonny sight, but it is no like the waves of the sea." And thus a word dropped here and there till they came to the pasture-bars.
"I guess," said Brother Nathan, dryly, "there ain't any immediate danger of the world coming to an end." "I'd like to see that book," Lewis said, when they parted at the pasture-bars where a foot-path led down the hill to his own house. And that night Brother Nathan had an eager word for the family. "He's asked for a book!" he said.
She turned and went with him toward the pasture-bars, his favourite walk. They went slowly on together, speaking few words, content to be silent in each other's company. It was a bonny day, the old man said, and the grass was fine and green; and Katie bade him look at the barley turning yellow already, and at the purple shadows on the great hay-field as the wind passed over it.
The sheep behind the pasture-bars sent their greeting over the dewy fields, and the cows in the yard "mowed" placidly as they stirred one another with soft, slow movements. How fair and peaceful the place looked! How full of calm and quiet, yet strong life! The old man closed his eyes on it all. He was not thinking, he was hardly feeling.
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