pasture-hour

Updated: August 15, 2026

Forth stumbles the still drowsy cowherd, with his horn; putting which to his lips, it emits a bellowing bray, impossible to be represented in the picture, but which reaches the pricked-up ears of every cow in the settlement, and tells her that the dewy pasture-hour is come.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Main Street: (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")