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But, alas! the scene-setting was meagre, and though Enoch was very clean, he had no good clothes. He had pointedly refused to buy them with his wife's money until he should have worked on the farm to a corresponding amount. She had loved him for it; but every day his outer poverty hurt her pride. "I guess you better ask him in," concluded Enoch. "Don't you let him bother you."
When the mystery-plays of the centuries gone by were produced in Europe, the tree most like to what these good people thought was the real sycamore furnished the branches used in the scene-setting and it was either the oriental plane, or the sycamore-leaved maple that was chosen, as convenient.
And under every roof the wail was repeated in many keys. Meantime, the log cabin had been going steadily up, and a week before the great day, it was completed. This was a typical scene-setting, the cabin of a first settler, and through one wild leap of fancy it became suddenly and dramatically dignified.
But, alas! the scene-setting was meagre, and though Enoch was very clean, he had no good clothes. He had pointedly refused to buy them with his wife's money until he should have worked on the farm to a corresponding amount. She had loved him for it; but every day his outer poverty hurt her pride. "I guess you better ask him in," concluded Enoch. "Don't you let him bother you."
And under every roof the wail was repeated in many keys. Meantime, the log cabin had been going steadily up, and a week before the great day, it was completed. This was a typical scene-setting, the cabin of a first settler, and through one wild leap of fancy it became suddenly and dramatically dignified.
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