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Updated: May 11, 2025
I had just graduated from Center College, and having in mind to practice law in Lexington, had during the summer formed the habit of going down to the springhouse and under the shade of its eaves and the overhanging elms, sit and read Kent's Commentaries. A negro family lived in the cabin, Mose Hunter, his wife and boy.
The old shell parted and burned as tinder. Then the mortal put on immortality and the shackled darkness of the old soul gave place to light and liberty. I awoke. It was near twilight; the world seemed new and fresh, but it was the old home place. I bent over and examined my couch; it was the old slab shelf of the springhouse.
I folded a couple of pies and put them in the crown of my hat," explained the judge. "You mean you've been in somebody's springhouse?" "It was unlocked, Solomon, This will be a warning to the owner. I consider I have done him a kindness."
Then came the fierce winds of March to melt the snow and to dry the earth; and presently woods and fields were springing into new beauty under the gentle touch of April shower and sunshine. The school term ended in March. The same need which called Abner and the larger boys to the fields, provided tasks in garden, poultry-yard, loom-room and springhouse for the girls.
Near Winchester, Kentucky, driving out the Lexington turnpike you pass an old brick farmhouse of ante-bellum days; flanked on the one side by an old stone springhouse under two spreading elms and on the other by a large tobacco barn that looks extremely modern and out of place.
She was still in her riding clothes, her head bare with its ribbon half untied in the nape of her slender neck. The tree-toads were singing off by the springhouse and the cattle in the big corrals made the low, ceaseless night-sounds common to a herd. The riders were gone, the vaqueros were at their posts around the resting stock, the low adobe house was settling into the quiet of the night.
So I went down to the springhouse, carried the rustic chair into the open beyond the shade and carefully loosened and removed one of the legs, placing the chair in such a position as to show it was unserviceable and undergoing repairs; then I returned to the house. In about an hour Doctor Brown left the library for the springhouse, carrying a couple of books and a scratch pad under his arm.
No body, not the best natured creeter in the world, can see through a dog when it is held clost up to the eye, closer than anything else. Wall, we drove down to what they called Vichy Spring and there on a pretty pond clost to the springhouse, we see a boat with a bycycle on it, and a boy a ridin' it. The boat wuz rigged out to look like a swan with its wings a comin' up each side of the boy.
After dinner as it was a very warm day, I suggested we go to the springhouse and read, and from the library got for him Fox's "Lives of The Martyrs." I took the lead and appropriated the rustic chair under the elms, forcing him to occupy the stone bench in the springhouse. He made several efforts to start an argument on the labor question, which I carefully avoided.
"We're all right, but well-nigh smothered," returned Enoch, hoarsely. "Bring bring some water!" He staggered out of the cabin and fell upon the ground. In a moment the surprised neighbors were running with buckets and pans from the well, for Mistress Harding's milk vessels had been left to dry outside the springhouse.
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