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Updated: September 17, 2025
With much curiosity I turned its pages, pages illustrated with pictures of the make-at-home things of the title, glancing at directions for constructing a weather-vane, a tent, a sled, and a multitude of smaller articles. I thought of my boyfriend. "Do you think he would care to have the book?" I inquired of his mother over the telephone.
For the hundredth time he made sure the ring was in the left pocket of his waistcoat. From down-stairs came the hum of voices mingled with the music. The warm breath of coming summer stole through the window. Sandy looked joyously out across the fields of waving blue-grass to the shining river. Down by the well was an old windmill, and at its top a weather-vane. When he spied it he smiled.
In New England it is scarcely ever safe to let the fire go out; it is best to bank it, for it needs but the turn of a weather-vane at any hour to sweep the Atlantic rains over us, or to bring down the chill of Hudson's Bay.
The bustle, rattle, and shouting were, in fact, augmented by the temporary interference. Everybody seemed in a hurry, and everybody seemed out of temper, save a boy who lay at full length on the quay and earnestly studied a weather-vane that was lazily trying to make up its mind which way to point. He was ragged and brawny and picturesque.
I would see a vague form on the far edge of the light's pathway; catch the bright flash of either eye as he swung his weather-vane head; then the vague form would slide into the upper darkness.
Above the ground floor and the first floor were three dormer windows projecting from a slate roof; on the peak of the central one was a new weather-vane. This modern innovation represented a hunter in the attitude of shooting a hare. The front door was reached by three stone steps.
They had come out upon an elevation above the hard service drive, and across it, below them, was the coach house with its clock-tower and weather-vane, and its two wings, enclosing a paved court where a whistling stable-boy was washing a carriage. Austen regarded this scene an instant, and glanced back at her profile. It was expressionless. "Might I not linger a few minutes?" he asked.
Harrison was waiting for her. Then she turned and smiled such a welcome of him from her shining eyes, that the weather-vane of Mr. Harrison's volatile affections veered to point straight Arethusa-ward. "Oh, it's you! I'm so glad! I've been wishing you'd come! I thought maybe you'd forgotten!" And the weather-vane became firmly fixed. But Mr. He considered himself now the very luckiest of mortals.
But all of a sudden he flew up on the tallest fence-post he could find, and flapped his wings. He threw back his head, opened his yellow beak, and crowed up at that gold rooster: "Sure, sure, sure! You couldn't do it, you couldn't do it couldn't do it, do." No, the Gold Rooster on the weather-vane on the top of the barn, though he shone like the sun, could neither crow nor raise a family.
"It looks like a weather-vane," said Billy. "There's something printed on it," said Roly. "It says STOP," said the boy they called Nuts. "It says GO" said the boy they called Brownie. "I think," said Townsend, scrutinizing the approaching transport in his funny way, "I think, I think, it's a traffic sign. You don't see any automobiles in the canoe, do you?"
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