My Winter Garden a Nature Lover Under Southern Skies
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You may smile, but to me there is some- thing ineffably comforting and sweet in those bucolic sounds — the lowing of cows, the bleating of sheep, the crowing of cocks, and the " Gee-erp ther'— way hare ! " of the lank and honest mountaineer. Entering the foot-hills, I slackened my pace, looking about for an eligible place H 209 irn tbe Moo&s wftb tbe 3Bow to make my headquarters. I noted with delight that the cabins were far apart, sep- arated by wooded hills and hollows, where a fine vernal te...nderness was spreading in many shades of green. In places violets grew so abundantly that the ground looked as if a bit of sky had fallen so hard that the impact had made froth of .it ; and these spots were sometimes offset by beds of rose-purple claytonias. The road dwin- dled to a mere desultory cartway, which finally led me to the cabin of one Thomas Shamly, who took me in and entertained me to the best of his ability, giving me a little room on the end of a lean-to veranda to sleep in ; and next morning he hitched his little mules to his rickety wagon and hauled me nine miles to the place of Simp- son Jarvis, " over on the crick," as Mr.
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