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A tailor is sewing before his door with a young priest seated sociably beside him ; a burly friar goes by with an empty wine -barrel on his head ; children are at play ; women, at their own doorsteps, mend clothes, embroider, weave hats of Tuscan straw, or twirl the distaff. Many idlers, meanwhile, strolling from one group to another, let the warm day slide by in the »weet, interminable task of doing nothing. From all these people there comes a babblement that seems quite disproportioned to the... number of tongues that make it. So many words are not uttered in a New England village throughout the year — except it be at a political canvass or town-meeting — as are spoken here, with no especial purpose, in a single day. Neither so many words, nor so much laughter; fox Digitized by CjOOQ IC SCENES BY THE WAY. people talk about nothing as if they were terribly in earnest, and make merry at nothing as if it were the best of all possible jokes. In so long a time as they have existed, and within such narrow precincts, these little walled towns are brought into a closeness of so- ciety that makes them but a larger household.
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