The Village
After ing, in the forenoon, I
usually bats coves
for a stint, and was of labor from my person, or
smoot t wrinkle wudy he
afternoon ely free. Every day or trolled to the
village to ly going on
ting eito mouto
newspaper, and waken in hic doses, was really as
refress le of leaves and the peeping of
frogs. As I o see the birds and squirrels, so
I o see tead of the wind
among ts rattle. In one direction from my
s in the
grove of elms and buttonher horizon was a village of
busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prairie-dogs, each
sitting at ts burroo a neighbors
to gossip. I tly to observe ts. the
village appeared to me a great neo
support it, as once at Redding amp; Companys on State Street, they
kept nuts and raisins, or salt and meal and other groceries. Some
appetite for ty, t is, the
ne t forever in
public avenues stirring, and let it simmer and whisper
tesian winds, or as if in
only producing numbness and insensibility to pain -- ot
en be painful to bear -- affecting the
consciousness. I he
village, to see a roing on a ladder
sunning their
eyes glancing along t, from time to time,
uous expression, or else leaning against a barn h
ts, like caryatides, as if to prop it up.
t of doors, ever he wind.
t mills, in w rudely
di