of being outward bound and did not turn aside nor linger the high pasture land grew more and more i stopped to pick some that at me like beads among their dry vines and two or three yellow birds fluttered up from the leaves of a and then came back again as if they had complacently discovered that i was only an overgrown yellow bird in strange disguise but perfectly harmless they made me feel as if i were an though they did not offer to i tbe of al me and we it was good to at last on the great of the hill the wind was in from the there a fine fragrance from the pines and the air grew sweeter moment i took new pleasure in the thought that in a piece of wild pasture land like this one may get to nature aad upon what she of her own free will hare been no to the soil aad h yielding artificial here one has to take just what nature is pleased to whether one is a yellow or a human being it is good entertainment for a summer and i am my reader now to the winter pro � i that day let us hope that the small birds are also well after their but i them an while the snow goes in wares across the buried fields hue windy winter night i went farther down the hill and a drink of fresh cool water from the brook and pulled a tender of sweet g it the old fence just b� was the barrier between me aad tbe of the pasture which had sent an invisible messenger earlier in the day but i tiiat somebody else had come first to tlie there was a brown ca and a shawl up and down a little way off among the i had taken such uncommon pleasure in being alone that i instantly felt a sense of then a warm glow of pleasant satisfaction my selfishness tliis could be no one but dear old mrs tlie friend of my childhood and fond dependence of my years i had not seen her for many weeks but here she was out on one of her famous for or perhaps just returning from a expedition i approached with care so as not to the net but she heard the rustle of the against my dress and looked up quickly as she knelt bending uie turf in that position she was hardly taller than the i m a in my she said briskly an i ye been thinking o yoa these twenty times since i come out o the house i begun to most forgot me at last of i from home i explained why t in your too � a great plantation of it beyond the next fence but one � i repeated the dear little old woman with an air of compassion for inferior knowledge t ain t the right time s too rank now but this day is prime te got a dreadful fit for em this year seems if i must to need em i feel like the must when they know a hard s and mrs bent her work again while i stood by and watched her carefully cut the best f grown with a clumsy pair of which mi t have through at least half a century of they were fastened to her apron strings by a long piece of list m going to take my jack knife and help you i suggested with some fear of i just passed a flourishing family ef six or seven heads that must hare been on purpose for you now be dear heart was the response � em well s odds b same s there is in tbe of angels take a plant that s all run up to stalk and there ain t but little goodness in the leaves this one i m at now must ha been stepped on by some and of its bloom and the is ban some i when i was small i used to hare a notion that adam an eve must a took fer their winter wear ain t they just like flannel for all the had and i know there s plenty of sickness might be saved to folks if they d quit horse and such ry things and use iu pro season now i shall these an dry em nice on my spare floor in the an come to steam em for use along in the winter there be the of the whole summer s goodness in em and she away with the while i listened respectfully and took great pains to hare my part of the present a good appearance � � this is most too dry a head she added presently a little out of breath there i can tell you there s win rows o doctors with book thai is truly ignorant of what to do for the sick or how to p int out those paths that well r or book fools i men an on em to know much better if b in my time every woman who bad brought np a lad proper ideas o with its i won t say but there was some but i d rather take my es s they d and with patent stuff now my did sense the use of and see anybody that up she was a meek woman mother was i that s where you learned so much mrs i ventured to say your heart i don t hold a candle i is but little i can recall of what to say no her died with i my friend m a self was as many as twenty roots alone that she used to keep bat i forget the use of an i m t know where to find the � n� any there was an � it 