mentioned that his overcoat would n t do him any harm if he had it then and he and went away together while turned toward the other direction suppose you be out to town meeting called after him it was fairly amazing that nobody should have spoken about the great day of which were in every man s mind to a greater or less degree had not been without his hopes of running for � to tell the truth he had looked forward all the week before to his cause among his neighbors by a friendly word in season on sunday but his uncle s wrongs had driven his own political interests quite out of his head he walked slowly home in the fast gathering spring the noise of the brook growing fainter and fainter he a slight reaction from his enthusiasm and wished he had not spoken a farmer warmly against his cousins mary s a poor dragging he said to himself and as for she s near and set in her own way but she may treat the old gentleman well for shame s sake i don t know but i was hasty but i don t care if was it wa n t the right thing for her to do and then there s by way of any harm he might have done he held his peace in his own household and refrained from the of a sunday evening by introducing this most interesting subject of conversation he had a way of keeping things to himself at times which his wife found most provoking but he was possessed of that trait of many people of telling his secrets generously and even if he once was forced to break through the first barrier of reserve the next morning was clear and not cold but the warmth and influence of the day before was not to be felt it was commonplace new england spring weather and had a relationship to the melting of snow and the lingering of winter which was most a large number of persons had taken violent and the preserved a discreet silence wore not only his overcoat to town meeting but a round a farmer ms throat as well and he from time to tune angrily as if it were a note of and contempt there was a grand quarrel over the laying out of a new piece of road and it was at first found very difficult to choose the town officers there was a monotonous repetition of the house and when lost at last the position of he had become so angry with some of his and so tired with the noisy war that the glory of the occasion was very much it was over at four o clock and nobody had had any dinner except a slight refreshment of apples and very watery and sour which could be bought at abominable prices over the of one of the which were fastened in long rows to the fences near the old meeting house which had been given over to purposes was by no means a favorite among his he was very and had saved considerable money for which it was supposed had married him he was of the opposite party in politics to and he had been the opposing and successful candidate for the office which had lost s wagon was next but one and the two men their horses without looking at each other went home pre a farmer to believe any report of cruelty or on the part of his uncle s children and full of the intention to tell the story of their in his own household but he was not even to have this pleasure on that unlucky day his wife asked him reproachfully as he entered why he had said nothing of what everybody had been talking about who went by the house and which would have been no story at all without his own report already much of the meanness and of the next morning resumed his business of from which he had taken a two days but the excitement had been a good deal of a strain upon him and he worked without much enthusiasm for a few hours and about eleven o clock laid down his tools altogether the spoke was so dull that it needed grinding and there was nobody to turn the and his head ached a little he did not feel inclined to start out upon a new piece of work and taking a disgusted look around the shop at the limbs of various old and new he threw off his apron and went to the house which was only a few rods distant along the road outside the shop door were some of wheels in various stages of decay and and two or three old wagon bodies and chaise tops were rest a farmer ing on the ground in most forlorn condition as if they had been exposed to all the winter weather the wood work of one new farm cart was set up on and had received its first coat of paint but that was the only sign of any progress of the art that was carried on within one would think from the outward appearance of a s shop that it was also a of worn out carriages of every description the trade is apparently never carried on without much useless rubbish unless one may venture the suggestion that it is necessary to have a collection of specimens showing the advances and effects of various diseases of wheels as are furnished forth with on the seat of an old wagon there was perched a large rag doll and when saw it he smiled for the first time that morning he was very fond of his little girl to whom the doll belonged he pushed open the kitchen door with some faint of pleasure for a great of a well 