Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-10

I French wit The Nature to which "a far rner's occupation makes him perpetual valet is a little too raw, atoo coarse, too uncorubed-not to be too sqllea nlish with words-.s.- little too nasty to stim- ulate his n1 gination to poetic visions.
 It is the occasional visitor and guest, held off at the proper distance, to- whom Nature shows her most afiuring en- To such guest. gazing from an eastern window upon the crimson gates of dawn. swinging, Slowly apart for the coming of the majestic sun, irnag agination/ is easy and natural.
 To the farmer, coming down from the. barn with. the mornings milk, that same spectacle means simply trouble. "GaIl," he .ejaculates, rain before highland ten acres of hay down to be spoiled p
 The summer guest. looking up at my hill pastures glowing in the westering sun with great masses. of auriate yellow flaming out from carpet of contrast l ing dull purple, sisl1ss with admiration and envies me the every day sight of l this beauty. i I, looking into my half-empty milk lpan or at the increasing gauntness of | my cows, wonder sanxiousfy where I an, going to find adequate pastursge for them, now that my hills are all over grown with golden-rod. and wild thyme, both weeds which no COW will eatsunless close to starvation. s9
 When the actor. panoplied in gleam- ling. armor, draws his shining sword and, leaping upon a fallen block Uf inc erumbling wall, shouts
 T "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once. mores''
 the audience, is stirred to admiration
 and applause.
 l Not so the actors who, standing close beside the figure of the fair-haired liar. jry of England, see that his gleaInins srnor is only, polished tin. and his r shining sword only. plated. hoop-iron
 and the huge stone on which he rest. . his advanced foot is only paste-boarc , imitation, which he must touch witl : practiced care lest it bend or. breal 1; under his weight.
 <, It. is distance which lends .enchant 5 1 meRt to most views. It is the tln6nowl
 which is mostly taken for the nlagnii
 cent It is the unusual which is inter
 esting. It is the hidden and -nysteriou which fires the imagination. a. z The ordinary farmer, who stand closer to Nature than any other man
 Ewho, despite his. admitted ignorance Q c her meaning and many of her method: 0 nevertheless lives nearest to her drivin j. NIiCCAS fiO SSSS itl palillSu GuilStt e and her solemn stars only from afar of
 but walks daily with his feet in S.e t mud and slime; whose wellbeing an v whose very life depend upon what il e can coax or cajole out Of that underfaf : mold-Oh! do not blame him too S,
 tyerely if he keeps his eyes most of th
 time on the ground!
 He is really in small danger of buul II ins his head against any star, eve :. lwithout looking up to avoid it. while i : lis all, the time in inn;aent' danger 2. gettfRg$a mired or quick -seEded if I :. doesn't .sedulousiy watch every step. : And yetAE
 7, Who can doubt, who will deny tn; = the ideal farmer of an ideal age. sue !. as Ee all desire and pray for, will y Find tonshes 5in trees, books in il I running brooks
 Sermons in stones, and good in ever, thing2"
 2 2 Who. can doubt that he will hay ,,4 With his other enlarged faculties, il