Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-11-03
THE ORGANEST

by FlOItuCt AlNdIGT
The organest was seated at his organ
in a church,
In some beautiful woods of maple and
birch,
lie was very weary while he played upon
the keys,
But he was a great Organest and always
played with ease,
When the soul IS weary,
And the wind il dreary,
/ would like to h an organest seated all
day at the OF San,
Whether my narne might be FairChild or
Morgan,
I would play n. Isic like a vast amen,
The way it sOuIes in a church of men.
Florence reat her poem over seven
or eight times, me deepening pleasure
of her eXpressL-M being evidence that
repetition failet to denature this work,
but, on the cor tary, enhanced an APP
Dreciative surp<S sc at its singular mer-
it. Finally sh folded the sheet of
paper with a teiicate c]arefulness un-
usual to her, and placed it in her
skirt pocket. Then she went down
stairs and out into the back yard.
With thOughtfE' and determined eyes
she Obliqued ner gaze over the in
%tervening fenctJ to the repellent sky
line formed by the too-simpIe profile
of her cousin Herbert'S fathers sta
BILE. Her next action was straight
forward and anything but prudish she
climbed the higl board fences. M af.
ter the other. until she came to a
pause at the top OF that wherein the
two journalists had lately made them
selves so Odioully impressive.
Before her, if she had but taken
note of them, were a lesson in history
and the markings of a profound transit
ton in human evolution. Beside the
old frame stable was a little brick
garage, obviously put to the daily use
intended by its designer. Quite as OBJ
viOuSly the stable was obsolete; any
body would have known from its out
side that there was no horse within
It. Here, visible, was the end of the
pastoral age, 1t might he called,
from the Heidelberg jawhone to Mar
conf. The new age begins with ma
chimes that do away with laboring ami
mails and will proceed presently to
machines dom. away with labOring
men, although 1t is true that cows
may remain in vogue for some time.
In spite Of tie fact that they are
already MIXED by electricity, the milk
itself must yet be constructed by the
COW.
All this was lost upon Florence.
She sat upon ,he fence, her gaze I'M
favorably, thou IN wiStfully, fixed upon
a sign Of no special esthetic merit
above the stall lie door:
THE NORTH END DAILY ORIOLE.
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The inConsi nency of the word
"daily" did not trouble Florence ; more
over she had round no fault with
"Oriole" until t.e "Owners and Pro
preitOrs' had explained to her in the
plainest terms known to their vocabu-
laries that she was excluded from the
enterprise. Then, indeed, she had
been reciprocaIy explicit in regard,
not only to them and certain personal
characteristics Of theirs which she
pointed out as Fundamental, but in re-
gard to any newspaper which should
deliberately call itself an "Oriole."
The partners remained superior in
manner, though unable to conceal a
natural resentment they had adopted
"Oriole," not out Of sentiment for the
distant city of Baltimore, nor, indeed,
on account Of any ornithologic inter-
est Of their own, but as a relic from
an abandoned club, or secret society,