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Title: A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925. Aftermath
Subjects: Authors, American
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
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ramas of history. Yesterday, in the secretrecess of a walnut, I saw the beginning of theTrojan war. Last week I witnessed the battleof Actium fought out in mid-air. And downamong my hedges — indeed, openly in my verybarn-yard — there is a perfectly scandalous SaltLake City. And while I am watching the birds, they arewatching me. Not a little fop among them,having proposed and been accepted, but percheson a limb, and has the air of putting his handsmannishly under his coat-tails and crying out atme, Hello ! Adam, what were you made for ? You attend to your business, and Ill attend tomine, I answer. You have one May; I havetwenty-five! He didnt wait to hear. Hecaught sight of a pair of clear brown eyes peep-ing at him out of a near tuft of leaves, andsprang thither with open arms and the sound ofa kiss. But if I have twenty-five Mays remaining, arenot some Mays gone ? Ah, well! Better a sin-gle May with the right mate, than the full num-ber with the wrong. And where is she — the 6
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THE NEW NEIGHBOURS HAVE COME. 37 right one? If she ever comes near my yardand answers my whistle, Ill know it; and thenIll teach these popinjays in blue coats andwhite pantaloons what Adam was made for. But the wrong one — theres the terror!Only think of so composite a phenomenon asMrs. Walters, for instance, adorned with limpnightcap and stiff curl-papers, like garnishesaround a leg of roast mutton, waking up besideme at four oclock in the morning as some gray-headed love-bird of Madagascar, and beginningto chirp and trill in an ecstasy! The new neighbours have come — mother,younger daughter, and servants. The son is atWest Point; and the other daughter lingers afew days, unable, no doubt, to tear herself awayfrom her beloved penny-royal and dearest GreenRiver. They are quiet; have borrowed nothingfrom any one in the neighbourhood ; have well-dressed, well-trained servants; and one beginsto be a little impressed. The curtains they haveput up at the windows suggest that the wholen

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