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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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A SPRING-HOUSE. nearest neighbor, or else interlacing* themwith ineffectual fondness. There is some-thing pathetic in the sight, and in thethouerht of those innumerable strickenones that in years agone were dismem-bered for cord-wood and kitchen stovesand the vast fire-places of old-time negrocabins. In the truly blue-grass pasture allundergrowth and weeds are annually cutdown, so that the massive trunks are re-vealed from a distance; all the better be-cause the branches seldom are lower thanfrom ten to twenty feet above the earth.Thus in its daily course the sun strikesevery point beneath the broad branches,and nourishes the blue-grass up to thevery roots. All savagery, all wildness, istaken out of them; they are full of tender-ness and repose—of the utmost delicacyand elegance. Beneath, over all the grace-ful earth, spreads the flowing green, uni-form and universal. Above this stand thefull, swelling trunks—warm browns andpale grays—often lichen-flecked or moss-enamelled. Over

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