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Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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n his last journey. It hadbeen his wish. Children and grandchildrenwalked behind him under boughs ladenwith the mellow fruit of trees his hands hadplanted. The next June GrandmotherKing was carried to him over the sameway—the bride going once more to herbridegroom under the glory of their bridaltrees. I visited the orchard not long ago on amellow afternoon. It did not seem muchchanged. Most of the old trees werestanding; grandfathers and grandmotherswere gone, but their places were filled withtwo flourishing young trees planted whenthe homestead boy had brought his bridehome. Aunt Unas seat was there andUncle Stephens avenue; the King Bubblewas as clear and sparkling as of yore—truly, it was a fountain of youth, for it nevergrew old. And at the big granite bowlderchildren were playing Ivanhoe andbesieging it valiantly with arrows and pop-guns. My best wish for them was that inthe years to come the old orchard mighthold for them as many sweet and enduringmemories as it held for me.
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