Hills of the Shatemuc

e played rou

s and dimple

d the bow

dily at a

ice that was

"ere long w

odly, and stro

athered a

GFE

ank fortune!" exclaimed Rufus

t there in the middle of t

the tea-cups and saucers off t

ur balance," said his brother tartly.

ff anything!" said Asah

where your

N

atter, Will?" s

doors, on the handl

ai

- on the g

I've got it here. There - see to it, Asahel

his hat, but n

ernor - she has been c

s old, at his feet, and took her up, to the perfect satisfaction of both parties. Her head n

makes you call Winthrop Gove

nd run and tell him

emains of the fire that had boiled the kettle were not amiss after the damps of evening fell; and the room itself, with its big fireplace, high dark-painted wainscoting, and e

hrough with that wh

e disposed of

hrough sowing?"

go into the garden to-morrow - I can't att

this year, Mr. Landholm? - it's

sweet enough. I haven't much time to attend to

gs substantial, si

le fat creature who was still in her brother's arms and giving him the charge of her

m, "there's wood wanting to be got. I am alm

without supper. - Rufus, I guess you'll have to go up into the woods to-morrow with the ox-sled

are called substantial things are the least substantia

her?" said

belong to the mind - things which have to do with somethin

id his father dryly; "we must eat, in the first place. You must keep the body aliv

r kind of work, sir, do you?" said Winthr

I do. It has always been my desire that you and Will should be better off in this r

ilence of

hich 'really last,' Ru

very direct answer, but the que

n of cultivation and refinement and elegant leisure; - hugely unknown, and yet surely laid hold of by the mind's want. But though fancy saw her for a moment in some strange travestie of years and education and circumstances, that was only a flash of fancy - not dwelt upon. Other thoughts were more near and pressing, though almost as vague. In vain he endeavoured to calculate expenses that he did not know, wants that he could not estimate, difficulties that loomed up with no certain outline, means that were far beyond k

ady to go than his parents were to send him, - if they could; and in their case, as in his, the lack of power was made up by will. Rufus should have an education. He should go to College. Not more cheerfully on his pa

on to College was already a great stretch of effort, and of possibility; to send two

he hope that it might take root and thrive better on its own stock elsewhere. It was cheerfully done, all round. The father took bravely the added burden with the lessened means; the mother gave her strength and her eyesight to make the needed preparations; and to supply the means for them, all pinched themsel

ne, to see a neighbour come in. Even that, Winthrop shunned; he was cleaning the harness of the wagon, and he took it out into

ll, - "I hear tell one of your s

and sorrow struggling together i

's he

l - in the

h? - What's

do you

e goin' t

ies - there's an Ac

- And so he's goin'

farmer do with

- send for you, n

on I've got enough to d

ch but fish, do you? - t

ound. You can't run corn straight up a hill

very

that kind o' way o' farmin

aid Mr. Landholm, with a

hodel; then he aint going to - a - what d

y and by he'll go to

at he wan

nt it too,

ld by them all," said the father, with a mixture of pride express

inthrop quit the stoop. "He'll never run a plough up the side of a hous

Landholm with a sigh. "That m

to hum," said Mr. Underhill; - "but that's not my affair. Well, I

e laws for you," Mr. La

his hat, - "I wish they'd put you u

k you

'd give me somethin' nother

is own wit, Mr. U