. Home school of American literature: . ut that inter-est is deepened by their constant recurrence. The horses at the trough; thesheep beside the stream as placid as themselves, or on the green uplands; the cowsstolidly biding the coming of afternoon under the trees, or standing knee-deep in the cool brooks; the cluckingof hens and their bustling leis-ure ; the going out of the work-ers, with implements, seed,machines, wagons, and theirreturn at sunset; the stir of themorning, the hush of the even-ing; what a world of homely,wholesome life is revealed inthese old-time doings and hap-penings of
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. Home school of American literature: . ut that inter-est is deepened by their constant recurrence. The horses at the trough; thesheep beside the stream as placid as themselves, or on the green uplands; the cowsstolidly biding the coming of afternoon under the trees, or standing knee-deep in the cool brooks; the cluckingof hens and their bustling leis-ure ; the going out of the work-ers, with implements, seed, machines, wagons, and theirreturn at sunset; the stir of themorning, the hush of the even-ing; what a world of homely, wholesome life is revealed inthese old-time doings and hap-penings of the seasons and thelife on the farm. But the farm is often only r.unit of measurement, a term ofindividual possession; there is-something greater; there is thecountry. Beyond the fieldsthere is the landscape, andabove them there is. the sky;and every farm fits into thesewider relations and is part ofthe larger whole. The woods, cool and silent; the spring hid-den from the sun by overhang-suNDAY AFTERNOON Jug trccs and from strange feet. 104 Country Sights and Sounds i by moss-grown rocks; the brook whereitruns noiselessly inashadow so deep atnoon that one bathes his eyes in it afterthe glare of the world; the old mill, de-serted by man but loyally served by thestream that flows through the decayingsluice and over the wheel that turns nomore; the quiet hilltop, above which thewhole country sleeps on summer after-noons;—these are all simply extensionsof the farm. The boys know them onholidays; the older people are drawn to