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Excerpt from A Country Tragedy
IN moments of reverie a picture is often pre sented to my mind, so vividly and clearly, that I seem to be again standing in rapt contemplation of a scene once familiar and still dear to memory. The cultivated fields, on either sloping side of the valley, waving with grain and glistening with corn-blades, the village on a plain in the center, and the wood-crested hilltops, all har moniously blend to complete the vision. The thrifty dwellers in this quiet spot had not thought to improve on the beauties of nature, but such was the result. The effects of their labors constituted half the charm. Along the southern side ran a small stream, which, when the snows melted in Spring, rose above its banks and spread out to an alarm ing extent, while, in midsummer, as one of the old residents expressed it, the fish were put to it for a swimming place. Tradition has it that at one time these bills inclosed a lake which was drawn off and the land drained for cultivation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
