[October Vagabonds by Richard Le Gallienne]@TWC D-Link bookOctober Vagabonds CHAPTER XX 4/4
Yawger," "A.W. Gillum," "Pastor," and so on.
Here the pious of the district tied up their buggies while they went within to pray, and these sacred stalls made a quaint picture for the imagination of outlying farmers driving to meeting over the hills on Sabbath mornings. It was a beautiful morning of veiled sunshine, so warm that some hardy crickets chirped faintly as we went along.
Once a blue jay came and looked at us, and the squirrels whirred among the chestnuts and hickories, and the roadsides were so thickly strewn with fallen nuts that we made but slow progress, stopping all the time to fill our pockets. For a full hour we sat down with a couple of stones for nut-crackers, and forgot each other and everything else in the hypnotizing occupation of cracking hickory-nuts.
And we told each other that thus do grown sad men become boys again, by a woodside, of an October morning, cracking hickory-nuts, the world well lost..
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