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The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)

CHAPTER XXXIV
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They bulged to the bursting point with chestnuts, also the spoil of the grasping little fingers.
Boy is city-born and city-bred, and a day in the country is better than a thousand in street and park.

A day in the woods, when chestnuts and walnuts hustle down with every breath of air, and the hollows are knee-deep with painted leaves, has joys the eager tongue trips over itself in the endeavor to recount.

Boy and Boy's mother took the six o'clock train to town last night.

This morning, throwing open the parlor blinds, I espy the six flat, white beans and the three red-speckled crab-apples.

They were so much to the owner; except for the value imparted by association with the dancing blue eyes and the tight clutch of fingers that had green stains on them when the wrestle with the pods was over, they are so much more than worthless to everybody else--that there is infinite pathos in the litter.


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