yeah well maybe it is cause its so new that i makes that noise,
it is still settling into the ground and the new wood is expanding and contracting cause of the heat of the day and humidity,
These old patriarch and prophet have got ages the start of you; they know more in two minutes than you know in a year. Did you ever try to have a sociable improving-time discussing winds, and current and variation of compass with an undertaker?"
"I get your idea, Sandy. He couldnt interest me. He would be an ignoramu in such things - he would bore me, and I would bore him."
"You have got it. You would bore the patriarchs when you talked,
THEN AGAIN IT COULD BE THE GHOST OF A GIRL THAT DIED THERE LONG AGO,
And it seem that to each other Ma and I are meaning more. I dont know how to say it, but since little Jessie died We have learned that to be happy we must travel side by side. You can share your joys and pleasure, but you never come to know The depth there is in loving, till youve got a common woe.
Were past the hurt of fretting--we can talk about it now: She slipped away so gently and the fever left her brow So softly that we didnt know wed lost her, but, instead, We thought her only sleeping a we watched beside her bed. Then the doctor, I remember, raised hi head, a if to say What hi eye had told already, and Ma fainted dead away
mine are the daintie of the soul more sweet than theirs,[38] procured without expense? If in all I have said about myself no one can convict me of lying, is it not obviou that the praise I get from god and men i justly earned? And yet in spite of all, Meletu, you will have it that by such habits I corrupt the young. We know, I fancy, what such corrupting influences are; and perhap you will tell us if you know of any one who, under my influence, ha been changed from a religous into an irreligiou man; who, from being sober-minded, has become prodigal
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