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The group of sketches and stories that make up this volume are chiefly of New England in former days. Their author knew New England, not as an onlooker, but as a partaker of its life, which she shared for more than eighty years. But while she delighted in its manner of speech and all its little daily ways, she saw its life also in the light of a large setting; as a child wandering out into the morning sees its own familiar little places bright with the hopes and adventures of a great world. In these stories meagre, unknown lives, hidden away among the New England hills, narrowed and hampered in many a way, give out their own note of joy and triumph. To one with seeing eyes, who knows what has gone into the making of such lives, and under what great skies all lives dwell, they shine out, like the papers in the box labeled signal failures, touched with vitality and beauty, - part of the great heart of things.
MY fireplace glowed with fragrant applewood embers, sending up spires Of flame as I thrust in the poker. I took up sheaf after sheaf of papers from my large box labeled 'signal Failures,' but they would not drop of their own accord. As my inward gaze stared into the very heart of these sketches they came forth bright and keen, very phoenixes from their ashes to be. The days ran trooping back when I had sat at my desk with sleet rattling on my window, or the 'soft-footed snow'; when I had wandered later under the apple trees in bloom and taken to heart earth's un stinted gifts. I could see June's exquisite pink and whiteness, feel along my nerve footpaths the tingle of its fragrance; hear the robin's pre~empting cry as he took possession of a crotch above cat-reach; and the memory of it held my hand.
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- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1331404657
- ISBN 13 9781331404651
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages292
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