shoulders. This leaves the body erect, the head high, the eyes straight
ahead, the lungs full of good air. It is the attitude that every man at
arms should wish to take, After a day in the woods I feel some such
erectness of spirit, a life of the head, and a clearer and calmer
vision, for I have raised up my hands to the heavens, and drawn in the
odours and sights and sounds of the good earth.

* * * * *

One of the great joys of such times of retirement perhaps the greatest
of the joys is the return, freshened and sweetened, to the common life.
How good then appear the things of the garden and farm, the house and
shop, that weariness had staled; how good the faces of friends.



CHAPTER VI


+NO TRESPASS+

I live in a country of beautiful hills, and in the last few years, since
I have been here with Harriet, I have made familiar and pleasant
acquaintance with several of them....

One hill I know is precious to me for a peculiar reason. Upon the side
of it, along the town road, are two or three old farms with lilacs like
trees about their doorways, and ancient apple orchards with great gnarly
branches, and one has an old garden of hollyhocks, larkspurs, zinnias,
mignonette, and I know not how many other old-fashioned flowers. Wild