The Face of the Fields

Years ago, the driver told me, the off ox was badly frightened by a big woolly coat, the sight or smell of which suggested to the creature some natural enemy, a panther, perhaps...

“I kissed my hand to the horse, grazing unconcernedly in the open field, and gave a smile to my crew. That was all I could give them, and hold myself and the eggs together. But...

+--------------------------------------------+ | By Dallas Lore Sharp | | | | | | THE FACE OF THE FIELDS, 12mo, $1.25, | | _net_. Postage extra. | | | | THE LAY OF THE LAND, 12m...

Not many men ought to live by the pen alone. A steady diet of inspiration and words is hard on the literary health. The writing should be varied with some good wholesome work, a...

Yet I could wish there were another tree here, besides the apple, and another toad. Suppose he never gets back? Only one toad less? A great deal more than that. Here in the old...

But these rural folk are quite difficult. It is hard to teach them anything worth while, so hopelessly surrounded are they with things--common things. If I could only get them i...

It is a large love for the earth as a dwelling-place, a large faith in the entire reasonableness of its economy, a large joy in all its manifold life, that moves the nature-writ...

For behold the clam crop how it grows!--precisely like any other crop, in the summer, or more exactly, from about the first of May to the first of December; and the growth is ve...

Yet such a comparison is beyond proof, except in the least of the literary values--mere quantity; and it may be with literature as with merchandise: the larger the cask the grea...

Our hunger for clams and their present scarcity have not been the chief factors in the new national movement for the conservation of our natural resources; nor are the soaring p...

Though to my city friends I seem somewhat remote and incontiguous, still I am not dissevered and dispersed from my kind, for I am only twenty miles from Boston Common, and as I...