It was too early for frogs, and it was ten miles to
rowback home.
Like many people who have to travel a great deal I
get absent-minded about it. The Southern women, one finds, are
distinguishedeverywhere by their dignity and reserve. There is, let it be noticed,
all the difference in the worldbetween this process and petty larceny.
The people say goodbye, getinto their motor car,
and are NOT gone. For example, in spring there is supposed to be a tremendous
gayetylet loose.
Butvery naturally they do not want a lot of random
people rummagingthrough their cars.
But the porter told me that wehad passed
Fredericksburg.
We feel we need information, light,
knowledge.
Well, there was a young lady there from Dayton,
Ohio, and shednever fished before. When the poet wanted inspiration hewent and
talked with a shepherd.
I had a match in my other pantsyesterday, but I
left them at home. We only quit after wed cut off all our buttons and ourpants were
falling off us! But our final choice was LakeOwatawetness in the mountains. So far
we have never seenthem break their necks. The difference begins at the very moment
of embarkation. Witness, in illustration, some of the gladsigns that mark the
oncoming of the Autumn season.
The conviction was gradually borne in on me as I
keptgoing south that I was getting South. They said the governors address was
great.
Even the beautiful big blue violets will soon be
with us, at fivedollars a bunch. We thought first of New York or Chicago as the
place for us, butthey always seemed too crowded. But the rubber tree sees more of
love in oneevening than the hawthorn does in its whole life.
This time Jones is determined that when the engine
starts hellkeep it started.
I have always found in this respect the greatest
readiness togive me a fair share of everything. They dont, but it is an honourable
fiction and reflects credit onhumanity.