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"Have they sowed the alfalfa and cut the oats?"
"Yes."
"Finished the farm-house?"
"No, not quite, but the painters are there, and Nelson has commenced
work on two other buildings."
"What time can I breakfast? I must catch the 8.10 train, and spend a
long day where things are doing."
Things were humming at Four Oaks when I arrived. Ten carpenters besides
Nelson and his son were pounding, sawing, and making confusion in all
sorts of ways peculiar to their kind. The ploughmen were busy. Thompson
and the other two men were shocking oats. I spent the day roaming around
the place, watching the work and building castles. I went to the alfalfa
field to see if the seed had sprouted. Disappointed in this, I wandered
down to the brook and planned some abridgment of its meanderings. It
could be straightened and kept within bounds without great expense if
the work were done in a dry season. Polly had asked for a winding brook
with a fringe of willows and dogwood, but I would not make this
concession to her esthetic taste.


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