thatto have taken the field openly against his rival would have passed a pleasant life of it from hence the low murmur of his uncouth gallantries and though he had overheard a boast of bones that he might make his way merely through gates of iron and brass and walls of the schoolhouse and strolled idly about the banks of the brook entered the house the conquest of his neck for he held a tractable wellbroken horse as unworthy of a sloop riding quietly at anchor under the great elm or sauntering along in the eyes of the piazza honest balt would sit with a face dilated with content and goodhumor round and jolly as the reflection of the pumpkin which led some to suspect that he was universally known by the galloping hessian of the piazza honest balt would sit with a flaunting foxs tail and when the folks at a time thus going the rounds of the mansion and the poetic scrawl were forthwith consigned to the roof of his heart began to think all the witches in the air (C) 2026 Shane Cooper follow links in the poem, or start new path... |