SAG 75 



and when Sag's first inhabitants came. The 

 names are all true Irish, and the dates go back 

 to 1849, a great antiquity to a Chicagoan. 



Beyond the churchyard is a rolling upland 

 pasture, backed by woods now in their mid- 

 summer green. On the 

 edge of the wood is a 

 wild crab-apple tree, 

 and you may rest there 

 from the heat of the 

 sun and see in imagina- 

 tion what we have often 

 seen in reality, this pas- 

 ture and wood lot in the 

 springtime, the crab- 

 apple tree a glory of 

 coral buds and delicate 

 pink blossoms, their 

 deeper color accenting 

 the pink of the young 

 oak shoots, and itself accented by the flash of 

 a scarlet tanager, the whole making a lacery of 

 tender pink and green through which one might 

 look across the broad valley to another just such 

 screen made purple by the distance. 



Once there was another big boy, and one day 

 as we sat under the crab-apple tree, he came to 



