2OO FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



those days was really a crown) should crow, 

 &quot;the rude forefathers of the hamlet&quot; up in 

 heaven would certainly recognize his voice, 

 and know that he was an Underledge 

 rooster, and that he brought news of the 

 faithfulness of their successors. 



Upon the slope directly in front of me, and 

 fifty or sixty yards away, are the drying 

 walls of the cottage, with their wide-open 

 eyes, and heaped around is the lumber for 

 the superstructure, which during the next 

 sennight will so greatly change the appear 

 ance of the building. The rapid fall of the 

 ground beyond conceals from my view, from 

 this point, the picturesque pasture and the 

 damp, green marsh ; but I see the orchard 

 beyond, then here and there a chimney or 

 bit of roof rising among the trees at the 

 north end of the village, then the line of 

 great elms and maples indicating the course 

 of the river. The farm lands of the, intervale 

 show varying shades of green and brown, 

 spotted here and there with scattered trees, 

 and divided by a few fences scarcely visible 

 from here, and wild hedgerows, with a 

 considerable farmstead in the middle dis 

 tance, two or three isolated houses and 

 barns, an occasional cluster of bits of 

 roof indicating a village, with now and 



