MY NEIGHBOR S FIELD 



of wild seeds that go down in the irrigating 

 ditches to come up as weeds in the gar- 

 dens and grass plots. But when I had no 

 more than seen it in the charm of its spring 

 smiling, I knew I should have no peace 

 until I had bought ground and built me a 

 house beside it, with a little wicket to go 

 in and out at all hours, as afterward came 

 about. 



Edswick, Roeder, Connor, and Ruffin 

 owned the field before it fell to my neigh- 

 bor. But before that the Paiutes, mesne 

 lords of the soil, made a campoodie by the 

 rill of Pine Creek ; and after, contesting the 

 soil with them, cattle-men, who found its 

 foodful pastures greatly to their advantage ; 

 and bands of blethering flocks shepherded 

 by wild, hairy men of little speech, who at- 

 tested their rights to the feeding ground 

 with their long staves upon each other's 

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