86 THE JONATHAN PAPERS 



If people are engaged, or mean to be, they 

 drive out together; if they are married, they 

 go home to &quot;his folks &quot;or &quot;her folks.&quot; Friends 

 walk together, farmers saunter along the road 

 or back on the farms to &quot;take a look&quot; at 

 things. Consciously or not, and usually not, 

 there is a kind of synthesis taking place, a 

 gathering together of the scattered threads 

 of many interests, a vague sense of the whole 

 ness of life. 



At five o clock the cows turn towards home, 

 and graze their leisurely way along the barn 

 yard lanes. And with the cows come duties, 

 chore-time, then the simple, cold supper, 

 then the short, quiet evening, and off we 

 swing into the night that sweeps us away 

 from the crest down into the long, blind hol 

 low of the week. 



