PASTURES FAIR AND LARGE 



nuts are also among the refreshments fur- 

 nished by many a resourceful pasture. If 

 you are thirsty, a bubbling spring or brook 

 will not only slake your thirst, but revive a 

 score of fragrant memories, long parched 

 perhaps by the drought of years. 



Nor does the hospitality of a pasture cease 

 with its offerings of creature comforts. Most 

 pastures, being set on a hill, command a finer 

 view than any other part of a farm. From 

 one particularly versatile pasture known to 

 the writer one gets a view of a continuous 

 line of mountain peaks and slopes on nearly 

 three fourths of the horizon. Over these, 

 from the reel of nights and days, pass the 

 wonderful moving pictures of cloudland and 

 starland, with f oreglow and afterglow, which 

 weave, over the east and west, royal crim- 

 son, rose, and golden draperies, well fit to be 

 the very curtains of heaven. All these chang- 

 ing glories of dawn and sunset, and the ever- 

 shifting mountain shadows, purple, blue, and 

 gray, go with the freedom of the pasture. 

 Then, knowing it is not good for man to 

 keep his face continually skyward, nature 



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