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in my garden, and I can't get rid of it. It 

 beats me." 



About " pusley " the guide had no theory 

 and no hope. A feeling of awe came over 

 me, as we lay there at midnight, hushed by 

 the sound of the stream and the rising wind 

 in the spruce-tops. Then man can go no- 

 where that " pusley " will not attend him. 

 Though he camp on the Upper Au Sable, or 

 penetrate the forest where rolls the Allegash, 

 and hears no sound save his own allegations, 

 he will not escape it. It has entered the 

 happy valley of Keene, although there is yet 

 no church there, and only a feeble school 

 part of the year. Sin travels faster than 

 they that ride in chariots. I take my hoe, 

 and begin ; but I feel that I am warring 

 against something whose roots take hold 

 onH. 



By the time a man gets to be eighty he 

 learns that he is compassed by limitations, 

 and that there has been a natural boundary 

 set to his individual powers. As he goes on 

 in life, he begins to doubt his ability to de- 



