AN OLD FARM 145 



is protective and defensive. The whole 

 combination has the air of a fortification. 

 The house is joined to the woodshed and 

 the woodshed is joined to the barn. And 

 so the farmer can do his "chores" and 

 much other work snugly protected from 

 cold and storm. By changing one line 

 he could adopt the classic song: 



"Then come the wild weather, 

 Come sleet or come snow, 

 We're safe under cover, 

 However it blow." 



But the Westerner is not so protected. 

 He must take more chances with nature, 

 and so he may gain more pliability and 

 daring, and possibly, develop the capacity 

 to deal with things on a larger scale and 

 with originality. 



In those priceless Journals, now slowly 

 coming from the Riverside Press, Emer- 

 son refers to a Western hotel where, on 

 the wall of the dining room, there was this 

 notice: "No Gentleman Permitted to Sit 

 at the Table Without His Coat." Of 



