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feet aever strayed outside the limits 
of the great uplands on which he 
was horn. Changes came, as they 
will come alike to those who sit at 
the fireside and to those who travel. 
One alter another the children who 
grew up under the root sought the 
larger opportunities of more active 
communities; the family shrunk un- 
til John alone of the younger gen- 
eration remained. Then the father 
and mother died; there were hrief 
home-comings, when the elders 
were carried beyond the familiar 
walls into the wide friendliness oi 
the fields ; and then the house be- 
came silent again, and John was J. 
left to that seclusion which for him 
meant the richest companionship 
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