Cannon Field 
along the New England shore. He simply 
drives poles close together into the mud at low 
tide, about them weaves the pliant branches of 
trees in and out into a rude network, and to 
the top of the poles ties brushwood to mark 
the place of the weirs at high tide. 
These primitive fish-snares seem to have no 
definite form, but straggle about here, there, and 
everywhere ; and the Joggin, with its purple 
sands and grassy banks and its weirs trailing 
reflections in the water, is a place one loves to 
recall. 
It is a gratification to be able to chronicle 
the fact that in addition to her other virtues 
simple Digby is still in the ox-cart period. 
And this, despite the " Flying Bluenose " that 
daily goes shrieking over the rails that have 
been laid in her streets. It is oxen that unload 
the vessels and do the hard work on the roads, 
and oxen that bring the country people to 
town. 
Oxen exhale a pastoral something that affects 
all their neighbourhood. Go gee-hawing 
down Broadway with a yoke of oxen attached 
to a broad-tired cart, and New York herself 
would remember the days of her childhood, 
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