hear the echoes of the descending ma¬ 
chine; the screeching of the brakes and 
the complaints of the motor, and then 
•—sublime, exalted, welcome silence. I 
began to appreciate what Friend 
Family Doctor had meant. The hour 
was one of great peace. It was as if a 
balm had been poured over my tired 
'body. 
“Let ME take the things in, Father.” 
It was Sonnyboy, asserting his first 
claims to young manhood. He was my 
guardian. He was keeping faith with 
Mother and felt the urge of a sudden 
responsibility. 
But the two of us stood for many 
minutes on the tiny front porch of the 
old farmhouse, literally absorbing and 
assimilating the charm of this new en¬ 
vironment. It was a cubby-hole of a 
place, weather-stained and quaint . . . 
just the very farmhouse one might 
have expected at such a spot . . . 
There was the suggestion of a garden, 
where some perennials werfe even now 
thrusting bravely upward through 
grass and weeds, and all that remained 
of a road disappeared down the steep 
hill, on one side and into ancestral 
halls of oak and white birch on the 
other, stopping a moment, in the latter 
direction, to say “Howdy” to a barn 
which was many sizes larger than the 
house and sadly in want of repair. 
Everywhere the apple trees smiled with 
their fresh foliage, whilst down one 
slope I spied a cherry tree or two, and 
feathery clumps of hazelnuts, and a 
fern-covered rock fence, winding lazily 
f off to nowhere in particular, garnished 
with what I knew intuitively were 
blackberries and currants and rasp¬ 
berry bushes, long since run irrespon- 
sively wild. There was a well, too, dug 
deep into solid rock, and a crumbled 
toolhouse, and lastly, beyond the 
house, an impenetrable wall of forest, 
f “Nice, isn’t it, Father,” Sonnyboy 
whispered. 
Dusk was whittling off into an early 
moonglow, helped along by countless 
stars. And we seemed strangely, 
spiritually near them from this great, 
breeze-purged altitude. 
I reached over and held his hand. 
He returned that impulsive grip, edg- 
; ng quickly up to me, until we stood, 
j fide by side, close, one to the other, on 
-.he rickety porch, looking out across 
i valley of silver and mystery and 
nist. 
***** 
Sleep was almost a drug to me that 
light. It was with difficulty I awoke 
vhen Sonnyboy knocked at my door, 
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“I’ve been up an hour, Dad!” he 
•hallenged, proudly, “and I have 
>reakfast all ready for you. It’s won¬ 
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' he stone wall . . . plenty of them 
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