The Lock-Man Told Us Another Similar Story About
A Farmer In A Neighboring Town, Who Had Been A Poor
Man, but who
suddenly bought a good farm, and was well to do in the world,
and, when he was
Questioned, did not give a satisfactory account
of the matter; how few, alas, could! This caused his hired man to
remember that one day, as they were ploughing together, the
plough struck something, and his employer, going back to look,
concluded not to go round again, saying that the sky looked
rather lowering, and so put up his team. The like urgency has
caused many things to be remembered which never transpired. The
truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to
go to work to find it.
Not far from these falls stands an oak-tree, on the interval,
about a quarter of a mile from the river, on the farm of a
Mr. Lund, which was pointed out to us as the spot where French,
the leader of the party which went in pursuit of the Indians from
Dunstable, was killed. Farwell dodged them in the thick woods
near. It did not look as if men had ever had to run for their
lives on this now open and peaceful interval.
Here too was another extensive desert by the side of the road in
Litchfield, visible from the bank of the river. The sand was
blown off in some places to the depth of ten or twelve feet,
leaving small grotesque hillocks of that height, where there was
a clump of bushes firmly rooted.
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