A Traveller In Little Things, By W. H. Hudson



















































































































 -  No! Listen now to what I had to say without interrupting me
again: All this about the villages, viewed from - Page 87
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No! Listen Now To What I Had To Say Without Interrupting Me Again:

All this about the villages, viewed from up there where the lark sings, is but a preliminary - a little

Play to deceive yourself and me. For, all the time you are thinking of other things, serious and some exceedingly sad - of those who live not in villages but in dreadful cities, who are like motherless men who have never known a mother's love and have never had a home on earth. And you are like one who has come upon a cornfield, ripe for the harvest with you alone to reap it. And viewing it you pluck an ear of corn, and rub the grains out in the palm of your hand, and toss them up, laughing and playing with them like a child, pretending you are thinking of nothing, yet all the time thinking - thinking of the task before you. And presently you will take to the reaping and reap until the sun goes down, to begin again at sunrise to toil and sweat again until evening. Then, lifting your bent body with pain and difficulty, you will look to see how little you have done, and that the field has widened and now stretches away before you to the far horizon. And in despair you will cast the sickle away and abandon the task."

"What then, O wise sister, would you have me do?"

"Leave it now, and save yourself this fresh disaster and suffering."

"So be it!

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