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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/23360-0.txt b/23360-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ef32d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/23360-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,592 @@ +Project Gutenberg’s Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog + +Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23360] +Last Updated: September 20, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG + +By Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company + +Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901 + + +When I saw the little house building, an eighth of a mile beyond my own, +on the Old Bay Road, I wondered who were to be the tenants. The modest +structure was set well back from the road, among the trees, as if +the inmates were to care nothing whatever for a view of the stylish +equipages which sweep by during the summer season. For my part, I +like to see the passing, in town or country; but each has his own +unaccountable taste. The proprietor, who seemed to be also the architect +of the new house, superintended the various details of the work with an +assiduity that gave me a high opinion of his intelligence and executive +ability, and I congratulated myself on the prospect of having some very +agreeable neighbors. + +It was quite early in the spring, if I remember, when they moved into +the cottage--a newly married couple, evidently: the wife very young, +pretty, and with the air of a lady; the husband somewhat older, but +still in the first flush of manhood. It was understood in the village +that they came from Baltimore; but no one knew them personally, and they +brought no letters of introduction. (For obvious reasons I refrain from +mentioning names.) It was clear that, for the present at least, their +own company was entirely sufficient for them. They made no advances +toward the acquaintance of any of the families in the neighborhood, and +consequently were left to themselves. That, apparently, was what they +desired, and why they came to Ponkapog. For after its black bass and +wild duck and teal, solitude is the chief staple of Ponkapog. Perhaps +its perfect rural loveliness should be included. Lying high up under the +wing of the Blue Hills, and in the odorous breath of pines and cedars, +it chances to be the most enchanting bit of unlaced dishevelled country +within fifty miles of Boston, which, moreover, can be reached in half +an hour’s ride by railway. But the nearest railway station (Heaven be +praised!) is two miles distant, and the seclusion is without a flaw. +Ponkapog has one mail a day; two mails a day would render the place +uninhabitable. + +The village--it looks like a compact village at a distance, but unravels +and disappears the moment you drive into it--has quite a large floating +population. I do not allude to the perch and pickerel in Ponk-apog Pond. +Along the Old Bay Road, a highway even in the colonial days, there are a +number of attractive villas and cottages straggling off towards Milton, +which are occupied for the summer by people from the city. These birds +of passage are a distinct class from the permanent inhabitants, and +the two seldom closely assimilate unless there has been some previous +connection. It seemed to me that our new neighbors were to come under +the head of permanent inhabitants; they had built their own house, and +had the air of intending to live in it all the year round. + +“Are you not going to call on them?” I asked my wife one morning. + +“When they call on _us_,” she replied lightly. + +“But it is our place to call first, they being strangers.” + +This was said as seriously as the circumstance demanded; but my wife +turned it off with a laugh, and I said no more, always trusting to her +intuitions in these matters. + +She was right. She would not have been received, and a cool “Not at +home” would have been a bitter social pill to us if we had gone out of +our way to be courteous. + +I saw a great deal of our neighbors, nevertheless. Their cottage lay +between us and the post-office--where _he_ was never to be met with by +any chance--and I caught frequent glimpses of the two working in the +garden, floriculture did not appear so much an object as exercise. +Possibly it was neither; may be they were engaged in digging for +specimens of those arrowheads and flint hatchets which are continually +coming to the surface hereabouts. There is scarcely an acre in which the +ploughshare has not turned up some primitive stone weapon or domestic +utensil, disdainfully left to us by the red men who once held this +domain--an ancient tribe called the Punkypoags, a forlorn descendant +of which, one Polly Crowd, figures in the annual Blue Book, down to +the close of the Southern war, as a state pensioner. At that period she +appears to have struck a trail to the Happy Hunting Grounds. I quote +from the local historiographer. + +Whether they were developing a kitchen garden, or emulating Professor +Schliemann at Mycenæ, the new-comers were evidently persons of refined +musical taste: the lady had a contralto voice of remarkable sweetness, +although of no great compass, and I used often to linger of a morning by +the high gate and listen to her executing an arietta, conjecturally at +some window upstairs, for the house was not visible from the turnpike. +The husband, somewhere about the grounds, would occasionally respond +with two or three bars. It was all quite an ideal, Arcadian business. +They seemed very happy together, these two persons, who asked no odds +whatever of the community in which they had settled themselves. + +There was a queerness, a sort of mystery, about this couple which I +admit piqued my curiosity, though as a rule I have no morbid interest in +the affairs of my neighbors. They behaved like a pair of lovers who +had run off and got married clandestinely. I willingly acquitted them, +however, of having done anything unlawful; for, to change a word in the +lines of the poet, + + “It is a joy to _think_ the best + We may of human kind.” + +Admitting the hypothesis of elopement, there was no mystery in their +neither sending nor receiving letters. But where did they get their +groceries? I do not mean the money to pay for them--that is an enigma +apart--but the groceries themselves. No express wagon, no butcher’s +cart, no vehicle of any description, was ever observed to stop at their +domicile. Yet they did not order family stores at the sole establishment +in the village--an inexhaustible little bottle of a shop which, I +advertise it gratis, can turn out anything in the way of groceries, +from a handsaw to a pocket-handkerchief. I confess that I allowed this +unimportant detail of their _ménage_ to occupy more of my speculation +than was creditable to me. + +In several respects our neighbors reminded me of those inexplicable +persons we sometimes come across in great cities, though seldom or never +in suburban places, where the field may be supposed too restricted for +their operations--persons who have no perceptible means of subsistence, +and manage to live royally on nothing a year. They hold no government +bonds, they possess no real estate (our neighbors did own their house), +they toil not, neither do they spin; yet they reap all the numerous soft +advantages that usually result from honest toil and skilful spinning. +How do they do it? But this is a digression, and I am quite of the +opinion of the old lady in “David Copperfield,” who says, “Let us have +no meandering!” + +Though my wife had declined to risk a ceremonious call on our neighbors +as a family, I saw no reason why I should not speak to the husband as +an individual, when I happened to encounter him by the wayside. I made +several approaches to do so, when it occurred to my penetration that +my neighbor had the air of trying to avoid me. I resolved to put the +suspicion to the test, and one forenoon, when he was sauntering along +on the opposite side of the road, in the vicinity of Fisher’s sawmill, I +deliberately crossed over to address him. The brusque manner in which he +hurried away was not to be misunderstood. Of course I was not going to +force myself upon him. + +It was at this time that I began to formulate uncharitable suppositions +touching our neighbors, and would have been as well pleased if some of +my choicest fruit trees had not overhung their wall. I determined to +keep my eyes open later in the season, when the fruit should be ripe +to pluck. In some folks, a sense of the delicate shades of difference +between _meum_ and _tuum_ does not seem to be very strongly developed in +the Moon of Cherries, to use the old Indian phrase. + +I was sufficiently magnanimous not to impart any of these sinister +impressions to the families with whom we were on visiting terms; for I +despise a gossip. I would say nothing against the persons up the road +until I had something definite to say. My interest in them was--well, +not exactly extinguished, but burning low. I met the gentleman at +intervals, and passed him without recognition; at rarer intervals I saw +the lady. + +After a while I not only missed my occasional glimpses of her pretty, +slim figure, always draped in some soft black stuff with a bit of +scarlet at the throat, but I inferred that she did not go about the +house singing in her light-hearted manner, as formerly. What had +happened? Had the honeymoon suffered eclipse already? Was she ill? +I fancied she was ill, and that I detected a certain anxiety in the +husband, who spent the mornings digging solitarily in the garden and +seemed to have relinquished those long jaunts to the brow of Blue Hill, +where there is a superb view of all Norfolk County combined with sundry +venerable rattlesnakes with twelve rattles. + +As the days went by it became certain that the lady was confined to the +house, perhaps seriously ill, possibly a confirmed invalid. Whether she +was attended by a physician from Canton or from Milton, I was unable to +say; but neither the gig with the large white allopathic horse, nor the +gig with the homoeopathic sorrel mare, was ever seen hitched at the gate +during the day. If a physician had charge of the case, he visited his +patient only at night. All this moved my sympathy, and I reproached +myself with having had hard thoughts of our neighbors. Trouble had come +to them early. I would have liked to offer them such small, friendly +services as lay in my power; but the memory of the repulse I had +sustained still rankled in me. So I hesitated. + +One morning my two boys burst into the library with their eyes +sparkling. + +“You know the old elm down the road?” cried one. + +“Yes.” + +“The elm with the hang-bird’s nest?” shrieked the other. + +“Yes, yes!” + +“Well, we both just climbed up, and there’s three young ones in it!” + +Then I smiled to think that our new neighbors had got such a promising +little family. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog, by +Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG *** + +***** This file should be named 23360-0.txt or 23360-0.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23360/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog + +Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23360] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG + +By Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company + +Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901 + + +When I saw the little house building, an eighth of a mile beyond my own, +on the Old Bay Road, I wondered who were to be the tenants. The modest +structure was set well back from the road, among the trees, as if +the inmates were to care nothing whatever for a view of the stylish +equipages which sweep by during the summer season. For my part, I +like to see the passing, in town or country; but each has his own +unaccountable taste. The proprietor, who seemed to be also the architect +of the new house, superintended the various details of the work with an +assiduity that gave me a high opinion of his intelligence and executive +ability, and I congratulated myself on the prospect of having some very +agreeable neighbors. + +It was quite early in the spring, if I remember, when they moved into +the cottage--a newly married couple, evidently: the wife very young, +pretty, and with the air of a lady; the husband somewhat older, but +still in the first flush of manhood. It was understood in the village +that they came from Baltimore; but no one knew them personally, and they +brought no letters of introduction. (For obvious reasons I refrain from +mentioning names.) It was clear that, for the present at least, their +own company was entirely sufficient for them. They made no advances +toward the acquaintance of any of the families in the neighborhood, and +consequently were left to themselves. That, apparently, was what they +desired, and why they came to Ponkapog. For after its black bass and +wild duck and teal, solitude is the chief staple of Ponkapog. Perhaps +its perfect rural loveliness should be included. Lying high up under the +wing of the Blue Hills, and in the odorous breath of pines and cedars, +it chances to be the most enchanting bit of unlaced dishevelled country +within fifty miles of Boston, which, moreover, can be reached in half +an hour's ride by railway. But the nearest railway station (Heaven be +praised!) is two miles distant, and the seclusion is without a flaw. +Ponkapog has one mail a day; two mails a day would render the place +uninhabitable. + +The village--it looks like a compact village at a distance, but unravels +and disappears the moment you drive into it--has quite a large floating +population. I do not allude to the perch and pickerel in Ponk-apog Pond. +Along the Old Bay Road, a highway even in the colonial days, there are a +number of attractive villas and cottages straggling off towards Milton, +which are occupied for the summer by people from the city. These birds +of passage are a distinct class from the permanent inhabitants, and +the two seldom closely assimilate unless there has been some previous +connection. It seemed to me that our new neighbors were to come under +the head of permanent inhabitants; they had built their own house, and +had the air of intending to live in it all the year round. + +"Are you not going to call on them?" I asked my wife one morning. + +"When they call on _us_," she replied lightly. + +"But it is our place to call first, they being strangers." + +This was said as seriously as the circumstance demanded; but my wife +turned it off with a laugh, and I said no more, always trusting to her +intuitions in these matters. + +She was right. She would not have been received, and a cool "Not at +home" would have been a bitter social pill to us if we had gone out of +our way to be courteous. + +I saw a great deal of our neighbors, nevertheless. Their cottage lay +between us and the post-office--where _he_ was never to be met with by +any chance--and I caught frequent glimpses of the two working in the +garden, floriculture did not appear so much an object as exercise. +Possibly it was neither; may be they were engaged in digging for +specimens of those arrowheads and flint hatchets which are continually +coming to the surface hereabouts. There is scarcely an acre in which the +ploughshare has not turned up some primitive stone weapon or domestic +utensil, disdainfully left to us by the red men who once held this +domain--an ancient tribe called the Punkypoags, a forlorn descendant +of which, one Polly Crowd, figures in the annual Blue Book, down to +the close of the Southern war, as a state pensioner. At that period she +appears to have struck a trail to the Happy Hunting Grounds. I quote +from the local historiographer. + +Whether they were developing a kitchen garden, or emulating Professor +Schliemann at Mycen, the new-comers were evidently persons of refined +musical taste: the lady had a contralto voice of remarkable sweetness, +although of no great compass, and I used often to linger of a morning by +the high gate and listen to her executing an arietta, conjecturally at +some window upstairs, for the house was not visible from the turnpike. +The husband, somewhere about the grounds, would occasionally respond +with two or three bars. It was all quite an ideal, Arcadian business. +They seemed very happy together, these two persons, who asked no odds +whatever of the community in which they had settled themselves. + +There was a queerness, a sort of mystery, about this couple which I +admit piqued my curiosity, though as a rule I have no morbid interest in +the affairs of my neighbors. They behaved like a pair of lovers who +had run off and got married clandestinely. I willingly acquitted them, +however, of having done anything unlawful; for, to change a word in the +lines of the poet, + + "It is a joy to _think_ the best + We may of human kind." + +Admitting the hypothesis of elopement, there was no mystery in their +neither sending nor receiving letters. But where did they get their +groceries? I do not mean the money to pay for them--that is an enigma +apart--but the groceries themselves. No express wagon, no butcher's +cart, no vehicle of any description, was ever observed to stop at their +domicile. Yet they did not order family stores at the sole establishment +in the village--an inexhaustible little bottle of a shop which, I +advertise it gratis, can turn out anything in the way of groceries, +from a handsaw to a pocket-handkerchief. I confess that I allowed this +unimportant detail of their _mnage_ to occupy more of my speculation +than was creditable to me. + +In several respects our neighbors reminded me of those inexplicable +persons we sometimes come across in great cities, though seldom or never +in suburban places, where the field may be supposed too restricted for +their operations--persons who have no perceptible means of subsistence, +and manage to live royally on nothing a year. They hold no government +bonds, they possess no real estate (our neighbors did own their house), +they toil not, neither do they spin; yet they reap all the numerous soft +advantages that usually result from honest toil and skilful spinning. +How do they do it? But this is a digression, and I am quite of the +opinion of the old lady in "David Copperfield," who says, "Let us have +no meandering!" + +Though my wife had declined to risk a ceremonious call on our neighbors +as a family, I saw no reason why I should not speak to the husband as +an individual, when I happened to encounter him by the wayside. I made +several approaches to do so, when it occurred to my penetration that +my neighbor had the air of trying to avoid me. I resolved to put the +suspicion to the test, and one forenoon, when he was sauntering along +on the opposite side of the road, in the vicinity of Fisher's sawmill, I +deliberately crossed over to address him. The brusque manner in which he +hurried away was not to be misunderstood. Of course I was not going to +force myself upon him. + +It was at this time that I began to formulate uncharitable suppositions +touching our neighbors, and would have been as well pleased if some of +my choicest fruit trees had not overhung their wall. I determined to +keep my eyes open later in the season, when the fruit should be ripe +to pluck. In some folks, a sense of the delicate shades of difference +between _meum_ and _tuum_ does not seem to be very strongly developed in +the Moon of Cherries, to use the old Indian phrase. + +I was sufficiently magnanimous not to impart any of these sinister +impressions to the families with whom we were on visiting terms; for I +despise a gossip. I would say nothing against the persons up the road +until I had something definite to say. My interest in them was--well, +not exactly extinguished, but burning low. I met the gentleman at +intervals, and passed him without recognition; at rarer intervals I saw +the lady. + +After a while I not only missed my occasional glimpses of her pretty, +slim figure, always draped in some soft black stuff with a bit of +scarlet at the throat, but I inferred that she did not go about the +house singing in her light-hearted manner, as formerly. What had +happened? Had the honeymoon suffered eclipse already? Was she ill? +I fancied she was ill, and that I detected a certain anxiety in the +husband, who spent the mornings digging solitarily in the garden and +seemed to have relinquished those long jaunts to the brow of Blue Hill, +where there is a superb view of all Norfolk County combined with sundry +venerable rattlesnakes with twelve rattles. + +As the days went by it became certain that the lady was confined to the +house, perhaps seriously ill, possibly a confirmed invalid. Whether she +was attended by a physician from Canton or from Milton, I was unable to +say; but neither the gig with the large white allopathic horse, nor the +gig with the homoeopathic sorrel mare, was ever seen hitched at the gate +during the day. If a physician had charge of the case, he visited his +patient only at night. All this moved my sympathy, and I reproached +myself with having had hard thoughts of our neighbors. Trouble had come +to them early. I would have liked to offer them such small, friendly +services as lay in my power; but the memory of the repulse I had +sustained still rankled in me. So I hesitated. + +One morning my two boys burst into the library with their eyes +sparkling. + +"You know the old elm down the road?" cried one. + +"Yes." + +"The elm with the hang-bird's nest?" shrieked the other. + +"Yes, yes!" + +"Well, we both just climbed up, and there's three young ones in it!" + +Then I smiled to think that our new neighbors had got such a promising +little family. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog, by +Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG *** + +***** This file should be named 23360-8.txt or 23360-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23360/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog + +Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23360] +Last Updated: September 20, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG + </h1> + <h2> + By Thomas Bailey Aldrich + </h2> + <h3> + Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company + </h3> + <h4> + Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901 + </h4> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p> + When I saw the little house building, an eighth of a mile beyond my own, + on the Old Bay Road, I wondered who were to be the tenants. The modest + structure was set well back from the road, among the trees, as if the + inmates were to care nothing whatever for a view of the stylish equipages + which sweep by during the summer season. For my part, I like to see the + passing, in town or country; but each has his own unaccountable taste. The + proprietor, who seemed to be also the architect of the new house, + superintended the various details of the work with an assiduity that gave + me a high opinion of his intelligence and executive ability, and I + congratulated myself on the prospect of having some very agreeable + neighbors. + </p> + <p> + It was quite early in the spring, if I remember, when they moved into the + cottage—a newly married couple, evidently: the wife very young, + pretty, and with the air of a lady; the husband somewhat older, but still + in the first flush of manhood. It was understood in the village that they + came from Baltimore; but no one knew them personally, and they brought no + letters of introduction. (For obvious reasons I refrain from mentioning + names.) It was clear that, for the present at least, their own company was + entirely sufficient for them. They made no advances toward the + acquaintance of any of the families in the neighborhood, and consequently + were left to themselves. That, apparently, was what they desired, and why + they came to Ponkapog. For after its black bass and wild duck and teal, + solitude is the chief staple of Ponkapog. Perhaps its perfect rural + loveliness should be included. Lying high up under the wing of the Blue + Hills, and in the odorous breath of pines and cedars, it chances to be the + most enchanting bit of unlaced dishevelled country within fifty miles of + Boston, which, moreover, can be reached in half an hour’s ride by railway. + But the nearest railway station (Heaven be praised!) is two miles distant, + and the seclusion is without a flaw. Ponkapog has one mail a day; two + mails a day would render the place uninhabitable. + </p> + <p> + The village—it looks like a compact village at a distance, but + unravels and disappears the moment you drive into it—has quite a + large floating population. I do not allude to the perch and pickerel in + Ponk-apog Pond. Along the Old Bay Road, a highway even in the colonial + days, there are a number of attractive villas and cottages straggling off + towards Milton, which are occupied for the summer by people from the city. + These birds of passage are a distinct class from the permanent + inhabitants, and the two seldom closely assimilate unless there has been + some previous connection. It seemed to me that our new neighbors were to + come under the head of permanent inhabitants; they had built their own + house, and had the air of intending to live in it all the year round. + </p> + <p> + “Are you not going to call on them?” I asked my wife one morning. + </p> + <p> + “When they call on <i>us</i>,” she replied lightly. + </p> + <p> + “But it is our place to call first, they being strangers.” + </p> + <p> + This was said as seriously as the circumstance demanded; but my wife + turned it off with a laugh, and I said no more, always trusting to her + intuitions in these matters. + </p> + <p> + She was right. She would not have been received, and a cool “Not at home” + would have been a bitter social pill to us if we had gone out of our way + to be courteous. + </p> + <p> + I saw a great deal of our neighbors, nevertheless. Their cottage lay + between us and the post-office—where <i>he</i> was never to be met + with by any chance—and I caught frequent glimpses of the two working + in the garden, floriculture did not appear so much an object as exercise. + Possibly it was neither; may be they were engaged in digging for specimens + of those arrowheads and flint hatchets which are continually coming to the + surface hereabouts. There is scarcely an acre in which the ploughshare has + not turned up some primitive stone weapon or domestic utensil, + disdainfully left to us by the red men who once held this domain—an + ancient tribe called the Punkypoags, a forlorn descendant of which, one + Polly Crowd, figures in the annual Blue Book, down to the close of the + Southern war, as a state pensioner. At that period she appears to have + struck a trail to the Happy Hunting Grounds. I quote from the local + historiographer. + </p> + <p> + Whether they were developing a kitchen garden, or emulating Professor + Schliemann at Mycenæ, the new-comers were evidently persons of refined + musical taste: the lady had a contralto voice of remarkable sweetness, + although of no great compass, and I used often to linger of a morning by + the high gate and listen to her executing an arietta, conjecturally at + some window upstairs, for the house was not visible from the turnpike. The + husband, somewhere about the grounds, would occasionally respond with two + or three bars. It was all quite an ideal, Arcadian business. They seemed + very happy together, these two persons, who asked no odds whatever of the + community in which they had settled themselves. + </p> + <p> + There was a queerness, a sort of mystery, about this couple which I admit + piqued my curiosity, though as a rule I have no morbid interest in the + affairs of my neighbors. They behaved like a pair of lovers who had run + off and got married clandestinely. I willingly acquitted them, however, of + having done anything unlawful; for, to change a word in the lines of the + poet, + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + “It is a joy to <i>think</i> the best + We may of human kind.” + </pre> + <p> + Admitting the hypothesis of elopement, there was no mystery in their + neither sending nor receiving letters. But where did they get their + groceries? I do not mean the money to pay for them—that is an enigma + apart—but the groceries themselves. No express wagon, no butcher’s + cart, no vehicle of any description, was ever observed to stop at their + domicile. Yet they did not order family stores at the sole establishment + in the village—an inexhaustible little bottle of a shop which, I + advertise it gratis, can turn out anything in the way of groceries, from a + handsaw to a pocket-handkerchief. I confess that I allowed this + unimportant detail of their <i>ménage</i> to occupy more of my speculation + than was creditable to me. + </p> + <p> + In several respects our neighbors reminded me of those inexplicable + persons we sometimes come across in great cities, though seldom or never + in suburban places, where the field may be supposed too restricted for + their operations—persons who have no perceptible means of + subsistence, and manage to live royally on nothing a year. They hold no + government bonds, they possess no real estate (our neighbors did own their + house), they toil not, neither do they spin; yet they reap all the + numerous soft advantages that usually result from honest toil and skilful + spinning. How do they do it? But this is a digression, and I am quite of + the opinion of the old lady in “David Copperfield,” who says, “Let us have + no meandering!” + </p> + <p> + Though my wife had declined to risk a ceremonious call on our neighbors as + a family, I saw no reason why I should not speak to the husband as an + individual, when I happened to encounter him by the wayside. I made + several approaches to do so, when it occurred to my penetration that my + neighbor had the air of trying to avoid me. I resolved to put the + suspicion to the test, and one forenoon, when he was sauntering along on + the opposite side of the road, in the vicinity of Fisher’s sawmill, I + deliberately crossed over to address him. The brusque manner in which he + hurried away was not to be misunderstood. Of course I was not going to + force myself upon him. + </p> + <p> + It was at this time that I began to formulate uncharitable suppositions + touching our neighbors, and would have been as well pleased if some of my + choicest fruit trees had not overhung their wall. I determined to keep my + eyes open later in the season, when the fruit should be ripe to pluck. In + some folks, a sense of the delicate shades of difference between <i>meum</i> + and <i>tuum</i> does not seem to be very strongly developed in the Moon of + Cherries, to use the old Indian phrase. + </p> + <p> + I was sufficiently magnanimous not to impart any of these sinister + impressions to the families with whom we were on visiting terms; for I + despise a gossip. I would say nothing against the persons up the road + until I had something definite to say. My interest in them was—well, + not exactly extinguished, but burning low. I met the gentleman at + intervals, and passed him without recognition; at rarer intervals I saw + the lady. + </p> + <p> + After a while I not only missed my occasional glimpses of her pretty, slim + figure, always draped in some soft black stuff with a bit of scarlet at + the throat, but I inferred that she did not go about the house singing in + her light-hearted manner, as formerly. What had happened? Had the + honeymoon suffered eclipse already? Was she ill? I fancied she was ill, + and that I detected a certain anxiety in the husband, who spent the + mornings digging solitarily in the garden and seemed to have relinquished + those long jaunts to the brow of Blue Hill, where there is a superb view + of all Norfolk County combined with sundry venerable rattlesnakes with + twelve rattles. + </p> + <p> + As the days went by it became certain that the lady was confined to the + house, perhaps seriously ill, possibly a confirmed invalid. Whether she + was attended by a physician from Canton or from Milton, I was unable to + say; but neither the gig with the large white allopathic horse, nor the + gig with the homoeopathic sorrel mare, was ever seen hitched at the gate + during the day. If a physician had charge of the case, he visited his + patient only at night. All this moved my sympathy, and I reproached myself + with having had hard thoughts of our neighbors. Trouble had come to them + early. I would have liked to offer them such small, friendly services as + lay in my power; but the memory of the repulse I had sustained still + rankled in me. So I hesitated. + </p> + <p> + One morning my two boys burst into the library with their eyes sparkling. + </p> + <p> + “You know the old elm down the road?” cried one. + </p> + <p> + “Yes.” + </p> + <p> + “The elm with the hang-bird’s nest?” shrieked the other. + </p> + <p> + “Yes, yes!” + </p> + <p> + “Well, we both just climbed up, and there’s three young ones in it!” + </p> + <p> + Then I smiled to think that our new neighbors had got such a promising + little family. + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog, by +Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG *** + +***** This file should be named 23360-h.htm or 23360-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23360/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog + +Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23360] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG + +By Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company + +Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901 + + +When I saw the little house building, an eighth of a mile beyond my own, +on the Old Bay Road, I wondered who were to be the tenants. The modest +structure was set well back from the road, among the trees, as if +the inmates were to care nothing whatever for a view of the stylish +equipages which sweep by during the summer season. For my part, I +like to see the passing, in town or country; but each has his own +unaccountable taste. The proprietor, who seemed to be also the architect +of the new house, superintended the various details of the work with an +assiduity that gave me a high opinion of his intelligence and executive +ability, and I congratulated myself on the prospect of having some very +agreeable neighbors. + +It was quite early in the spring, if I remember, when they moved into +the cottage--a newly married couple, evidently: the wife very young, +pretty, and with the air of a lady; the husband somewhat older, but +still in the first flush of manhood. It was understood in the village +that they came from Baltimore; but no one knew them personally, and they +brought no letters of introduction. (For obvious reasons I refrain from +mentioning names.) It was clear that, for the present at least, their +own company was entirely sufficient for them. They made no advances +toward the acquaintance of any of the families in the neighborhood, and +consequently were left to themselves. That, apparently, was what they +desired, and why they came to Ponkapog. For after its black bass and +wild duck and teal, solitude is the chief staple of Ponkapog. Perhaps +its perfect rural loveliness should be included. Lying high up under the +wing of the Blue Hills, and in the odorous breath of pines and cedars, +it chances to be the most enchanting bit of unlaced dishevelled country +within fifty miles of Boston, which, moreover, can be reached in half +an hour's ride by railway. But the nearest railway station (Heaven be +praised!) is two miles distant, and the seclusion is without a flaw. +Ponkapog has one mail a day; two mails a day would render the place +uninhabitable. + +The village--it looks like a compact village at a distance, but unravels +and disappears the moment you drive into it--has quite a large floating +population. I do not allude to the perch and pickerel in Ponk-apog Pond. +Along the Old Bay Road, a highway even in the colonial days, there are a +number of attractive villas and cottages straggling off towards Milton, +which are occupied for the summer by people from the city. These birds +of passage are a distinct class from the permanent inhabitants, and +the two seldom closely assimilate unless there has been some previous +connection. It seemed to me that our new neighbors were to come under +the head of permanent inhabitants; they had built their own house, and +had the air of intending to live in it all the year round. + +"Are you not going to call on them?" I asked my wife one morning. + +"When they call on _us_," she replied lightly. + +"But it is our place to call first, they being strangers." + +This was said as seriously as the circumstance demanded; but my wife +turned it off with a laugh, and I said no more, always trusting to her +intuitions in these matters. + +She was right. She would not have been received, and a cool "Not at +home" would have been a bitter social pill to us if we had gone out of +our way to be courteous. + +I saw a great deal of our neighbors, nevertheless. Their cottage lay +between us and the post-office--where _he_ was never to be met with by +any chance--and I caught frequent glimpses of the two working in the +garden, floriculture did not appear so much an object as exercise. +Possibly it was neither; may be they were engaged in digging for +specimens of those arrowheads and flint hatchets which are continually +coming to the surface hereabouts. There is scarcely an acre in which the +ploughshare has not turned up some primitive stone weapon or domestic +utensil, disdainfully left to us by the red men who once held this +domain--an ancient tribe called the Punkypoags, a forlorn descendant +of which, one Polly Crowd, figures in the annual Blue Book, down to +the close of the Southern war, as a state pensioner. At that period she +appears to have struck a trail to the Happy Hunting Grounds. I quote +from the local historiographer. + +Whether they were developing a kitchen garden, or emulating Professor +Schliemann at Mycenae, the new-comers were evidently persons of refined +musical taste: the lady had a contralto voice of remarkable sweetness, +although of no great compass, and I used often to linger of a morning by +the high gate and listen to her executing an arietta, conjecturally at +some window upstairs, for the house was not visible from the turnpike. +The husband, somewhere about the grounds, would occasionally respond +with two or three bars. It was all quite an ideal, Arcadian business. +They seemed very happy together, these two persons, who asked no odds +whatever of the community in which they had settled themselves. + +There was a queerness, a sort of mystery, about this couple which I +admit piqued my curiosity, though as a rule I have no morbid interest in +the affairs of my neighbors. They behaved like a pair of lovers who +had run off and got married clandestinely. I willingly acquitted them, +however, of having done anything unlawful; for, to change a word in the +lines of the poet, + + "It is a joy to _think_ the best + We may of human kind." + +Admitting the hypothesis of elopement, there was no mystery in their +neither sending nor receiving letters. But where did they get their +groceries? I do not mean the money to pay for them--that is an enigma +apart--but the groceries themselves. No express wagon, no butcher's +cart, no vehicle of any description, was ever observed to stop at their +domicile. Yet they did not order family stores at the sole establishment +in the village--an inexhaustible little bottle of a shop which, I +advertise it gratis, can turn out anything in the way of groceries, +from a handsaw to a pocket-handkerchief. I confess that I allowed this +unimportant detail of their _menage_ to occupy more of my speculation +than was creditable to me. + +In several respects our neighbors reminded me of those inexplicable +persons we sometimes come across in great cities, though seldom or never +in suburban places, where the field may be supposed too restricted for +their operations--persons who have no perceptible means of subsistence, +and manage to live royally on nothing a year. They hold no government +bonds, they possess no real estate (our neighbors did own their house), +they toil not, neither do they spin; yet they reap all the numerous soft +advantages that usually result from honest toil and skilful spinning. +How do they do it? But this is a digression, and I am quite of the +opinion of the old lady in "David Copperfield," who says, "Let us have +no meandering!" + +Though my wife had declined to risk a ceremonious call on our neighbors +as a family, I saw no reason why I should not speak to the husband as +an individual, when I happened to encounter him by the wayside. I made +several approaches to do so, when it occurred to my penetration that +my neighbor had the air of trying to avoid me. I resolved to put the +suspicion to the test, and one forenoon, when he was sauntering along +on the opposite side of the road, in the vicinity of Fisher's sawmill, I +deliberately crossed over to address him. The brusque manner in which he +hurried away was not to be misunderstood. Of course I was not going to +force myself upon him. + +It was at this time that I began to formulate uncharitable suppositions +touching our neighbors, and would have been as well pleased if some of +my choicest fruit trees had not overhung their wall. I determined to +keep my eyes open later in the season, when the fruit should be ripe +to pluck. In some folks, a sense of the delicate shades of difference +between _meum_ and _tuum_ does not seem to be very strongly developed in +the Moon of Cherries, to use the old Indian phrase. + +I was sufficiently magnanimous not to impart any of these sinister +impressions to the families with whom we were on visiting terms; for I +despise a gossip. I would say nothing against the persons up the road +until I had something definite to say. My interest in them was--well, +not exactly extinguished, but burning low. I met the gentleman at +intervals, and passed him without recognition; at rarer intervals I saw +the lady. + +After a while I not only missed my occasional glimpses of her pretty, +slim figure, always draped in some soft black stuff with a bit of +scarlet at the throat, but I inferred that she did not go about the +house singing in her light-hearted manner, as formerly. What had +happened? Had the honeymoon suffered eclipse already? Was she ill? +I fancied she was ill, and that I detected a certain anxiety in the +husband, who spent the mornings digging solitarily in the garden and +seemed to have relinquished those long jaunts to the brow of Blue Hill, +where there is a superb view of all Norfolk County combined with sundry +venerable rattlesnakes with twelve rattles. + +As the days went by it became certain that the lady was confined to the +house, perhaps seriously ill, possibly a confirmed invalid. Whether she +was attended by a physician from Canton or from Milton, I was unable to +say; but neither the gig with the large white allopathic horse, nor the +gig with the homoeopathic sorrel mare, was ever seen hitched at the gate +during the day. If a physician had charge of the case, he visited his +patient only at night. All this moved my sympathy, and I reproached +myself with having had hard thoughts of our neighbors. Trouble had come +to them early. I would have liked to offer them such small, friendly +services as lay in my power; but the memory of the repulse I had +sustained still rankled in me. So I hesitated. + +One morning my two boys burst into the library with their eyes +sparkling. + +"You know the old elm down the road?" cried one. + +"Yes." + +"The elm with the hang-bird's nest?" shrieked the other. + +"Yes, yes!" + +"Well, we both just climbed up, and there's three young ones in it!" + +Then I smiled to think that our new neighbors had got such a promising +little family. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog, by +Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG *** + +***** This file should be named 23360.txt or 23360.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23360/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog + +Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23360] +Last Updated: September 20, 2016 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG + </h1> + <h2> + By Thomas Bailey Aldrich + </h2> + <h3> + Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company + </h3> + <h4> + Copyright, 1873, 1885, and 1901 + </h4> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p> + When I saw the little house building, an eighth of a mile beyond my own, + on the Old Bay Road, I wondered who were to be the tenants. The modest + structure was set well back from the road, among the trees, as if the + inmates were to care nothing whatever for a view of the stylish equipages + which sweep by during the summer season. For my part, I like to see the + passing, in town or country; but each has his own unaccountable taste. The + proprietor, who seemed to be also the architect of the new house, + superintended the various details of the work with an assiduity that gave + me a high opinion of his intelligence and executive ability, and I + congratulated myself on the prospect of having some very agreeable + neighbors. + </p> + <p> + It was quite early in the spring, if I remember, when they moved into the + cottage—a newly married couple, evidently: the wife very young, + pretty, and with the air of a lady; the husband somewhat older, but still + in the first flush of manhood. It was understood in the village that they + came from Baltimore; but no one knew them personally, and they brought no + letters of introduction. (For obvious reasons I refrain from mentioning + names.) It was clear that, for the present at least, their own company was + entirely sufficient for them. They made no advances toward the + acquaintance of any of the families in the neighborhood, and consequently + were left to themselves. That, apparently, was what they desired, and why + they came to Ponkapog. For after its black bass and wild duck and teal, + solitude is the chief staple of Ponkapog. Perhaps its perfect rural + loveliness should be included. Lying high up under the wing of the Blue + Hills, and in the odorous breath of pines and cedars, it chances to be the + most enchanting bit of unlaced dishevelled country within fifty miles of + Boston, which, moreover, can be reached in half an hour’s ride by railway. + But the nearest railway station (Heaven be praised!) is two miles distant, + and the seclusion is without a flaw. Ponkapog has one mail a day; two + mails a day would render the place uninhabitable. + </p> + <p> + The village—it looks like a compact village at a distance, but + unravels and disappears the moment you drive into it—has quite a + large floating population. I do not allude to the perch and pickerel in + Ponk-apog Pond. Along the Old Bay Road, a highway even in the colonial + days, there are a number of attractive villas and cottages straggling off + towards Milton, which are occupied for the summer by people from the city. + These birds of passage are a distinct class from the permanent + inhabitants, and the two seldom closely assimilate unless there has been + some previous connection. It seemed to me that our new neighbors were to + come under the head of permanent inhabitants; they had built their own + house, and had the air of intending to live in it all the year round. + </p> + <p> + “Are you not going to call on them?” I asked my wife one morning. + </p> + <p> + “When they call on <i>us</i>,” she replied lightly. + </p> + <p> + “But it is our place to call first, they being strangers.” + </p> + <p> + This was said as seriously as the circumstance demanded; but my wife + turned it off with a laugh, and I said no more, always trusting to her + intuitions in these matters. + </p> + <p> + She was right. She would not have been received, and a cool “Not at home” + would have been a bitter social pill to us if we had gone out of our way + to be courteous. + </p> + <p> + I saw a great deal of our neighbors, nevertheless. Their cottage lay + between us and the post-office—where <i>he</i> was never to be met + with by any chance—and I caught frequent glimpses of the two working + in the garden, floriculture did not appear so much an object as exercise. + Possibly it was neither; may be they were engaged in digging for specimens + of those arrowheads and flint hatchets which are continually coming to the + surface hereabouts. There is scarcely an acre in which the ploughshare has + not turned up some primitive stone weapon or domestic utensil, + disdainfully left to us by the red men who once held this domain—an + ancient tribe called the Punkypoags, a forlorn descendant of which, one + Polly Crowd, figures in the annual Blue Book, down to the close of the + Southern war, as a state pensioner. At that period she appears to have + struck a trail to the Happy Hunting Grounds. I quote from the local + historiographer. + </p> + <p> + Whether they were developing a kitchen garden, or emulating Professor + Schliemann at Mycenæ, the new-comers were evidently persons of refined + musical taste: the lady had a contralto voice of remarkable sweetness, + although of no great compass, and I used often to linger of a morning by + the high gate and listen to her executing an arietta, conjecturally at + some window upstairs, for the house was not visible from the turnpike. The + husband, somewhere about the grounds, would occasionally respond with two + or three bars. It was all quite an ideal, Arcadian business. They seemed + very happy together, these two persons, who asked no odds whatever of the + community in which they had settled themselves. + </p> + <p> + There was a queerness, a sort of mystery, about this couple which I admit + piqued my curiosity, though as a rule I have no morbid interest in the + affairs of my neighbors. They behaved like a pair of lovers who had run + off and got married clandestinely. I willingly acquitted them, however, of + having done anything unlawful; for, to change a word in the lines of the + poet, + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + “It is a joy to <i>think</i> the best + We may of human kind.” + </pre> + <p> + Admitting the hypothesis of elopement, there was no mystery in their + neither sending nor receiving letters. But where did they get their + groceries? I do not mean the money to pay for them—that is an enigma + apart—but the groceries themselves. No express wagon, no butcher’s + cart, no vehicle of any description, was ever observed to stop at their + domicile. Yet they did not order family stores at the sole establishment + in the village—an inexhaustible little bottle of a shop which, I + advertise it gratis, can turn out anything in the way of groceries, from a + handsaw to a pocket-handkerchief. I confess that I allowed this + unimportant detail of their <i>ménage</i> to occupy more of my speculation + than was creditable to me. + </p> + <p> + In several respects our neighbors reminded me of those inexplicable + persons we sometimes come across in great cities, though seldom or never + in suburban places, where the field may be supposed too restricted for + their operations—persons who have no perceptible means of + subsistence, and manage to live royally on nothing a year. They hold no + government bonds, they possess no real estate (our neighbors did own their + house), they toil not, neither do they spin; yet they reap all the + numerous soft advantages that usually result from honest toil and skilful + spinning. How do they do it? But this is a digression, and I am quite of + the opinion of the old lady in “David Copperfield,” who says, “Let us have + no meandering!” + </p> + <p> + Though my wife had declined to risk a ceremonious call on our neighbors as + a family, I saw no reason why I should not speak to the husband as an + individual, when I happened to encounter him by the wayside. I made + several approaches to do so, when it occurred to my penetration that my + neighbor had the air of trying to avoid me. I resolved to put the + suspicion to the test, and one forenoon, when he was sauntering along on + the opposite side of the road, in the vicinity of Fisher’s sawmill, I + deliberately crossed over to address him. The brusque manner in which he + hurried away was not to be misunderstood. Of course I was not going to + force myself upon him. + </p> + <p> + It was at this time that I began to formulate uncharitable suppositions + touching our neighbors, and would have been as well pleased if some of my + choicest fruit trees had not overhung their wall. I determined to keep my + eyes open later in the season, when the fruit should be ripe to pluck. In + some folks, a sense of the delicate shades of difference between <i>meum</i> + and <i>tuum</i> does not seem to be very strongly developed in the Moon of + Cherries, to use the old Indian phrase. + </p> + <p> + I was sufficiently magnanimous not to impart any of these sinister + impressions to the families with whom we were on visiting terms; for I + despise a gossip. I would say nothing against the persons up the road + until I had something definite to say. My interest in them was—well, + not exactly extinguished, but burning low. I met the gentleman at + intervals, and passed him without recognition; at rarer intervals I saw + the lady. + </p> + <p> + After a while I not only missed my occasional glimpses of her pretty, slim + figure, always draped in some soft black stuff with a bit of scarlet at + the throat, but I inferred that she did not go about the house singing in + her light-hearted manner, as formerly. What had happened? Had the + honeymoon suffered eclipse already? Was she ill? I fancied she was ill, + and that I detected a certain anxiety in the husband, who spent the + mornings digging solitarily in the garden and seemed to have relinquished + those long jaunts to the brow of Blue Hill, where there is a superb view + of all Norfolk County combined with sundry venerable rattlesnakes with + twelve rattles. + </p> + <p> + As the days went by it became certain that the lady was confined to the + house, perhaps seriously ill, possibly a confirmed invalid. Whether she + was attended by a physician from Canton or from Milton, I was unable to + say; but neither the gig with the large white allopathic horse, nor the + gig with the homoeopathic sorrel mare, was ever seen hitched at the gate + during the day. If a physician had charge of the case, he visited his + patient only at night. All this moved my sympathy, and I reproached myself + with having had hard thoughts of our neighbors. Trouble had come to them + early. I would have liked to offer them such small, friendly services as + lay in my power; but the memory of the repulse I had sustained still + rankled in me. So I hesitated. + </p> + <p> + One morning my two boys burst into the library with their eyes sparkling. + </p> + <p> + “You know the old elm down the road?” cried one. + </p> + <p> + “Yes.” + </p> + <p> + “The elm with the hang-bird’s nest?” shrieked the other. + </p> + <p> + “Yes, yes!” + </p> + <p> + “Well, we both just climbed up, and there’s three young ones in it!” + </p> + <p> + Then I smiled to think that our new neighbors had got such a promising + little family. + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog, by +Thomas Bailey Aldrich + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR NEW NEIGHBORS AT PONKAPOG *** + +***** This file should be named 23360-h.htm or 23360-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23360/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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