Life

For several years thereafter then he was an odd figure in the sun anti rain, on dusty roads and muddy ones, encountered occasionally in strange and unexpected places, pursuing his endless search. Under nourishment,...

She bustled about, meditating on the uncertainties of life, while old Reifsneider thrummed on the rim of his hat with his pale fingers and later ate abstractedly of what she offered. His mind was...

“Well, I`ll be switched!” he said aloud to himself. “He`s clean out`n his head. That poor old feller`s been livin` down there till he`s gone outen his mind. I`ll have to notify the authorities.”...

“I guess I could find yuh ag`in,” he had always said. But her cackling threat had always been:“Yuh`ll not find me if I ever leave yuh. I guess I kin git some place where...

It was one of those little wisps of mist, one of those faint exhalations of the earth that rise in a cool night after a warm day, and flicker like small white cypresses of...

By twelve o`clock of this particular night he was asleep, however, and by two had waked again. The moon by this time had shifted to a position on the western side of the house,...

I`ll get along now well enough. Yuh just let me be.” And after many pleadings and proffers of advice, with supplies of coffee and bacon and baked bread duly offered and accepted, he was...

This usually reduced him to a state of somnolent ease. If she wanted a pail of water, it was a grumbling pleasure for him to get it; and if she did rise first to...

Old Henry and his wife Phoebe were as fond of each other as it is possible for two old people to be who have nothing else in this life to be fond of. He...

The orchard to the east of the house was full of gnarled old apple- trees, worm-eaten as to trunks and branches, and fully ornamented with green and white lichens, so that it had a...