[The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter]@TWC D-Link bookThe Harvester CHAPTER XIII 93/97
"It shall come with the fulness of joy right here in Medicine Woods.
Think it! Believe it! Keep it before you! Work for it! Happiness is worth while! All of us have a right to it! It shall be yours and soon." "I will try! I will!" promised the Girl.
"I'll go right now and I'll put on the blessed pink powder so thickly you'll never know what is under it, and soon it won't be needed at all." She was laughing as she left the room.
The Harvester restlessly walked the floor a few minutes and then sat with a notebook and began entering stems. When the Girl returned, he brought the pillow from her bed, folded the coverlet, and she lay on them in the big swing.
He covered her with the white shawl, and while Singing Water sang its loudest, katydids exulted over the delightful act of their ancestor, and a million gauze-winged creatures of night hummed against the screen, in a voice soft and low he told her in a steady stream, as he swayed her back and forth, what each sound of the night was, and how and why it was made all the way from the rumbling buzz of the June bug to the screech of the owl and the splash of the bass in the lake.
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