October Vagabonds

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - As I started out from the farm with a basket of potatoes for our supper in the shack half a mile up the hillside where we had made our Summer camp my eye fell on a notice affixed to a gate-post and as I read it my heart sank - sank as the sun was sinking yonder with wistful glory behind the purple ridge. I tore the paper from the gate-post and put it in my pocket with a sigh. It is true then I said to myself. We have got to admit it. I must show this to Colin. Then I continued my way across the empty close-gleaned corn-field across the railway track and plunging into the orchard on the other side where here and there among the trees the torrents of apples were being already caught in boxes by the thrifty husbandman began to breast the hill intersected with thickly wooded watercourses.