inuous shower; softly pattering
from beech to maple, or with the heavier fall of ash-leaves, while at
long intervals sounded the thud of apples tumbling from a crab-tree.
Thick-clustered berries arrayed the hawthorns, the briar was rich in
scarlet fruit; everywhere the frost had left the adornment of its
subtle artistry. Each leaf upon the hedge shone silver-outlined;
spiders' webs, woven from stein to stem, glistened in the morning
radiance; the grasses by the way side stood stark in gleaming mail.

And Maurice Hilliard, a free man in his own conceit, sang to himself a
song of the joy of life.

THE END.

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