October Vagabonds

By Le Gallienne, Richard

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Title:	October Vagabonds
Author:	Le Gallienne, Richard
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: 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. High up somewhere amid the cloud of beeches and buttonwood trees, our log cabin lay hid, in a gully made by the little stream that filled our pails with a silver trickle over a staircase of shelving rock, and up there Colin was already busy with his skilled French cookery, preparing our evening meal. The woods still made a pompous show of leaves, but I knew it to be a hollow sham, a mask of foliage soon to be stripped off by equinoctial fury, a precarious stage?setting, ready to be blown down at the first gusts from the north. A forlorn bird here and there made a thin piping, as it flitted homelessly amid the bleached long grasses, and the frail silk of the milkweed pods came floating along ghostlike on the evening breeze.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: October Vagabonds, 1 -- Richard Le Gallienne, 1 -- Chapter I. THE EPITAPH OF SUMMER, 1 -- Chapter II. AT EVENING I CAME TO THE WOOD, 2 -- Chapter III. ?TRESPASSERS WILL BE, ?, 3 -- Chapter IV. SALAD AND MOONSHINE, 5 -- Chapter V. THE GREEN FRIEND, 6 -- Chapter VI. IN THE WAKE OF SUMMER, 7 -- Chapter VII. MAPS AND FAREWELLS, 8 -- Chapter VIII. THE AMERICAN BLUEBIRD AND ITS SONG, 10 -- Chapter IX. DUTCH HOLLOW, 12 -- Chapter X. WHERE THEY SING FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT, 14 -- Chapter XI. APPLE?LAND, 16 -- Chapter XII. ORCHARDS AND A LINE FROM VIRGIL, 17 -- Chapter XIII. FELLOW WAYFARERS, 19 -- Chapter XIV. THE OLD LADY OF THE WALNUTS AND OTHERS, 23 -- Chapter XV. THE MAN AT DANSVILLE, 25 -- Chapter XVI. IN WHICH WE CATCH UP WITH SUMMER, 26 -- Chapter XVII. CONTAINING VALUABLE STATISTICS, 28 -- Chapter XVIII. A DITHYRAMBUS OF BUTTEEMILK, 31 -- Chapter XIX. A GROWL ABOUT AMERICAN COUNTRY HOTELS, 32 -- Chapter XX. ONIONS, PIGS AND HICKORY?NUTS, 33 -- Chapter XXI. OCTOBER ROSES AND A YOUNG GIRL'S FACE, 34 -- Chapter XXII. CONCERNING THE POPULAR TASTE IN SCENERY AND SOME -- HAPPY PEOPLE, 36 -- Chapter XXIII. THE SUSQUEHANNA, 37 -- Chapter XXIV. AND UNEXPECTEDLY THE LAST, 37 -- October Vagabonds -- i