George Alfred Townsend

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend

INTRODUCTIONO CE the author awoke to a painful reflection that heknew no place velI, though his occupation had taken himto many, and that, after twenty-five years of describinglocalities and society, he would be identified with none."Vhere shall I begin to rove vithill confines ?" heasked, feeling the vacant spaces in his nature: the wantof all those birds, forest trees, household habits, weeds, instincts of the br oks, and tints and tones of the localspecies which lie in some neighborhood's compass, andcomplete the pastoral mind. Numerous districts rose up and contended together, each attractive from some striking scene, or bold coutrast, or lovely face; and wiser policy might have ledhis inclinations to one of these, redundant, perhaps, inwcalth or literary appreciation; yet the heart began toturn, as in first love, or vagrancy almost as sweet, to thelittle, lowly region where his short childhood was IhÂ-ed, and where the unknown gener: ltions ofTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONO CE the author awoke to a painful reflection that heknew no place velI, though his occupation had taken himto many, and that, after twenty-five years of describinglocalities and society, he would be identified with none."Vhere shall I begin to rove vithill confines ?" heasked, feeling the vacant spaces in his nature: the wantof all those birds, forest trees, household habits, weeds, instincts of the br oks, and tints and tones of the localspecies which lie in some neighborhood's compass, andcomplete the pastoral mind. Numerous districts rose up and contended together, each attractive from some striking scene, or bold coutrast, or lovely face; and wiser policy might have ledhis inclinations to one of these, redundant, perhaps, inwcalth or literary appreciation; yet the heart began toturn, as in first love, or vagrancy almost as sweet, to thelittle, lowly region where his short childhood was IhÂ-ed, and where the unknown gener: ltions of