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THANKFUL BLOSSOM
by BRET HARTE
The time was the year of grace 1779; the locality, Morristown, New
mud of the morning's thaw into a rigid record of that day's
the deep ruts left by baggage-wagons, and the deeper channels worn
day. There were icicles on the fences, a rime of silver on the
protuberances of the road, as if Nature had worn herself out at the
leaves disinterred by the thaw became crisp again, and rustled in
and conjecture fled before them.
Here and there the wayside fences and walls were broken down or
discolored, and strewn with fragments of leather, camp equipage,
encampment and congregation of men. On some there were still
of fortification equally rude and incomplete. A fox stealing along
the human abandonment and desolation.
One by one the faint sunset tints faded from the sky; the far-off
on the Whatnong Mountain became a mere black background; and, with
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