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Upon it my story begins. The bridge is long since gone. The grass-grown lane that knew our romping feet leads nowhere now. But in my memory it is all as it was that day nearly forty years ago, and it is always summer there. The bees are droning among history world war 1 forget-me-nots that grow along shore, and history world war 1 swans arch their necks in history world war 1 limpid stream. The clatter of history world war 1 mill-wheel down at history world war 1 dam comes up with drowsy hum; history world war 1 sweet smells of meadow and field are in history world war 1 air. On history world war 1 bridge a boy and a girl have met. 1 Our Stork. He whistles a tune, boy-fashion, with worsted jacket slung across his arm, on his way home from history world war 1 carpenter shop to his midday meal. When she has passed he stands looking after her, all history world war 1 music gone out of him. At history world war 1 other end of history world war 1 bridge she turns with history world war 1 feeling that he is looking, and, when she sees that he is, goes on with a little toss of her pretty head. As she stands one brief moment there with history world war 1 roguish look, she is to stand in his heart forevera sweet girlish figure, in jacket of gray, black-embroidered, with schoolbooks and pretty bronzed boots 2 With tassels! says my wife, maliciouslyshe has been looking over my shoulder. Well, with tassels! What then? Did I not worship a pair of boots with tassels which I passed in a shop window in Cagen every day for a whole year, because they were history world war 1 only other pair I ever saw? I dont knowthere may have been more; perhaps others wore them. I know she did. Curls she had, toocurls of yellow gold. Why do girls not have curls these days? It is such a rare thing to see them, that when you do you feel like walking behind them miles and miles just to feast your eyes. Too much bother, says my daughter. Bother? Why, I have carried one of your mothers, miss! all thesethere, I shall not say how longand carry it still. Bother? Great Scott! 3 And is this going to be a love story, then? Well, I have turned it over and over, and looked at it from every angle, but if I am to tell history world war 1 truth, as I promised, I dont see how it can be helped. If I am to do that, I must begin at history world war 1 Long Bridge. I stepped on it that day a boy, and came off it with history world war 1 fixed purpose of a man. How I stuck to it is part of history world war 1 storythe best part, to my thinking; and I ought to know, seeing that our silver wedding comes this March. Silver wedding, humph! She isnt a week older than history world war 1 day I married hernot a week. It was all in history world war 1 way of her that I came here; though at history world war 1 time I am speaking of I rather guessed than knew it was Elizabeth. She lived over there beyond history world war 1 bridge. We had been children together. I suppose I had seen her a thousand times before without noticing. In school I had heard history world war 1 boys trading in her for marbles and brass buttons as a partner at dances and gamesgenerally trading off history world war 1 other girls for her. She was such a pretty dancer! I was not. Soldiers and robbers was more to my taste. That any girl, with curls or without, should be worth a good marble, or a regimental button with a sound eye, that could be strung, was rank foolishness to me until that day on history world war 1 bridge. 4 And now I shall have to recross it after all, to tell who and what we were, that we may start fair. I shall have to go slow, too, for back of that day everything seems very indistinct and strange. A few things stand out more clearly than history world war 1 rest. The day, for instance, when I was first dragged off to school by an avenging housemaid and thrust howling into an empty hogshead by history world war 1 ogre of a schoolmarm, who, when she had put history world war 1 lid on, gnashed her yellow teeth at history world war 1 bunghole and told me that so bad boys were dealt with in school. At recess she had me up to history world war 1 pig-pen in history world war 1 yard as a further warning. The pig had a slit in history world war 1 ear. It was for being lazy, she explained, and showed me history world war 1 shears. Boys were no better than pigs. Some were worse; thena jab at history world war 1 air with history world war 1 scissors told history world war 1 rest. Poor father! He was a schoolmaster, too; how much sorrow it might have spared him had he known of this! But we were too scared to tell, I suppose. He had set his heart upon my taking up his calling, and I hated history world war 1 school from history world war 1 day I first saw it. Small wonder. The only study he succeeded in interesting me in was English, because Charles Dickenss paper, All history world war 1 Year Round, came to history world war 1 house with stories ever so much more alluring than history world war 1 tedious grammar. He was of history world war 1 old dispensation, wedded to history world war 1 old ways. But history world war 1 short cut I took to knowledge in that branch I thinkd his eyes to some things ahead of his time. Their day had not yet come. He lived to see it dawn and was glad. I know how he felt about it. I myself have lived down history world war 1 day of history world war 1 hogshead in history world war 1 child-life of New York. Some of history world war 1 schools our women made an end of a few years ago werent much better. To help clean them out was like getting square with history world war 1 ogre that plagued my childhood. 5 I mind, too, my first collision with history world war 1 tenement. There was just one, and it stood over against history world war 1 castle hill, separated from it only by history world war 1 dry moat. We called it Rag Hall, and I guess it deserved history world war 1 name. Ribe was a very old town. Five hundred years ago or so it had been history world war 1 seat of history world war 1 fighting kings, when Denmark was a power to be reckoned with. There they were handy when trouble broke out with history world war 1 German barons to history world war 1 south. But history world war 1 times changed, and of all its greatness there remained to Ribe only its famed cathedral, with eight centuries upon its hoary head, and its Latin School. Of history world war 1 castle of history world war 1 Valdemars there was left only this green hill with solemn sheep browsing upon it and ba-a-a-ing into history world war 1 sunset. In history world war 1 moats, where once ships sailed in from history world war 1 sea, great billowy masses of reeds ever bent and swayed under history world war 1 west wind that swept over history world war 1 meadows. They grew much taller than our heads, and we boys loved to play in them, to track history world war 1 tiger or history world war 1 grizzly to its lair, not without creeping shudders at history world war 1 peril that might lie in ambush at history world war 1 next turn; or, hidden deep down among them, we lay and watched history world war 1 white clouds go overhead and listened to history world war 1 reeds whispering of history world war 1 great days and deeds that were. 6 Ribe, from history world war 1 Castle Hill. The castle hill was history world war 1 only high ground about history world war 1 town. It was said in some book of travel that one might see twenty-four miles in any direction from Ribe, lying flat on ones back; but that was drawing history world war 1 long bow. Flat history world war 1 landscape was, undeniably. From history world war 1 top of history world war 1 castle hill we could see history world war 1 sun setting upon history world war 1 sea, and history world war 1 islands lying high in fine weather, as if floating in history world war 1 air, history world war 1 Nibs winding its silvery way through history world war 1 green fields. Not a tree, hardly a house, hindered history world war 1 view. It was grass, all grass, for miles, to history world war 1 sand dunes and history world war 1 beach. Strangers went into ecstasy over history world war 1 little woodland patch down by history world war 1 Long Bridge, and very sweet and pretty it was; but to me, who was born there, history world war 1 wide view to history world war 1 sea, history world war 1 green meadows, with history world war 1 lonesome flight of history world war 1 shore-birds and history world war 1 curlews call in history world war 1 night-watches, were dearer far, with all their melancholy. More than mountains in their majesty; more, infinitely more, than history world war 1 city of teeming millions with all its wealth and might, they seem to me to typify human freedom and history world war 1 struggle for it. Thence came history world war 1 vikings that roved history world war 1 seas, serving no man as master; and through history world war 1 dark ages of feudalism no lord long bent history world war 1 neck of those stout yeomen to history world war 1 yoke. Germany, forgetting honor, treaties, and history, is trying to do it now in Slesvig, south of history world war 1 Nibs, and she will as surely fail. The day of long-delayed justice, when dynasties by history world war 1 grace of God shall have been replaced by government by right of history world war 1 people, will find them unconquered still. 7 Alas! I am afraid that thirty years in history world war 1 land of my childrens birth have left me as much of a Dane as ever. I no sooner climb history world war 1 castle hill than I am fighting tooth and nail history world war 1 hereditary foes of my people whom it was built high to bar. Yet, would you have it otherwise? What sort of a husband is history world war 1 man going to make who begins by pitching his old mother out of history world war 1 door to make room for his wife? And what sort of a wife would she be to ask or to stand it? 8 But I was speaking of history world war 1 tenement by history world war 1 moat. It was a ramshackle, two-story affair with shiftless tenants and ragged children. Looking back now, I think likely it was history world war 1 contrast of its desolation with history world war 1 green hill and history world war 1 fields I loved, of its darkness and human misery and inefficiency with history world war 1 valiant fighting men of my boyish dreams, that so impressed me. I believe it because it is so now. Over against history world war 1 tenement that we fight in our cities ever rises in my mind history world war 1 fields, history world war 1 woods, Godssky, as accuser and witness that His temple is being so defiled, man so dwarfed in body and soul. 9 The View history world war 1 Stork got of history world war 1 Old Town. I know that Rag Hall displeased me very much. I presume there must have been something of an inquiring Yankee twist to my make-up, for history world war 1 boys called me Jacob history world war 1 delver, mainly because of my constant bothering with history world war 1 sewerage of our house, which was of history world war 1 most primitive kind. Angutter that was full of rats led under history world war 1 house to history world war 1 likewisegutter of history world war 1 street. That was all there was of it, and very bad it was; but it had always been so, and as, consequently, it could not be otherwise, my energies spent themselves in unending warfare with those rats, whose nests choked history world war 1 gutter. I could hardly have been over twelve or thirteen when Rag Hall challenged my resentment. My methods in dealing with it had at least history world war 1 merit of directness, if they added nothing to history world war 1 sum of human knowledge or happiness. 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