Parts of it was
sweet, though, and reminded me of a sugar-squirrel turning the wheel
of a candy-cage.
"'Now,' I says to my neighbour, 'he's a showin' off. He thinks he's
a-doin' of it, but he ain't got no ide, no plan of nothin'. If he'd
play a tune of some kind or other I'd----'
"But my neighbour says 'Hush,' very impatient.
"I was just about to git up and go home, bein' tired of that
foolishness, when I heard a little bird waking away off in the woods,
and callin' sleepy-like to his mate, and I looked up, and I see that
Rubin was beginnin' to take some interest in his business, and I set
down agin. It was the peep of the day. The light came faint from the
east, the breeze blowed gentle and fresh, some birds waked up in the
orchard, then some more in the trees near the house, and all begun
singin' together. People began to stir, and the gal opened the
shutters. Just then the first beam of the sun fell upon the blossoms
a leetle more, and it techt the roses on the bushes, and the next
thing it was the broad day: the sun fairly blazed, the birds sang
like they'd split their throats; all the leaves were movin' and
flashin' diamonds of dew, and the whole wide world was bright and
happy as a king.
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