Each time I have made off that way, from a multitude of varying
employments, it has not been, surely, to the detriment of my successive
employers. I have always decamped with wages still owing me.
* * * * *
I swung a scythe for a week for another Yankee farmer, on a marsh where
the machine couldn't be driven in--which I was informed was King
Phillip's battle ground.
* * * * *
I visited the inn where Longfellow was supposed to have gotten his
inspiration for _Tales of a Wayside Inn_.
I must see all the literary landmarks, even those where I considered the
authors that had caused the places to be celebrated, as dull and third
rate....
* * * * *
With gathering power in me grew my desire to attend college. I would
tramp, as I was doing, through the country, and end up at some western
university for the fall term.
* * * * *
The art workers' community lay in my way at Eos.
I dropped off a freight, one morning, in the Eos yards....
The gladdest to see me again was the Buddhist, Pfeiler. He rushed up to
me, in the dining hall, that night, and took both my hands in his ...
thanking me for my kind thought of him in sending him my Ossian ...
avowing that he had made a mistake in his opinion of me and asking my
indulgence .
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