This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... SKETCHES OF A HINDSIGHT PHILOSOPHER "O great and beautiful Soul; with whom nothing turns to bitterness; who art peremptory only in duty and benevolence I" UNCLE OTIS'S OPINION OF NATURE OTIS GIFFORD was regarded by Hindsight as its philosopher. It was in the way-back days, when Patience Pinger had set ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... SKETCHES OF A HINDSIGHT PHILOSOPHER "O great and beautiful Soul; with whom nothing turns to bitterness; who art peremptory only in duty and benevolence I" UNCLE OTIS'S OPINION OF NATURE OTIS GIFFORD was regarded by Hindsight as its philosopher. It was in the way-back days, when Patience Pinger had set her poor, unappreciated old face for nearly ten years against the tide of Hindsight prejudice, that he added gladioli to his wonderful garden. Now this garden was the pride of the village. There were lilac bushes all down one side of the half-acre lot; and down the other great, sumptuous sunflowers and hollyhocks. Following the front fence stood rows upon rows of rose bushes and lily stalks, the white and pink alternating when there chanced to be a simultaneous bloom. This was not always; for growing things counted closely their seasons in Hindsight, and stuck sternly to their appointed times in spite of Uncle Otis's coaxing. New England flowers, like the people, aspire to no wasteful luxury of perpetual bud and blossom. "Them orange trees in Floridy, now; they might try some sech high-falutin' notions of bearin' fruit and flowers all to once," remarked Uncle Otis sagely; "but you ain't going to get a common-sense Noo England apple tree to commit any sech extravagance. And I tell you what 'tis, Miss Patience: when a good hard frost makes the mistake of goin' South it grips them silly orange trees all to pieces, while our apple trees--land! they don't pay any more 'tention to a straightalong-three-months-freeze-up than nothin' at all! Why, they acshally seem to enjoy it! And it's the same with flowers. I'm told that way down in Floridy, where they're too lazy to raise anything but darkeys and watermelons, if you was to stick anything into...
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