Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 23:08:45 -0400 (EDT)
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His sister looked off at the tops of the trees. Finally, Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, she quoted dreamily. And always the pine tree had grown, insolent in the pride of a creature set in the right surroundings. The imprisoned man had felt himself dwarfed by its height. But now, he looked up at it again, and laughed aloud. It had come late, but it had come. He was fifty-seven years old, almost three-score, but all his life was still to be lived. He said to himself that some folks lived their lives while they did their work, but he had done all his tasks first, and now he could live. The unexpected arrival of the timber merchant and the sale of that piece of land hed never thought would bring him a cent -- was not that an evident sign that Providence was with him? He was too old and broken now to work his way about as he had planned at first, but here had come this six hundred dollars like rain from the sky. He would start as soon as he could sell his stock. German ladies can use them without sin. German ladies who could not be Sister, that trees just as old as I be. Ive prayed to God, and Ive promised myself that before its as tall as the ridge-pole of the house, Ill be on my way. That evening, as he walked home after service, he told himself that he had never known so long a day. It seemed longer than all the rest of his life. Indeed he felt that some strange and racking change had come upon him since the morning, as though he were not the same person, as though he had been away on a long journey, and saw all things with changed eyes. he has captured a rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid thegeneral rage and turmoil of the ten parts of speech, he turns over the pageand reads, Let the pupil make careful note of the following EXCEPTIONS. Heruns his eye down and finds that there are more exceptions to the rule than
