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Recollections of Auton House .. (1889)

Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 83

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ith half-shut eyes. The hens and roosters pick up the Easter-worms and cock their heads about as if they pitied common mortals,who couldnt scratch up the warm, responsive earth. The dovescome forth from their round holes and strut about in the sunshine,while the sleek kittens commence to charm the… … AUTON KITCHEN. 79 hilated, and for the nonce we are, as we will be in eternity, with thenotion of time entirely discounted and blotted out of our existence. By the recurrence of these sensations, so common to every school-boy, I return again to that youthful epoch when Rosannah thecook inhabited…

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