Other Main-Travelled Roads

as undergoing the most singula

of the horse, and did not see the trees glide past. The rabbit leaped away under the shadow of the thick groves of young oaks; the owl, scared from its perch, went flutterin

proach and note of suggestion-Radbourn, one of the best thinkers in

grew clearer. As a matter of fact, his whole system of religious thought was like the side of a shelving sand-bank-in unstable equilibrium-needing only a touch to send it slipping into a

t among the farmers, where pay was small. It was not true, therefore, that he had gone into it because there was little work and good pay. He was really an able man, and would have been a success in almost anything he undertook; but his reading and thought, his easy

a long time. When at last he looked up and saw the road leading out upon the wide plain between the belts of timber,

ize on eternal life and the will of the Being who stood behind that veil? And then would come rushing back that scene in the schoolhouse, the smell of the steaming g

se and roused up the sleeping hostler, who looked at him suspiciously and demande

n his brain was still going on. He couldn't hold one thought

mstances had been against his development thus far, but th