The Avesta, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter, 1926 Page: 18
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THE AVESTA
"tunnel, walled and overlaid with dazzling crystals." He makes those
scenes that might seem offensive to some, pleasant and beautiful.
The inhabitants were completely shut off from everything outside
now, so they piled the wood high and sat around the hearth. The rosy
glow of the fire transformed the "rude-furnished room" into rosy bloom.
'The merrier up to its roaring dratight
The great throat of the chimney laughed;
The house-dog on his paws outspread,
Laid to the fire his drowsy head;
The cat's dark silhouette on the wall
A couchant tiger's seemed to fall
And, for the winter fireside meet,
Between the andiron's straddling feet
The mug of cider simmered slow,
The apples sputtered in a row
And, close at hand the basket stood
With nuts from brown autumn's woods."
The author then makes comments on the death in his family and on
how the circle is broken. His hair is as gray as his father's was that day,
and only he and his brother are left.
To pass the time more pleasantly the father told of his trip to Canada;
the mother told of the Indians in Connecticut. The uncle told of his fish-
ing and hunting expeditions; the aunt,
"The sweetest woman ever Fate
Perverse denied a household mate"
told of husking bees and sleigh rides of her girlhood; the elder sister plied
her evening task; the younger sister sat,
"Lifting her large. sweet, asking eyes."
The schoolmaster told of his experiences in Dartmouth College, sang
songs, played the violin, and teased the cat. The strange guest, Harriet
Livermore, rebuked
"With her cultured phrase
Our homeliness of words and ways."The ten people at nine o'clock all prepared for bed,
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North Texas State Teachers College. The Avesta, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter, 1926, periodical, Winter 1926; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2105597/m1/20/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.