Excerpt from The Student's Pen, Vol. 5: June, 1924 Was it the rattle of the milk cans that awakened me, or was it all the barnyard noise in general, - the bleating of the sheep, the bellowing of the hungry cattle, and the. Cackling of the numberless hens? At least the rattling of the milk cans was the most prominent sound at five o'clock on that July morning of my first day on a genuine, old fashioned New England farm. But my Views of an old-fashioned farm with the roman tic horse and buggy vanished when, ten minutes later, I found myself being jolted over a dusty road in a decidedly modern Ford truck. At least the road was genuinely old fashioned, and I truly realized it as I vainly tried to keep my balance atop the milk-cans that we were taking to the station. We bounced over hills, slid into dales, and swung around curves until I would have lost all sense of direction had it not been for the sun which had just risen over the mist-wreathed hills in back of us. An early summer morn ing in the hills of western Massachusetts can surpass any picture ever painted by an artist. Far off are the chains of endless hills forming an indistinct outline, wrapt as they are in gray mist. A few of the nearer hills stand out prominently in their green freshness of early morn. Below us, the cold, dark valleys are filled with banks of fog into which we dip now and again, only to emerge into the bright sunlight on a hilltop. All about was the cool, almost cold, invigorating freshness of the morning air which no oil painting ever could portray. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.