The twilight falls more swiftly now and the
nights are cooler but before the frost sweeps across the land I shall
be in Georgia.
"For all it is autumn elsewhere, here in this wonderful blue grass
land, it is spring again, a second spring. The autumn sunlight over
the woods and pastures is deeply, richly yellow. There are meadow
larks and off somewhere the tinkle of a cow bell. Oh, Ann, how good it
is to be alive!
"Ages ago, in that remote and barbarous past when I lived with a roof
above my head, there were times when every pulse of my body cried and
begged for life--for gypsy life and gypsy wind and the song of the
roaring river! Now, somehow, I feel that I have lived indeed--so fully
that a wonderful flood tide of peace and happiness flows strongly in my
veins. I am brown and happy. Each day I cook and tramp and fish and
swim and sleep--how I sleep with the leaves rustling a lullaby of
infinite peace above me! Would you believe that I lived for two days
and nights in a mountain cave? I did indeed, but Johnny was greatly
troubled. Aunt Agatha stuffed his head with commands.
"The South thrills and calls. After all, though I was born in the
Adirondacks, I am Southern, every inch of me. The Westfalls have been
Florida folk since the beginning of time.
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