Roof and Meadow

NEW YORK
The Century Co.
1911
Copyright, 1903, 1904, by THE CENTURY CO.
Copyright, 1902, 1903, by HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
Copyright, 1903, by THE CHAPPLE PUBLISHING CO. (Ltd.).
Copyright, 1902, 1903, by W.W. POTTER CO. (Ltd.).
Copyright, 1902, 1903, by PERRY MASON COMPANY
Published April, 1904.

I laid down my book and listened. It was only the choking gurgle of a broken rain-pipe outside: then it was the ripple and swish of a meadow stream. To make out the voices of redwings and marsh-wrens in the rasping notes of the city sparrows behind the shutter required much more imagination. But I did it. I wanted to hear, and the splash of the water helped me.