 | Joseph Lewis French - 1923 - 424 pages
...was a herd of cattle numbering many hundreds, if not thousands. All seemed happiness and contentment, and such a scene of abundance and rich plenty and...of Paradise, and tears of joy ran down our faces. The day was bright with sunshine as well as with hope, and it was the first day of January, 1850."... | |
 | 1927 - 386 pages
...never have the ability adequately to describe the beauty of the scene as it appeared to us, and as long as I live that landscape will be impressed upon...are opened up to him, the change cannot be much more than that which was suddenly opened to us on that bright day, which was either one of the very last... | |
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I live that landscape will be impressed upon the canvas of my memory as the most cheering in the world. There before us was a beautiful meadow of a thousand acres, green as a thick carpet of grass could make it, and shaded with oaks, wide branching and... 