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Animal Heroes
·
Ernest Thompson Seton
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Newchusen
was
a
typical
Western
town.
Everywhere
in
it,
were
to
be
seen
strenuous
efforts
at
uglification,
crowned
with
unmeasured
success.
The
streets
were
straight
level
lanes
without
curves
or
beauty-spots.
The
houses
were
cheap
and
mean
structures
of
flimsy
boards
and
tar
paper,
and
not
even
honest
in
their
ugliness,
for
each
of
them
was
pretending
to
be
something
better
than
itself.
One
had
a
false
front
to
make
it
look
like
two
stories,
another
was
of
imitation
brick,
a
third
pretended
to
be
a
marble
temple.
But
all
agreed
in
being
the
ugliest
things
ever
used
as
human
dwellings,
and
in
each
could
be
read
the
owner's
secret
thought--to
stand
it
for
a
year
or
so,
then
move
out
somewhere
else.
The
only
beauties
of
the
place,
and
those
unintentional,
were
the
long
lines
of
hand-planted
shade-trees,
uglified
as
far
as
possible
with
whitewashed
trunks
and
croppy
heads,
but
still
lovable,
growing,
living
things.
The
only
building
in
town
with
a
touch
of
picturesqueness
was
the
grain
elevator.
It
was
not
posing
as
a
Greek
temple
or
a
Swiss
chalet,
but
simply
a
strong,
rough,
honest,
grain
elevator.
At
the
end
of
each
street
was
a
vista
of
the
prairie,
with
its
farm-houses,
windmill
pumps,
and
long
lines
of
Osage-orange
hedges.
Here
at
least
was
something
of
interest--the
gray-green
hedges,
thick,
sturdy,
and
high,
were
dotted
with
their
golden
mock-oranges,
useless
fruit,
but
more
welcome
here
than
rain
in
a
desert;
for
these
balls
were
things
of
beauty,
and
swung
on
their
long
tough
boughs
they
formed
with
the
soft
green
leaves
a
color-chord
that
pleased
the
weary
eye.
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