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She had delayed, because of the dew-wet grass, in order to put on her overshoes, and when she emerged from the house found her waiting husband absorbed in the wonder of a bursting almond-bud. She sent a questing glance across the tall grass and in and out among the orchard trees. Where's Wolf? she asked. He was here a moment ago. Walt Irvine drew himself away with a jerk from the metaphysics and poetry of the organic miracle of blossom, and surveyed the landscape. He was running a rabbit the last I saw of him. Wolf! Wolf! Here, Wolf! she called, as they left the clearing and took the trail that led down through the waxen-belled manzanita jungle to the county road.Irvine thrust between his lips the little finger of each hand and lent to her efforts a shrill whistling.She covered her ears hastily and made a wry grimace. My! for a poet, delicately attuned and all the rest of it, you can make unlovely noises. My eardrums are pierced. You outwhistle-- Orpheus. I was about to say a street-arab, she concluded severely. Poesy does not prevent one from being practical-at least it doesn't prevent me. Mine is no futility of genius that can't sell gems to the magazines. He assumed a mock extravagance, and went on: I am no attic singer, no ballroom warbler. And why? Because I am practical. Mine is no squalor of song that cannot transmute itself, with proper exchange value, into a flower-crowned cottage, a sweet mountain-meadow, a grove of redwoods, an orchard of thirty-seven trees, one long row of blackberries and two short rows of strawberries, to say nothing of a quarter of a mile of gurgling brook. Oh, that all your song-transmutations were as successful! she laughed. Name one that wasn't. 4 Those two beautiful sonnets that you transmuted into the cow that was accounted the worst milker in the township. She was beautiful-- he began. But she didn't give milk, Madge interrupted. But she was beautiful, now, wasn't she? he insisted

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