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Ammi
listened
without
interest
to
this
talk
until
one
night
when
he
drove
past
Nahum
's
house
in
his
sleigh
on
the
way
back
from
Clark
's
Corners
.
There
had
been
a
moon
,
and
a
rabbit
had
run
across
the
road
,
and
the
leaps
of
that
rabbit
were
longer
than
either
Ammi
or
his
horse
liked
.
The
latter
,
indeed
,
had
almost
run
away
when
brought
up
by
a
firm
rein
.
Thereafter
Ammi
gave
Nahum
's
tales
more
respect
,
and
wondered
why
the
Gardner
dogs
seemed
so
cowed
and
quivering
every
morning
.
They
had
,
it
developed
,
nearly
lost
the
spirit
to
bark
.
In
February
the
McGregor
boys
from
Meadow
Hill
were
out
shooting
woodchucks
,
and
not
far
from
the
Gardner
place
bagged
a
very
peculiar
specimen
.
The
proportions
of
its
body
seemed
slightly
altered
in
a
queer
way
impossible
to
describe
,
while
its
face
had
taken
on
an
expression
which
no
one
ever
saw
in
a
woodchuck
before
.
The
boys
were
genuinely
frightened
,
and
threw
the
thing
away
at
once
,
so
that
only
their
grotesque
tales
of
it
ever
reached
the
people
of
the
countryside
.
But
the
shying
of
the
horses
near
Nahum
's
house
had
now
become
an
acknowledged
thing
,
and
all
the
basis
for
a
cycle
of
whispered
legend
was
fast
taking
form
.
People
vowed
that
the
snow
melted
faster
around
Nahum
's
than
it
did
anywhere
else
,
and
early
in
March
there
was
an
awed
discussion
in
Potter
's
general
store
at
Clark
's
Corners
.
Stephen
Rice
had
driven
past
Gardner
's
in
the
morning
,
and
had
noticed
the
skunk-cabbages
coming
up
through
the
mud
by
the
woods
across
the
road
.
Never
were
things
of
such
size
seen
before
,
and
they
held
strange
colours
that
could
not
be
put
into
any
words
.
Their
shapes
were
monstrous
,
and
the
horse
had
snorted
at
an
odour
which
struck
Stephen
as
wholly
unprecedented
.
That
afternoon
several
persons
drove
past
to
see
the
abnormal
growth
,
and
all
agreed
that
plants
of
that
kind
ought
never
to
sprout
in
a
healthy
world
.
The
bad
fruit
of
the
fall
before
was
freely
mentioned
,
and
it
went
from
mouth
to
mouth
that
there
was
poison
in
Nahum
's
ground
.
Of
course
it
was
the
meteorite
;
and
remembering
how
strange
the
men
from
the
college
had
found
that
stone
to
be
,
several
farmers
spoke
about
the
matter
to
them
.
One
day
they
paid
Nahum
a
visit
;
but
having
no
love
of
wild
tales
and
folklore
were
very
conservative
in
what
they
inferred
.
The
plants
were
certainly
odd
,
but
all
skunk-cabbages
are
more
or
less
odd
in
shape
and
odour
and
hue
.
Perhaps
some
mineral
element
from
the
stone
had
entered
the
soil
,
but
it
would
soon
be
washed
away
.
And
as
for
the
footprints
and
frightened
horses
--
of
course
this
was
mere
country
talk
which
such
a
phenomenon
as
the
aërolite
would
be
certain
to
start
.
There
was
really
nothing
for
serious
men
to
do
in
cases
of
wild
gossip
,
for
superstitious
rustics
will
say
and
believe
anything
.
And
so
all
through
the
strange
days
the
professors
stayed
away
in
contempt
.
Only
one
of
them
,
when
given
two
phials
of
dust
for
analysis
in
a
police
job
over
a
year
and
a
half
later
,
recalled
that
the
queer
colour
of
that
skunk-cabbage
had
been
very
like
one
of
the
anomalous
bands
of
light
shewn
by
the
meteor
fragment
in
the
college
spectroscope
,
and
like
the
brittle
globule
found
imbedded
in
the
stone
from
the
abyss
.
The
samples
in
this
analysis
case
gave
the
same
odd
bands
at
first
,
though
later
they
lost
the
property
.
The
trees
budded
prematurely
around
Nahum
's
,
and
at
night
they
swayed
ominously
in
the
wind
.
Nahum
's
second
son
Thaddeus
,
a
lad
of
fifteen
,
swore
that
they
swayed
also
when
there
was
no
wind
;
but
even
the
gossips
would
not
credit
this
.
Certainly
,
however
,
restlessness
was
in
the
air
.
The
entire
Gardner
family
developed
the
habit
of
stealthy
listening
,
though
not
for
any
sound
which
they
could
consciously
name
.
The
listening
was
,
indeed
,
rather
a
product
of
moments
when
consciousness
seemed
half
to
slip
away
.
Unfortunately
such
moments
increased
week
by
week
,
till
it
became
common
speech
that
"
something
was
wrong
with
all
Nahum
's
folks
"
.
When
the
early
saxifrage
came
out
it
had
another
strange
colour
;
not
quite
like
that
of
the
skunk-cabbage
,
but
plainly
related
and
equally
unknown
to
anyone
who
saw
it
.
Nahum
took
some
blossoms
to
Arkham
and
shewed
them
to
the
editor
of
the
Gazette
,
but
that
dignitary
did
no
more
than
write
a
humorous
article
about
them
,
in
which
the
dark
fears
of
rustics
were
held
up
to
polite
ridicule
.
It
was
a
mistake
of
Nahum
's
to
tell
a
stolid
city
man
about
the
way
the
great
,
overgrown
mourning-cloak
butterflies
behaved
in
connexion
with
these
saxifrages
.
April
brought
a
kind
of
madness
to
the
country
folk
,
and
began
that
disuse
of
the
road
past
Nahum
's
which
led
to
its
ultimate
abandonment
.
It
was
the
vegetation
.
All
the
orchard
trees
blossomed
forth
in
strange
colours
,
and
through
the
stony
soil
of
the
yard
and
adjacent
pasturage
there
sprang
up
a
bizarre
growth
which
only
a
botanist
could
connect
with
the
proper
flora
of
the
region
.
No
sane
wholesome
colours
were
anywhere
to
be
seen
except
in
the
green
grass
and
leafage
;
but
everywhere
those
hectic
and
prismatic
variants
of
some
diseased
,
underlying
primary
tone
without
a
place
among
the
known
tints
of
earth
.
The
Dutchman
's
breeches
became
a
thing
of
sinister
menace
,
and
the
bloodroots
grew
insolent
in
their
chromatic
perversion
.
Ammi
and
the
Gardners
thought
that
most
of
the
colours
had
a
sort
of
haunting
familiarity
,
and
decided
that
they
reminded
one
of
the
brittle
globule
in
the
meteor
.
Nahum
ploughed
and
sowed
the
ten-acre
pasture
and
the
upland
lot
,
but
did
nothing
with
the
land
around
the
house
.
He
knew
it
would
be
of
no
use
,
and
hoped
that
the
summer
's
strange
growths
would
draw
all
the
poison
from
the
soil
.
He
was
prepared
for
almost
anything
now
,
and
had
grown
used
to
the
sense
of
something
near
him
waiting
to
be
heard
.
The
shunning
of
his
house
by
neighbours
told
on
him
,
of
course
;
but
it
told
on
his
wife
more
.
The
boys
were
better
off
,
being
at
school
each
day
;
but
they
could
not
help
being
frightened
by
the
gossip
.
Thaddeus
,
an
especially
sensitive
youth
,
suffered
the
most
.
In
May
the
insects
came
,
and
Nahum
's
place
became
a
nightmare
of
buzzing
and
crawling
.
Most
of
the
creatures
seemed
not
quite
usual
in
their
aspects
and
motions
,
and
their
nocturnal
habits
contradicted
all
former
experience
.
