The Old Meadow
“Budd Oh, Mr. Budd … Mr. Budd was the problem.
As the animals lingered beside the brook, they chatted together about the old man. Their talk drifted into the deep Old Meadow, a place that was fairly overgrown with the vines and the grass and the secretive flowers of Abner Budd’s life.
* * * “Scrawny vegetables! As if we’d ever raise such things!”
* * * Of all the field folk, Simon Turtle understood the problem of Abner Budd best, although the two, man and turtle, had had, for over sixty ...years, just a nodding acquaintance. Long before Dubber or Chester or Walt had been born—and in fact just after he himself had come out of the egg—Simon Turtle had known about Abner Budd. And the man’s life had grown to be entwined with the fate of the whole Old Meadow. He was the single and—as he liked to say—the ‘onliest’ human being to live there. That is, to live in the meadow since the farms failed, were sold, or the barns burned down. He was just something there, in his cabin, upstream, like the old gnarled tree that grew beside his vegetable patch.MoreLess
As the animals lingered beside the brook, they chatted together about the old man. Their talk drifted into the deep Old Meadow, a place that was fairly overgrown with the vines and the grass and the secretive flowers of Abner Budd’s life.
* * * “Scrawny vegetables! As if we’d ever raise such things!”
* * * Of all the field folk, Simon Turtle understood the problem of Abner Budd best, although the two, man and turtle, had had, for over sixty ...years, just a nodding acquaintance. Long before Dubber or Chester or Walt had been born—and in fact just after he himself had come out of the egg—Simon Turtle had known about Abner Budd. And the man’s life had grown to be entwined with the fate of the whole Old Meadow. He was the single and—as he liked to say—the ‘onliest’ human being to live there. That is, to live in the meadow since the farms failed, were sold, or the barns burned down. He was just something there, in his cabin, upstream, like the old gnarled tree that grew beside his vegetable patch.MoreLess
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