An Enormous Dangling Sack-like Net

A large weight lay inside the enormous dangling sack-like net.

When the breeze pressed forth, it swung in the hand; then, bit

by bit, it came to a full stop.

Stooping down, we could see the outlines of the weight: they

were those ofa small building, a country house. It was surrounded

by apple trees in flower. Young men in rough workclothes, with

rough-hewn ways, were climbing in the branches looking for

apples.

The gestures they made in their search, so practical and so

firm, and so inadvertently beautiful, seemed to admonish the

stranger to take heart.