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Bucolic Beatitudes

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A series of short, anecdotal essays celebrates rural life through affectionate, often humorous portraits of familiar farm animals and the garden. Each piece focuses on a particular creature or the cultivated plot, blending personal recollection, natural observation, and gentle moral reflection to highlight qualities such as loyalty, industriousness, playfulness, and usefulness. The writer shifts between intimate domestic scenes and broader pastoral musings, valuing simple rituals, seasonal labor, and the restorative companionship of animals and plants while maintaining a wry, conversational tone.

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Title: Bucolic Beatitudes

Author: MacGregor Jenkins

Illustrator: Decie Merwin

Release date: April 17, 2023 [eBook #70573]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1925

Credits: Bob Taylor, hekula03 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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