How gallantly the maples flaunted their crimson flags ! How kind and friendly was every face she met ! Afterwards , Miss Cynthia said she began to live that day . Wilbur 's recovery was slow . Every day Miss Cynthia drove over with some dainty , and her loving gentleness sat none the less gracefully on her because of its newness . Wilbur grew to look for and welcome her coming . When it was thought safe to remove him , Miss Cynthia went to the hospital with a phaeton-load of shawls and pillows . `` I have come to take you away , '' she said . Wilbur shrank back . `` Not to Mr. Robins , '' he said piteously . `` Oh , not there , Aunt Cynthia ! '' Them Notorious Pigs John Harrington was a woman-hater , or thought that he was , which amounts to the same thing . He was forty-five and , having been handsome in his youth , was a fine-looking man still . He had a remarkably good farm and was a remarkably good farmer . He also had a garden which was the pride and delight of his heart or , at least , it was before Mrs. Hayden 's pigs got into it . Sarah King , Harrington 's aunt and housekeeper , was deaf and crabbed , and very few visitors ever came to the house . This suited Harrington . He was a good citizen and did his duty by the community , but his bump of sociability was undeveloped . He was also a contented man , looking after his farm , improving his stock , and experimenting with new bulbs in undisturbed serenity . This , however , was all too good to last .
A man is bound to have some troubles in this life , and Harrington 's were near their beginning when Perry Hayden bought the adjoining farm from the heirs of Shakespeare Ely , deceased , and moved XXXXX .
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