Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

settled yet and after four or five miles I commenced to grow dizzy. I stopped & lay down in some deep grass in a gutter along the road. My face & head grew hotter and hotter; and presently I fell asleep; for some time I slept my by fits starts, the intervals being filled with hazy impressions of the sun shining thru the tree above me, and the monotonous hum of bees, and hot pink fields of plowed ground and burning grass; when I slept I had wild lurid dreams; suddenly I became fully awake; it was three-thirty. I got up and started again, and found that I was refreshed. In a plowed field I saw a young man driving four horses; he looked like a god. He had doffed his shirt, and his huge tan arms glowed in the sunlight with a wonderful brown pink. The trip from Randolph to Berlin Center passed uneventfully; I had gotten my second wind and it was only a matter of steady pulling.; As I lefter (sic) Berlin Center, however, I again became tired and exhausted, with only thirteen miles to go yet. I went for three miles and then stopped by a farm-houses (sic), to try & buy some milk to drink. I went around to the back and found the woman of the house in the garden. I explained to her my plight and she at once