Hemlocky

10 is bad in the south line, and 9 also is cold and hemlocky.

The friends of Mr. Fillmore erected a hemlock pole at Evans on Friday last and hung their flag at half-mast. All right—a sign of distress is exceedingly appropriate for that party. Several speakers were present, we understand, and the style of oratory, was, in its argument and positions, quite as hemlocky as the pole, and as distressed as the flag at half-mast.

The next section extending from the 18th mile to Mr. Bell’s line, the land on the east side of the line is the same as the last section, but on the west side, the the^([sic]) land is more hilly, stony and hemlocky.

The rest of the farm is either low and flat, or piny or hemlocky, or something else.

E. G. R. [The Rev. E. Gillett of Runham] in Notes and Queries, iii., Series 1, p. 236, thinks this “Bunkey” or Hemlocky Hill.

From June till October I cruised and camped, mildly, on the upper waters of the Susquehanna, getting such benefit as I might from out-door life in a piny, hemlocky region.

Such has been the demand in the east for the true-to-nature productions of Becket & Von Hillern that few, if any, have strayed west of the Alleghanies yet; but if in the near future you see a particularly woodsy, hemlocky, viney bit of painting on exhibition anywhere—one that has a tendency to make you want to rush on to Devil’s lake, Shawno, Lake Gobebic, or some other place as yet unmarred by the hand of man—a scene that carries you back to boyhood when you went bare-footed, stubbed your toes, had stone-bruises, and got walloped for going in swimming so constantly—just look in the lower corner and see if you don’t find the initials “M. J. C. B.” or “B v. H.”

The snow falls upon them and through them, yet does not lodge and cling to the bared branches; while the pines, spruces and hemlocks are glorified by it. They which have no blossoms in summer are compensated with a wealth of white roses and chrysanthemums, lifted high in air or leaning upon each other. Many a young hemlocky Santa Claus bends under the weight of his gifts, which he drops upon our heads as we pass by; […]