Saturday........ was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a....... in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the ....... of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was ......... with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a ....... of whitewash and a long-handled......... . He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. ......., he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; ....... the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box ....... Jim came skipping out at the gate with a ....... pail, and singing Buffalo Gals. Bringing .........from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom's eyes, before, but now it did not strike him so.
bucket
fragrance
gree
sighing
discouraged
song
morning
tin
brush
water
repeated