"Across the evening valley the old mule went with his broken "Hee haw" Broken like a yodel in the wind: like a horn blown by some terribly sad angel: like a reminder to people digesting dinners at home that all was not as well as they thought. yet is was just a love cry for another mule. But that was why..."

This quote is about the sad mating call of a deer. In a field that used to be full of deer, but is now an empty field, his call is sad because there is no anumal to receive it. As people eat their meals at home, the deer is wandering alone. The call is a forlorn sadness.

"I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportioned on the top, with all that rumbling experience of the whole tree swaying beneath them."

This is a descriptive and picturesque quote. As he lies under the tree and watches the branches, it symbolizes his general happiness at the time. The scene is happy, with dancing leaves. The quote is a blissful fairytale in a book of realistic stories.