Word: upcountrymen
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...When snow flies." New England has many idioms rich and expressive, but none so beautiful as this. There is a softness, a merriment, a silence, a simple beauty about it that the rigorous, taciturn upcountrymen seldom achieve. This idiom, casually dropped across the counter of the general store when the mountains swelter in midsummer sun, brings to mind the far off ring of sleigh bells, and the white antiguity of hills...
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