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DWELLERS
IN ARCADY
Books by
ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
For Young Readers
THE BOYS' LIFE OF MARK TWAIN
HOLLOW TREE NIGHTS AND DAYS
THE HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP-WOODS BOOK
THE HOLLOW TREE SNOWED-IN BOOK
Small books of several stories each, selected from the above Hollow Tree books:
HOW MR. DOG GOT EVEN
HOW MR. RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL
MR. RABBIT'S BIG DINNER
MAKING UP WITH MR. DOG
MR. 'POSSUM'S GREAT BALLOON TRIP
WHEN JACK RABBIT WAS A LITTLE BOY
MR. RABBIT'S WEDDING
MR. CROW AND THE WHITEWASH
MR. TURTLE'S FLYING ADVENTURE
For Grown-ups
DWELLERS IN ARCADY
MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS
MARK TWAIN: A Biography
TH. NAST: His Period and His Pictures
THE SHIP-DWELLERS (Humorous travel)
THE TENT-DWELLERS (Humorous camping)
FROM VAN-DWELLER TO COMMUTER (Humorous, home life)
PEANUT (Story of a boy)
HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK
DWELLERS IN ARCADY
The Story of an Abandoned Farm
Albert Bigelow Paine
Author of "from van-dweller to commuter"
"the ship-dwellers" "the tent dwellers"
etc.
with Illustrations by
Thomas Fogarty
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published March, 1919
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER ONE
I
All my life I had dreamed of owning a brook
II
Ghosts like good architecture
III
Our debt to William C. Westbury
IV
Those were lovely days
CHAPTER TWO
I
We carried down a little hair trunk
II
Cap'n Ben has an iron door-sill
III
The thought of going back to "six rooms and improvements"
IV
The soft feet of the rain on the shingles
V
Elizabeth's ideas were not poetic
VI
Our last night in the barn was not like the others
CHAPTER THREE
I
At the threshold of the past
II
Paper-hanging is not a natural gift
III
There is nothing I wouldn't do for a bee—a reasonable bee
IV
There was a place we sometimes visited to see the trout
CHAPTER FOUR
I
There is compensation even for moving
II
There is work about making apple-butter
III
Lazarus's downfall was a matter of pigs
IV
Westbury had advised against wheat
V
Deer—wild deer—on our own farm!
CHAPTER FIVE
I
But Sarah was biding her time
II
We often cooked by our fireplace
III
Under the spell of the white touch
IV
The difficulty was to get busy
CHAPTER SIX
I
The magic of the starlit tree
CHRISTMAS CAROL
II
Westbury dropped in
III
No animal except man digs and plants
IV
Then came Bella—and Gibbs
CHAPTER SEVEN
I
We planted a number of things
II
Out of the blue
III
"Ah, the bonny cow!"
IV
Strawberries and trout. How is that for a combination?
CHAPTER EIGHT
I
Fate produced a man who had chickens to sell
II
I planted some canterbury-bells
III
And how the family did grow up!
IV
And then one eventful day
V
Was it the spirit of our garden?
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