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Albert Bigelow Paine. Dwellers in Arcady
Dwellers in Arcady
Table of 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
By Edwin Waugh
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?
