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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?