Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm

by Albert Bigelow Paine

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Contents

1. I. All my life I had dreamed of owning a brook
2. II. Ghosts like good architecture
3. III. Our debt to William C. Westbury
4. IV. Those were lovely days
5. I. We carried down a little hair trunk
6. II. Cap'n Ben has an iron door-sill
7. III. The thought of going back to "six rooms and improvements"
8. IV. The soft feet of the rain on the shingles
9. V. Elizabeth's ideas were not poetic
10. VI. Our last night in the barn was not like the others
11. I. At the threshold of the past
12. II. Paper-hanging is not a natural gift
13. III. There is nothing I wouldn't do for a bee—a reasonable bee
14. IV. There was a place we sometimes visited to see the trout
15. I. There is compensation even for moving
16. II. There is work about making apple-butter
17. III. Lazarus's downfall was a matter of pigs
18. IV. Westbury had advised against wheat
19. V. Deer—wild deer—on our own farm!
20. I. But Sarah was biding her time
21. II. We often cooked by our fireplace
22. III. Under the spell of the white touch
23. IV. The difficulty was to get busy
24. I. The magic of the starlit tree
25. Christmas Carol
26. II. Westbury dropped in
27. III. No animal except man digs and plants
28. IV. Then came Bella—and Gibbs
29. I. We planted a number of things
30. II. Out of the blue
31. III. "Ah, the bonny cow!"
32. IV. Strawberries and trout. How is that for a combination?
33. I. Fate produced a man who had chickens to sell
34. II. I planted some canterbury-bells
35. III. And how the family did grow up!
36. IV. And then one eventful day
37. V. Was it the spirit of our garden?

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