Dwellers in Arcady

About this eBook

Author

Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937

Title

Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm

Credits

Annie McGuire

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Abandoned farms -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

28027

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28027

Release Date

February 8, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DWELLERS IN ARCADY
2. 2.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
3. 3.The Story of an Abandoned Farm
4. 4.Thomas Fogarty — HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS — NEW YORK AND LONDON — Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers — Printed in the United States of America — Published March, 1919
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.ILLUSTRATIONS
7. 7.I — All my life I had dreamed of owning a brook
8. 8.II — Ghosts like good architecture
9. 9.III — Our debt to William C. Westbury
10. 10.IV — Those were lovely days
11. 11.I — We carried down a little hair trunk
12. 12.II — Cap'n Ben has an iron door-sill
13. 13.III — The thought of going back to "six rooms and improvements"
14. 14.IV — The soft feet of the rain on the shingles
15. 15.V — Elizabeth's ideas were not poetic
16. 16.VI — Our last night in the barn was not like the others
17. 17.I — At the threshold of the past
18. 18.II — Paper-hanging is not a natural gift
19. 19.III — There is nothing I wouldn't do for a bee—a reasonable bee
20. 20.IV — There was a place we sometimes visited to see the trout
21. 21.I — There is compensation even for moving
22. 22.II — There is work about making apple-butter
23. 23.III — Lazarus's downfall was a matter of pigs
24. 24.IV — Westbury had advised against wheat
25. 25.V — Deer—wild deer—on our own farm!
26. 26.I — But Sarah was biding her time
27. 27.II — We often cooked by our fireplace
28. 28.III — Under the spell of the white touch
29. 29.IV — The difficulty was to get busy
30. 30.I — The magic of the starlit tree
31. 31.CHRISTMAS CAROL — By Edwin Waugh
32. 32.II — Westbury dropped in
33. 33.III — No animal except man digs and plants
34. 34.IV — Then came Bella—and Gibbs
35. 35.I — We planted a number of things
36. 36.II — Out of the blue
37. 37.III — "Ah, the bonny cow!"
38. 38.IV — Strawberries and trout. How is that for a combination?
39. 39.I — Fate produced a man who had chickens to sell
40. 40.II — I planted some canterbury-bells
41. 41.III — And how the family did grow up!
42. 42.IV — And then one eventful day
43. 43.V — Was it the spirit of our garden?

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