Dwellers in Arcady. Albert Bigelow Paine

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       Albert Bigelow Paine

      Dwellers in Arcady

      The Story of an Abandoned Farm

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664625762

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

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