Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1919. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi vo Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. 272 Dwellers in Arcady : ...
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- DWELLERS IN ARCADY
- Books by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE For Young Readers
- THE BOYS' LIFE OF MARK TWAIN HOLLOW TREE NIGHTS AND DAYS THE HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP-WOODS BOOK THE HOLLOW TREE SNOWED-IN BOOK
- Small books of several stories each, selected from the above Hollow Tree books:
- HOW MR. DOG GOT EVEN HOW MR. RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL MR. RABBIT'S BIG DINNER MAKING UP WITH MR. DOG MR. 'POSSUM'S GREAT BALLOON TRIP WHEN JACK RABBIT WAS A LITTLE BOY MR. RABBIT'S WEDDING MR. CROW AND THE WHITEWASH MR. TURTLE'S FLYING ADVENTURE
- 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
- DWELLERS IN ARCADY The Story of an Abandoned Farm
- Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author of "from van-dweller to commuter" "the ship-dwellers" "the tent dwellers" etc. with Illustrations by
- Thomas Fogarty
- HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON
- 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
- 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?
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