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Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm By: Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) |
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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 [Illustration: Once more it was a habitation and a home ] [Illustration] DWELLERS IN ARCADY The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Albert Bigelow Paine Author of "From Van Dweller to Commuter"
"The Ship Dwellers" "The Tent Dwellers"
Etc. With Illustrations by Thomas Fogarty [Illustration]
Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published March, 1919
ILLUSTRATIONS Once more it was a habitation and a home Frontispiece "And here is your house," said William C.
Westbury 6 They formed a board of appraisal. All of them
knew that cellar and were intimately acquainted
with its contents 44 I made about three leaps and grabbed it, and a
second later had it hooked and was back,
the lightning at my heels 68 Sometimes at the end of the day, as I sat by
the waning embers, and watched her moving
to and fro between me and the fading
autumn fields 110 "Good afternoon," I said. "Can you tell us
where we are?" 156 I remember that as a golden summer, an enthusiastic
summer, and, on the whole, a
successful one 206 It was on a winter evening that I drove our
car back to its old place in the barn, after
its long journeyings by land and sea 238
CHAPTER ONE
I All my life I had dreamed of owning a brook [Illustration] Just below the brow of the hill one of the traces broke (it was in the
horse and wagon days of a dozen years or so ago), and, if our driver had
not been a prompt man our adventure might have come to grief when it was
scarcely begun. As it was, we climbed on foot to the top, and waited
while he went into a poor old wreck of a house to borrow a string for
repairs. We wondered if the house we were going to see would be like this one. It
was of no special design and it had never had a period. It was just a
house, built out of some one's urgent need and a lean purse. In the
fifty years or so of its existence it had warped and lurched and become
sway backed and old oh, so old and dilapidated without becoming in the
least antique, but just dismal and disreputable a veritable pariah of
architecture. We thought this too bad, for the situation, with its view
down a little valley and in the distance the hazy hills, was the sort of
thing that, common as it is in Connecticut, never loses its charm. Never
mind, we said, perhaps "our house" would have a view, too. But then our trace was mended and we went along happily, for it was
sunny weather and summer time, and, though parents of a family of three,
we were still young enough to find pleasure in novelty and a surprise at
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