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PASTORAL DAYS
PASTORAL DAYS OR MEMORIES OF A NEW ENGLAND YEAR
BY W. HAMILTON GIBSON Illustrated NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1881
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. —— All rights reserved.
TO ONE WHOSE CLOSE COMPANIONSHIP HAS WROUGHT THAT HARMONY AND PEACE OF MIND FROM WHICH THIS BOOK HAS SPRUNG, AND TO WHOM ITS EVERY PAGE RECALLS A REMINISCENCE OF THE PAST IDENTIFIED WITH MEMORIES OF MY OWN This Memoir is Lovingly Inscribed OUR SOUVENIR

THE CYCLE.
SPRING: PAGE
The Awakening 19
SUMMER:
The Consummation51
AUTUMN:
The Waning91
WINTER:
The Sleep125