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“So that is why you wanted my brook to come from the spring!”
The Idyl of Twin Fires
BY WALTER PRICHARD EATON
Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
GROSSET & DUNLAP
Publishers : : New York
Copyright, 1914, 1915, by Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
CONTENTS
I.I Buy a Farm on Sight3
II.My Money Goes and My Farmer Comes19
III.New Joy in an Old Orchard34
IV.I Pump up a Ghost47
V.I Am Humbled by a Drag Scraper66
VI.The Hermit Sings at Twilight77
VII.The Ghost of Rome in Roses88
VIII.I Pick Paint and a Quarrel102
IX.We Seat Thoreau in the Chimney Nook, and I Write a Sonnet113
X.We Climb a Hill Together130
XI.Actæon and Diana143
XII.Shopping as a Dissipation155
XIII.The Advent of the Pilligs164
XIV.The First Lemon Pie177
XV.A Pagan Thrush192
XVI.I Go to New York for a Purpose204
XVII.I Do Not Return Alone220
XVIII.We Build a Pool227
XIX.The Nice Other Things237
XX.Callers245
XXI.Autumn in the Garden252
XXII.In Praise of Country Winter264
XXIII.Spring in the Garden275
XXIV.Some Rural Problems282
XXV.Horas Non Numero Nisi Serenas297
ILLUSTRATIONS
“So that is why you wanted my brook to come from the spring!”Frontispiece
She was sitting with a closed book on her knee, gazing into the fire124
“Well, well, you’ve got yourself a bookay,” she said174
“We are your neighbours ... you are very fortunate to have us for neighbours”246
THE IDYL OF TWIN FIRES
