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Dwellers In Arcady - The Story Of An Abandoned Farm
Dwellers In Arcady The Story Of An Abandoned Farm Author:Albert Bigelow Paine DWELLERS IN ARCADY ILLUSTRATIONS Once more it was a habitation and a home . . Frontispiece quotAnd here is your house,quot said William C. Westbury Facing p. 6 Theyformed a board of appraisal. All of them knew that cellar and were intimately ac quainted with its contents made about three leaps and grabbed it, and a second later had it hooked and... more » was back t the lightning at my heels 68 Sometimes at the end of the day, as I sat by the waning embers, and watched her mov ing to and fro between me and the fading autumn fields quotGood afternoonquot I said. quotCan you where we arequot tell us remember that as a golden summer, an en thusiastic summer, and, on the whole, a successful one It was on a winter evening that I drove our car back to its old place in the barn, after quot quot 44 no 156 206 its long journeyings by land and sea . . 238 DWELLERS IN ARCADY The Story of an Abandoned Farm CHAPTER ONE All my life I had dreamed of owning a brook UST 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« less