Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm

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 Once more it was a habitation and a home 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 Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published March, 1919 CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS Once more it was a habitation and a home Frontispiece "And here is your house," said William C. Westbury Facing p 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 I 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…