NEW ENGLAND AND ITS NEIGHBORS WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED  BY  CLIFTON JOHNSON Published by  THE MACMILLAN COMPANY New York MCMII LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED Copyright, 1902 by The Macmillan Company Set up and electrotyped September, 1902. Reprinted November, 1902. A CONSIDERABLE portion of the material included in this volume was first published in The Outlook, Woman’s Home Companion, The Pilgrim, Frank Leslie’s Popu­lar Monthly, The New England Magazine, The Boston Transcript, Town and Country, The Interior and in Harper’s Weekly. Electrotyped and Printed at the Norwood Press Norwood, Mass. Springtime in an old garden Contents I. II.  III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX.   X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV.  Midwinter in Valley Forge When the White Mountains are White A Ruin beside Lake Champlain In the Adirondacks The Home of Fenimore Cooper An Historic Town in Connecticut A Jaunt on Long Island Life on a Green Mountain Top Down in Maine Along the Juniata Dwellers among the Catskills A Canal-boat Voyage on the Hudson The Autumn Cattle Show Cape Cod Folks List of Illustrations Springtime in an Old Garden In Valley Forge Valley Forge Pond The Site of the Old Forge One of the Bridges over “Valley Crick” The Schuylkill at Valley Forge A Valley Forge Footpath The Entrance to the Headquarters Mansion The House which was Washington’s Headquarters A Woodland Teamster A Load of Logs on a Forest Roadway Work at a Logging-camp Landing The Choppers A Woodsman’s Rocking-chair A Mountain Ox-team In the Sleeping Apartment A Corner of the Camp Kitchen A Scaler A Logging-camp Dwelling Considering his Neighbor’s Fields In Crown Point Village Mending the Pasture Fence A Lake Champlain Ferry Rhubarb Ticonderoga Ruins The Pasture in which stand the Old Fortifications A Fisherman An Adirondack Farmer Shelling Seed Corn Bringing in the Cows after their Day’s Grazing Picking up Chips The Kitchen Door of a Log House Sowing Oats Spinning Yarn for the Family Stockings A Home in a Valley A Roadside Chat On Cooperstown Street Looking toward the Town from an Eastern Hillslope The Margin of the Lake Putting on a Fresh Coat of Paint Getting Ready to plant his Garden Spring Work in a Farm Field The Monument on the Site of Otsego Hall The Graves of J. Fenimore Cooper and his Wife Setting out the House-plants Saybrook Street In a Back Yard Ploughing out for Potatoes A Roadway on the Saybrook Outskirts Drawing a Bucket of Water In the Old Cemetery Cleaning up the Back Yard The Seaward Marshlands Starting the Garden Parsnips A Long Island Stile On Easthampton Common The “Home, Sweet Home” House An Old-fashioned Sitting Room A Toll-gate on a Seven Cent Road Making Fence Posts A Windmiller Along Shore at Sag Harbor Tinkering the Road At the Schoolhouse Door A Trout Stream The Fiddler Grandpa gives the Boys some Good Advice The Rain-water Barrel Taking Care of the Baby The Lonely Little Church A Home-made Lumber Wagon A Mount Desert Well A Lobster-pot A Home on the Shore Summer Calm The Post-office Piazza An Old Schoolroom A Moonlit Evening The Home Porch The Dooryard Fence After the Day’s Work Typical Outbuildings A Grist-mill Making Apple-butter Childhood Treasures Farm Market Wagons One of the Street Pumps On a Village Sidewalk The Juniata Old-fashioned Churning Digging Potatoes in a Weedy Field A Home on the Mountain Side The Buckwheat Thresher — Fair Weather or Foul? A Morning Wash at the Back Door On the Way to the Barn to help Milk Making Soft Soap Binding Indian Corn Considering Trading with a Bumboat The Call to Dinner Visiting Drawing Water Two Canal-boat Captains The Steamer dragging the Tow House-Cleaning Time Arriving in New York The “Nigger” Target Children Sightseers Without the Gate The Stage from the Neighboring Town The Cavalcade of Oxen On the Grounds To Buy or Not to Buy Cooking Apparatus at the Rear of the Eating Tents The Pounding-machine Five Cents a Throw at the Dolls A Village Sign Anchoring his Haystacks An Autumn Corn-field A Cranberry Picker Harvest on a Cranberry Bog In Provincetown Looking over the Cod Lines An Old Wharf Public Buildings on the Hilltop A Cape Cod Roadway The Mowers on the Marshes

Introductory Note

THIS book, like its predecessors and those that may follow it, is primarily a study of the rural aspects of national life. The historic or literary background that some of the chapters have is only incidental and is in no case introduced for its own sake. The general title of “Highways and Byways,” adopted for the American series, indicates very well the writer’s itin­erary; but, as for the highways, it is their humbler features I love best, and it is these I linger over in my pictures and my descriptions. Wherever I go the characteristic and picturesque phases of the local farm environment always appeal strongly to me, and in what I have written I have tried to convey to others the same interest I have felt, and at the same time have endeavored to give a clear and truthful impression of the reality.

Clifton Johnson.