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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

1914

CONTENTS

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VII.
VIII.
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XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.

I Buy a Farm on Sight
My Money Goes and My Farmer Comes
New Joy in an Old Orchard
I Pump up a Ghost
I Am Humbled by a Drag Scraper
The Hermit Sings at Twilight
The Ghost of Rome in Roses
I Pick Paint and a Quarrel
We Seat Thoreau in the Chimney Nook,
and I Write a Sonnet
We Climb a Hill Together
Actaeon and Diana
Shopping as a Dissipation
The Advent of the Pilligs
The First Lemon Pie
A Pagan Thrush
I Go to New York for a Purpose
I Do Not Return Alone
We Build a Pool
The Nice Other Things
Callers
Autumn in the Garden
In Praise of Country Winter
Spring in the Garden
Some Rural Problems
Horas Non Numero Nisi Serenas

ILLUSTRATIONS

"So that is why you wanted my brook to come from the spring!"
She was sitting with a closed book on her knee, gazing into the fire
"Well, well, you've got yourself a bookay," she said
"We are your neighbours ... you are very fortunate to have us for neighbours"