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Title: Kent Knowles: Quahaug
Author: Joseph C. Lincoln
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KENT KNOWLES: QUAHAUG
By Joseph C. Lincoln
1914
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. Which is not a chapter at all
II. Which repeats, for the most part, what Jim Campbell said to me and
what I said to him
III. Which, although it is largely family history, should not be skipped
by the reader
IV. In which Hephzy and I and the Plutonia sail together
V. In which we view, and even mingle slightly with, the upper classes
VI. In which we are received at Bancroft's Hotel and I receive a letter
VII. In which a dream becomes a reality
VIII. In which the pilgrims become tenants
IX. In which we make the acquaintance of Mayberry and a portion of
Burgleston Bogs
X. In which I break all previous resolutions and make a new one
XI. In which complications become more complicated
XII. In which the truth is told at last
XIII. In which Hephzy and I agree to live for each other
XIV. In which I play golf and cross the channel
XV. In which I learn that all abbeys are not churches
XVI. In which I take my turn at playing the invalid
XVII. In which I, as well as Mr. Solomon Cripps, am surprised
XVIII. In which the pilgrimage ends where it began
XIX. Which treats of quahaugs in general
KENT KNOWLES: QUAHAUG
CHAPTER I
Which is Not a Chapter at All
It was Asaph Tidditt who told me how to begin this history. Perhaps I
should be very much obliged to Asaph; perhaps I shouldn't. He has gotten
me out of a difficulty--or into one; I am far from certain which.
Ordinarily--I am speaking now of the writing of swashbuckling
romances, which is, or was, my trade--I swear I never have called it
a profession--the beginning of a story is the least of the troubles
connected with its manufacture. Given a character or two and a
situation, the b
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