ENGLAND, NAMED DARWIN" 176

XV. A WET FOURTH OF JULY, WITH A GOOD DEAL OF
HUMAN NATURE IN IT 187

XVI. WOOD-CHUCKS IN THE CLOVER--ADDISON'S STRATAGEM 208

XVII. HAYING TIME 218

XVIII. APPLE-HOARDS 227

XIX. DOG DAYS, GRAIN HARVEST, AND A TRULY LUCRETIAN TEMPEST 247

XX. CEDAR BROOMS AND A NOBLE STRING OF TROUT 255

XXI. TOM'S FORT 268

XXII. HIGH TIMES 286

XXIII. THE THRASHERS COME 297

XXIV. GOING TO THE CATTLE SHOW 308

XXV. THE WILD ROSE SWEETING 321

XXVI. THE OLD SQUIRE ALLOWS US FOUR DAYS FOR CAMPING OUT 329

XXVII. AT THE OLD SLAVE'S FARM 340

XXVIII. THE OLD SQUIRE'S PANTHER STORY 384

XXIX. THE OUTLAW DOGS 397

XXX. A HEARTFELT THANKSGIVING AND A MERRY YOUNG MUSE THAT
VISITED US UNINVITED 410

When Life Was Young

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THE FARM ON THE PENNESSEEWASSEE

Away down East in the Pine Tree State, there is a lake dearer to my
heart than all the other waters of this fair earth, for its shores were
the scenes of my boyhood, when Life was young and the world a romance
still unread.

Dearer to the heart;--for then glowed that roseate young joy and faith
in life and its grand possibilities; that hope and confidence that great
things can be done and that the doing of them will prove of high avail.
For such is ever our natural, normal first view of life; the clear young
brain's first vision of this wondrous bright universe of earth and sky;
the first picture on the sentient plate of consciousness, and the true
one, before error blurs and evil dims it; a joy and a faith in life
which as yet, on this still imperfect earth of ours, comes but once,
with youth.

The white settlers called it the Great Pond; but long before they came
to Maine, the Indians had named it Pennesseewassee, pronounced
Penny-see-was-see, the lake-where-the-women-died, f