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Title: Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks
A Picture of New England Home Life

Author: Charles Felton Pidgin

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Language: English

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[Illustration: "THE VILLAGE GOSSIPS WONDERED WHO HE WAS, WHAT HE WAS,
WHAT HE CAME FOR, AND HOW LONG HE INTENDED TO STAY."]

QUINCY
ADAMS
SAWYER

AND

MASON'S CORNER FOLKS

A PICTURE OF NEW
ENGLAND HOME LIFE

BY

CHAS. FELTON PIDGIN

Boston
C.M. CLARK
PUBLISHING COMPANY
1905

REVISED
EDITION

Respectfully dedicated to
the Memory of the late
HON JAMES
RUSSELL LOWELL
the perusal of whose
famous poem
"THE COURTIN"
supplied the inspiration
that led to the writing
of this book.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER'S only title was plain "Mr." His ancestors were
tradesmen, merchants, lawyers, politicians, and Presidents. He, too, was
proud of his honored ancestry, and I have endeavored in this book to
have him live up to an ideal personification of gentlemanly qualities
for which the New England standard should be fully as high as that of
Old England; in fact, I see no reason why the heroes of American novels,
barring the single matter of hereditary titles, should not compare
favorably as regards gentlemanly attributes with their English cousins
across the seas. C.F.P.

GRAY CHAMBERS,
BOSTON, October, 1902.

CHAPTERS

I. The Rehearsal

II. Mason's Corner Folks

III. The Concert in the Town Hall

IV. Ancestry _versus_ Patriotism

V. Mr. Sawyer Meets Uncle Ike

VI. Some New Ideas

VII. "That City Feller"

VIII. City Skill _versus_ Country Muscle

IX. Mr. Sawyer Calls on Miss Putnam

X. Village Gossip

XI. Some Sad Tidings

XII. Looking for a Boarding Place