Dwellers in Arcady. Albert Bigelow Paine

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       We often cooked by our fireplace

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       Under the spell of the white touch

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       The difficulty was to get busy

       CHAPTER SIX

       I

       The magic of the starlit tree

       CHRISTMAS CAROL

       By Edwin Waugh

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       Westbury dropped in

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       No animal except man digs and plants

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       Then came Bella—and Gibbs

       CHAPTER SEVEN

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       We planted a number of things

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       Out of the blue

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       "Ah, the bonny cow!"

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       Strawberries and trout. How is that for a combination?

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       I

       Fate produced a man who had chickens to sell

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       I planted some canterbury-bells

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       And how the family did grow up!

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       And then one eventful day

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       Was it the spirit of our garden?

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Once more it was a habitation and a home	Frontispiece
"And here is your house," said William C. Westbury	Facing p 6
They formed a board of appraisal. All of them knew that cellar and were intimately acquainted with its contents	44
I made about three leaps and grabbed it, and a second later had it hooked and was back, the lightning at my heels	68
Sometimes at the end of the day, as I sat by the waning embers, and watched her moving to and fro between me and the fading autumn fields	110
"Good afternoon," I said. "Can you tell us where we are?"	156
I remember that as a golden summer, an enthusiastic summer, and, on the whole, a successful one	206
It was on a winter evening that I drove our car back to its old place in the barn, after its long journeyings by land and sea	238

CHAPTER ONE

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