Chapter I: Front Matter

DWELLERS IN ARCADY

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_Books by_

ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

_For Young Readers_

THE BOYS' LIFE OF MARK TWAIN
HOLLOW TREE NIGHTS AND DAYS
THE HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP-WOODS BOOK
THE HOLLOW TREE SNOWED-IN BOOK

_Small books of several stories each, selected from the above Hollow
Tree books:_

HOW MR. DOG GOT EVEN
HOW MR. RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL
MR. RABBIT'S BIG DINNER
MAKING UP WITH MR. DOG
MR. 'POSSUM'S GREAT BALLOON TRIP
WHEN JACK RABBIT WAS A LITTLE BOY
MR. RABBIT'S WEDDING
MR. CROW AND THE WHITEWASH
MR. TURTLE'S FLYING ADVENTURE

_For Grown-ups_

DWELLERS IN ARCADY
MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS
MARK TWAIN: A BIOGRAPHY
TH. NAST: HIS PERIOD AND HIS PICTURES
THE SHIP-DWELLERS (Humorous travel)
THE TENT-DWELLERS (Humorous camping)
FROM VAN-DWELLER TO COMMUTER (Humorous, home life)
PEANUT (Story of a boy)

HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK

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DWELLERS IN ARCADY

The Story of an Abandoned Farm

by

Albert Bigelow Paine

_Author of_ "From Van-Dweller to Commuter" "The Ship-Dwellers" "The Tent Dwellers" Etc.

With Illustrations by Thomas Fogarty

Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London

Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published March, 1919

ILLUSTRATIONS

_Once more it was a habitation and a home_ _Frontispiece_

_"And here is your house," said William C.
Westbury_ 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