Chapter I: Foreword

This book is the torn manuscript of the most beautiful life I ever knew. I have merely pieced and patched it together, and have not even changed or disguised the names of the little group of neighbors who lived with us, at "the bottom of the world." A. I.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I LOVE IS ENOUGH 3

II THE WOLF AND THE CARPENTER 21

III REHEARSING FOR THE SHOW 38

IV SUNDAY IN POGUE'S ENTRY 63

V HIS ARM IS NOT SHORTENED 85

VI THE APOTHEOSIS OF HUGHIE THORNTON 110

VII IN THE GLOW OF A PEAT FIRE 133

VIII THE WIND BLOWETH WHERE IT LISTETH 153

IX "BEYOND TH' MEADOWS AN' TH' CLOUDS" 171

X THE EMPTY CORNER 198

MY LADY OF THE CHIMNEY-CORNER

A STORY OF LOVE AND POVERTY IN IRISH PEASANT LIFE