Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE IDYL OF TWIN FIRES

THE IDYL OF TWIN FIRES

BY

WALTER PRICHARD EATON

Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty

GROSSET & DUNLAP

Publishers : : New York

Copyright, 1914, 1915, by Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian

CONTENTS

I. I Buy a Farm on Sight 3
II. My Money Goes and My Farmer Comes 19
III. New Joy in an Old Orchard 34
IV. I Pump up a Ghost 47
V. I Am Humbled by a Drag Scraper 66
VI. The Hermit Sings at Twilight 77
VII. The Ghost of Rome in Roses 88
VIII. I Pick Paint and a Quarrel 102
IX. We Seat Thoreau in the Chimney Nook, and I
Write a Sonnet 113
X. We Climb a Hill Together 130
XI. Actaeon and Diana 143
XII. Shopping as a Dissipation 155
XIII. The Advent of the Pilligs 164
XIV. The First Lemon Pie 177
XV. A Pagan Thrush 192
XVI. I Go to New York for a Purpose 204
XVII. I Do Not Return Alone 220
XVIII. We Build a Pool 227
XIX. The Nice Other Things 237
XX. Callers 245
XXI. Autumn in the Garden 252
XXII. In Praise of Country Winter 264
XXIII. Spring in the Garden 275
XXIV. Some Rural Problems 282
XXV. _Horas Non Numero Nisi Serenas_ 297

ILLUSTRATIONS

"So that is why you wanted my brook to come from
the spring!" _Frontispiece_
She was sitting with a closed book on her knee,
gazing into the fire 124
"Well, well, you've got yourself a bookay,"
she said 174
"We are your neighbours ... you are very
fortunate to have us for neighbours" 246

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