NOTE NEARLY all of the illustrations are from amateur photographs taken expressly for this book by Mr. George N. Jennings, Mr. James W. Young, and the author, but of these Mr. Jennings has contributed by far the greatest number. I am indebted, however, to Mr. Alexander Thomson for the picture entitled "Man's Best Friend," to Mr. Lee Harris Huston for The Squirrel Hunter," and to Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes for "The Gray Squirrel." Of professional photographers, Mr. Paul Fleur has given his assistance with the frontispiece, "Old Spot and Her Owner," and "A Country Lane,' and Mr. A. E. Rosebaum with "The Old Fireplace." The illustrations are believed to reproduce faithfully many of the typical scenes and occupations around the old homestead. "THE DECENT CHURCH THAT TOPPED THE NEIGHBORING HILL," A GABLE, THE OLD FIREPLACE, THE OLD SUGAR KETTLE, SPLIT WOOD RANKED UP IN THE WOODS, THE WOODSHED, THE EMBERS THE OLD MUZZLE-LOADER, PAGE 3 5 7 9 15 21 23 27 29 32 2 2 2 2 228 24587 34 36 38 39 51 69 71 THE HENRY, ANTLERS AND POWDER-HORN, OLD DOLLIE, THE BARN, THE SHADOW OF A CLOUD (A VIEW FROM THE BARN DOOR), THE SMOKEHOUSE, THE OLD SADDLEBAGS, A DRINK AT THE TROUGH, "THE COWS ARE COMING HOME," OLD SPOT AND HER OWNER, PITCHFORK AND FLAIL, A STRETCH OF THE WOODS, A MOSSY LOG, "THE VAST CATHEDRAL OF GOD'S TREES," THE ROAD THROUGH THE WOODS, "AN ABANDONED PATH," THE OLD RAIL FENCE, "" YONDER . . . WE CAN SEE THE SUGAR CAMP," A PROSTRATE MONARCH, A SEAT IN THE FOREST, TWISTED TREES, UNITED SYCAMORES, 'ALONG THE BROOKS " PAGE 72 75 76 77 81 84 85 87 89 - 91 110 112 113 115 121 - 127 133 141 146 - 147 150 151 153 - 156 158 - 165 167 "THE OLD HOME TREE," A VETERAN OF THREE HUNDRED, "WREATHED PILLARS OF LIVING GREEN," TWIN SISTERS, "THE EYELASHES OF THE FOREST," INITIALS AND HIEROGLYPHICS, "THE SUNSHINE MOTTLING THE LEAVES,' STAGHORNS, THE SQUIRREL HUNTER, THE GRAY SQUIRREL, A SQUIRREL'S HOME, - 169 171 - 177 189 - 190 191 - 227 228 PAGE - 238 MAC'S COLLAR, THE ORCHARD: WITH THE VINEYARD AND FARM BUILDINGS IN THE "WE CAN HANG OUR SCYTHE CONVENIENTLY IN SOME GNARLED AND CRINKLED Crotches, A BOUGH OF APPLES, 249 OF THE 255 - 264 66 WHERE ARE THE FLOWERS, AND WHERE IS THE GRASS?" UNDER THE BLUE, A PLUNDERED NEST, "THE LILIES OF THE FIELD," THE WOOD THRUSH, - 293 - 296 305 - 306 307 - 317 332 - 333 362 363 |