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"No wonder Daniel Webster, wandering southward over the hills in search of a country home, chose this as his abiding-place." See page 2     Frontispiece

"Telling the pearls on this rosary of a path one is led beyond the homestead"     12

"Within this wide circle, with the house its core, and the hearth its shrine, revolved the homely, cheerful, whole-*hearted life of the farm"     22

"Watching the crane and pendant trammels grow black against the blaze." See page 18     28

A corner of the room in which Whittier was born     28

"The study where Aldrich wrote some of his daintiest verse looks forth upon a sweet valley"     30

"The study window in what was 'The Bemis Place' of the elder days of Ponkapoag." See page 35     36

Celia Thaxter's home at the Isles of Shoals     44

"Chasms down which you may walk to the tide between sheer cliffs"     50

"Up to the smooth turf on this knoll crowd all the pasture shrubs that she loved"     58

"Here is the cairn erected to his memory, to which with doffed hat you may well add a stone." See page 65     66

"Walden is Walden still, very much as Thoreau painted it"     70

"Pilgrim Lake," where that first washing was done by the Pilgrim mothers     78