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

CHAPTERPAGE
[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