CHAS. FELTON PIDGIN
B o s t o n
C. M. CLARK
PUBLISHING COMPANY
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Respectfully dedicated to the Memory of the late HON JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL the perusal of whose f a m o u s p o e m "T h e C o u r t i n" supplied the inspiration that led to the writing of this book.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER'S
only title was plain "Mr." His ancestors were tradesmen, merchants, lawyers, politicians, and Presidents. He, too, was proud of his honored ancestry, and I have endeavored in this book to have him live up to an ideal personification of gentlemanly qualities for which the New England standard should be fully as high as that of Old England; in fact, I see no reason why the heroes of American novels, barring the single matter of hereditary titles, should not compare favorably as regards gentlemanly attributes with their English cousins across the seas.
C.F.P.
Gray Chambers,
Boston, October, 1902.
CONTENTS
[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
] [CHAPTER I. THE REHEARSAL
] [CHAPTER II. MASON'S CORNER FOLKS
] [CHAPTER III. THE CONCERT IN THE TOWN HALL
] [CHAPTER IV. ANCESTRY VERSUS PATRIOTISM
] [CHAPTER V. MR. SAWYER MEETS UNCLE IKE
] [CHAPTER VI. SOME NEW IDEAS
] [CHAPTER VII. "THAT CITY FELLER"
] [CHAPTER VIII. CITY SKILL VERSUS COUNTRY MUSCLE
] [CHAPTER IX. MR. SAWYER CALLS ON MISS PUTNAM
] [CHAPTER X. VILLAGE GOSSIP
] [CHAPTER XI. SOME SAD TIDINGS
] [CHAPTER XII. LOOKING FOR A BOARDING PLACE
] [CHAPTER XIII. A VISIT TO THE VICTIM
] [CHAPTER XIV. A QUIET EVENING
] [CHAPTER XV. A LONG LOST RELATIVE
] [CHAPTER XVI. A PROMISE KEPT
] [CHAPTER XVII. AN INFORMAL INTRODUCTION
] [CHAPTER XVIII. THE COURTIN'
] [CHAPTER XIX. JIM SAWYER'S FUNERAL
] [CHAPTER XX. A WET DAY
] [CHAPTER XXI. SOME MORE NEW IDEAS
] [CHAPTER XXII. AFTER THE GREAT SNOWSTORM
] [CHAPTER XXIII. A VISIT TO MRS. PUTNAM
] [CHAPTER XXIV. THE NEW DOCTOR
] [CHAPTER XXV. SOME PLAIN FACTS AND INFERENCES
] [CHAPTER XXVI. THE SURPRISE PARTY
] [CHAPTER XXVII. TOWN POLITIC
] [CHAPTER XXVIII. THE TOWN MEETING
] [CHAPTER XXIX. MRS. HAWKINS'S BOARDING HOUSE
] [CHAPTER XXX. A SETTLEMENT
] [CHAPTER XXXI. AN INHERITANCE
] [CHAPTER XXXII. AUNT ELLA
] [CHAPTER XXXIII. THE WEDDIN'S
] [CHAPTER XXXIV. BLENNERHASSETT
] [CHAPTER XXXV. "THE BIRD OF LOVE"
] [CHAPTER XXXVI. THEN THEY WERE MARRIED
] [CHAPTER XXXVII. LINDA'S BIRTHRIGHT
] [CHAPTER XXXVIII. FERNBOROUGH
]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
[It Was A Marvellous Rig That He Wore When He Reappeared]
[The Barge Led The Procession To Mason's Corner]