LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"The young man put the honeysuckle in his buttonhole"[Frontispiece]
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"Leaping ditches, tearing across ploughed fields, to the woods ahead"[5]
"Miner rode slowly along on horseback, now and then making inquiries of wayfarers"[25]
"The Village"[45]
"He stopped when the mouth of an old war pistol was suddenly placed in front of his shoulder"[112]
"'Ain't you never goin' to stop mopin', Ambrose Thompson? I'm sick of lookin' at you.'"[131]
"'You kin manage me now all you've a mind to; I ain't worryin''"[198]
"Thus it was that 'Lisabeth took up the business of caring for Uncle Ambrose Thompson"[214]