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THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
First Edition
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Introduction by John Burroughs | [vii] | |
| To the Reader | [xi] | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | The Family Tree | [1] |
| II. | The Roof-Tree | [14] |
| III. | “A Child Went Forth” | [42] |
| IV. | In the Old Paths | [71] |
| V. | “As Twig Is Bent” | [94] |
| VI. | “Bred in the Bone” | [119] |
| VII. | School Days | [134] |
| VIII. | The “Medic” | [172] |
| IX. | The “Medic” (Continued) | [229] |
| X. | The “Medic” (Concluded) | [245] |
| XI. | Through the Gate of Dreams | [273] |
INTRODUCTION
I fancy that this “Child of the Drumlins” did not know she was living amid drumlins when she passed her youth there. She knew them only as the long, smooth, loaf-shaped hills that were scattered over her native landscape, upon which she saw cattle grazing and grain ripening, and upon which she roamed and played in the freedom of childhood.