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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.