Contents
[CHAPTER I. Master Pierson Comes Back]
[CHAPTER II. Cutting Ice at 14° Below Zero]
[CHAPTER III. A Bear's "Pipe" in Winter]
[CHAPTER IV. White Monkey Week]
[CHAPTER V. When Old Zack Went to School]
[CHAPTER VI. The Sad Abuse of Old Mehitable]
[CHAPTER VII. Bear-Tone]
[CHAPTER VIII. When We Hunted the Striped Catamount]
[CHAPTER IX. The Lost Oxen]
[CHAPTER X. Bethesda]
[CHAPTER XI. When We Walked the Town Lines]
[CHAPTER XII. The Rose-Quartz Spring]
[CHAPTER XIII. Fox Pills]
[CHAPTER XIV. The Unpardonable Sin]
[CHAPTER XV. The Cantaloupe Coaxer]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Strange Disappearance of Grandpa Edwards]
[CHAPTER XVII. Our Fourth of July at the Den]
[CHAPTER XVIII. Jim Doane's Bank Book]
[CHAPTER XIX. Grandmother Ruth's Last Load of Hay]
[CHAPTER XX. When Uncle Hannibal Spoke at the Chapel]
[CHAPTER XXI. That Mysterious Daguerreotype Saloon]
[CHAPTER XXII. "Rainbow in the Morning"]
[CHAPTER XXIII. When I Went After the Eyestone]
[CHAPTER XXIV. Borrowed for a Bee Hunt]
[CHAPTER XXV. When the Lion Roared]
[CHAPTER XXVI. Uncle Solon Chase Comes Along]
[CHAPTER XXVII. On the Dark of the Moon]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. Halstead's Gobbler]
[CHAPTER XXIX. Mitchella Jars]
[CHAPTER XXX. When Bears Were Denning Up]
[CHAPTER XXXI. Czar Brench]
[CHAPTER XXXII. When Old Peg Led the Flock]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. Witches' Brooms]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. The Little Image Peddlers]
[CHAPTER XXXV. A January Thaw]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. Uncle Billy Murch's Hair-Raiser]
[CHAPTER XXXVII. Addison's Pocketful of Auger Chips]
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
CHAPTER I
MASTER PIERSON COMES BACK
Master Joel Pierson arrived the following Sunday afternoon, as he had promised in his letter of Thanksgiving Day eve, and took up his abode with us at the old Squire's for the winter term of school.