DEDICATED

WITH CORDIAL BEST

WISHES TO THE MANY

Readers of the Youth's Companion

WHO HAVE SO KINDLY REMEMBERED

US AT THE OLD SQUIRE'S

FARM


Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
[The Farm on the Pennesseewassee]1
[I.]A Nose in Common5
[II.]White Sunday13
[III.]Monday at the Old Farm28
[IV.]Our First Jersey Cow47
[V.]Sheep-washing—Addison's Novel Water-warmer57
[VI.]The Vermifuge Bottle72
[VII.]Immersing the Lambs94
[VIII.]"Old Three-Legs"106
[IX.]Homesick Again. Blue, Oh, so Blue119
[X.]Mug-bread, Pones and Johnny-Reb Toast128
[XI.]The Birds and Bird-Songs at the Old Farm136
[XII.]Two Very Early Callers—Each on Business153
[XIII.]We All Set Off to Have Our Pictures Taken166
[XIV.]"There is a Man in England, named Darwin"176
[XV.]A Wet Fourth of July, with a Good Deal of Human Nature in It187
[XVI.]Wood-chucks in the Clover—Addison's Stratagem208
[XVII.]Haying Time218
[XVIII.]Apple-hoards227
[XIX.]Dog Days, Grain Harvest, and a Truly Lucretian Tempest247
[XX.]Cedar Brooms and a Noble String of Trout255
[XXI.]Tom's Fort268
[XXII]High Times286
[XXIII.]The Thrashers Come297
[XXIV.]Going to the Cattle Show308
[XXV.]The Wild Rose Sweeting321
[XVI.]The Old Squire Allows Us Four Days for Camping Out329
[XVII.]At the Old Slave's Farm 340
[XXVIII.]The Old Squire's Panther Story384
[XXIX.]The Outlaw Dogs397
[XXX.]A Heartfelt Thanksgiving and a Merry Young Muse that Visited Us Uninvited410