The New England Country

by Clifton Johnson

JANUARY

THE
NEW ENGLAND
COUNTRY

TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS
BY CLIFTON JOHNSON
BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD
PUBLISHERS MDCCCXCVII
Copyright, 1892, by Clifton Johnson
The New England Country
PRESS OF
Rockwell and Churchill
BOSTON

CONTENTS

[PART I]
	PAGE
Old Times on a New England Farm	1
[PART II]
The New England of To-day	34
[PART III]
New England as the Traveller sees it	57
[PART IV]
Camping among the New England Hills	82

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	PAGE
[January]	Frontispiece
[Old Fireplace]	1
[A Foot-stove]	1
[Canes and Umbrellas]	1
[The Churn]	2
[Ye Entrance of Old Fashion]	2
[Farm Tools]	2
[A Loom]	3
[Fans and Back-comb]	3
[Old Chairs]	3
[One of the Old Houses]	4
[A Silhouette Portrait]	5
[A River-boat before the Days of Railroads]	5
[Reels]	6
[A Comfortable Farm-house]	6
[The Flax-wheel]	6
[February]	7
[Kitchen Utensils]	9
[Gourds and Piggins]	9
[The Winding Roadway]	10
[A Mill-yard in the Valley]	11
[A Sunny Glen]	11
[A Quiet Day]	12
[A Barn-door Group]	13
[A Turn in the Road]	14
[A Country Stage Coach in Winter]	14
[A Hilltop Village]	15
[A Little Lake]	16
[A Village Scene]	17
[Snow-fields on the Hills]	18
[March]	19
[Cleared Land]	21
[Gathering Sap in the Sugar Orchard]	22
[Wayside Berry-pickers]	23
[A Farm amid the Big Hills]	24
[A Little Home on the Hillside]	25
[An Old Mill]	25
[A Saw-mill]	26
[A Spring Morning]	27
[A Willow-lined River]	28
[April]	29
[A Look down on the Connecticut]	31
[The Spring Hoeing]	32
[An Old Tavern]	33
[The Friendly Guide]	34
[A Hill Town]	34
[The Back Sheds]	35
[Winter Twilight—Going up for one more Slide]	36
[A Hill-town Village]	37
[Homes and Out-buildings by the Wayside]	38
[New England Rocks]	39
[Holding the Horses while his Father goes in to get a Drink of Water]	40
[May]	41
[A Dam on the Connecticut]	43
[At the Railroad Station]	43
[A Manufacturing Village]	44
[The Railway-crossing in the Village]	45
[A Stone Bridge]	46
[A Group of Little Fishermen]	47
[A Wayside Watering-trough]	48
[A Country School watching a Team go by]	48
[An Old Burying-ground]	49
[Below the Dam]	50
[A Massachusetts Mountain]	51
[The Ferryboat]	51
[A Fall on the Connecticut]	52
[June]	53
[The Growing Boy in his Last Year’s Clothes]	55
[At the Back-door]	55
[The Academy]	56
[A Horse-chestnut Man]	57
[Afterglow]	57
[The Village Church]	58
[One of the Humbler Houses]	59
[A Deserted Home]	59
[Getting a Load of Sawdust back of the Saw-mill]	60
[A Meadow Stream]	60
[A Home under the Elms]	61
[A Door-step Group]	62
[A Roadside Friend]	63
[Better than Hoeing on a Hot Day]	64
[July]	65
[The Pet of the Farm]	67
[A Rainy Day]	68
[A Hamlet among the Hills]	69
[Summer Sunlight in a “Gorge Road”]	70
[One of the Little Rivers]	71
[The Village Groceryman]	72
[An Outlying Village]	73
[A Village View in a Half-wooded Dell]	74
[The Old Well-sweep]	75
[In Haying Time]	76
[The Stream and the Elms in the Meadow]	77
[Under the Old Sycamore]	78
[August]	79
[One of the Old Village Streets]	81
[The House with the Barn across the Road]	82
[A Warm Summer Day]	83
[At Work in her Own Strawberry Patch]	84
[September]	85
[Evening]	87
[A Load of Wood on the Way up to the Village]	88
[A Waterfall in the Woods]	89
[A Panorama of Hills and Valleys]	90
[A Pasture Group]	91
[October]	93
[A Pasture Gate]	95
[A Road by the Stream]	96
[At the Pasture Gate]	97
[The Sheep Pasture]	98
[A Quiet Pond]	99
[Husking-time]	100
[Sunlight and Shadow]	101
[November]	103
[The Village on the Hill]	105
[A Mill in the Valley]	106
[Cloud Shadows]	107
[A Log House]	109
[An Early Snow]	110
[On a Mountain Crag]	111
[One of the Green Mountain Peaks]	111
[Among the Big Hills]	112
[A Deserted Hut in the Woods]	113
[Charcoal Kilns]	114
[Rough Uplands]	115
[December]	117
[A Path in the Winter Woods]	119
[Windy Winter—On the Way Home from School]	120
[After a Storm]	121