Contents
| The Pine And The Rose | [1] |
| Old Kennebec | [13] |
| The Edgewood “Drive” | [28] |
| “Blasphemious Swearin’” | [40] |
| The Game Of Jackstraws | [50] |
| Hearts And Other Hearts | [67] |
| The Little House | [81] |
| The Garden Of Eden | [93] |
| The Serpent | [102] |
| The Turquoise Ring | [114] |
| Gold And Pinchbeck | [135] |
| A Country Chevalier | [145] |
| Housebreaking | [160] |
| The Dream Room | [168] |
Illustrations
| Rose O’ The River | [Frontispiece] |
| “She’s Up!” | [6] |
| “He’s A Turrible Smart Driver” | [20] |
| He Had Certainly “Taken Chances” | [32] |
| In A Twinkling He Was In The Water | [64] |
| “Rose, I’ll Take You Safely” | [76] |
| Hiding Her Face As He Flung It Down The River-Bank | [116] |
| She Had Gone With Maude To Claude’s Store | [128] |
| “As Long As Stephen Waterman’s Alive, Rose Wiley Can Have Him” | [158] |
| “Don’t Speak, Stephen, Till You Hear What I Have To Say” | [174] |
THE PINE AND THE ROSE
It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.
An early ablution of this sort was not the custom of the farmers along the banks of the Saco, but the Waterman house was hardly a stone’s throw from the water, and there was a clear, deep swimming-hole in the Willow Cove that would have tempted the busiest man, or the least cleanly, in York County. Then, too, Stephen was a child of the river, born, reared, schooled on its very brink, never happy unless he were on it, or in it, or beside it, or at least within sight or sound of it.