A Northern Countryside

by Rosalind Richards

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	PREFACE	[v]
I	A NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE	[3]
II	THE RIVER	[12]
III	THE BANKS OF THE RIVER	[25]
IV	THE CAPTAINS	[40]
V	BY THE ACUSHTICOOK	[53]
VI	SPRING	[63]
VII	THE EASTMAN HILL CROSSROAD	[72]
VIII	RIDGEFIELD, AND WEIR'S MILLS	[82]
IX	MARY GUILFOYLE	[94]
X	TRESUMPSCOTT POND	[103]
XI	IN THE TRESUMPSCOTT WOODS	[112]
XII	HARVEST	[131]
XIII	WATSON’S HILL	[141]
XIV	EARLY WINTER	[157]
XV	ASSIMASQUA, AND MARSTON	[171]
XVI	OUR TOWN	[188]

Thanks are due Mr. Bertrand H. Wentworth of Gardiner, Maine, for his very kind permission to illustrate this book with reproductions of his photographs.

ILLUSTRATIONS

ON THE EASTMAN HILL CROSS-ROAD	Frontispiece
	FACING PAGE
THE WOODS JUT OUT IN ISLANDS ROUND AN OUTCROPPING LEDGE	[6]
INTERVALE ALONG THE RIVER’S COURSE	[56]
THE SOUTH WIND IN MARCH	[64]
THE PEACEFUL, PRETTY HAMLET OF UPPER BRIDGE	[88]
PLOUGHING MARY’S FIELD	[96]
ON TRESUMPSCOTT POND	[103]
THE TRANQUIL WOODS COVER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE RIDGES	[121]
THE CORN WAS STANDING AMONG THE GOLDEN PUMPKINS IN STACKS THAT LOOKED LIKE HUDDLED WITCHES	[138]
LONGFELLOW POND LIES IN THE HOLLOW OF THE WOODS	[154]
ICE-CUTTING ON THE RIVER BEGINS IN JANUARY	[162]
THE WIND CARVES OUT WAVE-LIKE SHAPES OF DRIFT	[181]

A NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE

CHAPTER I—A NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE