List of Illustrations.

[She stopped a moment when she came upon the bridge. (Frontispiece)]
[She made a long job of her bunch of holly.]
["I wasn't thinking of myself in particular."]
["Who's got it now, Cynthy?"]
[Fleda coloured and looked at her grandfather.]
[Fleda was sitting, her face bowed in her hands.]
[She stood back and watched.]
[Then he seated himself beside her.]
[The children were always together.]
["He is not a pug."]
["They will expect me at home."]
["Well, sir, you know the road by Deacon Patterson's?"]
["O uncle Rolf, don't have anything to do with him."]
["Look at these roses, and don't ask me for papers!"]
[She knelt down before him.]
["How lovely it is, Hugh!"]
[Philetus was left to "shuck" and bring home a load of the fruit.]
["And there goes Mr. Carleton!" said Constance.]
[Fleda saw with a start that it was Mr. Carleton.]
["I am sure Mr. Thorn will excuse me."]
["My dear child," he said, holding her face in both his hands.]
[Mrs. Rossitur sat there alone.]
[Barby's energies and fainting remedies were again put in use.]
[Then he stood and watched her.]
["Well, take your place," said Thorn.]
["I told him, 'O you were not gone yet!'"]
["How are they all at home?"]
["Is this the gentleman that's to be your husband?"]
[Slowly and lingeringly they moved away.]

Queechy.

Chapter I.

A single cloud on a sunny day
When all the rest of heaven is clear,
A frown upon the atmosphere,
That hath no business to appear,
When skies are blue and earth is gay.

Byron.

Come, dear grandpa!--the old mare and the wagon are at the gate--all ready."

"Well, dear!"--responded a cheerful hearty voice, "they must wait a bit; I haven't got my hat yet."

"O I'll get that."

And the little speaker, a girl of some ten or eleven years old, dashed past the old gentleman and running along the narrow passage which led to his room soon returned with the hat in her hand.