CONTENTS
I.I Buy a Farm on Sight[3]
II.My Money Goes and My Farmer Comes[19]
III.New Joy in an Old Orchard[34]
IV.I Pump up a Ghost[47]
V.I Am Humbled by a Drag Scraper[66]
VI.The Hermit Sings at Twilight[77]
VII.The Ghost of Rome in Roses[88]
VIII.I Pick Paint and a Quarrel[102]
IX.We Seat Thoreau in the Chimney Nook, and I Write a Sonnet[113]
X.We Climb a Hill Together[130]
XI.Actæon and Diana[143]
XII.Shopping as a Dissipation[155]
XIII.The Advent of the Pilligs[164]
XIV.The First Lemon Pie[177]
XV.A Pagan Thrush[192]
XVI.I Go to New York for a Purpose[204]
XVII.I Do Not Return Alone[220]
XVIII.We Build a Pool[227]
XIX.The Nice Other Things[237]
XX.Callers[245]
XXI.Autumn in the Garden[252]
XXII.In Praise of Country Winter[264]
XXIII.Spring in the Garden[275]
XXIV.Some Rural Problems[282]
XXV.Horas Non Numero Nisi Serenas[297]

ILLUSTRATIONS
“So that is why you wanted my brook to come from the spring!”[Frontispiece]
She was sitting with a closed book on her knee, gazing into the fire[124]
“Well, well, you’ve got yourself a bookay,” she said[174]
“We are your neighbours ... you are very fortunate to have us for neighbours”[246]

THE IDYL OF TWIN FIRES