A Schoolmaster of Long Ago
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
The author wishes to express his thanks to the editors of the “Boston Evening Transcript” for permission to reprint in this volume matter which was originally contributed to its columns.
CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page | ||
| I. | In Old Marshfield | [1] | |
| II. | At Whittier’s Birthplace | [15] | |
| III. | In Old Ponkapoag | [30] | |
| IV. | At the Isles of Shoals | [44] | |
| V. | Thoreau’s Walden | [60] | |
| VI. | On the First Trail of the Pilgrims | [75] | |
| VII. | In Old Concord | [90] | |
| VIII. | The Old Oaken Bucket | [104] | |
| IX. | In Old Newburyport | [118] | |
| X. | Plymouth Mayflowers | [135] | |
| XI. | Old Salem Town | [148] | |
| XII. | Vermont Maple Sugar | [164] | |
| XIII. | Nature’s Memorial Day | [183] | |
| XIV. | Birds of Chocorua | [197] | |
| Index | [213] | ||
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Page | ||
| “No wonder Daniel Webster, wandering southward over the hills in search of a country home, chose this as his abiding-place.” See [page 2] | [Frontispiece] | |
| “Telling the pearls on this rosary of a path one is led beyond the homestead.” | [12] | |
| “Within this wide circle, with the house its core, and the hearth its shrine, revolved the homely, cheerful, whole-hearted life of the farm.” | [22] | |
| “Watching the crane and pendant trammels grow black against the blaze.” See [page 18] | [28] | |
| A corner of the room in which Whittier was born | [28] | |
| “The study where Aldrich wrote some of his daintiest verse looks forth upon a sweet valley.” | [30] | |
| “The study window in what was ‘The Bemis Place’ of the elder days of Ponkapoag.” See [page 35] | [36] | |
| Celia Thaxter’s home at the Isles of Shoals | [44] | |
| “Chasms down which you may walk to the tide between sheer cliffs.” | [50] | |
| “Up to the smooth turf on this knoll crowd all the pasture shrubs that she loved.” | [58] | |
| “Here is the cairn erected to his memory, to which with doffed hat you may well add a stone.” See [page 65] | [66] | |
| “Walden is Walden still, very much as Thoreau painted it.” | [70] | |
| “Pilgrim Lake,” where that first washing was done by the Pilgrim mothers | [78] | |
| “That little creek that blocked the way of doughty Myles Standish and his men, sending them inland on a detour.” See [page 85] | [86] | |
| “Here in a volley was the summing up of the nature of the heroes that had grown up, quite literally, in the Concord soil.” See [page 93] | [92] | |
| “Hither, too, came Hawthorne, to tramp the woods as did the others, and feel as did they, the divine afflatus.” | [98] | |
| “The water from the old well cooled the throat of his memory, and sparkled to the eye of it as he recalled the dripping bucket.” | [114] | |
| The Newburyport home of Joshua Coffin, the early friend and teacher of Whittier | [126] | |
| “Down river to the old chain bridge the rough rocks of the New Hampshire hills come to get a taste of salt.” See [page 129] | [130] | |
| One angle of “The House of the Seven Gables.” | [150] | |
| “A Salem dock of the old sea-faring days.” | [150] | |
| “The only sound was the crunch of soft snow and the splash of sap within the barrel.” See [page 171] | [172] | |
| “But here is a sweetness that the tree almost bursts to deliver.” | [178] | |
| “The farmhouse where Bolles lived and loved the woods and all that therein lived with him.” See [page 197] | [198] | |
| Nightfall on Chocorua Lake | [208] |
LITERARY PILGRIMAGES
OF A NATURALIST
LITERARY PILGRIMAGES OF
A NATURALIST