CONTENTS 

 BOOK ONE (1851-1879) 



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Chapter One i 



1. Puritan ancestry — John Jordan — Rufus 

 Jordan — Hiram Jordan — Huldah Havvley 

 Jordan — John Elderkin Waldo 



2. "Going West" — The Jordan farm — A glacial 

 pond — Cranberry pond — • Rufus Bacon Jordan 



— "The Human Harvest" — Mary Jordan 

 Edwards 



3. Birthplace — -East Coy Creek ^ — ^ Gainesville — 

 Early recollections — Quilting bees — The old 

 clock — ^ Playing soldier — A long drive — No 

 whipping — To Rochester — A tragedy of pride 



— Overpowering fear — Timidity and mystery 



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1. Learning to study — "Speaking pieces" — The 

 Red Eric — "False color sense" — ■ Tendency in- 

 herited — Mapping the stars — • Mapping the 

 world — Other reverberations — Eric's shells — 

 Barbara's birds 



2. Turning to Botany — ■ Flowers of spring — In- 

 terest in flowers and trees — Portage and Sil- 

 ver Lake — Difference in floras — Painting the 

 flowers — No songbird 



3. Dickens — Thackeray — Bret Harte — -Macau- 

 lay and the poets — The Atlantic Monthly — 

 Introduction to politics — Abolition versus 

 Union — Greeley and the Tribune — Harper's 

 Ferry and Sumter — -Emancipation — The call 

 for men — War poets — Death of Lincoln 



4. Castile Academy — ^ The Female Seminary — 

 The study of French — John Lord Jenkins — 

 Gainesville Zouaves — ■ Learning chess — A 

 broken nose — In South Warsaw — Coasting 



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