PREFACE 



town that lies in a hill dimple at the foot 

 of Kearsarge, never leave it until you have 

 knocked at the door of the brown house 

 under the willow-tree at the end of the 

 village street, and there you shall have 

 such news of the land, of its trails and 

 what is astir in them, as one lover of it can 

 give to another. 



XI 



