PREFACE ix 



Weister of Portland, for the use of their splendid 

 photographs as illustrations for this book. My 

 thanks are due also to the Editors of the Atlantic 

 Monthly, Country Life in America, and St. Nicholas 

 for privilege to reprint the chapters that appeared 

 first in their magazines. 



DALLAS LORE SHARP. 



MULLEIN HILL, May, 1914. 



