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. 



