ILLUSTRATIONS 



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 "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 jj 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 6j . . 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 



