Child and Country: A Book of the Younger Generation (Classic Reprint)

FOREWORD
. . . To-day the first gliolpse of this manuscript
as a vhole. It ,vas all detached pieces before,
done over a period of nlmy months, with
many intervening tasks,· thc main idea slightly
drifting fron1 tin1C to time .... 1"he purposc on
setting out, was to relate the adventure of honle·
n1aking in the country, with its incidents of n"lasonry,
child and rose culture, and shore-conservation.
It was not to ten others how to build a
house or plant a garden, or how to conduct one's
life on a shore-acre or two. 'N at at this latc day.
I was inlpelled rather to rclate how ve found
plenty with a Ii ttle; how "/C entered upon a new
dimension of health and length of days; and fTorn
tlle safe distance of the desk, I vanted to laugh
over a city man's adventures ,vith drains and east
winds, country pcople and the meshes of posses ..
Slon.
In a way, our second coming to the country
\raS like the landing of the Swiss Farllily Robinson
upon that little ,vor

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; -; BEES AND BLOOM: •; BLUFF A"'D SnORE; STON£STUDY; IMAGI~ATION; VILD GEESE; 'VORKMA~SHIP; THE LITTLE GIRL •; THE ABBOT; THE V ALLIY-Ro4D GIRL •; COMPASSION; THE LITTLE GIRL'S WORK; T[ARING~DOWN SE~TTliENT •; NATURAL CRUELTY; CHILDREN CHANGE; A ~1A~·S OWN; THE PLAN Is ON E; THE IRISH CHAPTER •; THE BLEKEST HOUR; TUE NEW SOCIAL ORDER •; COMMON CLAY BRICK; [ ~iii ]; •; •; PAGE; 17; 28; 38; 43; 55; 65; 78; 90; · J02; · I J 3; · IZ3; · 134-; · 15 1; · 163; · J7 1; · I86; · 196; • 202-; • • 2 17; • • • 222 THE HIGHEST OF TIlE ARTS •; ~IlRACLES; MORE ABOUT ORDER •; THE FRESH Ey};