Part 2

VIII. THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET 104

IX. IN OLD NEWBURYPORT 118

X. PLYMOUTH MAYFLOWERS 135

XI. OLD SALEM TOWN 148

XII. VERMONT MAPLE SUGAR 164

XIII. NATURE’S MEMORIAL DAY 183

XIV. BIRDS OF CHOCORUA 197

INDEX 213

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 35 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 65 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

“That little creek that blocked the way of doughty Myles Standish and his men, sending them inland on a detour.” See page 85 86

“Here in a volley was the summing up of the nature of the heroes that had grown up, quite literally, in the Concord soil.” See page 93 92

“Hither, too, came Hawthorne, to tramp the woods as did the others, and feel as did they, the divine afflatus.” 98

“The water from the old well cooled the throat of his memory, and sparkled to the eye of it as he recalled the dripping bucket.” 114

The Newburyport home of Joshua Coffin, the early friend and teacher of Whittier 126