DWELLERS IN ARCADY * * * * * _Books by_ ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE _For Young Readers_ THE BOYS' LIFE OF MARK TWAIN HOLLOW TREE NIGHTS AND DAYS THE HOLLOW TREE AND DEEP-WOODS BOOK THE HOLLOW TREE SNOWED-IN BOOK _Small books of several stories each, selected from the above Hollow Tree books:_ HOW MR. DOG GOT EVEN HOW MR. RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL MR. RABBIT'S BIG DINNER MAKING UP WITH MR. DOG MR. 'POSSUM'S GREAT BALLOON TRIP WHEN JACK RABBIT WAS A LITTLE BOY MR. RABBIT'S WEDDING MR. CROW AND THE WHITEWASH MR. TURTLE'S FLYING ADVENTURE _For Grown-ups_ DWELLERS IN ARCADY MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS MARK TWAIN: A BIOGRAPHY TH. NAST: HIS PERIOD AND HIS PICTURES THE SHIP-DWELLERS (Humorous travel) THE TENT-DWELLERS (Humorous camping) FROM VAN-DWELLER TO COMMUTER (Humorous, home life) PEANUT (Story of a boy) HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK * * * * * [Illustration: _Once more it was a habitation and a home_] [Illustration] DWELLERS IN ARCADY The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Albert Bigelow Paine _Author of_ "From Van-Dweller to Commuter" "The Ship-Dwellers" "The Tent Dwellers" Etc. With Illustrations by Thomas Fogarty [Illustration] Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published March, 1919 ILLUSTRATIONS _Once more it was a habitation and a home_ _Frontispiece_ _"And here is your house," said William C. Westbury_ 6 _They formed a board of appraisal. All of them knew that cellar and were intimately acquainted with its contents_ 44 _I made about three leaps and grabbed it, and a second later had it hooked and was back, the lightning at my heels_ 68 _Sometimes at the end of the day, as I sat by the waning embers, and watched her moving to and fro between me and the fading autumn fields_ 110 _"Good afternoon," I said. "Can you tell us where we are?"_ 156 _I remember that as a golden summer, an enthusiastic summer, and, on the whole, a successful one_ 206 _It was on a winter evening that I drove our car back to its old place in the barn, after its long journeyings by land and sea_ 238 CHAPTER ONE I _All my life I had dreamed of owning a brook_ [Illustration]