I. The Pine and the Rose II. The “Old Kennebec” III. The Edgewood “Drive” IV. “Blasphemious Swearin'” V. The Game of Jackstraws VI. Hearts and Other Hearts VII. The Little House VIII. The Garden of Eden IX. The Serpent X. The Turquoise Ring XI. Rose Sees the World XII. Gold and Pinchbeck XIII. A Country Chevalier XIV. Housebreaking XV. The Dream Room THE OLD PEABODY PEW SUSANNA AND SUE I. Mother Ann's Children II. A Son of Adam III. Divers Doctrines IV. Louisa's Mind V. the Little Quail Bird VI. Susanna Speaks in Meeting VII. “The Lower Plane” VIII. Concerning Backsliders IX. Love Manifold X. Brother and Sister XI. “The Open Door” XII. The Hills of Home ROSE O' THE RIVER I. The Pine And the Rose It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet. An early ablution of this sort was not the custom of the farmers along the banks of the Saco, but the Waterman house was hardly a stone's throw from the water, and there was a clear, deep swimming-hole in the Willow Cove that would have tempted the busiest man, or the least cleanly, in York County. Then, too, Stephen was a child of the river, born, reared, schooled on its very brink, never happy unless he were on it, or in it, or beside it, or at least within sight or sound of it. The immensity of the sea had always silenced and overawed him, left him cold in feeling. The river wooed him, caressed him, won his heart. It was just big enough to love. It was full of charms and changes, of varying moods and sudden surprises. Its voice stole in upon his ear with a melody far sweeter and more subtle than the boom of the ocean. Yet it was not without strength, and when it was swollen with the freshets of the spring and brimming with the bounty of its sister streams, it could dash and roar, boom and crash, with the best of them. Stephen stood on the side porch, drinking in the glory of the sunrise, with the Saco winding like a silver ribbon through the sweet loveliness of the summer landscape.