+-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber’s note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ RAW MATERIAL _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ THE SQUIRREL-CAGE A MONTESSORI MOTHER MOTHERS AND CHILDREN THE BENT TWIG THE REAL MOTIVE FELLOW CAPTAINS (With SARAH N. CLEGHORN) UNDERSTOOD BETSY HOME FIRES IN FRANCE THE DAY OF GLORY THE BRIMMING CUP ROUGH-HEWN RAW MATERIAL BY DOROTHY CANFIELD [Illustration: Logo] NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY The Quinn & Boden Company BOOK MANUFACTURERS RAHWAY NEW JERSEY CONTENTS PAGE RAW MATERIAL 9 UNCLE GILES 25 “WHAT GOES UP...” 37 OLD MAN WARNER 69 THE IDEAS OF M. BRODARD 83 FAIRFAX HUNTER 111 PROFESSOR PAUL MEYER 127 “WHILE ALL THE GODS...” 143 SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS 151 ART ATMOSPHERE 167 COLONEL SHAYS 175 A GREAT LOVE 187 SUPPLY AND DEMAND 197 UNCLE ELLIS 211 GOD’S COUNTRY 215 INHERITANCE 227 THIRTY YEARS AFTER 233 “THE OLD NEW ENGLAND STOCK” 239 OCTOBER, 1918 255 A BRETON AMONG HSÜ HSI 265 ALMERA HAWLEY CANFIELD 273 RAW MATERIAL I don’t know who is responsible for this rather odd book, but I lay it to the earlier generations of my family. My clergyman grandfather always said that he never enjoyed any sermons so much as the ones he preached to himself sitting under another clergyman’s pulpit. When the text was given out, his mind seized on it with a vivid fresh interest and, running rapidly away from the intrusive sound of the other preacher’s voice, wove a tissue of clear, strong, and fascinatingly interesting reasonings and exhortations. Grandfather used to say that such sermons preached to himself were in the nature of things much better than any he could ever deliver in church. “I don’t have to keep a wary eye out for stupid old Mrs. Ellsworth, who never understands anything light or fanciful; I don’t have to remember to thunder occasionally at stolid Mr. Peters to wake him up. I don’t have to remember to keep my voice raised so that deaf old Senator Peaseley can hear me. I am not obliged to hold the wandering attention of their muddled heads by a series of foolish little rhetorical tricks or by a prodigious effort of my personality. I can just make my sermon what it ought to be.”