CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Josiah Found at Last! the Awful Fire at Dreamland and the Terrible Sights I Saw There 293 CHAPTER NINETEEN We Return to Jonesville and Josiah Builds Tirzah Ann's Cottage With Strange Inventions and Additions 309 CHAPTER TWENTY Faith Comes to Visit Us. We Attend the Camp Meetin' at Piller Pint, and Faith Meets the Lover of Her Youth 327 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE _Marietta Holley_ [_Samantha_] _Frontispiece_ "_Serenus Gowdey tramped up and down our kitchen floor swingin' his arms and describin' the wonders of Coney Island._" 8 "_The old deacon couldn't stand such talk. He turned him outdoors, slammed the door in his face, and forbid Faith to speak to him again._" 14 "_I liked Castle Rest. It seemed a monument riz up to faithful, patient mothers by the hand of filial gratitude and love._" 49 "_I tried to stop him. I didn't want him to demean himself before the oarsmen tryin' to find boats that hadn't been hearn on in hundreds of years._" 68 "_'I won't wear a veil,' sez he stoutly. But the next time a gale come from the sou'west I laid the brim back and tied the veil in a big bow knot under his chin._" 83 _"'What does ail you, Samantha, lockin' arms with me all the time--it will make talk! he whispered in a mad, impatient whisper, but I would hang on as long as Mr. Pomper wuz around."_ 99 _"As they come nigh me I riz up almost wildly and ketched holt of my pardner and sez I: 'Desist! Josiah Allen, stop to once!' The aged female looked at me in surprise."_ 132 "_'No,' sez Mr. Pomper, 'I want it done as speedily as possible, fer my late lamented left me thirteen children, two pairs of triplets, two ditto of twins, and three singles.'_" 144 "_Mr. Pomper, thinkin' he would see better, got up on the bench, and jest as he shouted out 'How firm a foundation,' the bench broke and down he come._" 169 "_And then he would call in Uncle Nate Peedick and they would bend their two gray bald heads and talk about specifications and elevations till my brain seemed most as soft as theirn._" 196 "_'Serenus and Josiah are havin' a gay time at Coney Island. I've jest had a card from Serenus,' sez Miss Gowdey. You could have knocked me down with a pin feather._" 215