"Miss Warden has worked out her contrasts very strikingly, and tells her story in a cleverly flippant way, which keeps the reader on the qui vive for the cynical but bright sayings she has interspersed."--Detroit Free Press. "The story forms an admirable study. The style is graphic, the plot original and cleverly wrought out."--Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue. Transcriber's Notes. Introduction. Welcome to Project Gutenberg's edition of _Wayside Courtships_ by Hamlin Garland. This collection of short stories was released in 1897. We used the book in Hathitrust from the Cornell University Library for our transcription. Similar books by Garland are: _Main-Travelled Roads_, _Prairie Folks_, and _Other Main-Travelled Roads_. Five short stories from this collection were reprinted in _Other Main-Travelled Roads_: • A Stop-Over at Tyre • A Fair Exile • An Alien in the Pines • Before the Low Green Door • A Preacher's Love Story Detailed Notes. Chapter 2--A Meeting in the Foothills. On Page 82: Barn-yard is hyphenated and split between two lines. On Page 45, barn-yard was hyphenated, and on Page 67, it was not. Since barnyard on Page 67 was part of the same short story as barnyard on Page 82, the spelling without the hyphen took precedence over the hyphenated spelling from _A Preacher's Love Story_. On Page 84, we changed Ransey to Ramsey in the question: "You don't mean Mr. Ransey?" Chapter 3--A Stop-Over in Tyre. On Page 157: Removed period after exclamation point in By jinks! .You don't seem to realize ... When this story was reprinted in _Main-Travelled Roads_, this extract was written "By jinks! you don't seem to realize ..." Chapter 6--Of Those Who Seek. On Page 223: halfassumed is spelled as one word, without a space or hyphen. We retained the spelling from the book. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Wayside Courtships, by Hamlin Garland