IV. GOLDEN DREAMS
V. "DOMINIE DICK"
VI. BILDY
VII. SMUGGLERS
VIII. PHENOMENA
IX. SPRING'S RETURN
X. A RUSTIC PASTOR
XI. A SPRIG OF SHAMROCK
XII. PENNY




UP IN ARDMUIRLAND


I

PERSONAL


Forest and meadow and hill, and the steel-blue rim of the ocean
Lying silent and sad, in the afternoon shadows and sunshine.
(_Longfellow--"Miles Standish"_)


Val and I, being twins, have always been looked upon as inseparables.
True, we have been often forced apart during life's course; yet,
somehow, we have always managed to drift back again into the old
companionship which Nature seems to have intended in bringing us into