pages, is nevertheless locally true; and to this, at least, all of you,
my Friends and Neighbors, can testify. In these days, when Fiction
prefers to deal with abnormal characters and psychological problems more
or less exceptional or morbid, the attempt to represent the elements of
life in a simple, healthy, pastoral community, has been to me a source
of uninterrupted enjoyment. May you read it with half the interest I
have felt in writing it!

BAYARD TAYLOR.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.
THE CHASE

CHAPTER II.
WHO SHALL HAVE THE BRUSH?

CHAPTER III.
MARY POTTER AND HER SON

CHAPTER IV.
FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE

CHAPTER V.
GUESTS AT FAIRTHORN'S