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For sale by WITTER & SUMPTION, South-Bend, Indiana, by the booksellers generally, SAMUEL HUESTON, Publisher, and by 348 Broadway, New-York. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Puddleford - Eagle Tavern — Mr. and Mrs. Bulliphant - May Morning- Birds-Venison Styles -General Character of Society The Colonel-Venison Styles' Cabin, CHAPTER II Law-Suit: Filkins against Beadle -'Squire Longbow and his Court - Puddleford Assembled -Why Squire Longbow was a Great Man- Ike Turtle and Sile Bates, Pettifoggers - Mrs. Sonora Brown Uproar and Legal Opinions - Seth Bolles-Miss Eunice Grimes - Argument to Jury, and Verdict, - CHAPTER III. Wanderings in the Wilderness A Bee-Hunt-Sunrise - The Fox-Squirrel - The Blue-Jay — The Gopher-The Partridges - Wild Geese, Ducks, and Cranes - Blackbirds and MeadowLarks Venison's Account of the Bees' Domestic Economy How Venison Found what he was in Search of -Honey Secured After-Reflections, CHAPTER IV. The Log-Chapel - Father Beals Aunt Graves-Sister Abigall - Bigelow Van Slyck, the Preacher His Entrée- - How he Worked - One of his Sermons -Performance of the Choir'Coronation' Achieved - Getting into Position - Personal Appeals --Effect on the Congregation Sabbath in the Wilderness- Is Bigelow the only Ridiculous Preacher? CHAPTER V. Wild Indian Summer 9 24 42 53 07 Educational Efforts - Squire Longbow's 'Notis -The 'Saterday Nite'-Ike and the 'Squire — General Result, Collection 81 CHAPTER VII. Social War-Longbow, Turtle & Co. - Bird, Swipes, Beagle & Co. - Mrs. Bird - Mrs. Beagle — Mrs. Swipes-Turkey and Aristocracy - Scandal - Husking-bees, and such like'- The Calathumpian Band-The Horse-Fiddle-The Giant Trombone-The Gyastacutas - Turning Up- Unparalleled Effort - Puddleford still a Representative Place, CHAPTER VIII. Puddleford and Politics-Higgins against Wiggins -- The Candidates' Personale - Their Platforms-Delicate Questions-Stump-Speaking-Wiggins on Higgins-Impertinent Interruptions- Higgins on Wiggins Ike Turtle not Dead yet Commotion- 'Squire Longbow restores Order- Grand Stroke of Policy - The Roast Ox at Gillett's Corners, CHAPTER IX. Winter upon us 98 110 CHAPTER X. Mrs. Longbow Taken Sick- General Interest- Dr. Teazle-His Visit-The Rattles" Scientific Diagnosis - A Prescription - Short and Dr. Dobbs-Pantod of the Heart' - Dismissal of Teazle Installation of Dobbs-Scyller and Charabides'-Ike's Views- The Colonel's -Bates's-Mrs. Longbow dies- Who killed her? - Conflicting Opinions - Her Funeral — Bigelow Van Slyck's Sermon - Interment, . 128 CHAPTER XI. 'Squire Longbow in mourning The Great Question Aunt Sonora's Opinion - Other People'sThe Squire goes to Church - His Appearance on that occasion-Aunt Graves, and her Extra Performance- Nux Vomica'-Anxious Mothers- Mary Jane Arabella Swipes - Sister Abigail-Ike Turtle, and his Designs He calls on Aunt Graves-She'll go it-Sister Abigail's objection The 'Squire's First Love-Letter The Wedding-Great Getting-up-Turtle's Examination - The 'Squire Runs the Risk of the Staterts'- Bigelow's Ceremony - General Break-Down-Not Very Drunk, The Group at the Eagle'-Entrée of a Stranger - His opinion of the Tavern up- Can't Pick Fowls after Dark - Sad Case of Mother Gantlet and Dr. Teazle Begins to Unbend - Whistle & Sharp, and their Attorney Good Pay-Legal Conversation Going Sniping-Great Description of the Animal- -The Party Start- Farindale holding the Bag-Waiting for Snipe'- Farindale's Solitary Return - His Interview with Whistle & Sharp-Suing a Puddleford Firm - Relief Laws - Farindale gets his Execution The Puddleford Bank - The Appraisers- Proceeds of the Execution, The 'Fev' Nag'- Conflicting Theories-Oxergin and Hydergin'-Teazle's Rationale - The Scourge of the West-Sile Bates, and his Condition- Squire Longbow, and Jim BuzzardPuddleford Prostrate- Various Practitioners-The Billerous Duck'- Pioneer MartyreWave over Wave, 143 159 CHAPTER XIV. Uncommonly Common Schools - Annual School District Meeting - Accounts for Contingent Expenses Turtle, and Old Gulick's Boy-That are Class-The Colonel starts the wheels again Bulliphant's Tactics- Have we hired 'Dea. Fluett's darter, or not? -- Izabel strickettBunker Hill and Turkey - Sab-Jane Beagles - The Question Settled, . 'Abolition' Meeting at Puddleford- The late Rev. Mr. Billet-Longbow, and his Responsibilities Collision between Bates and the Squire - The Log-Chapel filled-Bates's Opening Remarks- - Turtle's Interpolations - An Open Question-Longbow, to the Rescue! - Three Cheers Appointment of a President- Mr. Billet-His Philosophy of the Institution of Slavery Turtle on Hand-What would Billet Do?-Resolutions Offered by Sile BatesIke's Amendments - Adjournment of the Meeting, and Hegira of the Lecturer, . - 174 CHAPTER XVI. Some Account of John Smith-Nick-Names - Progress of the Age-The Colonel's Opinion of Science John Smith's Dream - Ike Turtle's Dream-Ike takes the Boots, - CHAPTER XVII. Ike Turtle in his Office - The Author Consults him on a Point of Law-Taxes of Non-ResidentsLaw in Puddleford - Mr. Bridget's Case - Legal Discussion-The Case Settled, CHAPTER XVIII. 187 202 - The Wilderness around Puddleford The Rivers and the Forests-Suggestions of Old Times CHAPTER XIX. - The Old New-England Home The Sheltered Village - The Ancient Buildings-Dormer-Windows- An Old Puritanical Home- The Old Puritan Church The Burying-Ground- Deacon Smith, his Habits and his Helpers-Major Simeon Giles, his Mansion and his Ancestry --Old Doctor Styles-Crapo Jackson, the Sexton-Training Days'- Militia Dignitaries - Major Boles-Major General Peabody - Preparations and Achievements-Demolition of an AppleCart-Shoulder Arms!'- Colonel Asher Peabody- The Boys, and their World - My Last Look at my Native Village, 217 CHAPTER XX. - And still New-England-Sui Generis-Her Ruggedness the Soil of Liberty The Contrast The New-England Conservative-The New-England Man of Business- The West has no Past-Fast and Hospitable-Saxon Blood and Saxon Spirit, CHAPTER XXI. Spring at the West-Sugar Days'- Performances of the Cattle - April - Advent of the BlueJays and the Crows - The Blue-birds, Phebes, and Robins - April, and its Inspiring Days -The Frogs, and their Concerts-Gophers, Squirrels, Ants; Swallows, Brown-Thrushes, and Blackbirds-The Swallows, the Martins, and the Advent of May, Effect on 'Squire Longbow-Bright Prospects of Puddleford Change The Styleses'-The New Justice-Aunt Sonora's Opinions-Ike Turtle Grows, too-Venison Disappears from among Men - His Grave, and his Epitaph, . CONCLUSION. The Philosophy of Puddleford- Diverse Elements in Pioneer Life-Longbow, and his Administration Not Expensive-Two Hundred a Year, all told - What would Chief-Justice Marshall have Done as Justice at Puddleford? - Longbow a Great Man- Fame and Politics- Ike, a Wheel- - Puddleford Theology - Camp Meetings-Who do Bigelow's Work Better than Bigelow? - Great Happiness, and Few Nerves-No 'Society - No Fashion in Clothes, or any thing Else Bull's Eye and Pinchbeck - The Great Trade did n't Come Off — Abounding Charity and Hospitality - Pilgrim Blood — - Longbow's Planting the Mud-Sills-Old Associations, how Controlling!-Good-Bye, Reader! 282 242 252 256 |