. The journal of a country woman. democracy—that it must either be fibered,vitalized, by regular contact with outdoorlight and air and growths, farm scenes, animals,fields, trees, birds, sun-warmth, and free skies,or it will morbidly dwindle and pale. Thereis a blazing log fire on the hearth this coolOctober day, and the whispering tongues offlame invite us appealingly to often journeycountryward in winter days and find whatdelights the country in winter has for peoplewith souls. ii6 UtG ^6 ^312 LIBRARY OF CX)NGRESS 0DDE74fiflflai. NEW YORK: EATON & MAINSCINCINNATI: JENNINGS & GRAHAM ^ Copyrig


. The journal of a country woman. democracy—that it must either be fibered,vitalized, by regular contact with outdoorlight and air and growths, farm scenes, animals,fields, trees, birds, sun-warmth, and free skies,or it will morbidly dwindle and pale. Thereis a blazing log fire on the hearth this coolOctober day, and the whispering tongues offlame invite us appealingly to often journeycountryward in winter days and find whatdelights the country in winter has for peoplewith souls. ii6 UtG ^6 ^312 LIBRARY OF CX)NGRESS 0DDE74fiflflai. NEW YORK: EATON & MAINSCINCINNATI: JENNINGS & GRAHAM ^ Copyright, 1912, byEMMA WINNER ROGERS (gC!.A3:30;^86 7« o / ^0 ^enrp Wsidt S^oqtri LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Wood Lot—Photogravure Frontispiece ^ Facing Page The Green Side of the Palisades i6 (^ The Old Homestead—Was Built about 1758 191/ A Dutch Colonial Farmhouse in Our 29 t/ The Road to the Station 39 ^ A New Member of the Family 43 •/ The Palisades and the River 49 V^ Our Next-Door Neighbors Home 50*^ Our Next-Door Neighbors Kitchen 53 ^ Bringing Home our Team of Oxen 60 v Wild Carrots Near the Wood Lot 71 v Bringing in Our Last Load of Hay 71 vz The End of the Road 80 The Oldest Houses in the Neighborhood 85/ Parlor Cupboard of an Old Dutch Farmhouse in the Nearby Village 87 ^ A Real Holland Interior 87 \/ The Top of the Palisades cj2^ The Schoolmasters Ancestral Home 103 u The Century-and-a-Half Old Inn 103 i^ FOREWORD The delight of living near to nature, amonggreen and growing things, sunri


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