ANORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BYPRESENTED PROF.CHARLES A. ANDKOFOID MRS.PRUDENCEW.KOFOID AMERRV CHRISTMAS A NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE By ROSALIND RICHARDS Illustrated from photographs by BERTRAND H. WENTWORTH NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1916 COPYRIGHT, 1916 BY AND COMPANYHENRY HOLT Published April, 1916 A BODEN CO. PRESSTHE QUINN N. J.RAHWAY, Co J. L. E. and L. T.R., W., S., without whose this small record could nothelp have been written. M363516 PREFACE can describe aNo one person fitly neighbor- how wellno matter how known,hood, long is and ofloved. Yet records of what lovely in a district should be treasuredgood report and howeverpreserved, imperfectly. father's not shouldname, mine, rightlyMy be to these for it is his intimatesigned pages, of our loved and ex-knowledge countryside, with a ardor and a naturalist'splored boy's which strive tosinceinsight childhood, they set down. I to write almosthave taken care wholly and ofof two or more per-generations ago, have nowsons with fewwho, exceptions, I have in all casesout of this andlife;passed families from onealtered and shiftednames, avoidof the to topart county another, pos- Itsible to connections.survivingannoyance has even seemed best in some cases though theI have done so with reluctance to change asnames of of hills and streams,villages, well. vi PREFACE I have striven to recordthis,Beyond only the anecdotes and memories thatfaithfully tohave come down me.
ANORTHERN COUNTRYSIDETHE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BYPRESENTED PROF.CHARLES A. ANDKOFOID MRS.PRUDENCEW.KOFOIDAMERRV CHRISTMASA NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE By ROSALIND RICHARDS Illustrated from photographs by BERTRAND H. WENTWORTH NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1916COPYRIGHT, 1916 BY AND COMPANYHENRY HOLT Published April, 1916 A BODEN CO. PRESSTHE QUINN N. J.RAHWAY,Co J. L. E. and L. T.R., W., S., without whose this small record could nothelp have been written. M363516