Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

HURD AND HOUGHTON,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of

New York

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY

H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

T has always fallen to the lot of Royal Families to have their historians and oniclers, but to Farmers and plain CounPeople never. We have graceful descripns of the Alhambra, as well as the history Hampton Court, Pitti Palace, the Kremlin, d the famous Halls of the Montezumas; t few or no pens are put to service on beIf of the Farm-house, the Homestead, and e Rustic Cottage.

Much has been written and read, too, of e Boulevards and Rotten Row, of the Strand d the Corso; but little enough of quiet untry roads, sequestered green lanes, cartacks through the woods, and winding footaths across the pasture-lands.