TWENTY YEARS AGO. BY THOMAS L A C KLAN D. “Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion, We may build more splendid habitations, ** Hoc est Vivere bis, vitā posse priore frui.” NEW Y O R K : Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York HUCKLEBERRYING . . . . . . . . . 65 BARN LIFE . . to & * so o {} ge so 78 A MoRNING AT THE BRook . . . . . . . 93 OTR AUNT . & g g & to so to g & 103 AUTUMIN DAYS * e e o o • * ğ . 113 THE COUNTRY TAVERN . to e so to * * . 171 THE country MUSTER . . . . . . . . 185 THE county FAIR . . . . . . . . . . 196 THE COUNTRY MINISTER, . e so so & e to 206 THE COUNTRY DOCTOR . to to o o so to . 221 THE country LAwYER . . to e o e § 234 THE COUNTRY POSTMASTER . e * e o o . 245 THE POOR-HOUSE o go g to * g to * 254 BOOK HII. — BUCOLICS. IT has always fallen to the lot of Royal Families to have their historians and chroniclers, but to Farmers and plain Country People never. We have graceful descriptions of the Alhambra, as well as the history of Hampton Court, Pitti Palace, the Kremlin, and the famous Halls of the Montezumas; but few or no pens are put to service on behalf of the Farm-house, the Homestead, and the Rustic Cottage. Much has been written and read, too, of the Boulevards and Rotten Row, of the Strand and the Corso; but little enough of quiet country roads, sequestered green lanes, carttracks through the woods, and winding footpaths across the pasture-lands. |