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Title: In the Border Country

Author: Josephine Daskam Bacon

Illustrator: Clara Elsene Peck

Release Date: August 13, 2007 [EBook #22310]

Language: English

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In the Border Country

[Illustration]

[Illustration: On a low stool there sat an old woman....]

[Illustration]

In the Border Country.

by

Josephine Daskam Bacon.

Clara Elsene Peck, Decorator.

New York Doubleday, Page & Company,
1909

THE HUT IN THE WOODS
Copyright, 1908, by P.F. Collier & Son.

THE FARM BY THE FOREST
Copyright, 1908, by P.F. Collier & Son.

THE CASTLE ON THE DUNES
Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers.

IN THE BORDER COUNTRY
Copyright, 1909, by Josephine D. Bacon.

[Illustration]

Contents
page

I. The Hut in the woods 3

II. The Farm by the Forest 39

III. The Castle on the Dunes 89

[Illustration]

Illustrations

On a low stool there sat an old woman.... Frontispiece

Facing page
The glass of that window has strange properties. 28

There were no lights but the great moon. 54

The Dame stood high on wooden clogs and hummed
a ballad. 62

Here they sat down to tapestry work, green and blue
and russet