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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Child and Country, by Will Levington Comfort This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Author: Will Levington Comfort Release Date: January 13, 2009 [EBook #27793] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD AND COUNTRY *** Produced by David Garcia, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital Library) CHILD AND COUNTRY BY WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT LOT & COMPANY RED FLEECE MIDSTREAM DOWN AMONG MEN FATHERLAND GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY NEW YORK Child and Country _A Book of the Younger Generation_ BY WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT AUTHOR OF "MIDSTREAM," "LOT & COMPANY," "DOWN AMONG MEN," "ROUTLEDGE RIDES ALONE," ETC., ETC. NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY Copyright, 1916, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY TO THOSE WHO COME AFTER THE WRECKERS TO THE BUILDERS OF THE RISING GENERATION FOREWORD ... To-day the first glimpse of this manuscript as a whole. It was all detached pieces before, done over a period of many months, with many intervening tasks, the main idea slightly drifting from time to time.... The purpose on setting out, was to relate the adventure of home-making in the country, with its incidents of masonry, child and rose culture, and shore-conservation. It was not to tell others how to build a house or plant a garden, or how to conduct one's life on a shore-acre or two. Not at this late day. I was impelled rather to relate how we found plenty with a little; how we entered upon a new dimension of health and length of days; and from the safe distance of the desk, I wanted to laugh over a city man's adventures with drains and east winds, country people and the meshes of possession. In a way, our second coming to the country was like the landing of the Swiss Family Robinson upon that little world of theirs in the midst of the sea. Town life had become a subtle persecution. We hadn't been wrecked exactl
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