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Title: Mushrooms on the Moor

Author: Frank Boreham

Release Date: January 3, 2008 [eBook #24134]

Language: English

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MUSHROOMS ON THE MOOR

by

F. W. BOREHAM

Author of
'Mountains in the Mist,'
'The Other Side of the Hill,'
'The Golden Milestone,'
'The Silver Shadow,'
'The Luggage of Life,'
'Faces in the Fire,' etc., etc.

The Abingdon Press
New York ------ Cincinnati

First American Edition Printed May, 1919
Reprinted August, 1919; May, 1920; July 1921

CONTENTS

PART I

CHAP.

I. A SLICE OF INFINITY
II. READY-MADE CLOTHES
III. THE HIDDEN GOLD
IV. 'SUCH A LOVELY BITE!'
V. LANDLORD AND TENANT
VI. THE CORNER CUPBOARD
VII. WITH THE WOLVES IN THE WILD
VIII. DICK SUNSHINE
IX. FORTY!
X. A WOMAN'S REASON

PART II

I. THE HANDICAP
II. GOG AND MAGOG
III. MY WARDROBE
IV. 'PITY MY SIMPLICITY!'
V. TUNING FROM THE BASS
VI. A FRUITLESS DEPUTATION
VII. TRAMP! TRAMP! TRAMP!
VIII. THE FIRST MATE

PART III

CHAP.

I. WHEN THE COWS COME HOME
II. MUSHROOMS ON THE MOOR
III. ONIONS
IV. ON GETTING OVER THINGS
V. NAMING THE BABY
VI. THE MISTRESS OF THE MARGIN
VII. LILY

BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION

I have allowed the Mushrooms on the Moor to throw the glamour of their
name over the entire volume because, in some respects, they are the
most typical and representative things in it. They express so little
but suggest so much! What fun we had, in the days of auld lang syne,
when we scoured the dewy fields in search of them! And yet how small a
proportion of our enjoyment the mushrooms themselves represented! Our
flushed cheeks, our prodigious appetites, and our boisterous merriment
told of gains immensely greater than any that our baskets could have
held. What a contrast, for example, between mushrooms from the moor on
the one hand and mushrooms from the market on the other! What memories
of the s