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Title: More Jonathan Papers

Author: Elisabeth Woodbridge

Release Date: December 19, 2006 [Ebook #20141]

Language: English

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More Jonathan Papers

By
Elisabeth Woodbridge

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1915

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY ELISABETH WOODBRIDGE MORRIS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published November 1915_

TO
JONATHAN

CONTENTS

I. The Searchings of Jonathan
II. Sap-Time
III. Evenings on the Farm
IV. After Frost
V. The Joys of Garden Stewardship
VI. Trout and Arbutus
VII. Without the Time of Day
VIII. The Ways of Griselda
IX. A Rowboat Pilgrimage
Colophon
Appendix A: Extra Front Pages
Errata

More Jonathan Papers

I

The Searchings of Jonathan

"What I find it hard to understand is, why a person who can see a spray of
fringed gentian in the middle of a meadow can't see a book on the
sitting-room table."

"The reason why I can see the gentian," said Jonathan, "is because the
gentian is there."

"So is the book," I responded.

"Which table?" he asked.

"The one with the lamp on it. It's a red book, about _so_ big."

"It isn't there; but, just to satisfy you, I'll look again."

He returned in a moment with an argumentative expression of countenance.
"It isn't there," he said firmly. "Will anything else do instead?"

"No, I wanted you to read that special thing. Oh, dear! And I have all
these things in my lap! And I know it _is_ there."

"And I _know_ it isn't." He stretched himself out in the hammock and
watched me as I rather ostentatiously laid down thimble, scissors, needle,
cotton, and material and set out fo