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The Project Gutenberg EBook of More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge 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 http://www.gutenberg.org/license Title: More Jonathan Papers Author: Elisabeth Woodbridge Release Date: December 19, 2006 [Ebook #20141] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORE JONATHAN PAPERS*** 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
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