CHAPTER I.

SHOWING SOME GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS.

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Overlooked by Tourists--“Year Before Last Winter’s Snow”--The School Master and His Snow Grave--Drifted Roads and the Right of Way--The Post Holes in the Ice--The Man Who Took Comfort at Funerals--The Story of the Field of Oats--The Kitchen Dance “Up The Branch”--The New Maple Sugar Tub--A Yankee Philanthropist--The Butcher Who Was Too Generous 13-34