# The Rise of Roscoe Paine Author: Lincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944 Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3137 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Rise+of+Roscoe+Paine+Lincoln&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary “Um-hm” is, I believe, good Scotch for “Yes.” I have read that it is, somewhere--in one of Barrie's yarns, I think. I had never been in Scotland, or much of anywhere else, except the city I was born in, and my college town, and Boston--and Cape Cod. “Um-hm” meant yes on the Cape, too, except when Dorinda said it; then it might mean almost anything. When Mother asked her to lower the window shade in the bed-room she said “Um-hm” and lowered it. And, five minutes later, when Lute came in, loaded to the guards with explanations as to why he had forgotten to clean the fish for dinner, she said it again. And the Equator and the North Pole are no nearer alike, so far as temperature is concerned... ## Chapters - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-roscoe-paine-3137/chapters/24/index.md)