Title: Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Release date: February 7, 2015 [eBook #48190]
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Language: English
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Poganuc People.
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"Oh, Nabby, Nabby! do tell me what they are doing up at your church. I've seen 'em all day carrying armfulls and armfulls—ever so much—of spruce and pine up that way."—p. 8.
BY Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "My Wife and I," "We and Our Neighbors," etc.
With Illustrations.
NEW YORK:
FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT.
COPYRIGHT, 1878, A.D.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Dissolving Views, | 7 |
| II. | Dolly, | 16 |
| III. | The Illumination, | 24 |
| IV. | Dolly's Adventure, | 39 |
| V. | Dolly's First Christmas Day, | 48 |
| VI. | Village Politicians, | 61 |
| VII. | The Doctor's Sermon, | 68 |
| VIII. | Mr. Coan Answers the Doctor, | 81 |
| IX. | Election Day in Poganuc, | 90 |
| X. | Dolly's Perplexities, | 107 |
| XI. | Dolly and Nabby are Invited Out, | 115 |
| XII. | Dolly goes into Company, | 127 |
| XIII. | Colonel Davenport's Experiences, | 138 |
| XIV. | The Puzzle of Poganuc, | 150 |
| XV. | The Poganuc Puzzle Solved, | 160 |
| XVI. | Poganuc Parsonage, | 166 |
| XVII. | Spring and Summer come at Last, | 181 |
| XVIII. | Dolly's Fourth of July, | 190 |
| XIX. | Summer Days in Poganuc, | 203 |
| XX. | Going "a-Chestnutting," | 220 |
| XXI. | Dolly's Second Christmas, | 228 |
| XXII. | The Apple Bee, | 239 |
| XXIII. | Seeking a Divine Impulse, | 250 |
| XXIV. | "In Such an Hour as ye Think Not," | 260 |
| XXV. | Dolly Becomes Illustrious, | 267 |
| XXVI. | The Victory, | 274 |
| XXVII. | The Funeral, | 280 |
| XXVIII. | Dolly at the Wicket Gate, | 290 |
| XXIX. | The Conflict, | 294 |
| XXX. | The Crisis, | 300 |
| XXXI. | The Joy of Harvest, | 309 |
| XXXII. | Six Years Later, | 317 |
| XXXIII. | The Doctor Makes a Discovery, | 325 |
| XXXIV. | Hiel and Nabby, | 330 |
| XXXV. | Miss Debby Arrives, | 337 |
| XXXVI. | Preparations for Seeing Life, | 344 |
| XXXVII. | Last Words, | 350 |
| XXXVIII. | Dolly's First Letter to Boston, | 354 |
| XXXIX. | Dolly's Second Letter, | 360 |
| XL. | Alfred Dunbar to Eugene Sinclair, | 365 |
| XLI. | Finale, | 370 |
| The Parson's Daughter, | FRONTISPIECE. | |
| Caste, | PAGE | 67 |
| Hiel in his Glory, | " | 109 |
| Chestnutting, | " | 226 |