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Title: Poganuc People
       Their Loves and Lives

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Release Date: February 7, 2015 [EBook #48190]

Language: English


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Poganuc People.


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Poganuc People:

THEIR LOVES AND LIVES.

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.


CONTENTS.

CHAPTERPAGE
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

Illustrations.


The Parson's Daughter,FRONTISPIECE.
Caste,PAGE67
Hiel in his Glory,"109
Chestnutting,"226

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