Frustrated with life in the tenements generally and the negative influences on his children specifically, a father decides to move his family to the country, where they live off the land and breathe fresh air.
By : Edward P. Roe (1838 - 1888)
00 - Preface
01 - Chapter I A Problem
02 - Chapter II I State The Case
03 - Chapter III New Prospects
04 - Chapter IV A Momentous Expedition
05 - Chapter V A Country Christmas In A City Flat
06 - Chapter VI A Bluff Friend
07 - Chapter VII Mr. Jones Shows Me The Place
08 - Chapter VIII Telling About Eden
09 - Chapter IX Breaking Camp
10 - Chapter X Scenes On The Wharf
11 - Chapter XI A Voyage Up The Hudson
12 - Chapter XII A March Evening In Eden
13 - Chapter XIII Rescued And At Home
14 - Chapter XIV Self-denial And Its Reward
15 - Chapter XV Our Sunny Kitchen
16 - Chapter XVI Making A Place For Chickens
17 - Chapter XVII Good Bargains In Maple Sugar
18 - Chapter XVIII Butternuts And Bobsey's Peril
19 - Chapter XIX John Jones, Jun
20 - Chapter XX Raspberry Lessons
21 - Chapter XXI The ''vandoo''
22 - Chapter XXII Early April Gardening
23 - Chapter XXIII A Bonfire And A Feast
24 - Chapter XXIV ''no Blind Drifting''
25 - Chapter XXV Owls And Antwerps
26 - Chapter XXVI A Country Sunday
27 - Chapter XXVII Strawberry Visions And ''pertaters''
28 - Chapter XXVIII Corn, Color, And Music
29 - Chapter XXIX We Go A-fishing
30 - Chapter XXX Weeds And Working For Dear Life
31 - Chapter XXXI Nature Smiles And Helps
32 - Chapter XXXII Cherries, Berries, And Berry-Thieves
33 - Chapter XXXIII Given His Choice
34 - Chapter XXXIV Given A Chance
35 - Chapter XXXV We Shall All Earn Our Salt
36 - Chapter XXXVI A Thunderbolt
37 - Chapter XXXVII Rallying From The Blow
38 - Chapter XXXVIII August Work And Play
39 - Chapter XXXIX A Trip To The Seashore
40 - Chapter XL A Visit To Houghton Farm
41 - Chapter XLI Hoarding For Winter
42 - Chapter XLII Autumn Work And Sport
43 - Chapter XLIII Thanksgiving Day
44 - Chapter XLIV We Can Make A Living In Eden
Months since, with much doubt and diffidence, I began this simple story. I had never before written expressly for young people, and I knew that the honest little critics could not be beguiled with words which did not tell an interesting story. How far I have succeeded, the readers of this volume, and of the "St. Nicholas" magazine, wherein the tale appeared as a serial, alone can answer.
I have portrayed no actual experience, but have sought to present one which might be verified in real life. I have tried to avoid all that would be impossible or even improbable. The labors performed by the children in the story were not unknown to my own hands, in childhood, nor would they form tasks too severe for many little hands now idle in the cities.
The characters are all imaginary; the scenes, in the main, are real: and I would gladly lure other families from tenement flats into green pastures.
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