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Dwellers in Arcady

Albert Bigelow Paine

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .About the time we got started an audience[Pg 44] assembled. Old Nat, who was taking a day off, and 'Lias Mullins, who had a weakness in his back and took most of his days off, drifted in from somewhere and sat on the wall in the shade to give us counsel. Then presently W. C. Westbury drove up and became general overseer of the job. They formed a board of appraisal, with Westbury as chairman. All of them knew that cellar and were intimately acquainted with its contents.

I had thought the old collection of value only as kindling, but as we brought out one selection after another I realized my error.

"That," said 'Lias Mullins, "is Uncle Joe's pork-barrel. It's wuth a dollar fifty new, an that one's better 'n new."

"I used to help Uncle Joe kill, every year," nodded Old Nat, "an' to put his meat away. I remember that bar'l as well as can be. I'll take it myself, if you don't want it.

"Better keep your barrel," Westbury said. "You'll b. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Paine (perhaps best known for his association with Mark Twain) writes of moving his family into an old farmhouse in rural Connecticut. There is a slight semblance to "Mister Blandings Builds His Dream House" here, but only slight- surmounting the occasional difficulties the Paines (the author, his w

It's kind of like "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" (later turned into "The Money Pit") except that Albert Paine mostly had a great time and very little goes all that wrong. Paine moves with daughters and wife to an old house and, well, not too many hijinks, but a lot of pleasant times ensue. H