Chapter I: Front Matter

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JOSEPH AND HIS FRIEND:

_A Story of Pennsylvania._

BY

BAYARD TAYLOR.

The better angel is a man right fair;
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.

SHAKSPEARE: _Sonnets_.

NEW YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM & SONS,
FOURTH AVENUE AND TWENTY-THIRD STREET.

LONDON:
S. LOW, SON & MARSTON.
1870.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
BAYARD TAYLOR,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

THE NEW YORK PRINTING COMPANY,
_81, 83, and 85 Centre St._,
NEW YORK.

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⁂ To those who prefer quiet pictures of life to startling incidents, the attempt to illustrate the development of character to the mysteries of an elaborate plot, and the presentation of men and women in their mixed strength and weakness to the painting of wholly virtuous ideals and wholly evil examples: who are as interested in seeing moral and intellectual forces at work in a simple country community as on a more conspicuous plane of human action: who believe in the truth and tenderness of man's love for man, as of man's love for woman: who recognize the trouble which confused ideas of life and the lack of high and intelligent culture bring upon a great portion of our country population,—to all such, no explanation of this volume is necessary. Others will not read it.

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CONTENTS.

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I. Joseph

II. Miss Blessing

III. The Place and People

IV. Miss Blessing calls on Rachel Miller

V. Elwood's Evening, and Joseph's

VI. In the Garden

VII. The Blessing Family

VIII. A Consultation

IX. Joseph and his Friend

X. Approaching Fate

XI. A City Wedding

XII. Clouds

XIII. Presentiments

XIV. The Amaranth

XV. A Dinner Party

XVI. Joseph's Trouble, and Philip's

XVII. A Storm

XVIII. On the Railroad Track

XIX. The "Wharf-rat"

XX. A Crisis

XXI. Under the Water

XXII. Kanuck

XXIII. Julia's Experiment

XXIV. Fate

XXV. The Mourners

XXVI. The Accusation

XXVII. The Labels

XXVIII. The Trial

XXIX. New Evidence

XXX. Mr. Blessing's Testimony

XXXI. Beginning another Life

XXXII. Letters—I. Joseph to Philip

XXXIII. All are Happy

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JOSEPH AND HIS FRIEND.

The better angel is a man right fair;
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.

SHAKSPEARE: _Sonnets_.

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