Chapter I: Front Matter

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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.

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

ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER, FRONTISPIECE.

CASTE, PAGE 67

HIEL IN HIS GLORY, " 109

CHESTNUTTING, " 226

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