Books published by publisher NY: D. Appleton

"The stories that were told on old red settles by chimney fires in old New England days had a peculiar spirit and coloring. Quaint as many of them were, they carried deep spiritual meanings. Reward or retribution was somehow associated with the queer tale of the country grocery store, the ordinary, the husking party, or of the neighborhood or town. I used to hear many of these tales when a boy in the old home farm in the Pokanoket country on the Mount Hope and Narragansett Bays. They have always haunted me at such times as my mind wandered back to the past, and I have liked to reproduce them in my own way for the magazines and papers. Of the stories in this volume, A Halloween Reformation Captain Tuttle and the Miracle Clock and A Regular Old-fashioned Thanksgiving The Haunted Oven appeared in the Century Magazine, and are used here by permission of the Century Company. The Inn of the Good Woman appeared in Harpers Magazine, and is used by permission. Harper and Brothers, and are reproduced here by the courtesy of the publishers. Of the other stories, some have not been printed before and others have appeared in The Youths Companion, The Household, and popular papers which have kindly allowed me to republish them." ~ from the Preface