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[Illustration: John Van Der Zee Sears]
MY FRIENDS AT BROOK FARM
BY
JOHN VAN DER ZEE SEARS
TO MY FRIEND
JOSEPH HORNOR COATES, Esq.
OF PHILADELPHIA
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. THE OLD COLONIE
II. FRIEND GREELEY
III. A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
IV. A BAD BEGINNING
V. A GOOD ENDING
VI. ENTERTAINMENTS
VII. THE SCHOOL
VIII. ODDMENTS
IX. FOURIER AND THE FARMERS
X. UNTO THIS LAST
ILLUSTRATIONS
JOHN VAN DER ZEE SEARS _Frontispiece_
HORACE GREELEY
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
THE BROOK FARM CALL
"THE HIVE"
CHARLES A. DANA
THE PAGEANT
A PIONEER KINDERGARTEN
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
CHAPTER I
THE OLD COLONIE
In May, 1624, the Dutch packet New Netherlands sailed up the Hudson
River to the head of navigation, bringing a company of eighteen families
under the leadership of Adrian Joris.
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