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By Meredith Nicholson
A HOOSIER CHRONICLE. With illustrations.
THE SIEGE OF THE SEVEN SUITORS. With illustrations.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York


A HOOSIER CHRONICLE
"Dreams books, are each a world and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good;
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow"
Wordsworth
in
Personal Talk
[Illustration: SYLVIA AND PROFESSOR KELTON]
A HOOSIER
CHRONICLE
MEREDITH NICHOLSON
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY F.C. YOHN
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
_Published March 1912_


TO
EVANS WOOLLEN, ESQ.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes
in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the character
and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid
of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the
form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation
exists in the population which permits it. The law is only a memorandum.
We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat; so much life as
it has in the character of living men is its force.
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