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- THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS
- I. The Return
- II. Mrs. Todd
- III. The Schoolhouse
- IV. At the Schoolhouse Window
- V. Captain Littlepage
- VI. The Waiting Place
- VII. The Outer Island
- VIII. Green Island
- IX. William
- X. Where Pennyroyal Grew
- XI. The Old Singers
- XII. A Strange Sail
- XIII. Poor Joanna
- XIV. The Hermitage
- XV. On Shell-heap Island
- XVI. The Great Expedition
- XVII. A Country Road
- XVIII. The Bowden Reunion
- XIX. The Feast’s End
- XX. Along Shore
- XXI. The Backward View
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