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MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO
SAN FRANCISCO


MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
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“Pie like mother made,” said Scipio

MEMBERS   OF   THE   FAMILY

BY
OWEN WISTER


WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. T. DUNN


New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1901,
By THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE.


Copyright, 1903,
By P. F. COLLIER AND SON.


Copyright, 1902, 1908, 1909, 1911,
By THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.


Copyright, 1911,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.



Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1911.


Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.




To
HORACE HOWARD FURNESS

of Lindenshade, Wallingford

That is my home of love: if I have rang’d,
Like him that travels, I return again.
Sonnet CIX.
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PREFACE

When this October comes, twenty years will be sped since the author ofthese Western tales sat down one evening to begin his first tale of theWest, and—will you forgive him a preamble of gossip, of retrospection?Time steps in between the now that is and the then that was with avengeance; it blocks the way for us all; we cannot go back. When the oldcorner, the old place, the old house, wear the remembered look, beckonto the memory as if to say, No change here! then verily is the changeworst, the shell most empty, the cheat well-nigh too piercing. In acertain garden I used to plunder in 1866, the smell to-day of warm,dusty strawberries.... But did we admit to our c

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