Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by HORACE E. SCUDDER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. STORIES FROM MY ATTIC. THE ATTIC. IN the house where I live I have chosen to take possession of the attic. Here, quite above the ordinary street sounds, I sit at my desk, or before my fire, or climb into my cushioned window-seat, where the world can get at me only by toiling up-stairs, while heavenly visitors, as they come flying down the roof, find my attic their first resting-place. Yet I am not so far off from a very pleasant world; I have only to open my door of an evening, and pretty notes of music steal up from the instrument two flights below, and I know that a few skips will take me into the family room by the centre-table and in hearing of the piano. For all that I love my attic best, and here I have come to live, and living, to gather about me so many neighbors of thought and fancy, that I would play the part of host for a little while, and open my room to living guests. Come up into my sunny garret ! |