RURAL HOURS

BY

SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER

And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, or hills, or field,
Or woods, and steepy mountains yield.
                        MARLOW.

NEW AND REVISED EDITION

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN, AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1887

Copyright, 1887,
BY SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

To
THE AUTHOR OF THE DEERSLAYER,
These Notes
ARE VERY RESPECTFULLY, GRATEFULLY, AND
MOST AFFECTIONATELY
INSCRIBED
BY
THE WRITER.