Peter Loon : a novel

Deep in the woods of Maine, the Revolutionary War is still fresh in settlers' minds as a young man named Peter Loon sets off at his mother's urging to find a mysterious person. Peter, who has never been away from his home, quickly falls into a series of startling entanglements. He befriends a nomadic parson with a seafaring past and whose humble intelligence and steady head prove useful, especially when the two find themselves in the middle of a bitter land battle. Crisscrossing between the two sides, Peter and Parson Leach tread the razor-thin line between law and justice. With the inimitable storytelling, exquisitely etched characters, and gentle humor that make Reid such a master, Peter Loon is a breathtaking tale of high adventure and great humility. The American Revolution Has Ended. The District Of Maine Remains A Part Of The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts. Deep In These North Woods, A Young Man, A Boy, Really, Who Has Never Been Away From His Home In Sheepscott Great Pond, Sets Off At His Mother's Urging To Search For A Person He Has Never Met. His Travels Quickly Lead Him Into A Series Of Startling Entanglements And Adventures And, Providentially, Into A Friendship With A Nomadic Parson With A Seafaring Past Whose Humble Intelligence And Steady Head Prove Useful When Peter Loon Finds The World Away From Home To Be More Dangerous And Complex Than He Had Ever Imagined.--jacket. How Ezekiel Peter Black Came To Sheepscott Great Pond And How His Young Daughter Was Courted -- Of Rosemund Loon's Strangeness, And Silas Loon's Death, And How Their Son Peter Was Sent In Search Of An Uncle By Marriage. -- Of Peter Loon's First Night In The Forest -- How Peter Loon Conjured Himself From A Felled Buck, And How He Met Two Woodsmen And A Parson -- How Peter Fell In With Parson Leach -- Of The March To Plymouth Gore, And Of The Place They Went Instead -- How Peter Loon And Parson Leach Were Received At The Ale Wife's Tavern, Who They Met, And What They Learned There -- Concerning A Conversation On The Beach, And The Consequences Of Mr. Tillage's Peep Of Heaven -- Concerning Antinomianism And Other Matters -- Of The Road To New Milford, Unexpected Meetings, And How A Peaceful Man Might Be Driven To Anger -- Concerning A Change In Plans, A Parting Of The Ways, As Well As An Introduction To The Busy Abode Of Captain Clayden As Governed By Mrs. Magnamous --^ Concerning An Interview With Captain Clayden -- How Peter Spent His First Night On Clayden Point, And How He Was Perceived By Young Women There -- Of What It Meant To Pique-nique And The Inevitability Of Certain Failures -- Concerning New Visitors To Captain Clayden And Their Opinions -- Of The Road To New Milford, And What They Discovered At Great Meadow Copse -- Concerning The Encounter At Benjamin Brook -- How Opinion Differed Over The Course Of A Few Hours And A Few Miles, And What Was Said At The Sign Of The Star And Sturgeon -- Concerning Matters With Elspeth Gray And Gray Farm -- How The Parson Was Accused By--and Peter Attached To--nathan Barrow -- Concerning The Disposition Of Two Hundred -- Concerning The March To Wiscasset -- How Peter Came To His Third Tavern, And How He Put The Night's Adventures Into Motion -- How Peter Loon Came To The Jail At Wiscasset And What Happened There -- How Peter Loon Returned To New Milford And How He Left There Again --^ How Peter Journeyed Home And What He Found There -- Concerning Peter Loon's Decisions And Also What Was Decided For Him. Van Reid. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [297-299]). Deep in the woods of Maine, the Revolutionary War is still fresh in settlers' minds as a young man named Peter Loon sets off to find a mysterious person. Peter quickly falls into a series of startling entanglements. He befriends a nomadic parson whose humble intelligence and steady head prove useful, especially when the two find themselves in the middle of a bitter land battle and Peter and Parson Leach must tread the razor-thin line between law and justice. Peter Loon is a breathtaking tale of high adventure and great humility