Paine wrote fiction, humor, verse and edited several magazines, but his outstanding work was a three-volume biography of Mark Twain, with whom he lived and traveled for four years. His travel books, all widely circulated, included The Car That Went Abroad; The Ship Dwellers; and this volume, The Tent Dwellers. In the Tent Dwellers, Paine describes the fishing/canoeing expedition on the waterways in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada, he made with his friend Eddie and their guides in 1908. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read.

    M. continues the scenes and characters developed in Some Experiences of an Irish R. M., which recreates the world of 19th Century Ireland with its strange brew of Anglo-Irish combinations. (An "R. M." is a "Resident Magistrate" -- an appointment from England to an Irish provincial judgeship.)Somerville and Ross are masters of dialog and the shades and textures of life among the varying classes and of the amusements of life in the Irish Countryside. These works are classics of sophisticated comic writing, depicting the splodding efforts of a somewhat "slow on the uptake" English "gentleman" to keep his balance and dignity amongst the goings-on of a population of characters of a decidedly different perspective.This work was the basis for an acclaimed BBC series.