Rose o' the River

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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin. Rose o' the River

Rose o' the River

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THE PINE AND THE ROSE

OLD KENNEBEC

THE EDGEWOOD “DRIVE”

“BLASPHEMIOUS SWEARIN’ ”

THE GAME OF JACKSTRAWS

HEARTS AND OTHER HEARTS

THE LITTLE HOUSE

THE GARDEN OF EDEN

THE SERPENT

THE TURQUOISE RING

ROSE SEES THE WORLD

GOLD AND PINCHBECK

A COUNTRY CHEVALIER

HOUSEBREAKING

THE DREAM ROOM

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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“The climate of any place where you hev regular work never did an’ never will suit you,” remarked the old man’s wife; but the interruption received no comment: such mistaken views of his character were too frequent to make any impression.

“As I was sayin’, Rose,” he continued, “when we first moved here from Gard’ner, we lived neighbor to the Watermans. Steve an’ Rufus was little boys then, always playin’ with a couple o’ wild cousins o’ theirn, consid’able older. Steve would scare his mother pretty nigh to death stealin’ away to the mill to ride on the ‘carriage,’ ’side o’ the log that was bein’ sawed, hitchin’ clean out over the river an’ then jerkin’ back ’most into the jaws o’ the machinery.”

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