The Librarian at Play

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Edmund Lester Pearson. The Librarian at Play

The Librarian at Play

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THE INTEREST GAUGE

THE GARDENER'S GUIDE

VANISHING FAVORITES

BY TELEPHONE

A LITERARY MEET

"THE DESERT ISLAND TEST"

THE CONVERSATION ROOM

THE LITERARY ZOO

THEIR JUST REWARD

THE CROWDED HOUR

TO A SMALL LIBRARY PATRON

BY-WAYS AND HEDGES

MULCH

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Edmund Lester Pearson

Published by Good Press, 2019

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But Jane did not notice the sarcasm, and presently Amanda tiptoed out through the wet grass with the umbrella. I was left trying to hold it, and wondering how Mrs. Bunkum acted in a crisis like this. But of course she never got caught in one. She would know right off the bat just how deep to put the seeds. At any rate, Jane's researches among the Aquilegias had given me an idea.

"Look here," I called, "Mrs. Bunkum is so confounded classical or scientific, or whatever it is, that I believe she scorns to use such a vulgar word as sunflower. She's probably put it under its scientific name."

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