The Flower-Patch Among the Hills

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Flora Klickmann. The Flower-Patch Among the Hills

The Flower-Patch Among the Hills

Table of Contents

I. Just to Explain

I. Who Everybody is

II. Why the Cottage is

III. Why this Book is

II. About Getting There

III. At the Sign of the Rosemary Bush

IV. Miss Quirker—Incidentally

V. The Geography of the Flower-Patch

VI. That Jane Price!

VII. Just Being Neighbourly

VIII. Merely to be Prepared

IX. Where the Road Led Over the Hills

X. The Little People of the Streams

XI. The Funeral of the Hero

XII. Just a Little Piece of Griskin

XIII. When the Surgeon Crossed the Hills

XIV. In Mildmay Hospital—An Interlude

XV. The Return to the Flower-Patch

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Flora Klickmann

Published by Good Press, 2019

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She got it safely as far as Paddington, but here an iron pillar suddenly ran alongside and torpedoed the pitcher—so she said—knocking a small but very business-like hole clean through its bulging side. Then the question arose: What was she to do with the remnants? The train was due to start in two minutes, so she hadn’t time to inquire for the station dust-bin.

Virginia suggested that she should try to induce the bookstall boy to accept it as payment for a packet of milk chocolate; failing that, she had better put an advertisement in the paper offering a wonderful specimen of antique Roman pottery in exchange for a sable motoring coat, or a cartload of white mice.

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