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Frank Parker Day. Rockbound

Rockbound

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

THE END

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Frank Parker Day

Published by Good Press, 2021

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David sat down meekly at the kitchen table, for he was even more fearful of Anapest than Uriah. The Kraus boys looked up and grunted at him; any stranger was to them a potential enemy, and this stranger had allied himself with a hostile clan. Anapest was a grand cook and fed her men well. There was a steaming fish chowder made from a fresh-caught haddock mixed with onions, sliced potatoes, and fried pork scraps; there were fried herring roes and new potatoes in their rosy jackets, showing mealy where the broken skin turned back; there were high piles of thick white bread and mugs of hot tea. David made hay while the sun shone.

"I'se sorry to beg," he said after the edge was taken off his hunger, "but I'se 'll have to git de scatterin' loaf o' bread off ye, Aunt Anapest. I'se 'll pay when I gits my first mont's share; I'se got naught, but ye'll lose naught t'rough me."

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