Friendship Village

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Gale Zona. Friendship Village

Friendship Village

Table of Contents

THE SIDE DOOR

II

THE DÉBUT

III

NOBODY SICK, NOBODY POOR

IV

COVERS FOR SEVEN

V

THE SHADOW OF GOOD THINGS TO COME

VI

STOCK

VII

THE BIG WIND

VIII

THE GRANDMA LADIES

IX

"NOT AS THE WORLD GIVETH"

X

LONESOME.—I

XI

LONESOME.—II

XII

OF THE SKY AND SOME ROSEMARY

XIII

TOP FLOOR BACK

XIV

AN EPILOGUE

XV

THE TEA PARTY

XVI

WHAT IS THAT IN THINE HAND?

XVII

PUT ON THY BEAUTIFUL GARMENTS

XVIII

IN THE WILDERNESS A CEDAR

XIX

HERSELF

XX

THE HIDINGS OF POWER

GROSSET & DUNLAP'S

DRAMATIZED NOVELS

A Few that are Making Theatrical History. MARY JANE'S PA. By Norman Way. Illustrated with scenes from the play

CHERUB DEVINE. By Sewell Ford

A WOMAN'S WAY. By Charles Somerville. Illustrated with scenes from the play

THE CLIMAX. By George C. Jenks

A FOOL THERE WAS. By Porter Emerson Browne. Illustrated by Edmund Magrath and W. W. Fawcett

THE SQUAW MAN. By Julie Opp Faversham and Edwin Milton Royle. Illustrated with scenes from the play

THE GIRL IN WAITING. By Archibald Eyre. Illustrated with scenes from the play

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. By Baroness Orczy. Illustrated with scenes from the play

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Zona Gale

Published by Good Press, 2019

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At this I laughed, unwillingly enough. Dear Calliope! Here indeed was a drawback to her project.

"Honestly," she said reflectively, "Friendship can't seem to do anything like any other town. When the new minister come here, he give out he was goin' to do settlement work. An' his second week in the place he come to me with a reg'lar hang-dog look. 'What kind of a town is this?' he says to me, disgusted. 'They ain't nobody sick in it an' they ain't nobody poor!' I guess he could 'a' got along without the poor—most of us can. But we mostly like to hev a few sick to carry the flowers off our house plants to, an' now an' then a tumbler o' jell. An' yet I've known weeks at a time when they wasn't a soul rill flat down sick in Friendship. It's so now. An' that's hard, when you're young an' enthusiastic, like the minister."

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