The Biography of a Prairie Girl

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Gates Eleanor. The Biography of a Prairie Girl

The Biography of a Prairie Girl

Table of Contents

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A. PRAIRIE GIRL

I

THE COMING OF THE STORK

II

A FRONTIER CHRISTENING

III

"LITTLE BOY BLUE"

IV

A PARIAH OF THE PRAIRIES

V

THE MISFIT SCHOLAR

VI

THE STORY OF A PLANTING

VII

TWICE IN JEOPARDY

VIII

A HARVEST WEDDING

IX

THE PRICE OF CONVALESCENCE

X

"BADGY"

XI

A TRADE AND A TRICK

XII

THE PROFESSOR'S "FIND"

XIII

A RACE AND A RESCUE

XIV

HARD TIMES

XV

THE FATE OF A CROWING HEN

XVI

THE RESERVATION TRIP

XVII

ANOTHER MOUND ON THE BLUFF

XVIII

THE LITTLE TEACHER

XIX

TOWARD THE RISING SUN

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Eleanor Gates

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The next moment they were standing before him, the little girl and the biggest brother at the middle of the line and the others on each side.

The chaplain raised his hand, and the white people stood up. And after he had waved both arms commandingly and scowled, the Indians and the half-breeds got up, too, and slouched against the benches while the good bishop said a long prayer and followed it with a longer reading. The biggest brother waited very quietly through it all, but he shifted the little girl from one arm to the other two or three times.

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