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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin. Homespun Tales
Homespun Tales
Table of Contents
Introduction
ROSE O' THE RIVER
I. The Pine And the Rose
II. “Old Kennebec”
III. The Edgewood “Drive”
IV. “Blasphemious Swearin'”
V. The Game of Jackstraws
VI. Hearts And Other Hearts
VII. The Little House
VIII. The Garden of Eden
IX. The Serpent
X. The Turquoise Ring
XI. Rose Sees the World
XII. Gold and Pinchbeck
XIII. A Country Chevalier
XIV. Housebreaking
XV. The Dream Room
THE OLD PEABODY PEW
A Christmas Romance of a Country Church
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II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
SUSANNA AND SUE
I. Mother Ann's Children
II. A Son of Adam
III. Divers Doctrines
IV. Louisa's Mind
V. The Little Quail Bird
VI. Susanna Speaks in Meeting
VII. “The Lower Plane”
VIII. Concerning Backsliders
IX. Love Manifold
X. Brother and Sister
XI. “The Open Door”
XII. The Hills of Home
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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“I'm not driving anybody, that I know of,” answered Rose, with heightened color, but with no loss of her habitual self-command.
“Then, when he graduated from errants,” went on the crafty old man, who knew that when breakfast ceased, churning must begin, “Steve used to get seventy-five cents a day helpin' clear up the river—if you can call this here silv'ry streamlet a river. He'd pick off a log here an' there an' send it afloat, an' dig out them that hed got ketched in the rocks, and tidy up the banks jest like spring house-cleanin'. If he'd hed any kind of a boss, an' hed be'n trained on the Kennebec, he'd 'a' made a turrible smart driver, Steve would.”
