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MacGowan Alice. A Girl of the Plains Country
A Girl of the Plains Country
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE ARRIVAL
CHAPTER II. AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART
CHAPTER III. THE FIRING SQUAD
CHAPTER IV. THE DOLL
CHAPTER V. POOR CHARLEY
CHAPTER VI. A CHILD’S WORLD
CHAPTER VII. THE NORTHER
CHAPTER VIII. A CHRISTMAS VALENTINE
CHAPTER IX. STOCKINGS AND SHOES
CHAPTER X. THE CARRIAGE
CHAPTER XI. THE ROPING MATCH
CHAPTER XII. THE FUGITIVE
CHAPTER XIII. THE-BOY-ON-THE-TRAIN
CHAPTER XIV. SOME ONE RIDES AWAY
CHAPTER XV. NO QUESTIONS ASKED
CHAPTER XVI “TWEN-TY—SEV-EN—HUN-DRED—CAT-TLE!”
CHAPTER XVII. WITH THE TRAIL-HERD
CHAPTER XVIII. SUNDAY COMES BACK
CHAPTER XIX. HILDA AND THE FLYING M’S
CHAPTER XX. HILDA AND THE BLUE ROAN
CHAPTER XXI. ANOTHER CHANCE
CHAPTER XXII. YOUNG WINGS
CHAPTER XXIII. AT THE ALAMOSITAS
CHAPTER XXIV “INVITATION TO THE DANCE”
CHAPTER XXV. THE DANCE AT GRAINGER’S
CHAPTER XXVI. AS MAYBELLE SAW IT
CHAPTER XXVII. OLD MAN HIPP’S STEER
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CLOSING OF A DOOR
CHAPTER XXIX. THE RESURRECTION PLANT
CHAPTER XXX. THE RETURN
CHAPTER XXXI. A TELEGRAM
CHAPTER XXXII. AN ARRIVAL
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Alice MacGowan
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“No, ma’am—not with me—you wouldn’t git lost, day or night,” Uncle Hank, as the little girl already called him in her own mind, turned a smiling face over his shoulder to answer. “But we’re most there now. See them willers where the moon’s a-risin’? That’s our camp.”
“Willers where the moon’s a-risin’.” It jingled in the little head like poetry; it still sang there as they swung in beside a small creek that was just a succession of water holes with dry rocks between, and she was lifted out. For, oh, the moon was rising, and so beautiful! It came up, a great shield of white in the pink that had somehow crept around from the sunset in the west; it looked over the willows and turned them black on one side and silver on the other; it shone on the little girl very knowingly, as if to say, “I’m not the same moon at all that I was back in New York—you and I know that.” And every bit of beauty, whether it was in the sky or on the earth, everything that was dear and lovely in this new life—and so much was—she attributed to the new friend whom she was going to call Uncle Hank forever and ever.
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