The Reclaimers

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Margaret Hill McCarter. The Reclaimers

The Reclaimers

Table of Contents

JERRY

I

THE HEIR APPARENT

II

UNCLE CORNIE'S THROW

III

HITCHING THE WAGON TO A STAR

IV

BETWEEN EDENS

V

NEW EDEN'S PROBLEM

VI

PARADISE LOST

II

JERRY AND JOE

VII

UNHITCHING THE WAGON FROM A STAR

VIII

IF A MAN WENT RIGHT WITH HIMSELF

IX

IF A WOMAN WENT RIGHT WITH HERSELF

X

THE SNARE OF THE FOWLER

XI

AN INTERLUDE IN "EDEN"

XII

THIS SIDE OF THE RUBICON

III

JERRY AND EUGENE—AND JOE

XIII

HOW A GOOD MOTHER LIVES ON

XIV

JIM SWAIM'S WISH

XV

DRAWING OUT LEVIATHAN WITH A HOOK

XVI

A POSTLUDE IN "EDEN"

XVII

THE FLESH-POTS OF THE WINNOWOC

XVIII

THE LORD HATH HIS WAY IN THE STORM

XIX

RECLAIMED

THE END

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Margaret Hill McCarter

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The discus-ground was out on a lovely stretch of shorn clover sod. Why the discus should wander from the thrower's hand through the air toward the rose-arbor no wind of heaven could tell. Nor could it tell why Uncle Cornie should choose to follow it and stand in the doorway of the arbor until the "Eden" dinner-hour called all three of the dwellers, Adam and Eve and this good little snake, to the cool dining-room and what goes with it.

Twilight and moonlight were melting into one, and all the sweet odors of dew-kissed blossoms, the good-night twitter of homing birds, the mists rising above the Winnowoc Valley, the shadows of shrubbery on the lawn, and the darkling outline of the tall maples made "Eden" as beautiful now as in the full sunlight.

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