Gleaner Tales
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Robert Sellar. Gleaner Tales
Gleaner Tales
Table of Contents
HEMLOCK
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
ARCHANGE AND MARIE
I.—THEIR DISAPPEARANCE
II.—THEIR FATE
THE SETTLER’S FIRST GRIST
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
ABNER’S DEVICE
WHAT A SETTLER TOLD ME
JEANIE MORISON
CHAPTER I
Footnote
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
LOST IN THE WOODS
AN INCIDENT OF HUNTINGDON FAIR
A LOST CHILD
A NEEBOR LADDIE
A SHADE OF MYSTERY
THE MYSTERY IS CLEARED UP
THE SUMMER OF SORROW
LOOKING FOR THE BOOK
HOW THE BOOK WAS GOT
THE JOURNAL OF GERALD KEEGAN
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Robert Sellar
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“I’m a citizen of the great Republic and will be doing a patriotic dooty in killing you, and, like Washington, after hanging Andre, will take a good square meal with the satisfactory feeling that there is a red-coat less in the world. But there ain’t no comfort in killing a chick like you. Say, what will ye give, if I let you go? I will take an order on Montreal. Slocum ain’t the man to refuse to earn an honest dollar and do a charitable action. Yer father maybe is a Lord or a Dook, and he can come down handsum. Why don’t yer speak? I ain’t a mind to do all the talking.”
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