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Stratton-Porter Gene. A Daughter of the Land (Musaicum Children's Classics)
A Daughter of the Land (Musaicum Children's Classics)
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE WINGS OF MORNING
CHAPTER II. AN EMBRYO MIND READER
CHAPTER III. PEREGRINATIONS
CHAPTER IV. A QUESTION OF CONTRACTS
CHAPTER V. THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
CHAPTER VI. KATE'S PRIVATE PUPIL
CHAPTER VII. HELPING NANCY ELLEN AND ROBERT TO ESTABLISH A HOME
CHAPTER VIII. THE HISTORY OF A LEGHORN HAT
CHAPTER IX. A SUNBONNET GIRL
CHAPTER X. JOHN JARDINE'S COURTSHIP
CHAPTER XI. A BUSINESS PROPOSITION
CHAPTER XII. TWO LETTERS
CHAPTER XIII. THE BRIDE
CHAPTER XIV. STARTING MARRIED LIFE
CHAPTER XV. A NEW IDEA
CHAPTER XVI. THE WORK OF THE SUN
CHAPTER XVII. THE BANNER HAND
CHAPTER XVIII. KATE TAKES THE BIT IN HER TEETH
CHAPTER XIX "AS A MAN SOWETH"
CHAPTER XX "FOR A GOOD GIRL"
CHAPTER XXI. LIFE'S BOOMERANG
CHAPTER XXII. SOMEWHAT OF POLLY
CHAPTER XXIII. KATE'S HEAVENLY TIME
CHAPTER XXIV. POLLY TRIES HER WINGS
CHAPTER XXV. ONE MORE FOR KATE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE WINGED VICTORY
CHAPTER XXVII. BLUE RIBBON CORN
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ELEVENTH HOUR
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Gene Stratton-Porter
OK Publishing, 2020
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She went into the cellar and ate some cold food from the cupboard and drank a cup of milk. Then she went to her room and looked over all of her scanty stock of clothing, laying in a heap the pieces that needed mending. She took the clothes basket to the wash room, which was the front of the woodhouse, in summer; built a fire, heated water, and while making it appear that she was putting the clothes to soak, as usual, she washed everything she had that was fit to use, hanging the pieces to dry in the building.
"Watch me fly!" muttered Kate. "I don't seem to be cutting those curves so very fast; but I'm moving. I believe now, having exhausted all home resources, that Adam is my next objective. He is the only one in the family who ever paid the slightest attention to me, maybe he cares a trifle what becomes of me, but Oh, how I dread Agatha! However, watch me take wing! If Adam fails me I have six remaining prospects among my loving brothers, and if none of them has any feeling for me or faith in me there yet remain my seven dear brothers-in-law, before I appeal to the tender mercies of the neighbours; but how I dread Agatha! Yet I fly!"
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