The Story of Waitstill Baxter

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Wiggin Kate Douglas Smith. The Story of Waitstill Baxter

SPRING

I. SACO WATER

II. THE SISTERS

III. DEACON BAXTER’S WIVES

IV. SOMETHING OF A HERO

V. PATIENCE AND IMPATIENCE

VI. A KISS

VII. “WHAT DREAMS MAY COME”

SUMMER

VIII. THE JOINER’S SHOP

IX. CEPHAS SPEAKS

X. ON TORY HILL

XI. A JUNE SUNDAY

XII. THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER

XIII. HAYING-TIME

XIV. UNCLE BART DISCOURSES

XV. IVORY’S MOTHER

XVI. LOCKED OUT

AUTUMN

XVII. A BRACE OF LOVERS

XVIII. A STATE O’ MAINE PROPHET

XIX. AT THE BRICK STORE

XX. THE ROD THAT BLOSSOMED

XXI. LOIS BURIES HER DEAD

XXII. HARVEST-TIME

XXIII. AUNT ABBY’S WINDOW

XXIV. PHOEBE TRIUMPHS

XXV. LOVE’S YOUNG DREAMS

WINTER

XXVI. A WEDDING-RING

XXVII. THE CONFESSIONAL

XXVIII. PATTY IS SHOWN THE DOOR

XXIX. WAITSTILL SPEAKS HER MIND

XXX. A CLASH OF WILLS

XXXI. SENTRY DUTY

XXXII. THE HOUSE OF AARON

XXXIII. AARON’S ROD

XXXIV. THE DEACON’S WATERLOO

XXXV. TWO HEAVENS

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FAR, far up, in the bosom of New Hampshire’s granite hills, the Saco has its birth. As the mountain rill gathers strength it takes

Now it leaves the mountains and flows through “green Fryeburg’s woods and farms.” In the course of its frequent turns and twists and bends, it meets with many another stream, and sends it, fuller and stronger, along its rejoicing way. When it has journeyed more than a hundred miles and is nearing the ocean, it greets the Great Ossipee River and accepts its crystal tribute. Then, in its turn, the Little Ossipee joins forces, and the river, now a splendid stream, flows onward to Bonny Eagle, to Moderation and to Salmon Falls, where it dashes over the dam like a young Niagara and hurtles, in a foamy torrent, through the ragged defile cut between lofty banks of solid rock.

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“No, not worse, Patty,” said Waitstill, taking the bread-board and moving towards the closet. “Ivory loves his mother and she loves him, with all the mind she has left! She has the best blood of New England flowing in her veins, and I suppose it was a great come down for her to marry Aaron Boynton, clever and gifted though he was. Now Ivory has to protect her, poor, daft, innocent creature, and hide her away from the gossip of the village. He is surely the best of sons, Ivory Boynton!”

“She is a terrible care for him, and like to spoil his life,” said Patty.

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