Homespun Tales

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Wiggin Kate Douglas Smith. Homespun Tales

Introduction

ROSE O’ THE RIVER

I. The Pine And the Rose

II. “Old Kennebec”

III. The Edgewood “Drive”

IV. “Blasphemious Swearin’”

V. The Game of Jackstraws

VI. Hearts And Other Hearts

VII. The Little House

VIII. The Garden of Eden

IX. The Serpent

X. The Turquoise Ring

XI. Rose Sees the World

XII. Gold and Pinchbeck

XIII. A Country Chevalier

XIV. Housebreaking

XV. The Dream Room

THE OLD PEABODY PEW

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VII

VIII

SUSANNA AND SUE

I. Mother Ann’s Children

II. A Son of Adam

III. Divers Doctrines

IV. Louisa’s Mind

V. The Little Quail Bird

VI. Susanna Speaks in Meeting

VII. “The Lower Plane”

VIII. Concerning Backsliders

IX. Love Manifold

X. Brother and Sister

XI. “The Open Door”

XII. The Hills of Home

Отрывок из книги

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

An early ablution of this sort was not the custom of the farmers along the banks of the Saco, but the Waterman house was hardly a stone’s throw from the water, and there was a clear, deep swimming-hole in the Willow Cove that would have tempted the busiest man, or the least cleanly, in York County. Then, too, Stephen was a child of the river, born, reared, schooled on its very brink, never happy unless he were on it, or in it, or beside it, or at least within sight or sound of it.

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“What’s the matter?” he called out from his wagon.

“There ain’t nothin’ the matter,” said Alcestis Crambry. “Father’s dead, an’ we’re dividin’ up the furnerchure.”

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