Brown, Alice, 1857-1948 / 2008-06-28 00:00:00
EBOOK MEADOW GRASS ***
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MEADOW-GRASS
TALES OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE
BY ALICE BROWN
1895
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
NUMBER FIVE
FARMER ELI'S VACATION
AFTER ALL
TOLD IN THE POORHOUSE
HEMAN'S MA
HEARTSEASE
MIS' WADLEIGH'S GUEST
A RIGHTEOUS BARGAIN
JOINT OWNERS IN SPAIN
AT SUDLEIGH FAIR
BANKRUPT
NANCY BOYD'S LAST SERMON
STROLLERS IN TIVERTON
TO M.G.R.
LOVER OF WOODS AND FIELD AND SEA.
NUMBER FIVE.
We who are Tiverton born, though false ambition may have ridden us to
market, or the world's voice incited us to kindred clamoring, have a
way of shutting our eyes, now and then, to present changes, and seeing
things as they were once, as they are still, in a certain sleepy yet
altogether individual corner of country life. And especially do we
delight in one bit of fine mental tracery, etched carelessly, yet for
all time, so far as our own' short span is concerned, by the unerring
stylus of youth: the outline of a little red schoolhouse, distinguished
from the other similar structures within Tiverton bounds by "District
No. V.," painted on a shingle, in primitive black letters, and nailed
aloft over the door.
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