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Homespun Tales

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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. . .p at the back, on the river-brink, for a small vegetable garden. There had been a house there years before-so many years that the blackened ruins were entirely overgrown; but a few elms and an old apple-orchard remained to shade the new dwelling and give welcome to the coming inmates.

Stephen had fifteen hundred dollars in bank, he could turn his hand to almost anything, and his love was so deep that Rose's plumb-line had never sounded bottom; accordingly he was able, with the help of two steady workers, to have the roof on before the first of November. The weather was clear and fine, and by Thanksgiving clapboards, shingles, two coats of brown paint, and even the blinds had all been added. This exhibition of reckless energy on Stephen's part did not wholly commend itself to the neighborhood.

"Steve's too turrible spry," said Rose's grandfather; "he'll trip himself up some o' these times."

"You never will," remarked his better half, sagel. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This was a delightful set of three stories that felt a wee bit like I was reading my beloved George Eliot, in particular, Adam Bede. I recommend these highly. They are sappy as all get out, but they make you think and appreciate what is most important in life.

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