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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1886
Page
3
Poem describing a lush private garden filled with blooming tulips daisies violets and lilies. The speaker asks a friend to choose between a blue-eyed girl or boy, but reveals the answer is that she loves both equally, ending with the confession that her secret joy is her entire garden.
Bella Bexon, a refined young woman, defies conventions with a Niagara River fishing trip. She endures misadventures hiring a rough boatman Hank Tower, later saved by her fiancé Tom Randall who masqueraded as the fisherman. Six bass later, she returns home a fiancée, secretly grateful to Tom for the rescue and the adventure that led to marriage.
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