An Easier Eye. A Hen Hides Gold Egg Tale
A rooster Teazer brings a gold coin to Speckles the speckled hen who nests it with seven eggs. The golden egg sleeps in the nest until Jimmie’s mother hides it in a batch colored for Easter. Old Jeff suspects poison, plans to keep the egg, while the minister’s children receive the tale’s treasure in a final twist.
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Teazer
Speckles
Speckies
Heas
Teaze
Amy
Jimmie
Ol Speckles
Flo
Eges
Jimmis
Jeff
Easter Egg Treasure and a Poor Family’s Hope
A fragile tale of Nan and her mother in poverty finds a gold piece inside an Easter egg. The gift funds the mother’s health and allows her to work again, while Nan learns about generosity, luck, and a neighborly blessing through the gift.
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Nat
Jimsey
Debt and Emigration in a Debtors Prison Tale
Isabel Weyland escapes debtors prison schemes in Victorian England by marrying a condemned man and later plans emigration to Georgia with General Oglethorpe's aid. Along the voyage she counsels a dying debtor, faces a bitter creditor, and witnesses a complex drama of love, guilt, and pursuit as she navigates social peril and the shipboard voyage.
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Isabel Weyland
Brymer
Weyland
McNamara
London
Oliver McNamara
Isabel
Ogthorpe
General Oglethorpe
Georgia
Old England
Madame
Mrs. Brymer
England
Watcr
Inabel
Isabel Weyland Encounters General Oglethorpe at Sea
On a voyage with distressed travelers Isabel Weyland, a widow, forms a bond with General Oglethorpe after a warm greeting and offers to help. He recalls Weyland family ties, hinting at a connection to Stephen Dunstan as their conversation deepens. The chapter ends with a suspenseful possibility of shared lineage.
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Isabel
Oglethorpe
Lizzie Hillis
Feneral
Lizzie Ellis
Mrs. Weyland
Ysabel Weyland
Ionder
Stephen Dunstan
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Lollie Belle Wylie
Rew
Aurk An Ared
Manma
Nan
Goa
Specklia
Beulah
Stevens
Alice
John
Lizzie
Chapter
Watts
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