The Story of Waitstill Baxter Continued
Excerpt from 1915 Kate Douglas Wiggin tale showing Waitstill Baxter and friends planning a quick elopement style trip. Dialogues reveal light hearted schemes to marry in New Hampshire and return for supper, with playful banter about timing and lonesome evenings.
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Ivory
Walt Still Nenrer
Rod
New Hampshire
Two Heavens Over Boynton Farm in Cold December
Lois Boynton lies in bed with an open Bible as quiet wedding joy gives way to sudden sorrow. The scene recalls a winter landscape of cattle huddling, gray skies, and white crusted slopes as life shifts from happiness to loss.
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Lois Bosnton
Lois Boynton
Boynton
Era
Pathe
Mrs. Boynton
Aba
Reece
The Rose Behind the Ruins at Boynton Farm
Lois Boynton dies as snow falls on a Maine village farm. Ivory Wattstill Ivory and their family endure grief and rebuild life around reading, chores, and children by the fire. Rod, Wattstill, and a young Patty share solace and memory, while Jacob Cochrane’s grave and a lone rose bloom amid ruins. The community finds renewed bonds as winter deepens.
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Boynton
Job Ont
Lois Boynton
White Sea
Ivory
Rod
Boyutous
Walt
Wattstill
Tory
Waitstill
Toss Boynton
Waltsiiil
Patty
Jacob Cochrane
Watt
Fragmentary note hints at cheapness of something in Leicester
A partial, garbled passage mentions something about peat light and a pest in a cryptic way. It alludes to value and cheapness and to a person named Leicester but offers no clear events or facts.
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McSic
Queen of the Needle A quaint figure from Mexico's town
Isabel Belaunse ran, famed as Queen of the Needle, crafts the world’s smallest dolls in Cuerfiavace. A National Geographic Society note describes frames of wire under a quarter inch long, silk embroidery, tiny hair braids, and eyes, noses, and mouths formed with patient detail. Each doll sells for twenty five cents, with ten hours of work yielding a dollar twenty five.
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Washington, PD. C
Isabel Belaunseran
Mexico
Cuerfiavace
Russell Hastings Millward
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Millward
Fleas and Female Lawyers in Historic Exchange
A fragmented passage notes a German traveler describing trained fleas in Germany and a Mexican origin tale told to an Indian maiden. It mentions a debate on equality, recalling that thirty-two years ago women entered US law schools, with sixty now listed as lawyers in a district directory.
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Inahel
Germany
Mexico
Usssachasell
Més
IROO
Howton Dinéetery
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