Ethel and Alison in the parsonage summer days
Ethel Lindsay grows close to Alison Holmes at the Meadow Woods parsonage. They ride, read poetry, and share secret hopes as family bonds form. Alison gifts Ethel a gold hunting watch after a horseback ride accident, signaling a deeper, tender connection amid a cheerful, faithful household.
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Philip
Ethel
Ruth
Lucy
Ethel Lindsay
Alison Holmes
Alison
Lalmes
Mrs. Holmes
Uncle Gerald
Gerald
Nathan
Christendom
Mr. Holmes
Lake Bridge
Jis
Iry
Jane
Pia
Lilly
Murmer
Meltha
Newport
Saratoga
Geral
Miss Maltby
Medford
Aunt Ruth
Stuth
Geoffry Holmes
May your life be like that lake
A poetic vow compares a lake’s clear light and sparkling surface to a life filled with movement and joy. The narrator invites love to have a life as bright and fluid as the lake’s sunlit waters, foaming spray, and perpetual motion through a sunny day.
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Elihu Burritt
St. Peter
Sahara
A Medley of Proverbs and Oddities From a Memphis Festival
A collage of humorous excerpts from a southern festival scene includes prayers in caricatured dialect, an immense dinner for 15,000 diners with thousands of plates and many beef and poultry dishes, a backwoods preacher lampoon, a quip about insect-like sects, a bean vine pest remedy, corn meat preservation notes, and light social jests about manners and tea invites.
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Tennessee
Memphis
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Virginia F. Townsend
Avery
Euterpe
Erato
Morocco
Sal
Ller’s
Warren Mail
Cowan
ArgenTist Inc
Carver
E. E. Eddy
Water Street
Warren
Warren County
Hackney House
Second and
Liberty Streets
Warren, Warren Co
Richards. Barber
P. D. Fitch
Walcazel Streets
Old Bridge
Will
Particu
Willoughby & Woodworth
A. Willoughby Columbus
Parthena Williams
Reformed School
Liberty Street
Parker
Chauncey Hulburt Smith, Murphy , CO
Pennsylvania
Y’ Street
Church Alley
Philadelphia
Independence Wall
Chestnut Street
5Th
Wyatt & Healings
Bartlett & Morgans
Jamestown
T. C. Spencer
Johnson & Brown
Joinson’s Exchange
S. P. Johnson
Rasselas Brown
Scofield & Brown
Libertrust
Glenniw
Scofield
William D. Brown
D. M. Williams
C.w.rathbun
Breeze Point
Wm.h.combs
Warren Penn
Benjamin Nesmith
Exchange
Temperance
P.a
Court House
Warren, A
E.M. Pierce
Third and
Hickory Streets
L.E. Guignon
Sugar Grove
Warren Co
Troues
Gwine
John
I John
Germantown
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