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Watauga Democrat in Boone, North Carolina

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Watauga Democrat

Location

Boone, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

May 23, 1929

Page

3

Ding Bells Ivy chapter preview with dramatic drive

Tom Bilbeck narrator and amateur actors plan a Pygmalion and Galatea at the Old Soldiers Home. Grandmother Page stalls engine, Maryella rides with Bilbeck while Jim Cooper taunts him. A fire interrupts the play and a collision near a snowbound road ends with Bilbeck avoiding a man in the road.

Tom Bilbeck Grandmother Page Maryella Jim Cooper Old Soldiers Bilbeck Cooper Pilk Henwether Colonel Stewart Olonel Stewart Jim Lillielove Goodby

Hold Up on the Road Acknowledge Grandmother Page

In a tense escape attempt, escaped convicts stop a car and threaten the narrator and grandmother Page. The narrator fights back, subdues one robber, and secures the car while the other flees, with Jim Cooper offering unwelcome help.

Grandmother Page Bill Jim Cooper Tom Julius United Jim

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