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Rose O' the River by Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Rose O' the River
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Table of Contents
THE PINE AND THE ROSE
"OLD KENNEBEC"
THE EDGEWOOD "DRIVE"
"BLASPHEMIOUS SWEARIN'"
THE GAME OF JACKSTRAWS
HEARTS AND OTHER HEARTS
THE LITTLE HOUSE
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
THE SERPENT
THE TURQUOISE RING
ROSE SEES THE WORLD
GOLD AND PINCHBECK
A COUNTRY CHEVALIER
HOUSEBREAKING
THE DREAM ROOM
THE PINE AND THE ROSE
It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from
his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut
in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.
An early ablution of his sort was not the custom of the farmers
along the banks of the Saco, but the Waterman house was hardly a
stone's throw from the water, and there was a clear, deep
swimming-hole in the Willow Cove that would have tempted the
busiest man, or the least cleanly, in York County. Then, too,
Stephen was a child of the river, born, reared, schooled on its
very brink, never happy unless he were on it, or in it, or beside
it, or at least within sight or sound of it.
The immensity of the sea had always silenced and overawed him,
left him cold in feeling. The river wooed him, caressed him, won
his heart. It was just big enough to love. It was full of
charms and changes, of varying moods and sudden surprises. Its
voice stole in upon his ear with a melody far sweeter and more
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