IF you would find the warmest spot in a little village on a cold day, watch the old codgers and see where they congregate. That's what the stray cats do, or perhaps the codgers follow the cats. However that may be, both can be depended upon to find the open door where comfort is. They will probably lead you to the rear end of the village store, the tobacco-stained drawing-room, where an old stove dispenses hospitality in an atmosphere like unto which, for genial disposition, there is none so unfailing. From November to May the old stove in the back of Chris Rowton's store was, to its devotees...
IF you would find the warmest spot in a little village on a cold day, watch the old codgers and see where they congregate. That's what the stray cats ...
A famous story by Ruth McEnergy Stuart. It is about a 19th century Christmas guest named Sonny who visits a southern family on Christmas Eve. This version features restored illustrations.
A famous story by Ruth McEnergy Stuart. It is about a 19th century Christmas guest named Sonny who visits a southern family on Christmas Eve. This ver...
A boy, you say, doctor? An' she don't know it yet? Then what 're you tellin' me for? No, sir-take it away. I don't want to lay my eyes on it till she's saw it-not if I am its father. She's its mother, I reckon
A boy, you say, doctor? An' she don't know it yet? Then what 're you tellin' me for? No, sir-take it away. I don't want to lay my eyes on it till she'...
In presenting a loyal and venerable ex-slave as an artless exponent of freedom, freedom of conduct as well as of speech, the author of this trivial volume is perhaps not composing an individual so truly as individualizing a composite, if the expression will pass.
In presenting a loyal and venerable ex-slave as an artless exponent of freedom, freedom of conduct as well as of speech, the author of this trivial vo...
His mother named him Solomon because, when he was a baby, he looked so wise; and then she called him Crow because he was so black. True, she got angry when the boys caught it up, but then it was too late. They knew more about crows than they did about Solomon, and the name suited.
His mother named him Solomon because, when he was a baby, he looked so wise; and then she called him Crow because he was so black. True, she got angry...
The Mississippi was flaunting itself in the face of opposition along its southern banks. It had carried much before it in its downward path ere it reached New Orleans. A plantation here, a low-lying settlement there, a cotton-field in bloom under its brim, had challenged its waters and been taken in, and there was desolation in its wake.
The Mississippi was flaunting itself in the face of opposition along its southern banks. It had carried much before it in its downward path ere it rea...
