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The Lightning Conductor Discovers America By: Alice Muriel Williamson (1869-1933) |
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by C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON Illustrated [Illustration: Patricia Moore] Published by
Doubleday Page & Company
Garden City New York Copyright, 1916, by
C. N. And A. M. Williamson All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian
[Illustration: page decoration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Patricia Moore Frontispiece
PAGE Long Island "There's absolutely nothing like it on the other
side of the water, not even in Devonshire or
Dorset" 87 Easthampton "You enter beside the Great Pond, which is so
charming in itself and in its flat frame of village
green" 95 Long Island South shore "Artists would find a paradise of queer, cozy
gables, and corners of gardens crowded with
old fashioned flowers" 102 "Southampton's soul is very, very old, full of
memories of Indians" 122 Sunnyside "Washington Irving's dear old Dutch house is
like a beautiful living body with his memory
for its soul" 190 "The old Dutch Church at Tarrytown" 197 The Hudson River "When we came into sudden sight of the river
there was a magical effect" 207 Delaware Water Gap
"Winding and wonderful it was in beauty" 213 "The mountains seem cleft in twain. It's a
marvellous effect startling" 216 York
A bit of the rock bound Maine coast 303 "The air is spiced with the fragrance of balsam
fir...on the way to Crawford Notch" 310 "The young, slender birches of the mountain
wayside" 319 Crawford's Notch, White Mountains 324 "I shall always think of Vermont as the State
of wild lawns and gardens" 330 "We found the Green Mountains particularly
lovable" 336 Captain Winston's maps pages 90, 114, 132, 209,
216, 239, 258, 295, 311, 325, 331, and 339 THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR DISCOVERS AMERICA
I THE HONBLE MRS. WINSTON (NÉE MOLLY
RANDOLPH) TO HER FRIEND, THE
COUNTESS OF LANE On Board SS. Evangeline,
March 15th. DEAREST MERCÉDES: It will be days, also nights (worse luck, for my cabin chirps like a
cricket, sings like a canary, and does a separate realistic imitation of
each animal in the Zoo!), before we get to New York. But I have crochet
cramp and worsted wrist from finishing a million scarfs since we sailed,
so I feel it will ease the strain to begin a letter to you. I dare say,
anyhow, I shan't close it till the last minute, with a P. S. to say
we're arriving safely if we do! One never knows nowadays. And we have
on board a man who's been torpedoed twice. I hope he isn't the kind to
whom everything happens in threes. By the way, he's the Ship's Mystery,
and this letter can't be a complete record of the voyage unless I tell
you about him. Place aux dames , however. There's a girl I want to tell
you about first. Or had I better polish off our own family history and
make a clean sweep of ourselves before beginning on anybody else? On
second thoughts, I will! Jack's getting better splendidly. I can't say he's getting well , for
that will take a long time yet, I'm sorry to but no, to be an Honest
Injun, I'm not sorry. I'm glad glad ! He's done his "bit" quite a
large bit for his country, and if his bones and muscles were knitting
as rapidly as I knit socks for soldiers, he would insist on rushing back
to do another bit... Continue reading book >>
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