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Title: The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories

Author: Charles Egbert Craddock

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THE MYSTERY OF WITCH-FACE MOUNTAIN

CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK

THE MYSTERY OF WITCH-FACE
MOUNTAIN

AND OTHER STORIES

BY

CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1895

Copyright, 1895,
BY MARY N. MURFREE.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._

Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
THE MYSTERY OF WITCH-FACE MOUNTAIN 1
TAKING THE BLUE RIBBON AT THE COUNTY FAIR 165
THE CASTING VOTE 200

THE MYSTERY OF WITCH-FACE MOUNTAIN.

I.

The beetling crags that hang here and there above the gorge hold in
their rugged rock sculpture no facial similitudes, no suggestions. The
jagged outlines of shelving bluffs delineate no gigantic profile
against the sky beyond. One might seek far and near, and scan the vast
slope with alert and expectant gaze, and view naught of the semblance
that from time immemorial has given the mountain its name. Yet the
imagination needs but scant aid