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Title: Otherwise Phyllis

Author: Meredith Nicholson

Release Date: February 7, 2009 [EBook #28017]

Language: English

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By Meredith Nicholson

OTHERWISE PHYLLIS. With frontispiece in color.

THE PROVINCIAL AMERICAN AND OTHER PAPERS.

A HOOSIER CHRONICLE. With illustrations.

THE SIEGE OF THE SEVEN SUITORS. With illustrations.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

OTHERWISE PHYLLIS

[Illustration: PHYLLIS]

OTHERWISE PHYLLIS

BY

MEREDITH NICHOLSON

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published September 1913_

TO

ALBERT B. ANDERSON

A CITIZEN OF THE HOOSIER COMMONWEALTH
WHOSE ATTAINMENTS AS LAWYER AND JUDGE
HAVE ADDED TO THE FAME OF MONTGOMERY
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED
WITH SINCERE REGARD AND ADMIRATION

CONTENTS

I. THE KIRKWOODS BREAK CAMP 1

II. THE MONTGOMERYS OF MONTGOMERY 14

III. 98 BUCKEYE LANE 34

IV. A TRANSACTION IN APPLES 51

V. THE OTHERWISENESS OF PHYLLIS 65

VI. THE SMOKING-OUT OF AMZI 78

VII. GHOSTS SEE THE LIGHT AGAIN 91

VIII. LISTENING HILL 104

IX. ON AN ORCHARD SLOPE 113

X. PHIL'S PARTY 123

XI. BROTHERS 144

XII. NAN BARTLETT'S DECISION 158

XIII. THE BEST INTERESTS OF MONTGOMERY 168

XIV. TURKEY RUN 182

XV. LOIS 201