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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
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