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Title: Clover and Blue Grass

Author: Eliza Calvert Hall

Illustrator: H. R. Ballinger

Release Date: July 3, 2010 [EBook #33061]

Language: English

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CLOVER AND BLUE GRASS

By Eliza Calvert Hall

AUNT JANE OF KENTUCKY

THE LAND OF LONG AGO

CLOVER AND BLUE GRASS

TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH

A BOOK OF HAND-WOVEN COVERLETS

[Illustration: How could a man find words to thank a mother for giving
him her daughter? FRONTISPIECE. _See page 144._]

CLOVER AND BLUE GRASS

_by_

Eliza Calvert Hall

With a frontispiece by

H. R. Ballinger

Boston

Little, Brown, & Company

1916

_Copyright, 1916_,

BY LIDA CALVERT OBENCHAIN.

_All rights reserved_

Published, September, 1916

TO
MARTHA CALVERT
AND
VAL CALVERT WINSTON

CONTENTS

PAGE
HOW PARSON PAGE WENT TO THE CIRCUS 1

MARY CRAWFORD'S CHART 33

OLD MAHOGANY 91

MILLSTONES AND STUMBLING-BLOCKS 115

"ONE TASTE OF THE OLD TIME" 157

ONE DAY IN SPRING 207

HOW PARSON PAGE WENT TO THE CIRCUS

(The last of the "Aunt Jane" stories)

This story, the nineteenth and last of the "Aunt Jane" stories,
appeared in the _Cosmopolitan_, July 1910, after the
publication of _The Land of Long Ago_. Its publication in this
present volume completes the set of stories told by "Aunt Jane
of Kentucky."

"I hear there's goin' to be a circus in town next week," said Aunt Jane,
"and if it wasn't for the looks of the thing, jest for the sake of old
times, I'd like to go to town and stand on the old drug-store corner and
watch the procession go 'round the square, like me and Abram used to do