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Title: Flamsted quarries
Author: Mary E. Waller
Illustrator: G. Patrick Nelson
Release Date: November 30, 2007 [EBook #23664]
Language: English
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Flamsted Quarries
BY MARY E. WALLER
Author of "The Wood Carver of Lympus," "The Daughter of the Rich," "The
Little Citizen," etc.
WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
BY G. PATRICK NELSON
A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
_Copyright, 1910_,
BY MARY E. WALLER
Published September, 1910
Reprinted, September, 1910; November, 1910; December, 1910
TO THOSE WHO TOIL
[Illustration: "She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause"]
Contents
THE BATTERY IN LIEU OF A PREFACE
PART FIRST, A CHILD FROM THE VAUDEVILLE
PART SECOND, HOME SOIL
PART THIRD, IN THE STREAM
PART FOURTH, OBLIVION
PART FIFTH, SHED NUMBER TWO
THE LAST WORD
Illustrations
"She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause"
"Those present loved in after years to recall this scene"
"What a picture she made leaning caressingly against the charmed and
patient Bess"
"'Unworthy--unworthy!' was Champney Googe's cry, as he knelt before
Aileen"
FLAMSTED QUARRIES
"_Abysmal deeps repose
Beneath the stout ship's keel whereon we glide;
And if a diver plunge far down within
Those depths and to the surface safe return,
His smile, if so it chance he smile again,
Outweighs in worth all gold._"
The Battery in Lieu of a Preface
A few years ago, at the very tip of that narrow rocky strip of land that
has been well named "the Tongue that laps the Commerce of the World,"
the million-teeming Island of Manhattan, there was daily presented a
scene in the life-drama of our land that held in itself, as in solution,
a great national ideal. The old heroic "Epic of the Nations" was sti
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