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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Green Valley, by Katharine Reynolds, Illustrated by Nana French Bickford This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Green Valley Author: Katharine Reynolds Release Date: July 10, 2006 [eBook #18801] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREEN VALLEY*** E-text prepared by Al Haines Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 18801-h.htm or 18801-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/8/0/18801/18801-h/18801-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/8/0/18801/18801-h.zip) GREEN VALLEY by KATHARINE REYNOLDS Frontispiece by Nana French Bickford [Frontispiece: They came to her hand in hand and said not a word.] Grosset & Dunlap Publishers ------ New York Copyright, 1919, by Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved Dedication TO ALL THE LITTLE ONE-HORSE TOWNS WHERE LIFE IS SWEET AND ROOMY AND OLD-FASHIONED; WHERE THE DAYS ARE FULL OF SUNSHINE AND RAIN AND WORK; WHERE NEIGHBORS REALLY NEIGHBOR AND MEN AND WOMEN ARE LIFE-SIZE AUTHOR'S NOTE This book was written to cure a heartache, to ease a very real and bad case of homesickness. I wrote it just for myself when I was very nearly ten thousand miles away from home and knew that I couldn't go back to the U. S. A. for two long years. It is a picture of a little Yankee town, the town I tried so hard to see over ten thousand miles of gray-green ocean. When I was sailing from New York for South America that sunny June morning in 1913, about the last thing the last friend hurrying down the gangplank said was this: "Of course you are going to be homesick. But it's worth it." And I laughed. But before that long stretch of gray-green ocean was plowed under I knew--oh, I knew--that I was going to be most woefully homesick for the U. S. A. A certain tall Swede from New Jersey and I discovered that fact about the same minute Fourth of July morning. We were standing on the deck, staring miserably back over the awful miles to where somewhere in t
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