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Title: Aunt Jane of Kentucky

Author: Eliza Calvert Hall

Illustrator: Beulah Strong

Release Date: September 30, 2008 [EBook #26728]

Language: English

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AUNT JANE

OF KENTUCKY

BY ELIZA CALVERT HALL

Author of "The Land of Long Ago."

WITH FRONTISPIECE AND PAGE DECORATIONS

BY BEULAH STRONG

A. L. BURT COMPANY

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1898, 1899, 1900,

BY JOHN BRISBANE WALKER.

COPYRIGHT, 1904,

BY COSMOPOLITAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

COPYRIGHT, 1907,

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

* * * * *

TO

MY MOTHER AND FATHER

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

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CHAPTERS

PAGE
I. SALLY ANN'S EXPERIENCE 1

II. THE NEW ORGAN 29

III. AUNT JANE'S ALBUM 53

IV. "SWEET DAY OF REST" 83

V. MILLY BAKER'S BOY 105

VI. THE BAPTIZING AT KITTLE CREEK 141

VII. HOW SAM AMOS RODE IN THE TOURNAMENT 169

VIII. MARY ANDREWS' DINNER-PARTY 193

IX. THE GARDENS OF MEMORY 247

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"There is not an existence about us but at first seems
colorless, dreary, lethargic: what can our soul have in
common with that of an elderly spinster, a slow-witte