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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Over Paradise Ridge, by Maria Thompson Daviess 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.net Title: Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Author: Maria Thompson Daviess Release Date: March 3, 2005 [EBook #15243] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OVER PARADISE RIDGE *** Produced by David Garcia, Edna Badalian and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Page images were generously provided by the Kentuckiana Digital Library. [Illustration: "I GOT A CALL--A LAND CALL THAT I HAD TO ANSWER."] PARADISE RIDGE A ROMANCE BY MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS AUTHOR OF "THE MELTING OF MOLLY" ETC. ILLUSTRATED TO BERNICE LANIER DICKINSON CONTENTS CHAP. I. THE BOOK OF FOOD II. THE BOOK OF SHELTER III. THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER IV. THE BOOK OF LOVE ILLUSTRATIONS "I GOT A CALL--A LAND CALL THAT I HAD TO ANSWER" THE BYRD WAS ATTIRED IN MINIATURES OF SAM'S OVERALLS OVER PARADISE RIDGE I THE BOOK OF FOOD Nobody knows what starts the sap along the twigs of a very young, tender, and green woman's nature. In my case it was Samuel Foster Crittenden, though how could he have counted on the amount of Grandmother Nelson that was planted deep in my disposition, ready to spring up and bear fruit as soon as I was brought in direct acquaintance with a seed-basket and a garden hoe? Also why should Sam's return to a primitive state have forced my ancestry up to the point of flowering on the surface? I do hope Sam will not have to suffer consequences, but I can't help it if he does. What's born in us is not our fault. "Yes, Betty, I know I'm an awful shock to you as a farmer. I ought to have impressed it on you more thoroughly before you--you saw me in the act. I'm sorry, dear," Sam comforted me gently and tenderly as I wept with dismay into the sleeve of his faded blue overalls. "I can't understand it," I sniffed as I held on to his sustaining hand while I balanced with him on the top of an old, moss-covered stone wall he had begged me to climb to for a view of Harpeth Valley which he thought might turn my attention from him. "Have y
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