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Title: Story-Tell Lib

Author: Annie Trumbull Slosson

Release Date: December 1, 2006 [EBook #19989]

Language: English

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Story-Tell Lib

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Story-Tell Lib

By
Annie Trumbull Slosson

Author of "Fishin' Jimmy"

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK . . . . . 1908

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_Copyright, 1900_
BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
_All rights reserved_

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CONTENTS

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I. STORY-TELL LIB 3
II. THE SHET-UP POSY 13
III. THE HORSE THAT B'LEEVED HE'D GET THERE 25
IV. THE PLANT THAT LOST ITS BERRY 37
V. THE STONY HEAD 47
VI. DIFF'ENT KIND O' BUNDLES 57
VII. THE BOY THAT WAS SCARET O' DYIN' 71

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STORY-TELL LIB

I

Story-Tell Lib

That was what everybody in the little mountain village called her. Her
real name, as she often told me, ringing out each syllable proudly in
her shrill sweet voice, was Elizabeth Rowena Marietta York. A stately
name, indeed, for the little crippled, stunted, helpless creature, and I
myself could never think of her by any name but the one the village
people used, Story-tell Lib. I had heard of her for two or three summers
in my visits to Greenhills. The village folk had talked to me of the
little lame girl who told such pretty stories out of her own head, "kind
o' fables that learnt folks things, and helped 'em without bein' too
preachy." But I had no definite idea o