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Title: In Happy Valley

Author: John Fox

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Language: English

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IN HAPPY VALLEY

by

John Fox, Jr.

Illustrated By F. C. Yohn

New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
1917
Copyright, 1916, 1917, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
Published October, 1917
Copyright, 1905, 1906, By P. F. Collier & Son, Incorporated

To Hope,
Little Daughter of Richard Harding Davis.

CONTENTS

The Courtship of Allaphair

The Compact of Christopher

The Lord's Own Level

The Marquise of Queensberry

His Last Christmas Gift

The Angel from Viper

The Pope of the Big Sandy

The Goddess of Happy Valley

The Battle-Prayer of Parson Small

The Christmas Tree on Pigeon

ILLUSTRATIONS

"You stay hyeh with the baby," he said quietly, "an' I'll take yo'
meal home."

"You got him down!" she cried. "Jump on him an' stomp him!"

"Mammy," he said abruptly, "I'll stop drinkin' if you will."

"Let 'em loose!" he yelled. "Git at it, boys! Go fer him,
Ham--whoop-ee-ee!"

"Miss Hildy, Jeems Henery is the bigges' liar on Viper."

"I'm a-goin' to give it back to 'em. Churches, schools, libraries,
hospitals, good roads."

Night and day, and through wind and storm, she had travelled the hills,
healing the sick.

"O Lawd ... hyeh's another who meddles with thy servant and profanes
thy day."

THE COURTSHIP OF ALLAPHAIR

Preaching at the open-air meeting-house was just over and the citizens
of Happy Valley were pouring out of the benched enclosure within livin