1905
In the Old Valley 1906
Jane Lavinia 1906
Mackereling Out in the Gulf 1905
Millicent's Double 1905
The Blue North Room 1906
The Christmas Surprise At Enderly Road 1905
The Dissipation of Miss Ponsonby 1906
The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner 1906
The Fraser Scholarship 1905
The Girl at the Gate 1906
The Light on the Big Dipper 1906
The Prodigal Brother 1906
The Redemption of John Churchill 1906
The Schoolmaster's Letter 1905
The Story of Uncle Dick 1906
The Understanding of Sister Sara 1905
The Unforgotten One 1906
The Wooing of Bessy 1906
Their Girl Josie 1906
When Jack and Jill Took a Hand 1905
A Correspondence and A Climax
At sunset Sidney hurried to her room to take off the soiled and faded
cotton dress she had worn while milking. She had milked eight cows and
pumped water for the milk-cans afterward in the fag-end of a hot
summer day. She did that every night, but tonight she had hurried more
than usual because she wanted to get her letter written before the
early farm bedtime. She had been thinking it out while she milked the
cows in the stuffy little pen behind the barn. This monthly letter was
the only pleasure and stimulant in her life. Existence would have
been, so Sidney thought, a dreary, unbearable blank without it. She
cast aside her milking-dress with a thrill of distaste that tingled to
her rosy fingertips. As she slipped into her blue-print afternoon
dress her aunt called to her from below. Sidney ran out to the dark
little entry and leaned over the stair railing. Below in the kitchen
there was a hubbub of laughing, crying, quarrelling children, and a
reek of bad tobacco smoke drifted up to the girl's disgusted nostrils.
Aunt Jane was standing at the foot of the stairs with a l
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