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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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