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Title: Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight

Author: Mathew Joseph Holt

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CHIT-CHAT

NIRVANA

THE SEARCHLIGHT

by

MATT J. HOLT

[Illustration: Winter of 1918. Mt. Adamello Sled Dogs, Veterans of the
Italian Army.]

Louisville
Westerfield-Bonte Co. Inc.
1920

Copyrighted 1920
by the Author

INDEX.

CHAPTER PAGE

CHIT-CHAT

I. CHIT-CHAT 1

II. CORNWALL MEETS A MOUNTAIN MAID 11

III. CORNWALL LOCATES IN HARLAN 18

IV. A WEEK IN A MOUNTAIN HOME 27

V. THE SAYLORS MOVE TO THE BLUEGRASS 39

VI. CORNWALL BUYS A HOME 44

VII. MARY AND JOHN PROGRESS 60

VIII. DOROTHY AND BRADFORD--ROSAMOND AND CORNWALL 72

IX. THE SAYLOR FAMILY 87

X. MARY AND JOHN ARE MARRIED 103

XI. HOME LIFE 114

_SEEING ITALY AT MRS