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Project Gutenberg's The Place Beyond the Winds, by Harriet T. Comstock This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Place Beyond the Winds Author: Harriet T. Comstock Illustrator: Harry Spafford Potter Release Date: June 2, 2006 [EBook #18488] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PLACE BEYOND THE WINDS *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: "It was a beautiful thing, that dance, grotesque, pagan and yet divine"] THE PLACE BEYOND THE WINDS BY HARRIET T. COMSTOCK _Illustrated by_ HARRY SPAFFORD POTTER GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1914 FOREWORD The In-Place cannot be found; you must happen upon it! Hidden behind its rugged red rocks and hemlock-covered hills, it lies waiting for something to happen. It has its Trading Station, to and from which the Canadian Indians paddle their canoes--sometimes a dugout--bearing rare, luscious blue berries invitingly packed in small baskets with their own green leaves. And to the Station, also, go the hardy natives--good English, Scotch, or "Mixed"--with their splendid loads of fish. "White fish go: pickerel come"--but always there is fish through summer days and winter's ice. There is a lovely village Green, around which the modest homes cluster sociably. Poor, plain places they may be, but never dirty nor untidy. And the children and dogs! Such lovely babies; such human animals. They play and work together quite naturally and are the truest friends. A little church, with a queer pointed spire and a beautiful altar, stands with open doors like a kindly welcome to all. Back of this, and apologetically placed behind its stockade fence, is the jail. To have a jail and never need it! What more can be said of a community? But you are told--if you insist upon it--that the building is preserved as a warning, and if any one should by chance be forced to occupy it, "he will have the best the place affords"--for justice is seasoned with mercy in the In-Place. If you would know the aristocracy of the hamlet you must leave the friendly Gre
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