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Title: The Smiling Hill-Top
And Other California Sketches

Author: Julia M. Sloane

Illustrator: Carleton M. Winslow

Release Date: March 2, 2006 [EBook #17901]

Language: English

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THE SMILING HILL-TOP
AND OTHER CALIFORNIA SKETCHES

The Smiling Hill-Top
and Other California Sketches

by

JULIA M. SLOANE

Illustrated by
CARLETON M. WINSLOW

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1921

Copyright, 1919, by
Charles Scribner's Sons

_Published October, 1919_

TO

MY THREE COMPANIONS OF THE ROAD
ONE LARGE AND TWO SMALL
THIS LITTLE BOOK
IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED

CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction 1
The Smiling Hill-Top 5
A California Poppy 19
Gardeners 35
Thorns 55
The Gypsy Trail 77
An Adventure in Solitude 94
A Sabine Farm 116
The Land of "Whynot" 132
Where the Trade Wind Blows 155
Sunkist 176

THE SMILING HILL-TOP
AND OTHER CALIFORNIA SKETCHES

INTRODUCTION

The following sketches are entirely informal. They do not cover the
subject of Southern California in any way. In fact, they contain no
information whatever, either about the missions or history--a little,
perhaps, about the climate and the fruits and flowers of the earth, but
that has crept in more or less unavoidably. They are the record of what
happened to happen to a fairly light-hearted family who left New England
in search of rest and health. There are six of us, two grown-ups, tw