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Title: The Starbucks

Author: Opie Percival Read

Release Date: August 3, 2006 [eBook #18984]

Language: English

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THE STARBUCKS

A New Novel

by

OPIE READ

Author of
"The Jucklins," "Old Ebenezer," "My Young Master,"
"A Tennessee Judge," "A Kentucky Colonel," "Len Gansett,"
"On the Suwanee River," "Emmett Bonlore," Etc.

[Illustration: "SHE WAS THE ONLY MOTHER I KNOWED."]

Character Illustration, True to Life, Reproduced in Colors

Laird & Lee, Chicago

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1902,
by William H. Lee,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at
Washington, D. C.

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The People of the Hills, 9
II. Jim, the Preacher, 17
III. Getting Acquainted, 32
IV. At the Post Office, 50
V. Couldn't Quarrel in Peace, 63
VI. Hadn't Listened, 84
VII. Not So Far Out of the World, 102
VIII. The Spirit that Played with Her, 111
IX. At Dry Fork,