LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664611130

Table of Contents

       THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PRAIRIE GIRL

       I

       THE COMING OF THE STORK

       II

       A FRONTIER CHRISTENING

       III

       "LITTLE BOY BLUE"

       IV

       A PARIAH OF THE PRAIRIES

       V

       THE MISFIT SCHOLAR

       VI

       THE STORY OF A PLANTING

       VII

       TWICE IN JEOPARDY

       VIII

       A HARVEST WEDDING

       IX

       THE PRICE OF CONVALESCENCE

       X

       "BADGY"

       XI

       A TRADE AND A TRICK

       XII

       THE PROFESSOR'S "FIND"

       XIII

       A RACE AND A RESCUE

       XIV

       HARD TIMES

       XV

       THE FATE OF A CROWING HEN

       XVI

       THE RESERVATION TRIP

       XVII

       ANOTHER MOUND ON THE BLUFF

       XVIII

       THE LITTLE TEACHER

       XIX

       TOWARD THE RISING SUN

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A

       PRAIRIE GIRL

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THE COMING OF THE STORK

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      IT was always a puzzle to the little girl how the stork that brought her ever reached the lonely Dakota farm-house on a December afternoon without her being frozen; and it was another mystery, just as deep, how the strange bird, which her mother said was no larger than a blue crane, was able, on leaving, to carry her father away with him to some family, a long, long distance off, that needed a grown-up man as badly as her three big brothers needed a little sister.

      She often tried to remember the stork, his broad nest of pussy-willows on the chin of the new moon, and the long trip down through the wind and snow to the open window of the farm-house. But though she never forgot her christening, and could even remember things that happened before that, her wonderful journey, she found, had slipped entirely from her mind. But her mother and the three big brothers, ever reminded by the stone-piled mound on the carnelian bluff, never forgot that day:

      An icy blizzard, carrying in its teeth the blinding sleet that neither man nor animal could breast, was driving fiercely across the wide plains; and the red, frame dwelling and its near-lying buildings of sod, which only the previous morning had stood out bravely against the dreary, white waste, were wrapped and almost hidden in great banks that had been caught up from the river heights and hurled with piercing roars against them.

      The storm had begun the day before, blowing first in fitful gusts that whistled under the eaves, sent the hay from the stacks flying through the yard, and lifted the ends of the roof shingles threateningly. It had gradually strengthened to a gale toward midday, and the steady downfall of flakes had been turned into a biting scourge

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