The Garden Patch Classic Reprint

Author : Lucy Fitch Perkins
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484462198
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Puritan Twins (Classic Reprint) written by Lucy Fitch Perkins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Puritan Twins As no answering shout greeted her from this direction either, the Goodwife stepped quickly toward a hollow stump which stood a short distance from the cabin. Beside the stump a slender birch tree bent beneath the weight of a large circular piece of wood hung to its top by a leather thong. This was the samp-mill, where their corn was pounded into meal. Seizing the birch tree with her hands, she brought the wooden pestle down into the hollow stump with a resounding thump. The birch tree sprang back lifting the block with it and again she pulled it down and struck the stump another blow, then paused to listen. This time there was, beside the echo, an answer ing shout, and in a few moments two heads appeared above the rows of young corn just peeping out of the ground, two pairs of lively bare feet came flying across the garden patch, and a breathless boy and girl stood beside their mother. They were a sturdy pair of twelve-year olds, the boy an inch or more taller thanhis sister, and both with the blue eyes, fair skin, and rosy cheeks which proclaimed their English blood. There was a gleam of pride in Goodwife Pepperell's eye as she looked at her children, but not for the world would she have let them see it; much less would she have owned it to herself, for she was a Puritan mother, and regarded pride of any kind as altogether sinful. Where have you been all the morning? She said. You were nowhere to be seen and the corn is not yet high enough to hide you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.