The Project Gutenberg eBook, In Happy Valley, by John Fox, Illustrated by F. C. Yohn
Title: In Happy Valley
Author: John Fox
Release Date: January 5, 2007 [eBook #20292]
Language: English
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In Happy Valley
By John Fox, Jr.
Illustrated By F. C. Yohn
Published October, 1917
To Hope,
Little Daughter of Richard Harding Davis.
Contents
The Courtship of Allaphair
The Compact of Christopher
The Lord's Own Level
The Marquise of Queensberry
His Last Christmas Gift
The Angel from Viper
The Pope of the Big Sandy
The Goddess of Happy Valley
The Battle-Prayer of Parson Small
The Christmas Tree on Pigeon
Illustrations
“You got him down!” she cried. “Jump on him an' stomp him!”
“Mammy,” he said abruptly, “I'll stop drinkin' if you will.”
“You stay hyeh with the baby,” he said quietly, “an' I'll take yo' meal home.”
“Let 'em loose!” he yelled. “Git at it, boys! Go fer him,
“Miss Hildy, Jeems Henery is the bigges' liar on Viper.”
“I'm a-goin' to give it back to 'em. Churches, schools, libraries, hospitals, good roads.”
Night and day, and through wind and storm, she had travelled the hills, healing the sick.
“O Lawd... hyeh's another who meddles with thy servant and profanes thy day.”