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Rose o' the River

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Wiggin Kate Douglas Smith

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ROSE O’ THE RIVER

Rose O’ the River

BY
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

ILLUSTRATED BY
GEORGE WRIGHT

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

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Hearts And Other Hearts	67
The Little House	81
The Garden Of Eden	93
The Serpent	102
The Turquoise Ring	114
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The Dream Room	168

Illustrations

Rose O’ The River	Frontispiece
“She’s Up!”	6
“He’s A Turrible Smart Driver”	20
He Had Certainly “Taken Chances”	32
In A Twinkling He Was In The Water	64
“Rose, I’ll Take You Safely”	76
Hiding Her Face As He Flung It Down The River-Bank	116
She Had Gone With Maude To Claude’s Store	128
“As Long As Stephen Waterman’s Alive, Rose Wiley Can Have Him”	158
“Don’t Speak, Stephen, Till You Hear What I Have To Say”	174

THE PINE AND THE ROSE

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

An early ablution of this sort was not the custom of the farmers along the banks of the Saco, but the Waterman house was hardly a stone’s throw from the water, and there was a clear, deep swimming-hole in the Willow Cove that would have tempted the busiest man, or the least cleanly, in York County. Then, too, Stephen was a child of the river, born, reared, schooled

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