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قراءة كتاب Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
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SHEILA
OF BIG WRECK COVE
A Story of Cape Cod
BY JAMES A. COOPER
AUTHOR OF
"Tobias o' the Light," "Cap'n Jonah's Fortune"
"Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper," etc.
WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
R. EMMETT OWEN
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with George Sully & Company
Printed in U.S.A.
COPYRIGHT, 1921 (AS A SERIAL)
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY
CONTENTS
VI. An Unsatisfactory Interview
XIV. The Harvest Home Festival
XXVI. Elder Minnett Has His Say
CHAPTER I
CAP'N IRA AND PRUE
Seated on this sunshiny morning in his old armchair of bent hickory, between his knees a cane on the head of which his gnarled hands rested, Captain Ira Ball was the true retired mariner of the old school. His ruddy face was freshly shaven, his scant, silvery hair well smoothed; everything was neat and trig about him, including his glazed, narrow-brimmed hat, his blue pilot-cloth coat, pleated shirt front as white as snow, heavy silver watch chain festooned upon his waist-coat, and blue-yarn socks showing between the bottom of his full, gray trouser legs and his well-blacked low shoes.
For Cap'n Ira had commanded passenger-carrying craft in his