The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Woman Named Smith, by Marie Conway Oemler

Title: A Woman Named Smith

Author: Marie Conway Oemler

Release Date: April 8, 2005 [eBook #15591]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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"Sophy," he said, "I have found the lost key of Hynds House"

A WOMAN NAMED SMITH

BY

MARIE CONWAY OEMLER

author of
SLIPPY McGEE, Etc.

 

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS     NEW YORK

1919

To

ELIZABETH HEYWARD OEMLER

Sometimes my Little Girl.

When you were yet an Awful Baby,
And bawled o' bed-time, I said "Maybe
It is not best to spank or scold her:
Suppose a fairy-tale were told her?"
And gave you then, to my undoing,
The wolf Red Riding-Hood pursuing;
Sang Mother Goose her artless rhyming;
Showed Jack the Magic Beanstalk climbing;
Three Little Pigs were so appealing,
You set up sympathetic squealing!
Then, Bitsybet, you had your mother—
You bawled until I told another!

The Awful Baby's gone. Here lately
You bear your little self sedately.
You've shed your rompers; you want dresses
Prinked out with frillies; fluff your tresses;
Delight your daddy, aunts, and mother;
And sisterly set straight your brother.
Your bib-and-tucker days abolished,
Your manners and your nails are polished.
One baby trait remains, thank glory!
You're still a glutton for a story.
Still, Bitsybet, you beg another:
So here's one for you from

YOUR MOTHER.

CONTENTS

i. The Scarlet Witch Departs

ii. And Ariel Makes Music

iii. The Dear Little God!

iv. The Hyndses of Hynds House

v. "Thy Neighbor as Thyself"

vi. Glamoury

vii. A Bright Particular Star

viii. Peacocks and Ivory

ix. The Judgment of Spring

x. The Forest of Arden

xi. The Jinnee Intervenes

xii. Man Proposes

xiii. Fires of Yesterday

xiv. The Talisman

xv. The Heart of Hynds House

xvi. The Devill His Rainbow

xvii. On the Knees of the Gods

xviii. The Greatest Gift

xix. Deep Waters

xx. Harbor

[illustrations:   frontispiece   key   plan]

CHARACTERS

Sophy: A woman named Smith.

Alicia Gaines: Flower o' the Peach.

Nicholas Jelnik: Peacocks and Ivory.

Doctor Richard Geddes: Cœur-de-Lion.

The Author: Himself.

The Secretary: A Pleasant Person.

Miss Emmeline Phelps-Parsons: of Boston, Massachusetts.

Miss Martha Hopkins: "Clothed in White Samite."

Judge Gatchell: The Law.

Schmetz and Riedriech: Workmen and Visionaries.