قراءة كتاب Asa Holmes; or, At the Cross-Roads
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Asa Holmes; or, At the Cross-Roads
Asa Holmes
or
At the Cross-roads
Annie Fellows Johnston
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| The Little Colonel's Hero | 1.50 |
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| The Giant Scissors | 1.25 |
| Two Little Knights of Kentucky | 1.25 |
| The above 3 vols., boxed | 3.75 |
Cosy Corner Series |
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| Each one vol., thin 12mo, cloth, illustrated | |
| The Little Colonel | $.50 |
| The Giant Scissors | .50 |
| Two Little Knights of Kentucky | .50 |
| Big Brother | .50 |
| Ole Mammy's Torment | .50 |
| The Story of Dago | .50 |
| Cicely | .50 |
| Aunt 'Liza's Hero | .50 |
| The Quilt that Jack Built | .50 |
| Flip's "Islands of Providence" | .50 |
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| Other Books | |
| Joel; A Boy of Galilee | $1.50 |
| In the Desert of Waiting | .50 |
| The Three Weavers | .50 |
| Keeping Tryst | .50 |
| Asa Holmes | 1.00 |
| Songs Ysame (Poems, with Albion Fellows Bacon) | 1.00 |
200 Summer Street Boston, Mass.
Asa Holmes
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By E. S. Barnett
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Copyright, 1902
By L. C. Page and Company
(INCORPORATED)
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All rights reserved
Seventh Impression
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
A Dear Old Philosopher
WHOSE CHEERFUL OPTIMISM AND SUNNY FAITH HAVE
SWEETENED LIFE FOR ALL WHO KNOW HIM
Asa Holmes
or
At the Cross-roads
Chapter I
A boy learns more there than he can be taught in schools. It may be he is only a tow-headed, freckle-faced little fellow of eight when he rides over to the cross-roads store for the first time by himself. Too timid to push into the circle around the fire, he stands shivering on the outskirts, looking about him with the alertness of a scared rabbit, until the storekeeper fills his kerosene can and thrusts the weekly mail into his red mittens. Then some man covers him with confusion by informing the crowd that "that little chap is Perkins's oldest," and he scurries away out of the embarrassing focus of the public eye.
But the next time he is sent on the family errands he stays longer and carries away more. Perched on the counter, with his heels dangling over a nail keg, while he waits for the belated mail train, he hears for the first time how the government ought to be run, why it is that the country is going to the dogs, and what will make hens lay in cold weather. Added to this general information, he slowly gathers the belief that these men know everything in the world worth knowing, and that their decisions on any subject settle the matter for all time.
He may have cause to change his opinion later on, when his sapling acquaintance has gained larger girth; when he has loafed with them, smoked with them, swapped lies and spun yarns, argued through a decade of stormy election times, and