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Nancy MacIntyre
A Tale of the Prairies
LESTER SHEPARD PARKER
1910
To My Wee Daughter
RACHEL ELLEN PARKER
this little story is
affectionately inscribed
RACHEL ELLEN PARKER
this little story is
affectionately inscribed
CONTENTS
Billy's Revery
The Quarrel
The Disappointment
The Decision
The Search
The Return
Nancy's Story
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"I was takin' leave of Nancy
Standin out there in the night"
"Then I dragged him on the prairie
Through a Turk's Head cactus bed"
"I am standing by her dug-out,
Open stands the sagging door"
"Bringing back a hat of water,
Through the dim light and the rain"
"Loaded up their prairie schooner,
And vamoosed the ranch, fore light"
"He was startled by a stranger's
Sudden presence and 'Hello!'"
"Faithful Simon, weak and starving,
Groaned and fell beneath his pack"
"Resting calm in fancied safety
Sat the elder MacIntyre"
"Once again the twisted branches
Of the lone and friendly tree"
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Drove the scorching blasts of death"
"Standing there, a pictured goddess
Sketched against a lowering storm"
"But, instead, I shot, to scare him,
All the buttons off his coat"
Drove the scorching blasts of death"
"Standing there, a pictured goddess
Sketched against a lowering storm"
"But, instead, I shot, to scare him,
All the buttons off his coat"