Spinster FarmL.C. Page, 1908 - 295 pages |
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Page 4 - Is in many ways the most brilliant collection of animal stories that has appeared ; well named and well done." — John Burroughs. The Watchers of the Trails A companion volume to "The Kindred of the Wild.
Page 114 - MY GARDEN A GARDEN is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot — The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not — Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool? Nay, but I have a sign: Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Page 3 - Roberta's new collection are the strongest and best he has ever written. He has largely taken for his subjects those animals rarely met with in books, whose lives are spent " In the Silences," where they are the supreme rulers.
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