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【国外英文文学】All the Brothers Were Valiant
Title: All the Brothers Were Valiant
Author: Ben Ames Williams
Release Date: June 23, 2008 [eBook #25885]
Language: English
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ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT
* * * * * *
The MacMillan Company
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ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT
by
BEN AMES WILLIAMS
New York
The MacMillan Company
1919
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1919, by
The Ridgway Company
Copyright, 1919
by The MacMillan Company
Set up and electrotyped. Published, May, 1919
ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT
ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT
I
The fine old house stood on Jumping Tom Hill, above the town. It had
stood there before there was a town, when only a cabin or two fringed the
woods below, nearer the shore. The weather boarding had been brought in
ships from England, ready sawed; likewise the bricks of the chimney.
Indians used to come to the house in the cold of winter, begging shelter.
Given blankets, and food, and drink, they slept upon the kitchen floor;
and when Joel Shores great-great-grandfather came down in the morning,
he found Indians and blankets gone together. Sometimes the Indians came
back with a venison haunch, or a bear steak ... sometimes not at all.
The house had, now, the air of disuse which old New England houses often
have. It was in perfect repair; its paint was white, and its shutters
hung squarely at the windows. But the grass was uncut in the yard, and
the lack of a veranda, and the tight-closed doors and windows, made the
house seem lifeless and lacking the savor of human presence. There was a
wh
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