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Year of the Big Thaw, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Title: Year of the Big Thaw
Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
Release Date: May 1, 2009 [EBook #28650]
Language: English
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In this warm and fanciful story of a Connecticut farmer, Marion Zimmer Bradley has caught some of the glory that is man's love for man--no matter who he is nor whence he's from. By heck, you'll like little Matt.
year of the big thaw
by ... Marion Zimmer Bradley
Mr. Emmett did his duty by the visitor from another world--never doubting the right of it.
You say that Matthew is your own son, Mr. Emmett?
Yes, Rev'rend Doane, and a better boy never stepped, if I do say it as shouldn't. I've trusted him to drive team for me since he was eleven, and you can't say more than that for a farm boy. Way back when he was a little shaver so high, when the war came on, he was bounden he was going to sail with this Admiral Farragut. You know boys that age--like runaway colts. I couldn't see no good in his being cabin boy on some tarnation Navy ship and I told him so. If he'd wanted to sail out on a whaling shi