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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
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Short Stories 1909 to 1922
A Golden Wedding 1909
A Redeeming Sacrifice 1909
A Soul that Was Not At Home 1909
Abel And His Great Adventure 1917
Akin to Love 1909
Aunt Philippa and the Men 1915
Bessie's Doll 1914
Charlotte's Ladies 1911
Christmas at Red Butte 1909
How We Went to the Wedding 1913
Jessamine 1909
Miss Sally's Letter 1910
My Lady Jane 1915
Robert Turner's Revenge 1909
The Fillmore Elderberries 1909
The Finished Story 1912
The Garden of Spices 1918
The Girl and the Photograph 1915
The Gossip of Valley View 1910
The Letters 1910
The Life-Book of Uncle Jesse 1909
The Little Black Doll 1909
The Man on the Train 1914
The Romance of Jedediah 1912
The Tryst of the White Lady 1922
Uncle Richard's New Year Dinner 1910
White Magic 1921
A Golden Wedding
The land dropped abruptly down from the gate, and a thick, shrubby growth of young apple orchard almost hid the little weather-grey house from the road. This was why the young man who opened the sagging gate could not see that it was boarded up, and did not cease his cheerful whistling until he had pressed through the crowding trees and found himself almost on the sunken stone doorstep over which in olden days honeysuckle had been wont to arch. Now only a few straggling, uncared-for vines clung forlornly to the shingles, and the windows were, as has been said, all boarded up.
The whistle died on the young man's lips and an expression of blank astonishment and dismay settled down on his face--a good, kindly, honest face it was, although perhaps it did not betoken any pronounced mental gifts on the part of its owner.
"What can have happened?" he said to himself. "Uncle Tom and Aunt Sally can't be dead--I'd
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922, page 1
by Lucy Maud Montgomery