Idle Hour Stories
Author of The Song of Lancaster, A Kentucky Girl in Dixie, Short Mountain Trail, Stories for Children, The Housekeepers' Olio, and Home Talks.
PRESS OF J.L. RICHARDSON & CO. LEXINGTON, KY. 1909
To the memory of my beloved and only son, George Dunlap Potts, whose young eyes watched with affectionate interest the weaving of these fancies.
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Eugenia Dunlap Potts
IDLE HOUR STORIES
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
DEDICATED
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Thrilling Experience
MIGHT vs. RIGHT
A Cluster of Ripe Fruit
CHARACTER STUDY
The Ghost at Crestdale
AN ADVENTURE
Her Christmas Gift
A WHITE RIBBON STORY
In a Pullman Car
A LOVE STORY
In Old Kentucky
A PRIZE STORY
His Gratitude
VENGEANCE IS MINE
The Singer's Christmas
A HOLIDAY STORY
Turning the Tables
A PRACTICAL STORY
How She Helped Him
STORY OF A WIFE
The Iron Box
A MYSTERY
The Girl Farmers
A PRACTICAL STORY
Proving a Heart
A LOVE STORY
Hezekiah's Wooing
A FIRESIDE SKETCH
A Summer Daisy
A PASTORAL
Treesa
A CHARACTER SKETCH
My First Jury Case
THE DOG WITNESS
Three Visits
A ROMANTIC SKETCH
An Easter Dawn
"AND THERE WAS LIGHT"
In the Mammoth Cave
WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY
A REVERIE
THE MISER AND THE ANGEL
REST
IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER
THE CHANGED CROSS