Some of the stories in this book appeared originally in McClure’s, Lippincott’s, Leslie’s Weekly, Short Stories, The Black Cat and The New Peterson. I am indebted to the publishers of those periodicals for the kind permission to reprint them.
E. H.
This book was first published under the title of “The Flower that Grew in the Sand.” To the present edition, two stories have been added.
The Publishers.
Puget Sound lies in its emerald setting like a great blue sapphire, which at sunset, draws to its breast all the marvelous and splendid coloring of the fire-opal. Around it, shining through their rose-colored mists like pearls upon the soft blue or green of the sky, are linked the great snow-mountains, so beautiful and so dear, that those who love this land with a proud and passionate love, have come to think of it, fondly and poetically, as “the land of the snow-pearls.”
CONTENTS
| Page | |
| The Flower that Grew in the Sand | [1] |
| Esther’s “Fourth” | [21] |
| The Blow-out at Jenkins’s Grocery | [31] |
| The Takin’ in of Old Mis’ Lane | [41] |
| The Maneuvering of Mrs. Sybert | [67] |
| A Point of Knuckling-Down | [79] |
| The Cuttin’-Out of Bart Winn | [141] |
| Zarelda | [183] |
| In the Bitter Root Mountains | [207] |
| Patience Appleby’s Confessing-Up | [217] |
| The Mother of “Pills” | [243] |
| Mrs. Risley’s Christmas Dinner | [263] |
THE FLOWER THAT GREW IN THE SAND
THE FLOWER THAT GREW IN THE SAND
Demaris opened the gate and walked up the narrow path. There was a low hedge of pink and purple candytuft on each side. Inside the hedges were little beds of homely flowers in the shapes of hearts, diamonds and Maltese crosses.