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CONTENTS

[CREEPING JENNY]

[THE AUTHOR'S READING AT BIXBY CENTRE]

[THE QUILT OF HAPPINESS]

[MATT MILLIKEN'S IMPROVEMENTS]

CREEPING JENNY

Jenny Lane lived in a shabby little farmhouse on the Back Nippin' Road that led from Riverboro to Moderation Village. The house was small and compact and as neat as wax inside, for there Jenny was Master of her fate and Captain of her soul.

Outside, alas, things were different. There was only the shell of a former stable; the shed was tumbling down, and, when rain descended in anything worse than gentle showers, Jenny's "indoors" looked like a syndicate of milk pans, the leaks were so many and the dripping of water so continuous.