In the Border Country (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

THE woman who told me this, and
other strange talcs vhich I may
one day try to put. together, had no gift
of ~vriting, but only a pathetic regard for
those vho had. I say palhetic, because
to n1e her extraordinary experiences so
far outva 1 ue the tinkling art. of recording
them as to make her simple admiration
for the artist. little short of absurd. She
ha.d herself a pretty talent for painting,
of vhich I knev her to have made much
in the years before ~ve met. It ~vas) indeed,
because I renlembered vha.l hopes she
had encouraged in her teachers in tbis
and older countries, and ho\' eagerly she
ha.d laboured at her craft, finding DO trick
of technique too slight, no repetition too
arduous, no sacrifice too gre a.t , if only

Table of Contents

CONTENTS On d ] ow s roo 1 rt; ere, S(1(' dn; old woman ; C11~ ~Jas5 oj their window hdS; SrrC1n)t~ prop~rr(es ; rront1sriec~; foci~ pct~e; Chen~, were no l~hrs bur' the-; -' ,redl moon ; Che Ddme sfood h!Sh on woodlln; do~s and hummed d bClHdd ; Here The[ sdr'down ro [~pesrry; work, ;;re~n and 61u~ and russet'; weav,n,;;s ; 28; 54-; 62; r 16

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