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Title: New chronicles of Rebecca
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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prayers : It cant be true that I mchosen for the State of Maine! It just cant betrue ! Nobody could be good enough, but oh, I 11try to be as good as I can! To be going to Ware-ham Seminary next week and to be the State ofMaine too ! Oh! I must pray hard to God to keepme meek and humble ! III The flag was to be raised on a Tuesday, and onthe previous Sunday it became known to the chil-dren that Clara Belle Simpson was coming backfrom Acreville, coming to live with Mrs. Fogg andtake care of the baby, called by the neighborhoodboys the Fogg horn, on account of his excellentvoice production. Clara Belle was one of Miss Dearborns originalflock, and if she were left wholly out of the festivi-ties she would be the only girl of suitable age to bethus slighted ; it seemed clear to the juvenile mind,therefore, that neither she nor her descendantswould ever recover from such a blow. But, underall the circumstances, would she be allowed to joinin the procession ? Even Rebecca, the optimistic,130
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MV STAR, MY STATE! SHE REPEATED JOYOUSLY THE SAVING OF THE COLORS feared not, and the committee confirmed her fearsby saying that Abner Simpsons daughter certainlycould not take any prominent part in the ceremony,but they hoped that Mrs. Fogg would allow her towitness it. When Abner Simpson, urged by the town author-ities, took his wife and seven children away fromRiverboro to Acreville, just over the border in thenext county, Riverboro went to bed leaving its barnand shed doors unfastened, and drew long breathsof gratitude to Providence. Of most winning disposition and genial manners,Mr. Simpson had not that instinctive comprehen-sion of property rights which renders a man a valu-able citizen. Squire Bean was his nearest neighbor, and heconceived the novel idea of paying Simpson fivedollars a year not to steal from him, a method oc-casionally used in the Highlands in early days. The bargain was struck, and adhered to reli-giously for a twelve-month, but on the second ofJanuary Mr. Si

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