Fox, John, 1863-1919 / 2008-06-14 00:00:00

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THE HEART OF THE HILLS
By John Fox, Jr.

Author of "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come," "The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine," Etc.

With Four Illustrations By F. C. YOHN


IN
GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF
MY FATHER
WHO LOVED THE GREAT MOTHER, HER FORMS,
HER MOODS, HER WAYS.
TO THE END SHE LEFT HIM THE JOY OF YOUTH
IN THE COMING OF SPRING
June 28, 1912.



THE HEART OF THE HILLS


I

Twin spirals of blue smoke rose on either side of the spur, crept
tendril-like up two dark ravines, and clearing the feathery green
crests of the trees, drifted lazily on upward until, high above,
they melted shyly together and into the haze that veiled the
drowsy face of the mountain.
Each rose from a little log cabin clinging to the side of a little
hollow at the head of a little creek. About each cabin was a
rickety fence, a patch of garden, and a little cleared hill-side,
rocky, full of stumps, and crazily traced with thin green spears
of corn.
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