# Old Ebenezer

Author: Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23215

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Old+Ebenezer+Read&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In more than one of the sleepy neighborhoods that lay about the drowsy town of Old Ebenezer, Sam Lyman had lolled and dreamed. He had come out of the keen air of Vermont, and for a time he was looked upon as a marvel of energy, but the soft atmosphere of a southwestern state soothed the Yankee worry out of his walk, and made him content to sit in the shade, to wait for the other man to come; and, as the other man was doing the same thing, rude hurry was not a feature of any business transaction. Of course the smoothing of Lyman's Yankee ruffles had taken some time. He had served as cross-tie purchaser for a new railway, had kept books and split slabs for kindling wood at a saw mill; then,...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/33/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-ebenezer-23215/chapters/5/index.md)