Siblings -- Fiction
Precious bane
CHAP. PAGE 1 SARN MERE 1 2 TELLING THE BEES 7 3 PRUE TAKES THE BIDDING LETTERS 22 4 TORCHES AND ROSEMARY 27 5 THE FIRST SWATH FALLS 36 6 “SADDLE YOUR DREAMS BEFORE YOU RIDE ’EM” 47 7 PIPPINS AND JARGONELLES 57
Chapters
1. BOOK ONE
CHAP. PAGE 1 SARN MERE 1 2 TELLING THE BEES 7 3 PRUE TAKES THE BIDDING LETTERS 22 4 TORCHES AND ROSEMARY 27 5 THE FIRST SWATH FALLS 36 6 “SADDLE YOUR DREAMS BEFORE YOU RIDE ’EM”...
2. BOOK TWO1 RIDING TO MARKET 65 2 THE _MUG OF CIDER_ 80 3 “OR DIE IN ’TEMPTING IT” 91 4 THE WIZARD OF PLASH 99 5 THE LOVE-SPINNING 106 6 THE GAME OF COSTLY COLOURS 114 7 “THE MAISTER BE C...
3. BOOK THREE4. BOOK FOUR1 HARVEST HOME 239 2 BEGUILDY SEEKS A SEVENTH CHILD 262 3 THE DEATHLY BANE 286 4 ALL ON A MAY MORNING 301 5 THE LAST GAME OF CONQUER 323 6 THE BREAKING OF THE MERE 336 7 “OPEN T...
5. Book OneIT was at a love-spinning that I saw Kester first. And if, in these new-fangled days, when strange inventions crowd upon us, when I hear tell there is even a machine coming into...
6. Book TwoIN telling this story I take little count of time. For when the heart is in stress, what is time? It is nought. Does the bridegroom, that has clemmed for his love a long while,...
7. Book ThreeON May Day, there being a deal of stuff for market, I borrowed the Mill pony again and set out with Gideon very early, while yet the purple blossom and the green leaves of the l...
8. Book FourNEVER in all my days did I see a corn harvest like that one. We started swiving, that is reaping, at the beginning of August-month, and we left the stocks standing in the fields...
9. ill. And now, see! he was gone down into the mere himself, to be curedof his own curse. Then I thought of golden Jancis, and the little babe, and Missis Beguildy, and Father and poor Mother, all dead too. It seemed Death had been very busy at it,...