| | 141 | Author: | Porter, Eleanor H. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Just David  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Far up on the mountain-side stood alone in the clearing. It was
roughly yet warmly built. Behind it jagged cliffs broke the north
wind, and towered gray-white in the sunshine. Before it a tiny
expanse of green sloped gently away to a point where the mountain
dropped in another sharp descent, wooded with scrubby firs and
pines. At the left a footpath led into the cool depths of the
forest. But at the right the mountain fell away again and
disclosed to view the picture David loved the best of all: the
far-reaching valley; the silver pool of the lake with its ribbon
of a river flung far out; and above it the grays and greens and
purples of the mountains that climbed one upon another's
shoulders until the topmost thrust their heads into the wide dome
of the sky itself. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 159 | Author: | Pyrnelle, Louise Clarke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Diddi, Dumps, and Tot | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THEY were three little sisters, daughters of a Southern planter, and they
lived in a big white house on a cotton plantation in Mississippi. The house
stood in a grove of cedars and live-oaks, and on one side was a flower-garden,
with two summer-houses covered with climbing roses and honey-suckles, where
the little girls would often have tea-parties in the pleasant spring and
summer days. Back of the house was a long avenue of water-oaks leading to
the quarters where the negroes lived. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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