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Over Paradise Ridge
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Title: Over Paradise Ridge A Romance
Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
Release Date: March 3, 2005 [EBook #15243]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "I GOT A CALL--A LAND CALL THAT I HAD TO ANSWER."]
PARADISE RIDGE
A ROMANCE
BY
MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS
AUTHOR OF
"THE MELTING OF MOLLY" ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
TO
BERNICE LANIER DICKINSON
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I. THE BOOK OF FOOD
II. THE BOOK OF SHELTER
III. THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER
IV. THE BOOK OF LOVE
ILLUSTRATIONS
"I GOT A CALL--A LAND CALL THAT I HAD TO ANSWER"
THE BYRD WAS ATTIRED IN MINIATURES OF SAM'S OVERALLS
OVER PARADISE RIDGE
I
THE BOOK OF FOOD
Nobody knows what starts the sap along the twigs of a very young, tender, and green woman's nature. In my case it was Samuel Foster Crittenden, though how could he have counted on the amount of Grandmother Nelson that was planted deep in my disposition, ready to spring up and bear fruit as