The Old Peabody Pew

The Old Peabody Pew, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Title: The Old Peabody Pew A Christmas Romance of a Country Church
Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin Release Date: March 22, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1902]
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Transcribed from the 1907 Archibald Constable & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church
Dedication
To a certain handful of dear New England women of names unknown to the world, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown:— We have worked together to make our little corner of the great universe a pleasanter place in which to live, and so we know, not only one another’s names, but something of one another’s joys and sorrows, cares and burdens, economies, hopes, and anxieties.
We all remember the dusty uphill road that leads to the green church common. We remember the white spire pointing upward against a background of blue sky and feathery elms. We remember the sound of the bell that falls on the Sabbath morning stillness, calling us across the daisy-sprinkled ...