Westerfelt

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Westerfelt, by Will N. HarbenThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: WesterfeltAuthor: Will N. HarbenRelease Date: November 28, 2005 [eBook #17178]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WESTERFELT***E-text prepared by Al HainesWESTERFELTA NovelbyWILL N. HARBENNew York and LondonHarper & Brothers Publishers1901Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers.All rights reserved.TOMY WIFEWesterfeltChapter IThey had had a quilting at the house of the two sisters that day. Six or seven women of the neighborhood, of middle ageor older, had been in to sew on the glaring, varicolored square. All day long they had thrust their needles up and downand gossiped in their slow, insinuating way, pausing only at noon to move their chairs to the dinner-table, where they satwith the same set curves to their backs.The sun had gone down behind the mountain and the workers had departed, some traversing the fields and othersdisappearing by invisible paths in the near-by wood. The two sisters had taken the finished quilt from its wooden frame,and were carefully ironing out the wrinkles preparatory to adding it to the useless stack of its kind in the corner of theroom."I ...