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The novel, A Cottage in Akin, is fifty-nine-year-old Ponia Snows reminiscent and pivotal story of life in the small northeastern Colorado town of Akin. Odessa Luckettpoet, storyteller, gardener extraordinaire, and woman of faithtransforms Ponias life forever through exemplifying Gods love, mercy, and forgiveness. Had it not been for that dear old woman, Ponia may not have survived, nor would she have traced the God-ordained design for her life.

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	17 décembre 2013
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781462407651
Langue	English

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A Cottage in Akin
a novel
MURIEL MCAVOY MORLEY

Copyright © 2013 Muriel McAvoy Morley.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Words by Thomas O. Chisholm
© 1923, ren. 1951 Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-0766-8 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4624-0765-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013918333

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 12/16/2013

Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Epilogue
Acknowledgements

Front cover art: Sandy Bergeron, Sandra Bergeron Creations— painting “Sweetheart’s Gate” © 1996. Used with permission.
All Scripture quotations are taken from The King James Version of the Bible.
The following have generously given permission to use quotations from copyrighted works:
Greeley Daily Tribune , Greeley, CO headlines and article passages reprinted throughout book by permission of Randy Bangert, Editor, Greeley Tribune .
Chapter 17: Poem “A Blackbird Suddenly” by Joseph Auslander. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chapter 18: Poem “Timely Thanksgiving” by Mildred McAvoy Edgington. Printed by permission of Inamae Robinett, Evans, CO.
Chapter 18: Poem “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy” by Mildred McAvoy Edgington. Printed by permission of Inamae Robinett, Evans, CO.
Chapter 19: Poem “Evening Song” by Mildred McAvoy Edgington. Printed by permission of Inamae Robinett, Evans, CO.
Chapter 20: Poem “Good Morning, God” by Mildred McAvoy Edgington. Printed by permission of Inamae Robinett, Evans, CO.
Chapter 29: “ Mr. Jones, Meet the Master!” Sermons & Prayers of Peter Marshall, edited by Catherine Marshall. Copyright 1949 by Fleming H. Revell Company. Copyright 1977 by Catherine Marshall LeSourd. A portion of the end of the sixth chapter, “The Paradox of Salvation,” reprinted by permission of Peter Marshall Ministries.
Chapter 43: “Proven Friendship” by Mildred McAvoy Edgington. Printed by permission of Inamae Robinett, Evans, CO.
Chapter 49: Poem “Reminiscings of a Truck Driver” by Wilburt Robinett. Printed by permission of Wilburt Robinett, Evans, CO.
Chapter 59: Words to hymn, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” by Thomas O. Chisholm. Copyright 1923. Ren. 1951 Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Additional credits:
Chapter 2: Words to song “America” (also called “My Country, ’Tis of Thee”) by S. F. Smith.
Chapter 8: Book Stuart Little by E. B. White; story is discussed briefly.
Chapter 9 and Chapter 16: Poem “There is no frigate like a book” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 9: Poem “He ate and drank the precious words” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 9 and Chapter 47 (5 lines only) : Poem “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes ( Collected Poems, 1906)
Chapter 16: Passage from “A Mad Tea-Party,” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Pub. 1900).
Chapter 16 and Chapter 27: Poem “A word is dead when it is said” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 16: Poem “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 17: Poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898).
Chapter 17: Poem “A bird came down the walk” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 17: Poem “The bee is not afraid of me” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 19: Poem “A drop fell on the apple tree” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 19: Poem “If you were coming in the fall” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 19: Poem “There came a wind like a bugle” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 19: Poem “An awful tempest mashed the air” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 19: Poem “The Slave’s Dream” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).
Chapter 19: Poem “Hope” by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844).
Chapter 19: Poem “Gone, gone, sold and gone” by John Greenleaf Whittier (Reprinted in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, written by Himself. Boston. 1845.) (Actual title—“The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother to her Daughters Sold Into Southern Bondage,” The Works of Whittier, Vol. III.)
Chapter 19: Poem “From the Chrysalis” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 19: Poem “On this long storm the rainbow rose” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 19: Poem “The Last Eve of Summer” (third verse) by John Greenleaf Whittier (1893, 1902) ( The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Complete ).
Chapter 20: Poem “I’ll tell you how the sun rose” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 20: Poem “To fight aloud is very brave” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 20: Words to Negro Spiritual “Nobody Knows de Trouble I’ve Seen” (1926…)
Chapter 20: Poem “I’m nobody! Who are you?” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 20: Poem “The Plumpuppets” The Rocking Horse by Christopher Morley. 1919. ( Chimneysmoke ).
Chapter 20 and Chapter 23: Poem “I Never Saw a Moor” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 21: Poem “Water” by Hilda Conkling (© 1920).
Chapter 21 and Chapter 60: Words to song “That’s Why They Call Me Shine” by Cecil Mack (1910).
Chapter 21: Poem “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats (1919).
Chapter 21: Passage from “Safe in Your Arms,” The Saints’ Everlasting Rest, by Richard Baxter (1615-1691).
Chapter 22: Words to hymn, “All the Way My Savior Leads Me” by Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915).
Chapter 27: Poem “Heart not so heavy as mine” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 28: Words to song “The Star-Spangled Banner” (written 1814) by Francis Scott Key.
Chapter 32: Words to song “Caisson Song” (1904) by Edmund L. Grubert, R.M. Danford, & Wm. Bryden © 1921
Chapter 39 and Chapter 70: Poem “Hiawatha’s Childhood,” III of The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).
Chapter 43: One line from song “I’m Late” by Bob Hilliard.
Chapter 48: Poem “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman ( The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman, Part III).
Chapter 57: Poem “I Heard a Bird Sing” by Oliver Herford.
Chapter 57 and Epilogue: (4 lines only) : Poem “The Coin” by Sara Teasdale (1920).
Chapter 60: Words to hymn, “Jesus Calls Us” by Mrs. Cecil F. Alexander.
Chapter 60: Poem “I shall know why when time is over” by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Chapter 60: Words to hymn “Breathe on Me, Breath of God” by Edwin Hatch.
Chapter 67: Passage from Chapter 1 of Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott (1868, 1869, 1896…)
Chapter 78: Quote “Enough, if something from our hands have power…” by William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
Poems by fictional character in story, Agatha Jordan:
Chapter 19 : “Stars”
Chapter 20 : “Morning Time”
Chapter 21 : “Your Dreams Are a Treasure”
Chapter 43 : “God Made Us Friends”
Chapter 57 : “Until We Meet Again, Dear Friends”
Poem by fictional character in story, Ponia Snow:
Chapters 74 and 84 : “Tender Mercies”
Folktale retelling by fictional author in story, June Lane Blair:
Chapters 69, 81, 83, 84 : “When the People Soared Like Eagles”
Photo of author and husband on back cover by Earl McAvoy.
Photo of front-cover artist, Sandra Bergeron, is by Lifetouch / Olan Mills. All rights reserved. Used with permission of Lifetouch for commercial use by Inspiring Voices.
See Acknowledgements at end of book.

To the Almighty Author of All
Soli Deo Gloria

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings.
—William Shakespeare