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    The Blossoming Rod
    The Blossoming Rod
    The Blossoming Rod
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    The Blossoming Rod

    By Mary Stewart Cutting

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Blossoming Rod - Mary Stewart Cutting

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      Title: The Blossoming Rod

      Author: Mary Stewart Cutting

      Release Date: February 7, 2005 [eBook #14946]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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      He was out in the backyard ... flapping that rod in circles

      The Blossoming Rod

      by

      Mary Stewart Cutting

      A.L. Burt Company

      Publishers New York

      Doubleday, Page & Company

      The Blossoming Rod

      Mr. Langshaw had vaguely felt unusual preparations for a Christmas gift to him this year; he was always being asked for change to pay the children for services rendered.

      It might have seemed a pity that calculation as to dollars and cents entered so much into the Christmas festivities of the family, if it were not that it entered so largely into the scheme of living that it was naturally interwoven with every dearest hope and fancy; the overcoming of its limitations gave a zest to life. Langshaw himself, stopping now, as was his daily habit, to look at the display made by the sporting-goods shop on his way home the Friday afternoon before Christmas Monday, wondered, as his hand touched the ten-dollar bill in his pocket—a debt unexpectedly paid him that day—if the time had actually arrived at last when he might become the possessor of the trout-rod that stood in the corner of the window; reduced, as the ticket proclaimed, from fifteen dollars to ten.

      The inspiration was the more welcome because the moment before his mind had been idly yet disquietingly filled with the shortcomings of George, his eldest child, and only son, aged ten, who didn't seem to show that sense of responsibility which his position and advanced years called for—even evading his duties to his fond mother when he should be constituting himself her protector. He was worried as to the way George would turn out when he grew up.

      This particular trout-rod, however, had an attraction for Langshaw of long standing.

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