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    The Putnam Tradition
    The Putnam Tradition
    The Putnam Tradition
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    The Putnam Tradition

    By George Luther Schelling and Sonya Dorman

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Putnam Tradition - George Luther Schelling

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Putnam Tradition, by Sonya Hess Dorman

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      Title: The Putnam Tradition

      Author: Sonya Hess Dorman

      Illustrator: Schelling

      Release Date: October 1, 2008 [EBook #26743]

      Language: English

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      Through generations

      the power has descended,

      now weaker, now stronger.

      And which way did the

      power run in the four-year-old

      in the garden, playing

      with a pie plate?

      the

      putnam

      tradition

      By S. DORMAN

      Illustrated by SCHELLING

      It was an old house not far from the coast, and had descended generation by generation to the women of the Putnam family. Progress literally went by it: a new four-lane highway had been built two hundred yards from the ancient lilacs at the doorstep. Long before that, in the time of Cecily Putnam's husband, power lines had been run in, and now on cold nights the telephone wires sounded like a concert of cellos, while inside with a sound like the breaking of beetles, the grandmother Cecily moved through the walls in the grooves of tradition.

      Simone Putnam, her granddaughter; Nina Putnam, her great-granddaughter; the unbroken

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