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Story-Tell Lib - Annie Trumbull Slosson
Annie Trumbull Slosson
Story-Tell Lib
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066162986
Table of Contents
I
Story-Tell Lib
The Shet-up Posy
II
The Shet-up Posy
The Horse that B’leeved he’d Get there
III
The Horse that B’leeved he’d Get there
The Plant that Lost its Berry
IV
The Plant that Lost its Berry
The Stony Head
V
The Stony Head
Diff’ent Kind o’ Bundles
VI
Diff’ent Kind o’ Bundles
The Boy that was Scaret o’ Dyin’
VII
The Boy that was Scaret o’ Dyin’
I
Table of Contents
Story-Tell Lib
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That was what everybody in the little mountain village called her. Her real name, as she often told me, ringing out each syllable proudly in her shrill sweet voice, was Elizabeth Rowena Marietta York. A stately name, indeed, for the little crippled, stunted, helpless creature, and I myself could never think of her by any name but the one the village people used, Story-tell Lib. I had heard of her for two or three summers in my visits to Greenhills. The village folk had talked to me of the little lame girl who told such pretty stories out of her own head, kind o’ fables that learnt folks things, and helped ’em without bein’ too preachy.
But I had no definite idea of what the child was till I saw and heard her myself. She was about thirteen years of age, but very small and fragile. She was lame, and could walk only with the aid of a crutch. Indeed, she could but hobble painfully, a few steps at a time, with that assistance. Her little white face was not an attractive one, her features being sharp and pinched, and her eyes faded, dull, and almost expressionless. Only the full, prominent, rounding brow spoke of a mind out of the common. She was an orphan, and lived with her aunt, Miss Jane York, in an old-fashioned farmhouse on the upper road.
Miss Jane was a good woman. She kept the child neatly clothed and comfortably fed, but I do not think she lavished many caresses or loving words on little Lib, it was not her way, and the girl led a lonesome, quiet, unchildlike life. Aunt Jane tried to teach her to read and write, but, whether from the teacher’s inability to impart knowledge, or from some strange lack in the child’s odd brain, Lib never learned the lesson. She could not read a word, she did not even know her alphabet. I cannot explain to myself or to you the one gift which gave her her homely village name. She told stories. I listened to many of them, and