{"product_id":"2940013243828","title":"AN AMERICAN IDYLL","description":"AN AMERICAN IDYLL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch hosts of memories come tumbling in on me. More than fifteen years\u003cbr\u003eago, on September 3, 1903, I met Carl Parker. He had just returned to\u003cbr\u003ecollege, two weeks late for the beginning of his Senior year. There was\u003cbr\u003emuch concern among his friends, for he had gone on a two months'\u003cbr\u003ehunting-trip into the wilds of Idaho, and had planned to return in time\u003cbr\u003efor college. I met him his first afternoon in Berkeley. He was on the\u003cbr\u003etop of a step-ladder, helping put up an awning for our sorority dance\u003cbr\u003ethat evening, uttering his proverbial joyous banter to any one who came\u003cbr\u003ealong, be it the man with the cakes, the sedate house-mother, fellow\u003cbr\u003eawning-hangers, or the girls busying about.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThus he was introduced to me--a Freshman of two weeks. He called down\u003cbr\u003egayly, \"How do you do, young lady?\" Within a week we were fast friends,\u003cbr\u003eI looking up to him as a Freshman would to a Senior, and a Senior seven\u003cbr\u003eyears older than herself at that. Within a month I remember deciding\u003cbr\u003ethat, if ever I became engaged, I would tell Carl Parker before I told\u003cbr\u003eany one else on earth!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter about two months, he called one evening with his pictures of\u003cbr\u003eIdaho. Such a treat as my mountain-loving soul did have! I still have\u003cbr\u003ethe map he drew that night, with the trails and camping-places marked.\u003cbr\u003eAnd I said, innocence itself, \"_I'm_ going to Idaho on my honeymoon!\"\u003cbr\u003eAnd he said, \"I'm not going to marry till I find a girl who wants to go\u003cbr\u003eto Idaho on her honeymoon!\" Then we both laughed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the deciding event in his eyes was when we planned our first long\u003cbr\u003ewalk in the Berkeley hills for a certain Saturday, November 22, and that\u003cbr\u003emorning it rained. One of the tenets I was brought up on by my father\u003cbr\u003ewas that bad weather was _never_ an excuse for postponing anything; so I\u003cbr\u003etook it for granted that we would start on our walk as planned.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157412823280,"sku":"2940013243828","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013243828_p0.jpg?v=1763578845","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013243828","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}