{"product_id":"2940013428584","title":"THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   1. TWO RUNAWAYS FROM LONESOME\u003cbr\u003e   2. FIGHTING THEIR WAY\u003cbr\u003e   3. A \"BLAB SCHOOL\" ON KINGDOM COME\u003cbr\u003e   4. THE COMING OF THE TIDE\u003cbr\u003e   5. OUT OF THE WILDERNESS\u003cbr\u003e   6. LOST AT THE CAPITAL\u003cbr\u003e   7.  A FRIEND ON THE ROAD\u003cbr\u003e   8. HOME WITH THE MAJOR\u003cbr\u003e   9. MARGARET\u003cbr\u003e  10. THE BLUEGRASS\u003cbr\u003e  11. A TOURNAMENT\u003cbr\u003e  12. BACK TO KINGDOM COME\u003cbr\u003e  13. ON TRIAL FOR HIS LIFE\u003cbr\u003e  14. THE MAJOR IN THE MOUNTAINS\u003cbr\u003e  15. TO COLLEGE IN THE BLUEGRASS\u003cbr\u003e  16. AGAIN THE BAR SINISTER\u003cbr\u003e  17. CHADWICK BUFORD, GENTLEMAN\u003cbr\u003e  18. THE SPIRIT OF '76 AND THE SHADOW OF '61\u003cbr\u003e  19. THE BLUE OR THE GRAY\u003cbr\u003e  20. OFF TO THE WAR\u003cbr\u003e  21. MELISSA\u003cbr\u003e  22. MORGAN'S MEN\u003cbr\u003e  23. CHAD CAPTURES AN OLD FRIEND\u003cbr\u003e  24. A RACE BETWEEN DIXIE AND DAWN\u003cbr\u003e  25. AFTER DAWS DILLON--GUERILLA\u003cbr\u003e  26. BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER AT LAST\u003cbr\u003e  27. AT THE HOSPITAL OF MORGAN'S MEN\u003cbr\u003e  28. PALL-BEARERS OF THE LOST CAUSE\u003cbr\u003e  29. MELISSA AND MARGARET\u003cbr\u003e  30. PEACE\u003cbr\u003e  31. THE WESTWARD WAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTWO RUNAWAYS FROM LONESOME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe days of that April had been days of mist and rain. Sometimes, for\u003cbr\u003ehours, there would come a miracle of blue sky, white cloud, and yellow\u003cbr\u003elight, but always between dark and dark the rain would fall and the\u003cbr\u003emist creep up the mountains and steam from the tops--only to roll\u003cbr\u003etogether from either range, drip back into the valleys, and lift,\u003cbr\u003estraightway, as mist again. So that, all the while Nature was trying to\u003cbr\u003egive lustier life to every living thing in the lowland Bluegrass, all\u003cbr\u003ethe while a gaunt skeleton was stalking down the Cumberland--tapping\u003cbr\u003ewith fleshless knuckles, now at some unlovely cottage of faded white\u003cbr\u003eand green, and now at a log cabin, stark and gray. Passing the mouth of\u003cbr\u003eLonesome, he flashed his scythe into its unlifting shadows and went\u003cbr\u003estalking on. High up, at the source of the dismal little stream, the\u003cbr\u003epoint of the shining blade darted thrice into the open door of a cabin\u003cbr\u003eset deep into a shaggy flank of Black Mountain, and three spirits,\u003cbr\u003ewithin, were quickly loosed from aching flesh for the long flight into\u003cbr\u003ethe unknown.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was the spirit of the plague that passed, taking with it the breath\u003cbr\u003eof the unlucky and the unfit: and in the hut on Lonesome three were\u003cbr\u003edead--a gaunt mountaineer, a gaunt daughter, and a gaunt son. Later,\u003cbr\u003ethe mother, too, \"jes' kind o' got tired,\" as little Chad said, and\u003cbr\u003esoon to her worn hands and feet came the well-earned rest. Nobody was\u003cbr\u003eleft then but Chad and Jack, and Jack was a dog with a belly to feed\u003cbr\u003eand went for less than nothing with everybody but his little master and\u003cbr\u003ethe chance mountaineer who had sheep to guard. So, for the fourth time,\u003cbr\u003eChad, with Jack at his heels, trudged up to the point of a wooded spur\u003cbr\u003eabove the cabin, where, at the foot of a giant poplar and under a\u003cbr\u003ewilderness of shaking June leaves, were three piles of rough boards,\u003cbr\u003eloosely covering three hillocks of rain-beaten earth; and, near them,\u003cbr\u003ean open grave. There was no service sung or spoken over the dead, for\u003cbr\u003ethe circuit-rider was then months away; so, unnoticed, Chad stood\u003cbr\u003ebehind the big poplar, watching the neighbors gently let down into the\u003cbr\u003eshallow trench a home-made coffin, rudely hollowed from the half of a\u003cbr\u003ebee-gum log, and, unnoticed, slipped away at the first muffled stroke\u003cbr\u003eof the dirt--doubling his fists into his eyes and stumbling against the\u003cbr\u003egnarled bodies of laurel and rhododendron until, out in a clear sunny\u003cbr\u003espace, he dropped on a thick, velvet mat of moss and sobbed himself to\u003cbr\u003esleep. When he awoke, Jack was licking his face and he sat up, dazed\u003cbr\u003eand yawning. The sun was dropping fast, the ravines were filling with\u003cbr\u003eblue shadows, luminous and misty, and a far drowsy tinkling from the\u003cbr\u003evalley told him that cows were starting homeward. From habit, he sprang\u003cbr\u003equickly to his feet, but, sharply conscious on a sudden, dropped slowly\u003cbr\u003eback to the moss again, while Jack, who had started down the spur,\u003cbr\u003ecircled back to see what the matter was, and stood with uplifted foot,\u003cbr\u003emuch puzzled.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147558732016,"sku":"2940013428584","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013428584_p0.jpg?v=1763580826","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013428584","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}