{"product_id":"2940013787971","title":"NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     First Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     Jack O'Lantern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Second Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     Daughters of Zion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Third Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     Rebecca's Thought Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Fourth Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     A Tragedy in Millinery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Fifth Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     The Saving of the Colors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Sixth Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     The State of Maine Girl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Seventh Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     The Little Prophet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Eighth Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     Abner Simpson's New Leaf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Ninth Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     The Green Isle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Tenth Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     Rebecca's Reminiscences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Eleventh Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e     Abijah the Brave and the Fair Emma Jane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst Chronicle. JACK O'LANTERN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiss Miranda Sawyer's old-fashioned garden was the pleasantest spot in\u003cbr\u003eRiverboro on a sunny July morning. The rich color of the brick house\u003cbr\u003egleamed and glowed through the shade of the elms and maples. Luxuriant\u003cbr\u003ehop-vines clambered up the lightning rods and water spouts, hanging\u003cbr\u003etheir delicate clusters here and there in graceful profusion. Woodbine\u003cbr\u003etransformed the old shed and tool house to things of beauty, and the\u003cbr\u003eflower beds themselves were the prettiest and most fragrant in all\u003cbr\u003ethe countryside. A row of dahlias ran directly around the garden\u003cbr\u003espot,--dahlias scarlet, gold, and variegated. In the very centre was a\u003cbr\u003eround plot where the upturned faces of a thousand pansies smiled amid\u003cbr\u003etheir leaves, and in the four corners were triangular blocks of sweet\u003cbr\u003ephlox over which the butterflies fluttered unceasingly. In the spaces\u003cbr\u003ebetween ran a riot of portulaca and nasturtiums, while in the more\u003cbr\u003eregular, shell-bordered beds grew spirea and gillyflowers, mignonette,\u003cbr\u003emarigolds, and clove pinks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBack of the barn and encroaching on the edge of the hay field was a\u003cbr\u003egrove of sweet clover whose white feathery tips fairly bent under the\u003cbr\u003eassaults of the bees, while banks of aromatic mint and thyme drank\u003cbr\u003ein the sunshine and sent it out again into the summer air, warm, and\u003cbr\u003edeliciously odorous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hollyhocks were Miss Sawyer's pride, and they grew in a stately line\u003cbr\u003ebeneath the four kitchen windows, their tapering tips set thickly with\u003cbr\u003egay satin circlets of pink or lavender or crimson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"They grow something like steeples,\" thought little Rebecca Randall, who\u003cbr\u003ewas weeding the bed, \"and the flat, round flowers are like rosettes; but\u003cbr\u003esteeples wouldn't be studded with rosettes, so if you were writing about\u003cbr\u003ethem in a composition you'd have to give up one or the other, and I\u003cbr\u003ethink I'll give up the steeples:--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Gay little hollyhock\u003cbr\u003e     Lifting your head,\u003cbr\u003e     Sweetly rosetted\u003cbr\u003e     Out from your bed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's a pity the hollyhock isn't really little, instead of steepling up\u003cbr\u003eto the window top, but I can't say, 'Gay TALL hollyhock.'... I might\u003cbr\u003ehave it 'Lines to a Hollyhock in May,' for then it would be small; but\u003cbr\u003eoh, no! I forgot; in May it wouldn't be blooming, and it's so pretty\u003cbr\u003eto say that its head is 'sweetly rosetted'... I wish the teacher wasn't\u003cbr\u003eaway; she would like 'sweetly rosetted,' and she would like to hear me\u003cbr\u003erecite 'Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!' that I learned\u003cbr\u003eout of Aunt Jane's Byron; the rolls come booming out of it just like the\u003cbr\u003ewaves at the beach.... I could make nice compositions now, everything\u003cbr\u003eis blooming so, and it's so warm and sunny and happy outdoors. Miss\u003cbr\u003eDearborn told me to write something in my thought book every single day,\u003cbr\u003eand I'll begin this very night when I go to bed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Rowena Randall, the little niece of the brick-house ladies, and\u003cbr\u003eat present sojourning there for purposes of board, lodging, education,\u003cbr\u003eand incidentally such discipline and chastening as might ultimately\u003cbr\u003eproduce moral excellence,--Rebecca Randall had a passion for the rhyme\u003cbr\u003eand rhythm of poetry. From her earliest childhood words had always been\u003cbr\u003eto her what dolls and toys are to other children, and now at twelve she\u003cbr\u003eamused herself with phrases and sentences and images as her schoolmates\u003cbr\u003eplayed with the pieces of their dissected puzzles. If the heroine of\u003cbr\u003ea story took a \"cursory glance\" about her \"apartment,\" Rebecca would\u003cbr\u003eshortly ask her Aunt Jane to take a \"cursory glance\" at her oversewing\u003cbr\u003eor hemming; if the villain \"aided and abetted\" someone in committing\u003cbr\u003ea crime, she would before long request the pleasure of \"aiding and\u003cbr\u003eabetting\" in dishwashing or bedmaking. Sometimes she used the borrowed\u003cbr\u003ephrases unconsciously; sometimes she brought them into the conversation\u003cbr\u003ewith an intense sense of pleasure in their harmony or appropriateness;\u003cbr\u003efor a beautiful word or sentence had the same effect upon her\u003cbr\u003eimagination as a fragrant nosegay, a strain of music, or a brilliant\u003cbr\u003esunset.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152694264048,"sku":"2940013787971","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013787971_p0.jpg?v=1763599219","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013787971","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}