{"product_id":"2940013788176","title":"ROSE O' THE RIVER","description":"TABLE OF CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pine And The Rose                                              1\u003cbr\u003eOld Kennebec                                                      13\u003cbr\u003eThe Edgewood \"Drive\"                                              28\u003cbr\u003e\"Blasphemious Swearin'\"                                           40\u003cbr\u003eThe Game Of Jackstraws                                            50\u003cbr\u003eHearts And Other Hearts                                           67\u003cbr\u003eThe Little House                                                  81\u003cbr\u003eThe Garden Of Eden                                                93\u003cbr\u003eThe Serpent                                                      102\u003cbr\u003eThe Turquoise Ring                                               114\u003cbr\u003eGold And Pinchbeck                                               135\u003cbr\u003eA Country Chevalier                                              145\u003cbr\u003eHousebreaking                                                    160\u003cbr\u003eThe Dream Room                                                   168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRose O' The River                                       Frontispiece\u003cbr\u003e\"She's Up!\"                                                        6\u003cbr\u003e\"He's A Turrible Smart Driver\"                                    20\u003cbr\u003eHe Had Certainly \"Taken Chances\"                                  32\u003cbr\u003eIn A Twinkling He Was In The Water                                64\u003cbr\u003e\"Rose, I'll Take You Safely\"                                      76\u003cbr\u003eHiding Her Face As He Flung It Down The River-Bank               116\u003cbr\u003eShe Had Gone With Maude To Claude's Store                        128\u003cbr\u003e\"As Long As Stephen Waterman's Alive, Rose Wiley Can Have Him\"   158\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't Speak, Stephen, Till You Hear What I Have To Say\"         174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PINE AND THE ROSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip\u003cbr\u003ein the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the\u003cbr\u003ealder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn early ablution of this sort was not the custom of the farmers along\u003cbr\u003ethe banks of the Saco, but the Waterman house was hardly a stone's throw\u003cbr\u003efrom the water, and there was a clear, deep swimming-hole in the Willow\u003cbr\u003eCove that would have tempted the busiest man, or the least cleanly, in\u003cbr\u003eYork County. Then, too, Stephen was a child of the river, born, reared,\u003cbr\u003eschooled on its very brink, never happy unless he were on it, or in it,\u003cbr\u003eor beside it, or at least within sight or sound of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe immensity of the sea had always silenced and overawed him, left him\u003cbr\u003ecold in feeling. The river wooed him, caressed him, won his heart. It\u003cbr\u003ewas just big enough to love. It was full of charms and changes, of\u003cbr\u003evarying moods and sudden surprises. Its voice stole in upon his ear with\u003cbr\u003ea melody far sweeter and more subtle than the boom of the ocean. Yet it\u003cbr\u003ewas not without strength, and when it was swollen with the freshets of\u003cbr\u003ethe spring and brimming with the bounty of its sister streams, it could\u003cbr\u003edash and roar, boom and crash, with the best of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen stood on the side porch, drinking in the glory of the sunrise,\u003cbr\u003ewith the Saco winding like a silver ribbon through the sweet loveliness\u003cbr\u003eof the summer landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the river rolled on toward the sea, singing its morning song,\u003cbr\u003ecreating and nourishing beauty at every step of its onward path. Cradled\u003cbr\u003ein the heart of a great mountain-range, it pursued its gleaming way,\u003cbr\u003ehere lying silent in glassy lakes, there rushing into tinkling little\u003cbr\u003efalls, foaming great falls, and thundering cataracts. Scores of bridges\u003cbr\u003espanned its width, but no steamers flurried its crystal depths. Here and\u003cbr\u003ethere a rough little rowboat, tethered to a willow, rocked to and fro in\u003cbr\u003esome quiet bend of the shore. Here the silver gleam of a rising perch,\u003cbr\u003echub, or trout caught the eye; there a pickerel lay rigid in the clear\u003cbr\u003ewater, a fish carved in stone: here eels coiled in the muddy bottom of\u003cbr\u003esome pool; and there, under the deep shadows of the rocks, lay fat,\u003cbr\u003esleepy bass, old, and incredibly wise, quite untempted by, and wholly\u003cbr\u003esuperior to, the rural fisherman's worm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe river lapped the shores of peaceful meadows; it flowed along banks\u003cbr\u003egreen with maple, beech, sycamore, and birch; it fell tempestuously over\u003cbr\u003edams and fought its way between rocky cliffs crowned with stately firs.\u003cbr\u003eIt rolled past forests of pine and hemlock and spruce, now gentle, now\u003cbr\u003eterrible; for there is said to be an Indian curse upon the Saco,\u003cbr\u003ewhereby, with every great sun, the child of a paleface shall be drawn\u003cbr\u003einto its cruel depths.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152666280176,"sku":"2940013788176","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013788176_p0.jpg?v=1763590249","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013788176","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}