Identifier: twogirlsofoldnew00sage (find matches)
Title: Two girls of old New Jersey : a school-girl story of '76
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Sage, Agnes Carr Connah, Douglas John
Subjects: New Jersey--Fiction.
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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so right willingly, sir, responded William, who wasalways glad of an opportunity to ride Rabicano. He lives inthat big mansion on the Hackensack road, does he not? Yes, about two miles beyond the copper mines.** Well, then, I will go this very afternoon, and, shortly afterthe noon dinner, the black colt was summoned from the field bya low whistle he knew well and came with a joyful whinny at hismasters call. With the yellow ears slung from the saddle, theyset gaily forth for the great manor-house which, even at thattime, had nearly completed its first century. It was one of those halcyon, dreamy, autumn days to whichthe early settlers gave the name of Indian summer. A misty,blue haze half obscured hill and valley and the pleasant sort ofmelancholy peculiar to the season stole over the boy, as he can-tered gently through the village and out onto the country road. How still it is and how peace seems to brood above this fairland, he thought. And yet, just over yonder, two rival armies 94
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