Maria Louise Pool
In Buncombe County
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"In Buncombe County" is bubbling over with merriment--one could not be blue with such a companion for an hour. ........ Boston Times It is brimming over with humor, and the reader who can follow the fortunes of the redbird alone, who flutters through the first few chapters, and not be moved to long laughter, must be sadly insensitive. But laugh as he may, he will always revert to the graver vein which unobtrusively runs from the first to the last page in the book. He will lay down the narrative of almost grotesque adventure with a keen remembrance of its tender- ness and pathos. ....... New York Tribune " Maria Louise Pool is a joy forever, principally because she so nobly disproves the lurking theory that women are born desti- tute of humor. Here is not acquired; it is the real thing. "In Buncombe County", is perfect with its quiet appreciation of the humorous side of the everyday affairs of life." ...... Chicago Daily News .............................................................................. Excerpt: CHAPTER I - Waiting for Alick We were waiting for a boy; at least, we had been led to believe it was for that reason we were sitting so long before an open fire in the back part of one of the grocery stores in Asheville Junction, North Carolina. We had arrived in the early morning from Spartanburg. It already began to seemas if it were several mornings ago when we had stepped on the deserted platform. We knew it must be the Swannanoa which was brawling along just the other side of the dismal structure said to be a boarding house. But it was nothing to us, though it were ten times the Swannanoa. It is one of the drawbacks of travel that, when you have gone hundreds of miles to look at some fine scenery, you are in such a state physically that you do not care whether you look at the scenery or not. While we had stood dejectedly on the platform in the dusk, the conductor had taken pity on us, and, as the train moved on, he had swung "forward from the steps and shouted to us to go to the store and see what we could do. "I suppose," said Amabel, "that the conductor meant well; still, what do you think he thought we could do at the store? What do you advise that we should try to do there? I don't feel, just at present, as if there were any employment suitabel for me in a North Carolina grocery-store".
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