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    Una Of The Hill Country 1911
    Una Of The Hill Country 1911
    Una Of The Hill Country 1911
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    Una Of The Hill Country 1911

    By Mary Noailles Murfree

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Una Of The Hill Country 1911 - Mary Noailles Murfree

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Una Of The Hill Country, by

      Charles Egbert Craddock       (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: Una Of The Hill Country

             1911

      Author: Charles Egbert Craddock       (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

      Release Date: November 19, 2007 [EBook #23550]

      Last Updated: January 5, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNA OF THE HILL COUNTRY ***

      Produced by David Widger

      UNA OF THE HILL COUNTRY

      By Charles Egbert Craddock

      1911

      The old sawmill on Headlong Creek at the water-gap of Chilhowee Mountain was silent and still one day, its habit of industry suggested only in the ample expanse of sawdust spread thickly over a level open space in the woods hard by, to serve as footing for the bran dance that had been so long heralded and that was destined to end so strangely.

      A barbecue had added its attractions, unrivalled in the estimation of the rustic epicure, but even while the shoats, with the delectable flavor imparted by underground roasting and browned to a turn, were under discussion by the elder men and the sun-bonneted matrons on a shady slope near the mill, where tablecloths had been spread beside a crystal spring, the dance went ceaselessly on, as if the flying figures were insensible of fatigue, impervious to hunger, immune from heat.

      Indeed the youths and maidens of the contiguous coves and ridges had rarely so eligible an opportunity, for it is one of the accepted tenets of the rural religionist that dancing in itself is a deadly sin, and all the pulpits of the countryside had joined in fulminations against it Nothing less than a political necessity had compassed this joyous occasion. It was said to have been devised by the machine to draw together the largest possible crowd, that certain candidates might present their views on burning questions of more than local importance, in order to secure vigorous and concerted action at the polls in the luke-warm rural districts when these measures should go before the people, in the person of their advocates, at the approaching primary elections. However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued

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