Excerpt: ...were to try to run down a lively little yacht. Bennington had always considered girls as weak creatures, incapable of swift motion, and needing assistance whenever the country departed from the artificial level of macadam. He had also thought himself fairly active. He revised these ideas. This girl could travel through the thin brush of the creek bottom two feet to his one, because she ran more lightly and surely, and her endurance was not a matter for discussion. The question of second wind did not concern her ...
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Excerpt: ...were to try to run down a lively little yacht. Bennington had always considered girls as weak creatures, incapable of swift motion, and needing assistance whenever the country departed from the artificial level of macadam. He had also thought himself fairly active. He revised these ideas. This girl could travel through the thin brush of the creek bottom two feet to his one, because she ran more lightly and surely, and her endurance was not a matter for discussion. The question of second wind did not concern her any more than it does a child, whose ordinary mode of progression is heartbreaking. Bennington found that he was engaged in the most delightful play of his life. He shouted aloud with the fun of it. He had the feeling that he was grasping at a sunbeam, or a mist-shape that always eluded him. He would lose her utterly, and would stand quite motionless, listening, for a long time. Suddenly, without warning, an exaggerated leaf crown would fall about his neck, and he would be overwhelmed with ridicule at the outrageous figure he presented. Then for a time she seemed everywhere at once. The mottled sunlight under the trees danced and quivered after her, smiling and darkening as she dimpled or was grave. The little whirlwinds of the gulches seized the leaves and danced with her too, the birches and aspens tossed their hands, and rising ever higher and wilder and more elf-like came the mocking cadences of her laughter. After a time she disappeared again. Bennington stood still, waiting for some new prank, but he waited in vain. He instituted a search, but the search was fruitless. He called, but received no reply. At last he made his way again to the dell in which they had lunched, and there he found her, flat on her back, looking at the little summer clouds through wide-open eyes. Her mood appeared to have changed. Indeed that seemed to be characteristic of her; that her lightness was not so much the lightness of thistle down, which is ever airy, ..
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Good. No Dustjacket. Book New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. Later printing. Good/no dust jacket. Later printing of the first edition. Decorated American trade binding (signed binding-WJ monogram on lower left corner of cover). Red cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration on cover, stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. Lettering is somewhat worn, but clearly legible. No fraying or wear-through. Binding is tight, slight slant to binding. Hinges are sound-no cracking. A few small faint spots to rear board. 284 pages.
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Very Good+ Attractive pictorial cloth. Printing date of this edition actually unknown. 284pp. Small ink stamp on ffep & pencil gift inscription (1916). Vg+ bright copy. No dj. Dykes p439.
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Grosset and Dunlap, NY, 1902, Fifth Impression.
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Good. No Jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover. Story takes place in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Cover bright and clean., . Light corner wear and light water stain on corner of first few pages else VG. Brown pictorial embossed boards, 284 pp. plus ads. Hinges weak, light corner wear else VG. No dj.
