Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-06-22
CHAPTER ELEVEN.

CHAPTER ELEVEN.
It was n beautiful May evening of
the year that Fun Ting was fourteen.
Ha sat in the little parlor looking over
the pressed botanical specimens ne
had collected the year before. AS the
red faded from the west and the big
full moon came up over the eastern
hills the singing Of the Crickets under
the doorstep in front of the house
came to him through the open window
The fragrance of growing things was
everywhere. and drifted through the
window and to his very appr"ciAtlNc
nose In spite Of the fact that his nose
VAS trine fiat. it was large ana not
i'll locking AS the little fellow from
Mott street grew into man he looked
laGs and less like his Chinese father
and more and more like his grand
father Hudson. And Grandpa Hudson,
y ncn in his prime. had been accounted
= handsome and sturdy man.
Just now the cll gentleman was
asleep on the lounge, and Grandma
Hudson nodded in her chair.
once or twice Fun Ting heard
rustic in the lilac bushes cut by the
front window. but d:d not so to see
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BON that Ne heard all sorts of Wierd
flFhl S"illdN' an" VIZ uH'' !"
Nh"h 'hc olc u"S Hiil'ir" "i'U'i' ',i
door post ne sthef"lis h'iiu !, II
iay asleep in his room upstairs. The
barking of a fox down in the ravine.
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lI!shl.
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down the mountain Sld" but l""
minutes before, but m the rider had
turned through the bars INTO the Sui'
S"dd"d field h" had not caught the
sound. Nor dld II" SIS dark h6urt
steal up through th' apple trees ahd
along IN" heAS" toward ,he mac
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