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The Long Journey

Chapter 13: Transcriber's Notes
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About This Book

A boy named Conrad cares for his family's lone cow amid a village devastated by war, famine, and disease. Facing ruin, his family and neighbors plan to leave their desolated valley and travel downriver toward a distant land. Conrad, older than his years and fond of reading, imagines the sea, fruitful climates, and encounters with Native peoples while reassuring his siblings. The narrative follows their departure, a sea voyage that includes threats such as pirates, and overland travel through dark forests toward a new settlement, tracing the hardships, hopes, and small domestic moments that shape the migrants' long journey.

PENELOPE'S POSTSCRIPTS


By Kate Douglas Wiggin
Author of "Rebecca," "The Birds' Christmas Carol," etc.

The experiences of the ever-fascinating Penelope in Vienna, Switzerland, Wales, Devon, and at home.

"In their delightfully humorous way, with their capital touches of character-drawing, Penelope's travel books will enchant readers to-day as much as they delighted those who read them more than a decade ago."—New York Tribune.

"In its lightness of touch, its gayety and humor, it reveals the qualities that have endeared Mrs. Wiggin's work to such a host of readers."—New York World.

"Age cannot destroy, nor familiarity lessen, Penelope's power to charm. In these, her 'postscripts,' that power is as potent as ever."—Philadelphia Press.

"All the charm of the author's previous books is present in this one."—New Orleans Times-Picayune.

With frontispiece. $1.00 net.

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MIFFLIN
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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected, all other spelling, punctuation and accents are as in he original.