The Old Peabody Pew - Kate Douglas Wiggin

1905. Another heartwarming tale from the American educator and writer, famous for her children's works including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

The story begins: Edgewood, like all the other villages along the banks of the Saco, is full of sunny slopes and leafy hollows.

There are little, rounded, green-clad hillocks that might, like their scriptural sisters, skip with joy; and there are grand, rocky hills tufted with gaunt pine trees-these leading the eye to the splendid heights of a neighbor State, where snow-crowned peaks tower in the blue distance, sweeping the horizon in a long line of majesty.