Word: ebbing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stories, this can be repeated to monotony. In "Autumn in the Forest," Mr. Edgell reproduces the sights he "photographed in his mind for future reference"; but, if I may pursue the figure, the retouching shows too much--nature does not willingly submit to being written up. His story, "Eb. Demming's Coon Hunt," is clever, and the dialect has greater verisimilitude than we commonly look for in such things. The defective who turns out to be more of a man than was expected figures also in "Jean and the Rabbit-Jules," and in Mr. Barber's "Club-foot...