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...MILLERSVILLE! - Fern Gravel -Prairie Press...
...Fern Gravel" was the pen name of a sub-teen authoress whose soul simultaneously exfoliated in and was griped by her Iowa home town, early in the 1900s. Her verses, now brought to light (she had entrusted them to the safekeeping of an adult confidant), are as good examples of dead-pan lyricism as have ever been printed...
...Most of Fern Gravel's eager observation centred on Millersville's inhabitants; and most of these inhabitants she took exactly as they came...
...more disturbing character was Fern's uncle, a druggist who scandalized her and the "Reverent Mr. Dotson" by selling whiskey to town drunks. This unethical druggist kept a curious machine on his tobacco counter which Fern feared was unethical...
...Fiji officials, had apparently died soon after he had scrawled his signature. Eve had died just a day or two before the sea washed the Wing On up on Vanua Levu. The rest of the story of the 100-day adventure was locked behind the swollen lips of Fern Thompson, who, in critical condition, was carried delirious to an island hospital...