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With a nurse for its villain and two little Sussex girls for heroines. Authoress Kaye-Smith's Summer Holiday is less a novel than a thinly veiled autobiographical sketch. The story is dedicated to "Moira" the younger heroine, who with her dreamier sister Selina spends a blissful summer on a farm near Hastings, near Authoress Kaye-Smith's home town, St. Leonards-on-Sea. Hayrides, all-day suckers, caterpillars in matchboxes, unripe pears, bellyaches and bellyaching, make half the Kaye-Smith children's fun. Their simple growing love for the Sussex countryside and country people makes...
Selina and Moira run as far & wide over the farm as their nurse will permit. Rosie and Maidie Huggett, the farmer's daughters, who wear men's smocks and help pitch hay, are symbols of a rustic freedom to which the carefully "brought up" city girls aspire. But Selina and Moira have imaginative resources of which the envied farm girls do not dream. Out of their dolls and stuffed animals, which make up a kind of fairy conclave named "The Lodge," out of the hedgerow flowers, the old oast-houses, the picnics in Flatropers Wood there emerge...
...colonel who is a follower of King James and who helps to set the trap for the treasure ship. But Murray has his way. The Santissima Trinidad, laden to the waterline with bullion, falls victim to the pirates off Hispaniola. From its deck, Master Ormerod carries the fair maid Moira to the Royal James. Then trouble begins. Half of the treasure is buried on -the sandy dot of land in the Caribbees, dangerous to shippingo the worst blasphemer : "A fool agreement, if you broach it now ! A of a piece of idiocy !" Flint buries the treasure sland. As a piece...
...Tuesday night in the Hasty Pudding Theatre, and were extremely successful. They are all of a serious nature and give excellent opportunities for careful delineation of character by the actors. Following are the casts of the four plays: "THE HARBOR OF LOST SHIPS." Billy Gosse, Dorothy Mason 1920 Moira Gosse, Elizabeth Schribner Allen 1917 Isaac, W. W. Lloyd uC Parson Tobin, F. C. Packard '20 "THE REUNION." Mrs. Sparhawk, Eleanor Holmes Hinkley, Radcliffe Sp. The Bum, R. T. Bushnell '19 The Ticket Agent, J. Horblit uC "A TRANSFER OF PROPERTY." Old Hodson, M. E. Curti '20 Mrs. Hodson, Edith, Isabelle...