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DOHERTY, August 10, 1971, shot by British army. Edward, beloved husband of Marie, rest in peace. Mary, Queen of Ireland, pray...
...ADDIE PRAY by Joe David Brown. 313 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...heroine of this cheerful thimblerig of a novel is an eleven-year-old orphan whose mother was "the wildest girl in Marengo County, Alabama." More practical than Mama, Addie Pray takes up traveling with Long Boy Pray, one of several men who might be her father, in order to help him "do business"-meaning back-country bunco jobs...
...light-fingered with both Huckleberry Finn and True Grit. An amiable bear of a man whose down-home drawl is deceptively similar to Long Boy's, Joe David Brown, 56, is a native of Birmingham and a former writer and correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Addie Pray is his fifth novel and his third to be sold to the movies (the others: Kings Go Forth and Stars in My Crown). Brown has a special feeling for the Depression-era South, and the touches of nostalgia that hover like hummingbirds over his narrative are most often exactly right -like Addie...
...Sheriff's only duty at Commencement is to reply to the Marshal's cry, "Sheriff, pray give us order," by rapping his sword three times on the platform and crying, "Let the meeting be in order." It is unclear what Buckley will use to strike the platform in lien of his sword...