Word: yestreen
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...tale of a snow-locked glen in the Scottish highlands during a winter of the 1860's. Adam Yestreen, the young minister of the kirk, sets down the eerie happenings of his one and only winter there. A man with simple, homely ways, with speculations as to the strange death of one of his predecessors, with a great kindness for all, and a quaint sort of humor, he falls in love with Miss Julie Logan, that "long stalk of loveliness." Their few meetings have many of the elements of a dream about them, yet she seems very much...
...which he has written 14 plays but no stories) comes a little Scottish fairy tale as neat as a pin, bright as a button, sentimental as Tommy. Barrie lovers will hail it; it should send readers who do not know him scuttling back to his early works. Adam Yestreen, who tells the tale, is pastor of a little hamlet among the hills, still visited (say some) by ghosts of Prince Charlie's men-aye, and women too. Pastor Yestreen, though a simple soul, takes no stock in such things. His parishioners are a shrewd and cautious...
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