Cart-Wheels

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Xlibris Corporation, 2005 M11 7 - 120 pages
A near blizzard howled through the John Day Valley in Eastern Oregon. Fine snow sifted through the cracks around the windows of the board-and-batten ranch house. Homemade curtains were tacked to the windowsills to keep everything inside snug and warm. In the corner of the kitchen a hot fire burned in the iron cook-stove, and the old black iron teakettle hummed as the steam from its spout drifted almost to the ceiling.

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Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
7
A LETTER FROM IDAHO
9
MR MCKAY
14
KEN
21
A GIDDY WHIRL
29
A WEDDING AND A PARTING
32
BY COACH BY SLED AND BY RAIL
38
A LETTER TO LILLIE
44
ANOTHER LETTER TO LILLIE
59
A DECISION
64
COUNTRY DANCE ON CAMAS PRAIRIE
69
THE HOUSE WITH RED SHUTTERS
73
COTTONWOOD SCHOOL
79
DEBATE
84
CAMPAIGNING
90
TELLING LILLIE
100

A FRIGHT
47
CAMAS PRAIRIE
52
CARTWHEELS
106
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Susan Quainton is a retired English teacher living in Washington, D.C. After gaining degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Oxford University, she spent nearly forty years as a Foreign Service spouse, during which time she also taught in high schools, elementary schools, and adult English language institutes both at home and abroad. She has lived in countries on five continents, where her husband served in U.S. Embassies, becoming Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Nicaragua, Kuwait, and Peru. The Quaintons have three children and seven grandchildren, who are among Lela’s great-great-grandchildren—the generation for whom these books have been prepared.

Susan Quainton is a retired English teacher living in Washington, D.C. After gaining degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Oxford University, she spent nearly forty years as a Foreign Service spouse, during which time she also taught in high schools, elementary schools, and adult English language institutes both at home and abroad. She has lived in countries on five continents, where her husband served in U.S. Embassies, becoming Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Nicaragua, Kuwait, and Peru. The Quaintons have three children and seven grandchildren, who are among Lela’s great-great-grandchildren—the generation for whom these books have been prepared.

Susan Quainton is a retired English teacher living in Washington, D.C. After gaining degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Oxford University, she spent nearly forty years as a Foreign Service spouse, during which time she also taught in high schools, elementary schools, and adult English language institutes both at home and abroad. She has lived in countries on five continents, where her husband served in U.S. Embassies, becoming Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Nicaragua, Kuwait, and Peru. The Quaintons have three children and seven grandchildren, who are among Lela’s great-great-grandchildren—the generation for whom these books have been prepared.

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