ROSE O’ THE RIVER Rose O’ the River BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE WRIGHT NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1905 BY THE CENTURY COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1905 BY KATE DOUGLAS RIGGS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published September 1905 Contents Illustrations [Pg 1] THE PINE AND THE ROSE It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet. An early ablution of this sort was not the custom of the farmers along the banks of the Saco, but the Waterman house was hardly a stone’s throw from the water, and there was a clear, deep swimming-hole in the Willow Cove that would have tempted the busiest man, or the least cleanly, in York County. Then, too, Stephen was a child of the
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