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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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g his cottage was un-wontedly lit up. Looking inside, Ifound Mr. Lee hard at work—on a cof-fin. Why, whos dead now ? I said. Widow Remnant, he answered. Dead this afternoon, poor old soul! And Mr. Lee ceased his work a momentand touched his hat. He was a boyish-looking little man, with an impish tiltto his nose, and small clever eyes; andyou would hardly have taken him for thefather of twelve children. But such isvillage productiveness. Widow Rem-nant was well known to me, a bent, witch-like old woman, whom I had often comeupon in my walks, gathering sticks, in ascarlet cloak. She lived entirely alonein a remote cottage on the edge of asolitary bit of woodland, and a certainhalo of romance had always invested herin my imagination from a village storywhich connected her with a lawless ad-venturous past, in which our corner of theworld was known to have had somewhatmore than its share. Widow Remnant, itwas said, had been a highwaymans love—■in the days, sixty or seventy years ago,
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