Hidden in a Pillow - Softcover

Croan, Brenda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452039607 ISBN 13: 9781452039602

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The year is around the 1890's. Several business men had gone to the small southern Virginia town of "Salt Town" to purchase some land to build a large chemical company in the town. Salt Wells were dug and the producing and the distribution of Salt began. Around the year of 1901 a young childhood romance developed between Arthur "Art" Thomas and Laura Bell Gillespie. The author takes her readers through both Arthur's and Laura Bell's young and adult lives. Arthur and his childhood friend, Jimmy "Jim" Johnson, grow up together. They get drafted into the Army together, they get married around the same time together, they both become Preacher's and have their own church. After Arthur comes home from the Army, he gets entangled with a young Gypsy Woman who is a "Fortune Teller" She tells Art's fortune and she places a curse a "Witchcraft Spell" upon him and she tells him he will "Die" if the curse he has been placed under is not lifted from him. Arthur's and Laura Bell's young daughter "Brenda" grows up and becomes an "Author" Brenda has many visions and dreams for her family and for "Salt Town"

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Hidden in a Pillow

By Brenda Croan

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ISBN: 978-1-4520-3960-2

Contents

Laura Bell's Home down on the River......................1The Accident down at the Sawmill.........................11Poor Valley..............................................23Matilda..................................................31The Mystery Man..........................................39The Devil's Playground...................................43The Junk Collector.......................................47The Post Cards...........................................51The Smyth County Fair....................................55The Spell................................................63The Pillow...............................................69The Search for the Young Gypsy Woman.....................75Jimmy gets Married.......................................81The Search for Laura Bell................................87Art's and Laura Bell's Talk..............................93Hickory Hollow...........................................101The Necklace Key.........................................107Laura Bell's Love Letters................................111Art's and Laura Bell's Wedding Day.......................117The Gypsy Preacher.......................................127Brenda and Red...........................................141Wild BILL................................................149The Corpse...............................................157The Search for Laura Bell's Pa...........................165The House on the Hill....................................169The Stone House Girls....................................177Art Travels On...........................................185The Company Shutdown.....................................191Frankie and Johnny comes Home............................197Brenda and Red gets Married..............................201The Haunted House........................................205The Move to Indiana......................................209The Big Steel Plant......................................213The Telephone Call.......................................219Mary Ellen's Funeral.....................................221The Old Salt Town........................................227Brenda becomes an Author.................................231Johnny and Brenda moves back Home........................235Hickory Hollow, Home Sweet Home..........................237

Chapter One

Laura Bell's Home down on the River

Laura Bell Gillespie and her best friend Mary Ellen Whitmore live in a place called Cedar Grove Hill. The nearest Town where the two young girls live is Salt Town. The year is in the early 1900's in the month of June on a nice hot summer day. Both of the girls are sitting in their classroom at their School in Ridgedale.

Laura Bell and Mary Ellen are the best of friends. The School they each attend sits by an open field down in a deep Valley. The School is called Ellendale. The School has only one big room and only one Teacher.

The Teacher teaches four school grade levels. Two grades of Grade School and two grades of High School. The teacher's name is Mrs. Pickle. The two young girls are in the first grade of Grade School at Ellendale School.

Laura Bell is the shyest of the two young girls. Mrs. Pickle is very strict with her younger students who tends to not pay close attention in class. When someone misbehaves or causes trouble for the other students Mrs. Pickle finds someway to punish the mischievous younger children without having to give the each of them a good paddling with her long wooden paddle.

Mrs. Pickle has never once had to go and use her paddle on any of her students. She believes by keeping her paddle in a place where the younger students can all see the paddle that it will remind them not to go getting themselves into any trouble.

One day, Laura Bell and Mary Ellen were sitting in their classroom. The two young girls began giggling and they couldn't seem to stop. The girls loved to giggle a lot and they each knew that "It just drives their teacher nuts, with their giggling, but they do it anyway."

Mrs. Pickle had her back facing the students while she was writing their daily homework assignments on the chalkboard. She heard the girls giggling and she turned around and she spoke "Girls, please stop your giggling and focus on your tomorrow's homework assignments I have written out for all of you to do." she said. Then, she turned herself back around facing the chalkboard once again. Mrs. Pickle proceeded to write out their homework assignments on the chalkboard for the following day.

The girls began laughing and giggling a lot harder and a lot louder and then suddenly "The whole classroom of students burst into laughter along with them."

Mrs. Pickle turned herself back around to face all of her students and she asked them "What in this world has gotten into all of you younger children today? What is going on in here?" the teacher asked her younger students. She continued to say "Tell me right this minute or all of you younger students will get a good paddling." she told them.

Mrs. Pickle glanced around the room and she saw what was happening for herself without anyone needing to say a word. She was not the least bit happy with the uproar in the classroom where the noise and the confusion seemed to have been created by a few of her younger grade students.

A couple of the young boys who are the same age as Laura Bell and Mary Ellen were sitting in their wooden desk chair seats. The same two boys had risen up out of their chair seats and they were taking something out of their pants and their shirt pockets.

This day, the two young boys decided they would bring along their "Pet Frogs" to school with them. The boys hid the frogs inside their pockets and before the young girls had burst out laughing the boys had already taken all of the frogs and turned them all loose, onto the bare wooden floor. The young girls began laughing and giggling hysterically.

The two young girls were just sitting there in their seats. They were each laughing and giggling just as hard as they could, while they sat and watched what the two young boys were doing. This was what seemed to have started Laura Bell's and Mary Ellen's giggling in the first place.

When the two girls first noticed what the two young boys were up to, they each laughed that much harder and louder. The girls were each thinking to themselves "The Boys are going to be in Trouble". !!!

The frogs began hopping all around the bare wooden floor. They were jumping up into some of the other students laps, where they were sitting in their chairs. The incident was causing the other students to have to rise up and come up out of their chairs and when they did, the other student's were also getting all excited.

The frogs were hopping underneath the long tables. Then, one of the frogs began hopping all around Mrs. Pickle's feet. Mrs. Pickle threw her long skinny arms up into the air and then, she went to hollering and crying and she was getting herself all upset with her younger students.

From all of the excitement and from all of the commotion, where was going on inside of the classroom, Mrs. Pickle began gasping for air. She could hardly catch her breath. She was at the point of collapsing and she had to sit back down in her chair, where is by her desk. She began praying to God, and she was begging him "God, Please don't let me faint." she prayed.

After Mrs. Pickle had a chance to get...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1452039607
• ISBN 13: 9781452039602
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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