Miss Minerva and William Green Hill . No, not next Sunday or Monday or Tues-day. We will be married to-morrow, de-clared the suddenly dictatorial Confederateveteran. Billys aunt succumbed. Oh, Joseph, she said, with almost asimper, you are so masterful. How would you like me for an uncle?Miss Minervas affianced asked Billy a fewminutes later. Fine an dandy, was the answer, as thechild wriggled himself out of his auntsembrace. The enthusiastic reception ac-corded him, when he got off the train, wasalmost too much for the little boy. He gazedat the pair in embarrassment. He was forthe moment dis
Miss Minerva and William Green Hill . No, not next Sunday or Monday or Tues-day. We will be married to-morrow, de-clared the suddenly dictatorial Confederateveteran. Billys aunt succumbed. Oh, Joseph, she said, with almost asimper, you are so masterful. How would you like me for an uncle?Miss Minervas affianced asked Billy a fewminutes later. Fine an dandy, was the answer, as thechild wriggled himself out of his auntsembrace. The enthusiastic reception ac-corded him, when he got off the train, wasalmost too much for the little boy. He gazedat the pair in embarrassment. He was forthe moment disconcerted and overcome; inplace of the expected scoldings and punish-ment, he was received with caresses and flat- 272 Miss Minerva tering consideration. He could not under-stand it at all. The Major put a hand on the little boysshoulder and smiled a kindly smile into hisbig, gray, astonished eyes as the happy loverdelightedly whispered, Your Aunt Minervais going to marry me to-morrow, Billy. Pants an all*? asked William The Publishers* Story of Miss Minerva andWiUiam Green HiU The Publishers* Story of Miss Minerva andWilliam Green Hill Thousands of men, women and children haveread and enjoyed this unique little book, not onlybecause of its infectious humor which brings alaugh with the reading of every page, but becauseMiss Minerva is a living expression of her typeof womanhood, Billy a real, human, lovable littleboy, and the other characters easily recognizableas those we meet every day. It is not our purpose, though, to say muchabout a book that has become an intimate friendof so many, but rather to tell the story of itsoriginal publication, and something of its lamentedauthor, Mrs. Calhoun. Sometime during the spring of nineteen hun-dred and eight, a package came to us which con-tained, as was afterwards discovered, the manu-script of MISS MINERVA and WILLIAMGREEN HILL. In the course of busy prepa-ration for the publications of the year, the modestpackage was lai
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