Warner, Susan: Hills of the Shatemuc Vol I. v1. 13 Jun 2014
 

Susan Bogert Warner (July 11, 1819 – March 17, 1885), was an American evangelical writer of religious fiction, children's fiction, and theological works.Born in New York City, She wrote, under the name of "Elizabeth Wetherell", thirty novels, many of which went into multiple editions. Some of her works were written jointly with her younger sister Anna Bartlett Warner, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Amy Lothrop"

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The light of an early Spring morning, shining fair on upland and lowland, promised a good day for the farmer’s work. And where a film of thin smoke stole up over the tree-tops, into the sunshine which had not yet got so low, there stood the farmer’s house.
It was a little brown house, built surely when its owner’s means were not greater than his wishes, and probably some time before his family had reached the goodly growth it boasted now. All of them were gathered at the breakfast-table.