Keepsakes & Other Stories

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KEEPSAKES & OTHER STORIES 1 2 3 BY JON HASSLER Staggerford Simon's Night The Love Hunter A Green Journey Grand Opening North of Hope Dear James Rookery Blues The Dean's List My Staggerford Journal FOR YOUNG READERS Four Miles to Pinecone Jemmy FORTHCOMING Days Like Smoke: Recollections of a Happy Boyhood On Goodness: Sketches from a Novelist's Life Heroes of Our Time: Stories Teachers Tell PLAYS Simon's Night Grand Opening The Staggerford Murders 4 KEEPSAKES & OTHER STORIES ]ON HASSLER WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY GAYLORD SCHANILEC AFTOf\.2 HISTORICA.L SOCIETY PRESS AFTO~. Tvll~NESOTA 5 Copyright© 1999 by Jon Hassler All rights reserved First softcover edition 1999 No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hassler, Jon. Keepsakes and other stories I Jon Hassler; wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. -- 1st ed. p. em. Contents: Chase Christopher, Moony, and the birds -- Keepsakes -Resident Priest-- Chief Larson-- Yesterday's Garbage-- Good news in Culver Bend. ISBN 1-890434-17-5 (Hardbound edition) ISBN 1-890434-24-8 (Softbound edition) I. Minnesota --Social life and customs Fiction I. Title. PS3558.A726K44 1999 813'.54--dc21 99-33888 CIP Printed in Canada. "Chief Larson" was previously published in Sunday Clothes (now defunct) and is reprinted by permission of the author. "Chase" \Vas previously published in 1'v1ilkweed Chronicle and is reprinted by permission of the author and 11.1ilkweed Editions. The Afton Historical Society Press is anon-profit organization that takes pride and pleasure in publishing fine books on regional subjects. W. Duncan MacMillan Patricia Condon Johnston president publisher Afton Historical Society Press P.O. Box 100 Afton, MN 55001 800-436-8443 email:aftonpress@aftonpress.com 6 7 8 For foe Plut 9 10 ...