The Song Of The Lark
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Cather, Willa
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
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subject: thea
subject: archie
subject: kronborg
subject: fred
subject: people
subject: edition
subject: university
subject: nebraska
subject: omaha
subject: cather
subject: willa
subject: song
subject: lark
subject: american
subject: literature
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full text: [pg/etext92/song10.txt] This edition was prepared by at University of Nebraska at Omaha, by Professors Judith Boss and Marvin Peterson; two versions were preprared, one by typing the other by scanning and reconciled to create the following edition. Notes on the original edition and on the corrections and changes made have been placed at the end. THE SONG OF THE LARK (1915 edition) by WILLA CATHER CONTENTS PART I. FRIENDS OF CHILDHOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. THE SONG OF THE LARK . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 III. STUPID FACES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 IV. THE ANCIENT PEOPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 V. DOCTOR ARCHIE'S VENTURE . . . . . . . . . . . 343 VI. KRONBORG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 EPILOGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 <p 3> THE SONG OF THE LARK PART I FRIENDS OF CHILDHOOD I Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two travel- ing men who happened to be staying overnight in Moon- stone. His offices were in the Duke Block, over the drug store. Larry, the doctor's man, had lit the overhead light in the waiting-room and the double student's lamp on the desk in the study. The isinglass sides of the hard-coal burner were aglow, and the air in the study was so hot that as he came in the doctor opened the door into his little operating-room, where there was no stove. The waiting- room was carpeted and stiffly furnished, something like a country parlor. The study had worn, unpainted floors, but there was a look of winter comfort about it. The doctor's flat-top desk was large and well made; the papers were in orderly piles, under glass weights. Behind the stove a wide bookcase, with double glass doors, reached from the floor to the ceiling. It was filled with medical books of every thickness and color. On the top shelf stood a long row of thirty or forty volumes, bound all alike in dark mottled board covers, with imitation leather backs. As the doctor in New England villa…