AFTERMATH

Part Second of _A Kentucky Cardinal_

by

JAMES LAKE ALLEN

Author of _The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky_, _Flute and Violin_, etc.

1899







Dedication

This to her from one who in childhood used to stand at the windows
of her room and watch for the Cardinal among the snow-buried cedars.




I

I was happily at work this morning among my butterbeans--a vegetable of
solid merit and of a far greater suitableness to my palate than such