Produced by David Garcia, Asad Razzaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Kentuckiana Digital Library) CLOVER AND BLUE GRASS By Eliza Calvert Hall AUNT JANE OF KENTUCKY THE LAND OF LONG AGO CLOVER AND BLUE GRASS TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH A BOOK OF HAND-WOVEN COVERLETS [Illustration: How could a man find words to thank a mother for giving him her daughter? FRONTISPIECE. _See page 144._] CLOVER AND BLUE GRASS _by_ Eliza Calvert Hall With a frontispiece by H. R. Ballinger Boston Little, Brown, & Company 1916 _Copyright, 1916_, BY LIDA CALVERT OBENCHAIN. _All rights reserved_ Published, September, 1916 TO MARTHA CALVERT AND VAL CALVERT WINSTON CONTENTS PAGE HOW PARSON PAGE WENT TO THE CIRCUS 1 MARY CRAWFORD'S CHART 33 OLD MAHOGANY 91 MILLSTONES AND STUMBLING-BLOCKS 115 "ONE TASTE OF THE OLD TIME" 157 ONE DAY IN SPRING 207 HOW PARSON PAGE WENT TO THE CIRCUS (The last of the "Aunt Jane" stories) This story, the nineteenth and last of the "Aunt Jane" stories, appeared in the _Cosmopolitan_, July 1910, after the publication of _The Land of Long Ago_. Its publication in this present volume completes the set of stories told by "Aunt Jane of Kentucky." "I hear there's goin' to be a circus in town next week," said Aunt Jane, "and if it wasn't for the looks of the thing, jest for the sake of old times, I'd like to go to town and stand on the old drug-store corner and watch the procession go 'round the square, like me and Abram used to do in the days when we was young and the children growin' up around us." She broke off with a laugh relevant to some happy thought.