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 L. M. Montgomery

The popular Canadian novelist. Author of Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea, The Golden Road, Anne of the Island The Watchman and Other Poems Anne s House of Dreams etc. Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clinton, Prince Edward Island, but lived from infancy in Cavendish, of the same province. Her father ivas Hugh John, son of the Hon. Donald Montgomery, Senator. Educated at the district school, at Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, and at Dalhousie Col lege, Halifax. Married, in 1911, Rev. Ewan Macdonald, Presby terian Minister at Leaskdale, Ontario.

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RIDE of a day, your eye is bright, And the flower of your cheek is red-.

Tie died with a smile on a field of France- I smile for his sake/ she said.

Mother of one, the babe you bore

Sleeps in a chilly bed. He gave himself with a gallant pride

Shall I be less proud? she said.

Woman, you weep and sit apart,

Whence is your sorrow fed? I have none of love or kin to go

I am shamed and sad, she said.

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