Hepsey Burke

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Hepsey Burke	11
II	Gossip	25
III	The Senior Warden	36
IV	Milking	52
V	The Miniature	59
VI	The Missionary Tea	71
VII	Hepsey Goes A-Fishing	85
VIII	An Icebox for Cherubim	96
IX	The Rectory	111
X	The Bride’s Arrival	122
XI	Virginia’s High Horse	130
XII	House Cleaning and Bachelorhood	137
XIII	The Circus	147
XIV	On the Side Porch	160
XV	Nickey’s Social Ambitions	170
XVI	Practical Temperance Reform	186
XVII	Notice to Quit	200
XVIII	The New Rectory	212
XIX	Couleur de Rose	224
XX	Muscular Christianity	238
XXI	Uninvited Guests	253
XXII	Hepsey’s Diplomacy	271
XXIII	Hepsey Calls a Meeting	283
XXIV	Omnium Gatherum	308

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“You haven’t seen anything that looked like a parson, have you? You can generally spot ’em every time”	Frontispiece
“I’m blessed if you ’aint sewin’ white buttons on with black thread. Is anybody dead in the family, or ’aint you feelin’ well this mornin’?”	62
“Nicholas Burke, what in the name of conscience does all this idiotic performance mean, I’d like to know?”	80
“Oh well, I always believe that two young married people should start out by themselves, and then if they get into a family row it won’t scandalize the parish”	126
“I ’aint a chicken no more, Mrs. Betty, and I’ve ’most forgot how to do a bit of courtin’”	140
“I consider it a shame and a disgrace to the parish to have our rector in filthy clothes, drawing stone with a lot of ruffians”	248
“I’ve got a hunch, Sylvester Bascom, that it’ll be you that’ll have the last word, after all”	280
“Hepsey Burke, for all your molasses and the little bit of vinegar you say you keep by you, ‘There are no flies on you’ as Nickey would put it”	308