SMOKING FLAX
BY
Hallie Erminie Rives
SECOND EDITION
F. TENNYSON NEELY
PUBLISHER
LONDON NEW YORK
Neely’s Prismatic Library.
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TO MY MOTHER AND THE SOUTH
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INTRODUCTION.
“Smoking Flax” is a story of the Southwritten by a young Kentucky woman. Undoubtedlyin the South its advent will besaluted with enthusiastic bravos. Whatwill be the nature of its reception in theNorth it is hazardous to predict. Onething, however, can be confidently prophesiedfor it everywhere—consideration.This the subject and manner of its treatmentassures.
The methods of Judge Lynch viewedfrom most standpoints are, without extenuation,evil; from a few