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Elnora Comstock, an impoverished young girl growing up on the edge of the Limberlost swamp in Indiana, is a lover of nature who has an opportunity to pay for her education by collecting moths.

Describes a year in the life of a white man and his Indian family on the Indiana frontier.

The author was born in Indianapolis in 1856 but lived in Shelbyville from the age of 13. He was a popular writer whose first novel appeared in 1898. He was also an attorney and an amateur historian of Indiana history and of the English Tudor period.

Friends since childhood, Dannie Macnoun has always admired and gone out of his way to help Jimmy Malone and, despite the great harm he suffers at Jimmy's hands, remains blind to his friend's deceitful and spiteful character.

A wounded soldier- under a death sentence-finds himself taking over a sick beekeeper's garden and hives. scout, a little boy or girl!, helps him. He meets a very hurt woman. There is a baby,too. Beautifully written and an excellent book of the age. Try Freckles and Girl of the Limberlost by the same author.