Eighty Seven

Twelve-year-old Winter Kelland is an orphan indentured to a cold, harsh farming couple. His one bright spot is eight-year-old Vine, a neighbor girl who believes he can do great things if he can get an education. Win finally has enough of the hard life at the farm and runs away. But he discovers that even his poor life at the farm was desirable to being a half-starved tramp. At his lowest, he encounters a prickly spinster who learns to follow God's command, "He that honoreth Him hath mercy on the poor." The title, Eighty Seven, refers to the year Vine will turn 22 years old and will have a grand birthday feast, and is a tribute to her Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC) graduating class of 1887.

By : Pansy (1841 - 1930)

00 - Preface 01 - Eight and Twelve 02 - ''March! I Said'' 03 - In Search of Home 04 - Practicing 05 - Opportunity 06 - Some Half-Way Thinking 07 - Unseen Connections 08 - ''Will You?'' 09 - ''I Will'' 10 - Growing ''Necessary'' 11 - Energy and Force 12 - Circles 13 - Photographs 14 - Experiments 15 - Sage Conclusions 16 - ''Orders to Move'' 17 - Happenings 18 - Differing Worlds 19 - Seeking Stepping-Stones 20 - ''Very Much Improved'' 21 - Progress 22 - Evolutions 23 - ''In His Name'' 24 - A ''Providence'' 25 - A Great Many ''Little Things'' 26 - Home 27 - Circles Within Circles 28 - A Night for Decisions 29 - ''That Beats Me!''