title: Bitter Passage: A story set during Americas epic 1849 gold rush
author:  Elizabeth Buechner Morris 
description: Elizabeth Buechner Morris (Betsy) lives by the sea in Marblehead, Massachusetts and has for most of her adult life.When sheretired from Bank of Bostonsheand her husband moved aboard their 39 foot sailboat and cruised the waters of the American and Canadian east coast, Caribbean, and South and Central America for five years, braving all the usual demons from horrific storms to marauding jelly fish to once having a boa constrictor aboard. Now they live ashore most of each year, only living aboard full time in the sub-tropics during the winter. Sheattended Sweet Briar College and has degrees from Goddard College in Vermont (BA) and Simmons College in Boston (MBA).She writes for the sailing press: SAIL Magazine, Points East, Southwinds, Power Cruising, and others. And her short fiction has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Hawaii Pacific Review, Binnacle, The Evening Street Review, Janus, Slow Trains, WordRiot, PersimmonTree, Evening Street Review, weber studies, The Hurricane Review, and others.
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  # The Blue Flower
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Henry van Dyke
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE
  
  
  THE BLUE FLOWER
  
  
  
  
  
  THE SOURCE
  
  
    
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  THE MILL
  
  
    
  I. How the Young Martimor would Become a Knight
  
  
  and Assay Great Adventure
  
  
    
  II. How Martimor was Instructed of Sir Lancelot to
  
  
  Set Forth Upon His Quest
  
  
    
  III. How Martimor Came to the Mill and Stayed in
  
  
  a Delay
  
  
    
  IV. How the Mill was in Danger and the Delay
  
  
  Endured
  
  
  THE MILL
  
  
    
  V. Yet More of the Mill, and of the Same Delay,
  
  
  also of the Maid
  
  
    
  VI. How the Month of May came to the Mill, and the
  
  
  Delay was Made Longer
  
  
    
  VII. How Martimor Bled for a Lady and Lived for a
  
  
  Maid, and how His Great Adventure Ended and Began at the Mill
  
  
  SPY ROCK
  
  
    
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  II
  
  
    
  III
  
  
  WOOD-MAGIC
  
  
    
  I. The Cabin by the Rivers
  
  
    
  II. The House on the Main Street
  
  
    
  III. The White Canoe
  
  
  THE OTHER WISE MAN
  
  
    
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