Bernie Babcock

Bernie Babcock
Bernie Babcock (1868–1962) was an American author and journalist known for her works of historical fiction and for founding the Museum of Natural History in Little Rock, Arkansas. She wrote more than 40 books during her lifetime, with notable works including "The Soul of Abraham Lincoln" and "Yesterday and To-morrow." Babcock was also a prolific contributor to various magazines and newspapers, often focusing on themes of history, religion, and Southern life. In addition to her literary career, she was an advocate for civic improvement and cultural preservation.

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CHAPTER I. THE CROWLEY FAMILY. Let me introduce the reader to the Crowley family, and when you have become acquainted with them bear well in mind that in this broad land of ours there are thousands upon thousands of families in a condition as deplorable, and some whose mercury line of debauchery has dropped to a point of miserable existence as yet unsounded by this family. The Crowleys are all in... more...

PROLOGUE THE CHILD "The fangs of the she-wolf are whetted keen for Galilean flesh and else the wrath of Jehovah palsy the arm of Rome, Galilean soil will run red with blood from scourged backs ere the noon of a new day." The speaker, a slender woman wearing the garb of a peasant, lowered a water-jar from her shoulder and stood beside the bench of a workman, who paused at his task to get news... more...