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Title: The Chronicles of Break O' Day Author: Edward Everett Howe

Clearance Key: 20130301194840howe Scans archive: https://archive.org/details/chroniclesbreak00howegoog Credit: Nathan Hartley from scans obtained at the Internet Archive Notes to Whitewashers: For Al Haines attention eBookmaker output: https://ebookmaker.pglaf.org/cache/20260228190501/output.txt

Scanned Book

CHAPTERS

The # at end of chapter title equals the pass completed.

  • Copyright
  • I. A Rural Philosopher 2
  • II. The New Jerusalem 2
  • III. A Glimpse of Farm Service 2
  • IV. A Cirrus becomes a Nimbus 2
  • V. Ramoth Gilead Predicted 2
  • VI. The Guerrero Mining Company 2
  • VII. Montcalm takes a Night's Ramble 2
  • VIII. Pursuing the Depredators 2
  • IX. How the Affair Ended 2
  • X. Two Kinds of Bud Blossom 2
  • XI. The Root of an Evil 2
  • XII. The Well with a Barrel Curb 2
  • XIII. A Daniel come to Judgment 2
  • XIV. Montcalm finds Dante inaccurate 2
  • XV. Ivanhoe Criticised by a Master 2
  • XVI. Mrs. Boyle's House 2
  • XVII. What Happened in the Swamp 2
  • XVIII. Break O'Day 2
  • XIX. The Village has a Sensation 2
  • XX. A Good Samaritan 2
  • XXI. Controversy and Reminiscence 2
  • XXII. Action is Equal to Reaction 2
  • XXIII. One Hour of Bliss 2
  • XXIV. A Beethoven and a Gibbon in one 2
  • XXV. Durgenson Demands his Money 2
  • XXVI. Ramoth Gilead 2
  • XXVII. Ruin 1
  • XXVIII. John hears an Account of his Adventure 2
  • XXIX. Among the Invalids 2
  • XXX. The Beginning of Mystery 2
  • XXXI. Awakening 1
  • XXXII. Liber Sextus 1
  • XXXIII. The House Divided against Itself 1
  • XXXIV. Verdure rising from the Ashes 1
  • XXXV. Stray Locals 1
  • XXXVI. In the Orchard Again 1

PEOPLE

  • Abner Wallace, Mr.
  • Baldwin, Mrs. - a sister of Senator Ballard.
  • Boutwell - Wagon manufacturer.
  • Boyle, Alfred (Alf) - cruel child.
  • Boyle, Mrs.
  • Brown, Mr. - One of Ratke's farm hands.
  • Dabney, aka Panicky - Panacea, snake-oil salesman.
  • Durgenson - shady cattle-buyer
  • Holmes; Jennie - family who lived near the church.
  • Jake Sheppard - offered a house to Ratke.
  • James Ratke, Mr. aka major, aka the philosopher - main character
  • Jim Turner - Friend of Ratke, with a peculiar white hat.
  • Mallard, Senator - Friend of Ratke.
  • Maria Grippin, Mrs. - Ratke' sister and housekeeper.
  • Mark Daggett, Mr. - One of Ratke's farm hands.
  • Montcalm, Mr. Trace? - One of Ratke's farm hands.
  • Nora Warfle, Mrs. - Young lady that lives with Ratke.
  • Phleet Takum - the Cleatus of Break o' Day. Has mean dogs.
  • Rorus, M.D. Mr. I. J. H. - Physician and Surgeon
  • Sheppard, Mr. Jake - One of Ratke's farm hands.
  • Sparks - Ratke's know-it-all neighbor with a southern drawl.
  • Taylor - One of Ratke's horses.
  • Will Archer - One of Ratke's hired hands.
  • Whipple, Mr.
  • Wrengell, John - One of Ratke's farm hands.
  • Wingscheut, Mr. - German

PLACES

Break o'Day is one of the oldest villages in Jackson County. It had its store and its school-house before the first building was erected in Sharptown or Oakville. The derivation of its name has been the subject of many inquiries, which have been answered by local antiquarians. The founders of the hamlet, like the majority of Michigan pioneers, came from New York. Four families built their houses neat together, that they might enjoy the society of neighbors. Others followed from the Empire State, and the neighborhood became thinly settled. They had dwelt on the eastern hills, where, unobstructed, a view extended for miles. They were now in the midst of woods, where they could view no distant object unless it were above the timber. Month after month they lived in this manner, and daily the complaints grew louder. The women, who had been accustomed to habits of thrift, longed to see the sun rise once more. They declared it was nothing but laziness which allowed them to be penned up in that fashion, that if they were men, they would chop out at least one place wide enough to give them a sight through the forest. Urged on by their wives, the men made a bee and hewed to the eastward a road through which the earliest beams of the daily luminary might shine. The next morning the entire population of the locality gathered to witness the blaze of light which slowly appeared above the long stretch of stumps. Shouts resounded, guns were fired, a feast was spread, and the place was promptly named Break o'Day.

The village never grew to the dimensions which were anticipated for it by its first builders. Twenty years ago its appearance was substantially as it is to-day. It was built on five corners from which ran roads, one to each cardinal point of the compass and one southeast to Sharptown. The greater part of the buildings were on the triangle formed by the eastern and south-eastern streets and the cross street which connected them. These streets were named in order, Warren, Jackson and Washington. On Warren were the church and the school-house; on Jackson, Birch and Bigney's store and the hotel; on Washington, the hardware store and the blacksmith-shop. Marion, running northward, could boast only of dwelling-houses. The drugstore of Dr. Rorus was the one building of importance on the west road, which, on account of its shade trees, the villagers named Maple Street, but which the farmers in derision called Scrub Avenue. This edifice was painted yellow, had a high square front, a shed roof, and bore the following inscription, "I. J. H. Rorus, M. D., Physician and Surgeon."

Am I still in Jefferson Township? You're in Washtenaw, now, township of Warren." "I wish to go to Break o'Day," said John.

QUOTES

"I pay you for your time," returned Ratke. "When you do as I tell you, it is my lookout if your service is unprofitable. After this you use the tool I give you to work with."

EDITING

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OTHER

Article written in 1894 about this book: https://aadl.org/node/125251 __ Look at distributed proofing http://www.pgdp.net/c/

My great-great-great grandfather lived in the house just east of the Bunker Hill town hall. His name was George Washington Holland (1848-1922) and he wrote articles for the local papers under the pen name "Rough and Ready". Somehow his writings were used in the creation of the book 'The Chronicles of Break o' Day' by Edward Everett Howe.

It was copyrighted 1893 and the story starts "One March morning in 187---".

I read this book thinking Bunker Hill was the town named "Break O' Day", but after re-reading the following snippet I found in an Ingham County historical document, I realized that the backdrop of the story is near Webberville and the township just to the south of it.

"G. W. Holland was historian and poet laureate of Bunkerhill and other townships where he resided for forty years. After I876 he became the regular correspondent of the Ingham County Democrat and News, the Leslie Local, Stockbridge Sun and Lansing Sentinel. He was justice of the peace for twenty-two years, so could write from his court docket all kinds of stories. His pen name was "Rough and Ready," and he edited a set of stories about White Oak and Leroy townships, "Chronicles of Break O' Day." These were revised and made into a book by E. Everett Howe that had quite a sale. Four editions were published by Robert Smith Printing company." -- http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/ARH7656.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Google http://books.google.com/books?id=ARw1AAAAMAAJ

Google Plain Text http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&id=ARw1AAAAMAAJ&output=text

or

Archive.org - many formats http://archive.org/details/chroniclesbreak00howegoog

or

Michigan eLibrary lists a few physical copies you could request through your local library. http://elibrary.mel.org/search/a?searchtype=X&searcharg=the%20chronicles%20of%20break%20o%27%20day

Google scanned the book at the U of M Library and it has a few rough patches. I would love to see someone, with more time than myself, clean it up. Maybe as part of the Gutenberg Project (http://gutenberg.org/).

E-Book Creation

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Poetry Template

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To Do

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