Brooklet

She was born Ora Belle Phillips in Brooklet, Ga., and received an associate's degree from Pearl River Junior College in Poplarville, Miss., in 1940.

Doris E. Gola, Michael G. Gauldin, William L. Siskos, Ora Belle Tamm 2010

Brooklet felt that it must be: for now her strength of will was almost gone.

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The laborer in the field hard by often came to visit her, and wet his honest, toil-browned brow with her cooling drops; and often, too, the laborer's daughter came at sunset time to sit by a mossy stone, with so lovely a face that the Brooklet, as she mirrored the features of the beautiful visitor, leaped about the pebbles with ripplings of admiration.

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One stormy spring day the Brooklet seemed to rise higher among the twigs of the alder-bushes than ever before; the rain came down faster and heavier, and beat into her bosom, until her tiny waves were rough and sore with pain, and she was fain to nestle closer to the sedgy grass that now bent lowly to the pebbles at the roots.

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Brooklet to get far out of sight, she collected all her strength for a jump into the bowl, where the drops came sparkling in.

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There was once a Brooklet born of a modest spring that circled through a smiling meadow.

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And the ambitious Brooklet cried sharply and loudly -- foaming in her rage as she went between the stony points, and quite forgetting her weaker sister in her pain.

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CHAPTER I. _How the Brooklet was born; and lodged; and wandered off one rainy day.

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_How the Brooklet lived on in her new quarters; and how misfortune made her discontented.

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The curiosity of the Brooklet was aroused to know what he could mean, when presently she saw him sit upon the rock, and from the stick drop down upon her face a worm, which when the fishes saw they darted out to eat.

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