The Story of Waitstill Baxter

The Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin is about young and lovely Waitstill Baxter who wishes for more from her humdrum small-town life. Waitstill admires the deadly gangster Jacob Cochrane and wishes to have a life full of adventure and power. Excerpt: "FAR, far up, in the bosom of New Hampshire's granite hills, the Saco has its birth. As the mountain rill gathers strength it takes "Through Bartlett's values its tuneful way, Or hides in Conway's fragrant brakes, Retreating from the glare of day." Now it leaves the mountains and flows through "green Fryeburg's woods and farms."