Miss Hickory | Literary Qualities
Images in Miss Hickory are more important than plot development, although the plot does take a surprising twist. Bailey's phrases such as "fellowfeeling," "two-legger," "cupboard love" and "up-boughs" and "down-boughs" are poetic. Her descriptions are vivid, as when Ann and Timothy follow Crow into the blooming apple orchard:
Pink and white, all around and above Ann and Timothy, the orchard, as far as they could see, was blooming. It hung a pink curtain against the new green of Temple Mountain. All the worn crotches and ragged elbows of the gnarled trees were...
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