Nephi Anderson

“ The far mountain lifts its peak in glory, bathed in the radiance of the rising or the setting sun. Its rugged sides are softened by the distance. A nearby view dicloses only the common rock and brush and withered grass and sun-baked earth ”

“ You take it for granted that the writer is a man."
"Yes; I think so."
"Why?"
"Well-never mind, I-I wouldn't want to offend my next door neighbor." He laughed, opened the door for her, and called out to his mother to keep an eye on her sugar bowl. When the girl walked back carefully because of the heaped-up sugar, Andrew looked at her from the open doorway until she disappeared behind the foliage of the apple tree.
"By gum," he commented to himself, "I don't know which of us is right, for there's Josephine-she looks good to me near as well as afar." ”

“ He understood them and the spirit which seemed to make them so alive. Although he had expressed the thought to Josephine that "Byjo" must be a man, he hoped that the penname might cover the identity of a woman. Every week Andrew discussed the articles as they appeared, with his neighbor, Josephine Fuller. Josephine was a good girl, a mighty fine girl, but as she was not "literary" she could not be expected to talk intelligently with him on the merits of this rising author. ”

“ He may have papers to show that he is the owner, and that he is at the expense of keeping it up, and that he pays the taxes; but, after all, the real value of the property is in its beauty and the joy it gives to the beholder ”

“ Josephine Fuller was as keen to get the local paper on its weekly visits as was her neighbor Andrew Harper; and they continued to discuss the articles of "Byjo," although Andrew avoided as much as possible the mention of the writer as a personality. Andrew was a kind hearted young man, and he did not wish to unduly agitate his fair neighbor. ”