Edgerley the first lay on the eastern flank of Chillawassee Mountain; Edgerley the second six hundred feet above. The first Edgerley, being nearer the high civilization of the state capital, claimed the name, and held it; while the second Edgerley was obliged to content itself with an added "far." Far Edgerley did not object to its adjective so long as it was not considered as applying especially to the distance between it and the lower town. It was "far," if you pleased--far from cities, far from traffic, from Babylon, from Zanzibar, from the Pole--but it was not "far" from Edgerley. Rather was Edgerley far from it, and--long may she keep so! Meanwhile Edgerley the first prospered, though r…
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