'Old Ebenezer' is a novel in the drama-genre written by Opie Read. The story unfolds by introducing us to one of the sleepy neighborhoods that lay about the drowsy town of Old Ebenezer, where Sam Lyman had lolled and dreamed. He had come out of the keen air of Vermont, and for a time he was looked upon as a marvel of energy, but the soft atmosphere of a southwestern state soothed the Yankee worry out of his walk, and made him content to sit in the shade, to wait for the other man to come; and, as the other man was doing the same thing, rude hurry was not a feature of any business transaction.
