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Title: Fair to Look Upon

Author: Mary Belle Freeley

Release Date: December 31, 2006 [eBook #20236]

Language: English

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FAIR TO LOOK UPON

by

MARY BELLE FREELEY

With Original Illustrations by W. L. Dodge

[Illustration: "I HUMMED A GAY LITTLE TUNE FOR HIS BENEFIT."]

Chicago
Morrill, Higgins & Co.
Copyright:
Morrill, Higgins & Co.
1892

CONTENTS.

A RIPPLE OF DISSENSION AND WHAT CAME OF IT, 11

THE STORY OF EVE, 19

THE ABRAHAM-HAGAR AFFAIR, 29

ISAAC'S WIFE, 47

A WOMAN'S MONUMENT, 67

ANOTHER OF THE WOMEN OF OLD, 83

ALL NAUGHTY, BUT FAIR, 97

STORY OF SOME WOMEN AND A BABY, 107

ANOTHER OF "THE MISTAKES OF MOSES," 123

SOME MANAGING WOMEN, 135

ANOTHER GROUP OF THEM, 151

THE FAMOUS WIDOW OF MOAB, 163

HE GAVE IT UP TOO, 175

ILLUSTRATIONS.

I hummed a gay little tune for his benefit, _Frontispiece_.

He held my milk-white hand in his, 13

Our first parents, 17

While Adam was idly