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Title: In Blue Creek Canon

Author: Anna Chapin Ray

Release Date: December 24, 2007 [EBook #24014]

Language: English

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IN BLUE CREEK CANON

BY ANNA CHAPIN RAY

AUTHOR OF "HALF A DOZEN BOYS," "HALF A DOZEN GIRLS," ETC.

NEW YORK: 46 EAST 14TH STREET
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
BOSTON: 100 PURCHASE STREET

COPYRIGHT, 1892,
BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

_Printed and Electrotyped by_
ALFRED MUDGE & SON, BOSTON.

[Illustration: "A quartette of boys and girls were darting about on
skates."]

If you've wronged him, speak him fair.
Say you're sorry and make it square;
If he's wronged you, wink so tight
None of you see what's plain in sight.

When the world goes hard and wrong,
Lend a hand to help him along;
When his stockings have holes to darn,
Don't you grudge him your ball of yarn.

* * * * *

Stick to each other through thick and thin;
All the closer as age leaks in;
Squalls will blow, and clouds will frown,
But stay by your ship till you all go down!

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

CONTENTS.

I. A COUNCIL ON SKATES

II. TO WELCOME THE COMING GUEST

III. THE EVERETT HOUSEHOLD

IV. ON THE CROSS-HEAD

V. THE MEETING IN THE WATERS

VI. MARJORIE'S PARTY

VII. JANEY'S PROPHECY

VIII. IN THE DARK

IX. CAMPING ON THE BEAVERHEAD

X. UP THE GULCH

XI. "SWEET CHARITY'S SAKE"

XII. HOME WITHOUT A MOTHER

XIII. AT THE NINE-HUNDRED LEVEL

XIV. THE BEGINNING OF THE OLD STORY

XV. MR. ATHERDEN

XVI. THE COMPLETED STORY

XVII. THE TRAGEDY