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Title: The Black Creek Stopping-House

Author: Nellie McClung

Release Date: November 21, 2003 [EBook #10164]

Language: English

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THE BLACK CREEK STOPPING-HOUSE

AND

OTHER STORIES

BY

NELLIE L. McCLUNG

Copyright, 1912

_To the Pioneer Women of the West, who made life tolerable, and even
comfortable, for the others of us; who fed the hungry, advised the
erring, nursed the sick, cheered the dying, comforted the sorrowing,
and performed the last sad rites for the dead;

The beloved Pioneer Women, old before their time with hard work,
privations, and doing without things, yet in whose hearts there was
always burning the hope of better things to come;

The godly Pioneer Women, who kept alive the conscience of the
neighborhood, and preserved for us the best traditions of the race;

To these noble Women of the early days, some of whom we see no more,
for they have entered into their inheritance, this book is respectfully
dedicated by their humble admirer,

The Author._

"_Let me live in a house by the side of the road, and be a friend of
man_."

CONTENTS

THE BLACK CREEK STOPPING-HOUSE--

CHAPTER
I. The Old Trail
II. The House of Bread
III. The Sailors' Rest
IV. Farm Pupils
V. The Prairie Club-House
VI. The Counter-Irritant
VII. Ladies' Day at the Stopping-House
VIII. Shadows of the Night
IX. His Evil Genius
X. Da's Turn
XI. The Blizzard
XII. When the Day Broke

THE RUNAWAY GRANDMOTHER

THE RETURN TICKET

THE UNGRATEFUL PIGEONS

YOU NEVER CAN TELL

A SHORT TALE OF A RABBIT

THE ELUSIVE VOTE

THE WAY OF THE WEST

THE BLACK CREEK STOPPING-HOUSE

CHAPTER I.

_THE OLD TRAIL._

When John Corbett strolled leisurely into the Salvation Army meeting in
old Victoria Hall in Winnipeg that night, so many years ago now, there
may have been some who thought he came to disturb the meeting.

There did not se