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Title: Mike Marble
His Crotchets and Oddities.

Author: Uncle Frank

Release Date: March 29, 2008 [EBook #24937]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MIKE'S CROTCHETS IN WAR-TIME.]

UNCLE FRANK'S
BOY'S & GIRL'S
LIBRARY,
BY

FRANCIS C. WOODWORTH,

EDITOR OF WOODWORTH'S YOUTH'S CABINET.

[Illustration]

MIKE MARBLE:

HIS CROTCHETS AND ODDITIES.

With Tinted Illustrations.

BY

UNCLE FRANK,

AUTHOR OF "A PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS," "THE PEDDLER'S BOY,"
"THE DIVING BELL," "WILLOW LANE STORIES," ETC.

BOSTON:
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852,
By PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for
the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED BY
BILLIN & BROTHERS,
No. 10 NORTH WILLIAM STREET, N.Y.
WRIGHT & HASTY,
Printers, 3 Water Street, Boston.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

CHAPTER I.
ABOUT CROTCHETS 7

CHAPTER II.
CROTCHETY FOLKS 15

CHAPTER III.
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS 27

CHAPTER IV.
CHIPS FROM BIRCH WOODS