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Title: The Carpenter's Daughter

Author: Anna Bartlett Warner
Susan Bogert Warner

Release Date: July 13, 2007 [EBook #22061]

Language: English

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[Illustration: NETTIE COMFORTS HER MOTHER.]

THE

CARPENTER'S DAUGHTER.

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called
the children of God."

BY THE AUTHORS OF "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD," ETC. ETC.

WITH COLOURED FRONTISPIECE.

LONDON:
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,
THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE.

BY THE AUTHORS OF "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD."

Price ONE SHILLING each, with coloured Frontispiece
THE TWO SCHOOLGIRLS.
THE CARPENTER'S DAUGHTER.
THE PRINCE IN DISGUISE.
GERTRUDE AND HER BIBLE.
MARTHA AND RACHEL.
THE WIDOW AND HER DAUGHTER.
THE LITTLE BLACK HEN.
THE ROSE IN THE DESERT.

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS.

London: Savill, Edwards & Co., Printers, Chandos Street.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE

I. SATURDAY EVENING'S WORK 1

II. SUNDAY'S REST 20

III. NETTIE'S GARRET 55

IV. THE BROWN CLOAK IN NOVEMBER 69

V. THE NEW BLANKET 82

VI. THE HOUSE-RAISING 97

VII. THE WAFFLES 112

VIII. THE GOLDEN CITY 135

THE CARPENTER'S DAUGHTER.

CHAPTER I.

SATURDAY EVENING'S WORK.

Down in a little hollow, with the sides grown full of wild thorn, alder
bushes, and stunted cedars, ran the stream of a clear spring