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Title: An Arrow in a Sunbeam
and Other Tales

Author: Various

Release Date: August 23, 2008 [eBook #26407]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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AN ARROW IN A SUNBEAM

And Other Tales.

[Illustration: cover art]

[Illustration: "MOVE ANOTHER INCH AND I'LL FIRE!" CRIED AL, POINTING
THE MUSKET AT THE MAN'S BREAST.--P. 48.]

London:
William Nicholson and Sons,
20, Warwick Square, Paternoster Row, E.C.,
and Albion Works, Wakefield.
188-

AN ARROW

IN A SUNBEAM;

AND OTHER TALES.

The golden sunshine, vernal air,
Sweet flowers and fruits, thy love declare;
When forests ripen Thou art there,
Who givest all.

London:
William Nicholson and Sons,
20, Warwick Square, Paternoster Row, E.C.,
and Albion Works, Wakefield.
188-

CONTENTS.

AN ARROW IN A SUNBEAM . . . . . . Sarah Orne Jewett

MISS SYDNEY'S FLOWERS . . . . . . Sarah Orne Jewett

A BRAVE BOY . . . . . . . . . . . C. S. Sleight

LADY FERRY . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Orne Jewett

A BIT OF SHORE LIFE . . . . . . . Sarah Orne Jewett

HOW LILY GOT THE CAT . . . . . . . Frances Lee

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AN ARROW IN A SUNBEAM.

The minister of a fashionable church had noticed Sunday after Sunday a
little old lady with a sad, patient face, dressed in very shabby
mourning, sitting in the strangers' pew.

Like Job this good man could say, "The cause that I knew not, I sought
out." He soon learned from the sexton her name and residence, and was
surprised to find her in the very topmost room of a house, amid
evidences of real poverty.

In the one little window bloomed a monthly rose and a vigorous
heliotrope, and beside the pots lay half-a-dozen books, such as are
rarely seen in the homes of the very poor. On the wall hung two fine
engravings, and an old fashioned gold watch was suspended from a faded
velvet case over the mantel piece.

Her story, when she was induced to tell it, was neit