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Title: For John's Sake
and Other Stories.

Author: Annie Frances Perram

Release Date: March 26, 2010 [EBook #31785]

Language: English

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FOR JOHN'S SAKE; AND OTHER STORIES.

[Illustration: _Frontispiece._

"Ruth advanced to the table, and with trembling hands put her full glass
down."--_Page 4._]

FOR JOHN'S SAKE

AND OTHER STORIES.

BY

ANNIE FRANCES PERRAM.

_Author of "That Boy Mick," "Go Work," "The Opposite House," &c._

[Illustration]

LONDON:
WESLEYAN METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
2 AND 3 LUDGATE CIRCUS BUILDINGS; 2 CASTLE STREET, CITY ROAD, E.C.

PREFACE.

IT is probable that many of these pages may be read with the comforting
conviction that the scenes they depict and the lives they lightly
sketch, in no way come within the range of possibility; but to any
reader so little acquainted with the snares and perils, the misery and
degradation that lay outside the pale of Total Abstinence, the assurance
is tendered that the darkest pictures contained in this collection of
stories are minutely faithful to life, and that the saddest incidents
related have occurred under the personal observation, or within the
knowledge of the writer.

A. F. P.

CONTENTS.

FOR JOHN'S SAKE.

Page

CHAPTER I. AFRAID FOR HERSELF 1

" II. JOHN'S BROTHER 9

" III. HOPES AND FEARS 15

" IV. QUITE UNLIKE HIMSELF 21

" V. A CHANGE OF OPINIONS AND OF HOUSEMAIDS 28

" VI. THE NEW HOUSEMAID 35

" VII. THE FATE OF RUTH'S LETTER 42

" VIII.