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Title: Christie's Old Organ
Or, "Home, Sweet Home"

Author: Mrs. O. F. Walton

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Language: English

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CHRISTIE'S OLD ORGAN

Or

"Home, Sweet Home"

by

O. F. WALTON

Philadelphia
Henry Altemus Company

[Illustration: The Clergyman and Christie.]

CHRISTIE'S OLD ORGAN;

OR,

"HOME, SWEET HOME."

CHAPTER I.

THE OLD ORGAN.

"Home, sweet home, there's no place like home, there's no place like
home," played the unmusical notes of a barrel-organ in the top room of a
lodging-house in a dreary back street. The words certainly did not seem
to apply to that dismal abode; there were not many there who knew much
of the sweets of home.

It was a very dark, uncomfortable place, and as the lodgers in the lower
room turned over on their wretched beds, many of which were merely bare
wooden benches, it may be that one and another gave a sigh as he thought
how far he was from "Home, sweet home."

But the organ played on, though the hour was late, and the dip candle
was put out, and the fire was dying away. If you had climbed the crooked
staircase, you would have seen an old man sitting alone in his attic,
and smiling at his organ as he turned it with a trembling hand.

Old Treffy loved his barrel-organ; it was the one comfort of his life.
He was a poor, forlorn old man, without a friend in the world. Every one
that he had loved was dead; he had no one to whom he could talk, or to
whom he could tell his troubles, and thus he gathered up all the