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Title: The Daughter of a Republican

Author: Bernie Babcock

Release Date: March 3, 2010 [EBook #31493]

Language: English

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THE DAUGHTER OF A REPUBLICAN

BY

BERNIE BABCOCK

CHICAGO:

THE NEW VOICE PRESS

1900

_Copyright by Dickie and Woolley 1899_

The world at large gives small attention to human effort until it has
reached the full stature of a robust maturity.

By way of encouragement, it is well for many obscure toilers that there
are those who think they see a bud of promise in the yet undeveloped
effort.

Because of the loving interest she has always taken in my every "first
attempt," I dedicate this little volume to

MY MOTHER.

[Illustration: "'I'm cold,' whined the boy."]

The Daughter of a Republican.

CHAPTER I.

THE CROWLEY FAMILY.

Let me introduce the reader to the Crowley family, and when you have
become acquainted with them bear well in mind that in this broad land of
ours there are thousands upon thousands of families in a condition as
deplorable, and some whose mercury line of debauchery has dropped to a
point of miserable existence as yet unsounded by this family.

The Crowleys are all in tonight, except the father, and he is
momentarily expected.

It is a bitter night in February. The ground is covered with ice and
sleet causing many a fall to the unwary pedestrian.

The wind comes in cutting blasts directly from the north, rattling and
twisting everything in its way not securely fastened, then dying away in
a long weary moan, abandoning its effort only to seize upon the elements
with a firmer grasp and come battling back with fresh vindictiveness and
force.

There were those who did not mind this storm, people around whose homes
all was secure and whom no rattling annoyed, people who enjoyed bright
lights and warm fires, but these were not the Crowleys. The Crowley's
home cons