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Title: Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road

Author: R. Henry Mainer

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NANCY MCVEIGH OF THE MONK ROAD

by

R. HENRY MAINER

[Frontispiece: "Tommy wus one o' the boys, an' a pal o' ours."]

Toronto
William Briggs
1908

Copyright, Canada, 1908, by R. Henry Mainer.

These few stories of a good old
woman I dedicate to the
memory of

A. R. S. M.

who sat beside me while I wrote
them and offered many happy suggestions.

"Her face, deep lined; her eyes were gray,
Mirrors of her heart's continuous play;
Her head, crowned with a wintry sheet,
Had learned naught of this world's deceit.
She oft forgot her own in others' trials,
And met the day's rebuffs with sweetest smiles."

CONTENTS.

I. THE WOMAN OF THE INN
II. THE ANTAGONISM OF MISS PIPER
III. JOHN KEENE'S EDUCATION
IV. THE WRECK AT THE JUNCTION
V. JENNIE
VI. NANCY'S PHILOSOPHY
VII. THE STRENGTH OF TEN
VIII. A DESERTER FROM THE MONK ROAD
IX. THE KERRY DANCERS
X. THE HOMECOMING OF CORNELIUS MCVEIGH

ILLUSTRATIONS

Cover art

"Tommy wus one o' the boys, an' a pal 'o ours." . . . . _Frontispiece_

"'Give me that gun, Johnny,' she called softly."

"Ye can just pull down the cover, an' I'll do me own fixin'."

NANCY McVEIGH.

CHAPTER I.

_THE WOMAN OF THE INN._

During the _regime_ of Governor Monk, of Upper Canada, the military
road was cut through the virgin pine from Lake Ontario to the waters
leading into Georgian Bay. The clearings followed, then the
homesteads, th