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Title: Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

Author: Ruth McEnery Stuart

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[Illustration: "'THANK THE LORD! _NOW I CAN SEE TO LOOK FOR 'EM!_'"]

MORIAH'S MOURNING

and Other Half-Hour Sketches

By RUTH MCENERY STUART

_Author of "In Simpkinsville"
"A Golden Wedding" etc._

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON AND NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1898

Copyright, 1898, by Harper & Brothers.
_All rights reserved._

_Printed in New York, U.S.A._

CONTENTS

PAGE

MORIAH'S MOURNING 3

AN OPTICAL DILEMMA 19

THE SECOND MRS. SLIMM 37

APOLLO BELVEDERE. A CHRISTMAS EPISODE OF THE PLANTATION 53

NEAREST OF KIN (ON THE PLANTATION) 71

THE DEACON'S MEDICINE 93

TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE 113

THE REV. JORDAN WHITE'S THREE GLANCES 131

LADY. A MONOLOGUE OF THE COW-PEN 157

A PULPIT ORATOR 165

AN EASTER SYMBOL. A MONOLOGUE OF THE PLANTATION 175

CHRISTMAS AT THE TRIMBLES' 181

A MINOR CHORD 211

ILLUSTRATIONS

"'THANK THE LORD! _NOW I CAN SEE TO LOOK FOR
'EM!_'" _Frontispiece_

"A SURPRISED AND SMILING MAN WAS SITTING AT HER
POLISHED KITCHEN TABLE" _Facing p._ 8

"'I'M AC-CHILLY MOST AFEERD _TO_