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Title: Old Ebenezer

Author: Opie Read

Release Date: October 27, 2007 [eBook #23215]

Language: English

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OLD EBENEZER.

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OPIE READ'S
SELECT WORKS

Old Ebenezer
The Jucklins
My Young Master
A Kentucky Colonel
On the Suwanee River
A Tennessee Judge

Works of Strange Power and Fascination

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gold tops, ornamental covers, uncut
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[Illustration: couple sitting under tree]

Opie Read's Select Works

OLD EBENEEZER

by

OPIE READ

Author of "My Young Master," "The Jucklins," "On the Suwanee
River," "A Kentucky Colonel," "A Tennessee Judge," "The Colossus,"
"Emmett Bonlore," "Len Gansett," "The Tear in the Cup and Other
Stories," "The Wives of the Prophet."

Illustrated

Chicago
Laird & Lee, Publishers

Copyrighted 1897, by Wm. H. Lee.
(All Rights Reserved.)

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

1. Sam Lyman 7

2. The Noted Advocate 14

3. The Timely Oracle 21

4. A Fog Between Them 38

5. The Belle of the Town 49

6. Humbled Into the Dust 55

7. The Wedding Breakfast 63

8. Suppressing the News 70

9. At Church 83

10. The Old Fellow Laughed