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271 CHAPTER XXV. The Sleighing Party--Clara Hastings--Mother and Son 280 CHAPTER XXVI. Letter Writing--Daddy's Nocturnal Labors and early Walk 294 CHAPTER XXVII. Doing and Getting Good--Wycoff's Reform 308 CHAPTER XXVIII. Daddy's Soliloqy--A Beer-Soaker--A Knock-Down Argument--A Present for Little Wolf 323 CHAPTER XXIX. A Chapter of Accidents and Deliverances 333 CHAPTER XXX. Another Saloon Scene--The Bridal Trousseau--The Lovely Nurse 341 CHAPTER XXXI. Threats--Little Wolf and Black Hawk--Tragic Death of Hank Glutter 354 CHAPTER XXXII. The May Day Weddings--Miss Orrecta Lippincott's Surprise--How Old Lovers Behave 367 CHAPTER XXXIII. The Old Brown House Deserted--The Pearl and Diamond Ring--Mr. and Mrs. Marsden's Conjectures 380 CHAPTER XXXIV. A Trip to California--Jumping Overboard--The Grand Supper and what Came of it--The Captain's Little Daughter 393 CHAPTER XXXV. A Visit to Mrs. Sherman's Room--Daddy and his New Spouse--Ominous Signs 408 CHAPTER XXXVI. More News from Little Wolf--Tom Tinknor's Testimony 415 CHAPTER XXXVII. Another Death in the Old Brown House 423 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Daddy's Temperance Lecture 430 CHAPTER XXXIX. Death in Mid Ocean--Love Making and a Double Wedding 448 LITTLE WOLF. CHAPTER I. A SAD BREAKFAST--THE SHERMAN FAMILY--THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS--WHAT A YOUNG MAN WAS SURE OF--THE PARTING. Early in the morning of a long ago midsummer's day, the inmates of a quiet New England home were making unusual preparations for the approaching repast. The mistress of the house was ostensibly overseeing the table; but there was an uncertainty in her movements, which indicated a contradictory mingling of interest and abstraction, such as agitates the mind, when trifles intrude on more weighty matters. Not so the maid in attendance, who had served in her present capacity for more than twenty years, and was without dispute an adept in the culinary department, if not in affairs of the heart. She was not so
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