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Title: Suzanna Stirs the Fire

Author: Emily Calvin Blake

Release Date: June 4, 2006 [EBook #18499]

Language: English

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SUZANNA STIRS THE FIRE

[Illustration: "I've come to you, Mrs. Reynolds, to stay. I've
adopted myself out to you"
[_Page 83_]]

Suzanna Stirs the Fire

BY

Emily Calvin Blake

_Author of "Marcia of the Little Home," etc._

Illustrations by F. V. Poole

[Illustration]

CHICAGO

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

1915

Copyright

A. C. McClurg & Co. 1915

Published September, 1915

Copyrighted in Great Britain

W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO

CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER PAGE

I The Tucked-In Day 3

II The Only Child 27

III With Father in the Attic 40

IV The New Dress 55

V Suzanna Comes to a Decision 69

VI Suzanna Makes her Entry 82

VII Regrets 88

VIII Suzanna Meets a Character 99

IX A Leaf Missing from the Bible 119

X A Picnic in the Woods 132

BOOK II

XI The Indian Drill 161

XII Drusilla's Reminiscences 172

XIII Mrs. Graham Woods Bartlett 185

XIV The Stray Dog 197

XV A Lent Mother 215

XVI Suzanna Aids Cupid 221

XVII A Simple Wedding 236

XVIII The Eagle Man Visits the Attic 253

XIX Suzanna Puts a Request 265

XX Drusilla Sets Out on a Journe