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Title: Blacksheep! Blacksheep!

Author: Meredith Nicholson

Illustrator: Leslie L. Benson

Release Date: June 21, 2007 [EBook #21887]

Language: English

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BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON

BLACKSHEEP! BLACKSHEEP!
LADY LARKSPUR
THE MADNESS OF MAY
THE VALLEY OF DEMOCRACY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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[Illustration: Her "Very glad, I'm sure," was uttered with reservations]

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BLACKSHEEP! BLACKSHEEP!

BY

MEREDITH NICHOLSON

ILLUSTRATED BY

LESLIE L. BENSON

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1920

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Maybe, in spite of their tameless days
Of outcast liberty,
They're sick at heart for the homely ways
Where their gathered brothers be.

Meanwhile, "Blacksheep! Blacksheep!" we cry,
Safe in the inner fold;
And maybe they hear, and wonder why,
And marvel, out in the cold.

--RICHARD BURTON.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Her "Very glad, I'm sure," was uttered with reservations _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

At the crack of the gun the fugitive stopped short 32

"It's all right about you, Governor, but the kid had better
shake the tree" 112

"We must be in a hurry or that woman will catch you" 234

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BLACKSHEEP! BLACKSHEEP!

CHAPTER ONE

I

Mrs. Howard Featherstone spent much time thinking up things for her
brother Archibald Bennett to do, and as Archie was the ideal bachelor
brother, always remembering the children's birthdays and turning up
dutifully