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Title: Mothering on Perilous

Author: Lucy S. Furman

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MOTHERING ON PERILOUS

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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO

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MOTHERING ON PERILOUS

by

LUCY FURMAN

With Illustrations by Mary Lane McMillan and F. R. Gruger

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1913

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1910 and 1911,
By the Century Co.

Copyright, 1913,
By the Macmillan Company

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1913.

To my Boys of Six Years Ago

[Illustration: "When was a lonely heart more truly comforted?"]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Arrival on Perilous 3
II Getting Acquainted 9
III Acquiring a Family 17
IV War, not Peace 37
V Getting Better Acquainted