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Title: The Pearl of Orr's Island
A Story of the Coast of Maine

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Release Date: March 6, 2010 [EBook #31522]

Language: English

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THE

PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND

A Story of the Coast of Maine

BY

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1896

Copyright, 1862 and 1890,

BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

Copyright, 1896,

BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A._

Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY NOTE vii

CHAP. PAGE

I. NAOMI 1

II. MARA 5

III. THE BAPTISM AND THE BURIAL 9

IV. AUNT ROXY AND AUNT RUEY 15

V. THE KITTRIDGES 25

VI. GRANDPARENTS 36

VII. FROM THE SEA 47

VIII. THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN 58

IX. MOSES 74

X. THE MINISTER 85

XI. LITTLE ADVENTURERS 99

XII. SEA TALES 110

XIII. BOY AND GIRL 120

XIV. THE ENCHANTED ISLAND 132

XV. THE HOME COMING 143

XVI. THE NATURAL AND THE SPIRITUAL 154

XVII. LESSONS 165

XVIII. SALLY 175

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