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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

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 47
VI A Trade and Other Matters 55
VII Heroes and Hero Worship 65
VIII Dress, Chivalry and the Trojan War 71
IX More Trading, and some Family History 84
X About Mothers 92
XI Over on Trigger 100
XII The Fightingest Boy 117
XIII Around the Fire 125
XIV The Visit Home, and the Funeral Occasion 141
XV Trouble on Trigger and Elsewhere 157
XVI Filial Piety and Croup 169
XVII Blessings and Hatings 176
XVIII Christmas Anticipations 183
XIX Christmas and Danger 192
XX War and Worse on Trigger 202
XXI Suspense 212
XXII The "Eech," and Tragedy 222
XXIII Despair, and Budding Romance 236
XXIV The Babe 249
XXV Change and Growth 260
XXVI "Marvles" and Marvels 270
XXVII Transformation 283
XXVIII "Keeps" 293
XXIX Liberty and New Life 301

ILLUSTRATIONS

"When was a lonely heart more truly comforted?" _Frontispiece_

"My two assistants abandoned work to stare
open-mouthed at him." 12

"'Here is Keats back again,--he has got to stay with
you women and get l'arning if it kills him dead!'" 20

"'Genealogical' and 'irreconcilable' were child's
play to him, 'incomprehensibility,' a bagatelle." 30

"I sat wondering what if anything would be the proper
literary milk for my babes." 39

"The table was overturned, chairs were flying, bedlam
had broken loose." 41

"'By dogs, now, did you ever see anybody look as good
as me?'" 49

"'Just feel my muscle,' he said, 'Oh, I'm so nervy!'" 63

"'Fight, dogs, you haint no kin, 'F you kill one
another, taint no sin!'" 79

"'That's where I keep lookout of moonlight nights when
war is on.'" 103

"As I looked, I said to myself over and over, 'Is it
possible this is a slayer of men, an eluder and defier
of the law?'" 108

"'That 'ere little Iry is a-giving Jason the best
whipping down in the stable lot ever you seed.'" 123

"Not until she got out of the tall weeds, and into the
branch, was the joyful discovery made that nine little
new pigs followed her closely and shamefacedly." 148

"'I got a dead tree up the hollow I practice on all
the time.'" 171

"The first real snow yesterday, and the boys wild in
consequence." 173

"'Blant he rushed on 'em like a robbed she-bear,
routing 'em in no time.'" 205

"'I allow they shot me up a little too, by these here
rags on my head.'" 215

"Blant caught the dying Rich in his arms." 233

"Dag gone me, he's got use enough for little Dilsey,
by Ned!'" 245

"I kotch him at it one time." 273

"'Take it, Joe, I refuse to touch it, I have shot my
last shoot!'" 280

"He sat in church the very picture of elegance, the
real direction of his thoughts indicated by an
occasional ardent glance across the aisle." 288

"'Well, dad burn your looks, where'd you git all them
marvles you been selling?'" 298

"Nucky's voice rang out sharp and clear ... 'Make for
them spruce pines! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!'" 304

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