Mildred's Inheritance; Just Her Way; Ann's Own Way
L.C. PAGE & COMPANY 200 Summer StreetBoston, Mass.
Author of The Little Colonel Series, Big Brother, The Story of Dago, Joel: A Boy of Galilee, etc.
Boston L.C. Page & Company 1906
Copyright, 1899 By the Trustees of the Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-school Work
Copyright, 1906 By L.C. Page & Company (INCORPORATED)
All rights reserved
First Impression, May, 1906
COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U.S.A.
As the good ship Majestic went steaming away from the Irish coast, one sunny September morning, three pretty college girls leaned over the railing of the upper deck, watching the steerage passengers below. With faces turned to the shore which they might never see again, the lusty-throated emigrants were sending their song of Farewell to Erin floating mournfully back across the water.
Oh, look at that poor old grandmother! exclaimed one of the girls. There; that one sitting on a coil of rope with a shawl over her gray head. The pitiful way she looks back to land would make me homesick, too, if I were not already on my way home, with all my family on board, and all the fun of the sophomore year ahead of me. Let's go down to the other end of the deck, where it is more cheerful.