The Daughter of a Republican

Transcriber's Note: A Table of Contents and a List of Illustrations have been added.


Copyright by Dickie and Woolley 1899

The world at large gives small attention to human effort until it has reached the full stature of a robust maturity.
By way of encouragement, it is well for many obscure toilers that there are those who think they see a bud of promise in the yet undeveloped effort.
Because of the loving interest she has always taken in my every first attempt, I dedicate this little volume to
MY MOTHER.


Let me introduce the reader to the Crowley family, and when you have become acquainted with them bear well in mind that in this broad land of ours there are thousands upon thousands of families in a condition as deplorable, and some whose mercury line of debauchery has dropped to a point of miserable existence as yet unsounded by this family.