Mothering on Perilous

Transcriber's Note
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
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

Here I am at the end of the railroad, waiting to begin my two-days' wagon-trip across the mountains. But the school wagon has not arrived,—my landlady says it is delayed by a tide in the creeks. By way of cheering me, she has just given a graphic account of the twenty-year-old feud for which this small town is notorious, and has even offered to take me around and show me, on walls, floors and court-house steps, the blood-spots where seven or eight of the feudists have perished. I declined to go,—it is sad enough to know such things exist, without seeing them face to face. Besides, I have enough that is depressing in my own thoughts.