Katie Robertson

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By MARGARET E. WINSLOW Author of Miss Malcolm's Ten, Three Years at Glenwood, etc.
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Copyright, 1885, By Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society.
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To the many boys and girls who are in early years earning an honorable support for themselves, or else assisting their parents by working in factories; to the multitudes of young church members, who may be glad of some practically helpful suggestions in surmounting the difficulties and resisting the temptations incident to their new lives; to mill-owners, who feel their solemn responsibility, as in the sight of God, for the intellectual and spiritual welfare of their operatives; and chiefly to the young Christian manufacturer who has been the model from which the picture of Mr. James has been copied,—this story, whose incidents are mostly true ones, is dedicated.
That the Holy Spirit may make use of it to inculcate in young hearts a sense of honorable independence, a conviction of the dignity of faithfully performed work, and, above all, an earnest and irrevocable choice of God's blessed service and an entire committal of their ways to him, is the sincere prayer of
SAUGERTIES, July 1, 1885.
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But, mother, it isn't as if I were going away from home, like the Lloyd girls; you might have a right to cry if that were the case.
I know, dear; it's all right, and I ought to be very thankful; but I'm a foolish woman. I can't bear to think of my little girl, whom I have guarded so tenderly, going among all those girls and men, and fighting her way in life.