Surprise House
“I DIDN’T!” PROTESTED JOHN. “IT WAS—SOMETHING,
I DON’T KNOW WHAT—THAT SPOKE” (Page [19])
SURPRISE
HOUSE
BY
Abbie Farwell Brown
With Illustrations
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1917
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE YOUNG CHURCHMAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY ABBIE FARWELL BROWN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1917
—And I as rich in having such a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.