BOOKS BY ELSIE SINGMASTER

When Sarah Saved the Day

When Sarah Went to School

Gettysburg

Katy Gaumer

Emmeline

The Long Journey

The Life of Martin Luther

John Baring's House

Basil Everman

Ellen Levis

Bennett Malin

The Hidden Road

A Boy at Gettysburg

Bred in the Bone

Keller's Anna Ruth

'Sewing Susie'

What Everybody Wanted

Virginia's Bandit

You Make Your Own Luck

A Little Money Ahead


SARAH DID NOT SPEAK, SHE ONLY HID HER EYES ([page 126])


WHEN SARAH SAVED THE DAY

BY ELSIE SINGMASTER

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge


COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY ELSIE SINGMASTER

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM

Published October 1909

PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.


TO CAROLINE HOOPES SINGMASTER


CONTENTS

I.Uncle Daniel's Offer[1]
II.The Rebels take to Arms[24]
III.Uncle Daniel steals a March[44]
IV.There is Company to Supper[62]
V.The Blow falls[79]
VI.The Orphans' Court[97]
VII."And now We will go Home"[116]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Sarah did not speak, she only hid her eyes (Page [126])[Frontispiece]
Go away and leave me with my children[20]
The station agent looked at them curiously[94]
Uncle Daniel smiled and drew out two shining dollars[112]

WHEN SARAH SAVED THE DAY