THE BLIND BROTHER.


SUNSHINE LIBRARY.


THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY,
NEW YORK.



THE
BLIND BROTHER:

A Story of

THE PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINES

BY

HOMER GREENE

The author received for this story the First Prize, Fifteen Hundred Dollars, offered by the Youth’s Companion in 1886, for the Best Serial Story

FOURTEENTH THOUSAND

NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS


Copyright, 1887,
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.


TO

MY MOTHER,

WHOSE TENDER CARE AND UNSELFISH DEVOTION
MADE HAPPY THE DAYS OF MY
OWN BOYHOOD,

This Book for Boys

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
BY THE AUTHOR.

Honesdale, Penn., April 6, 1887.