The Story of the Gravelys: A Tale for Girls - 1

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of the Gravelys, by Marshall Saunders

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THE STORY OF THE GRAVELYS

Works of
Marshall Saunders

Beautiful Joe’s Paradise.	Net $1.20
	Postpaid $1.32
The Story of the Gravelys.	Net $1.20
	Postpaid $1.35
’Tilda Jane.	$1.50
Rose à Charlitte.	$1.50
For His Country.	$ .50

L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
New England Building, Boston, Mass.

“BENT THEIR HEADS OVER THE PAPER”

(See [page 40])

THE STORY OF
THE GRAVELYS

A Tale for Girls

By
Marshall Saunders

Author of
“Beautiful Joe,” “Beautiful Joe’s Paradise,”
“’Tilda Jane,” etc.

“A child’s needless tear is a blood-blot upon this earth.”

—Cardinal Manning

Illustrated

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
1904

Copyright, 1902, 1903
By Perry Mason Company

Copyright, 1903
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)

Published September, 1903

Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

TO
MY DEAR SISTER
Grace,
MY FAITHFUL HELPER IN LITERARY WORK,
THIS STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY HER APPRECIATIVE SISTER,
Marshall Saunders

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Certain chapters of this story first appeared in The Youth’s Companion. The author wishes to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors in permitting her to republish them in the present volume.

Messrs. L. C. Page and Company wish also to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors in granting them permission to use the original illustrations.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Quarrel	[11]
II.	Grandma’s Watchword	[23]
III.	A Sudden Countermarch	[34]
IV.	A Lifted Burden	[43]
V.	The Training of a Boy	[54]
VI.	Bonny’s Ordeal	[68]
VII.	Berty Imparts Information	[76]
VIII.	The Heart of the Mayor	[88]
IX.	The Mayor’s Dilemma	[99]
X.	A Groundless Suspicion	[113]
XI.	A Proposed Supper-Party	[130]
XII.	A Disturbed Hostess	[139]
XIII.	An Anxious Mind	[150]
XIV.	The Opening of the Park	[162]
XV.	Up the River	[175]
XVI.	Berty’s Tramp	[188]
XVII.	Tom’s Intervention	[195]
XVIII.	Tramp Philosophy	[204]
XIX.	At the Board of Water-Works	[217]
XX.	Selina’s Wedding	[229]
XXI.	To Strike or Not to Strike	[244]
XXII.	Discouraged	[257]
XXIII.	Grandma’s Request	[262]
XXIV.	Down the River	[270]
XXV.	Last Words	[277]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	PAGE
“Bent their heads over the paper” (see [page 40])	[Frontispiece]
“Leaning over the stair railing”	[33]
“‘Why don’t some of you good people try to reform me?’”	[54]
“‘You have too much heart’”	[92]
“‘You’re dying to tease me’”	[177]
“‘A River Street delegation,’ said Tom”	[235]

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS