The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage

by Alice MacGowan

To

Emma Bell Miles

who could without doubt have written

much better this story of her own home country

the book is affectionately inscribed

by

The Author

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CONTENTS

	PAGE
I. A Pair of Haggards	[a]1]
II. The Up-Sitting	[a]19]
III. The Burying	[a]39]
IV. A Dance and a Serenade	[a]50]
V. The Asking	[a]70]
VI. The Wedding	[a]88]
VII. Lance's Laurel	[a]104]
VIII. The Infare	[a]124]
IX. The Interloper	[a]140]
X. Poverty Pride	[a]154]
XI. "Long Sweetenin'"	[a]168]
XII. "What Shall He Have Who Killed the Deer?"	[a]185]
XIII. Broken Chords	[a]193]
XIV. Roxy Griever's Guest	[a]211]
XV. A Stubborn Heart	[a]223]
XVI. Lance Cleaverage's Son	[a]237]
XVII. The Coasts of the Island	[a]247]
XVIII. The Hegira	[a]266]
XIX. Callista Cleaverage Goes Home	[a]277]
XX. Drawn Blank	[a]293]
XXI. Flenton Hands	[a]300]
XXII. The Speech of the People	[a]309]
XXIII. Buck Fuson's Idea	[a]321]
XXIV. Silenced	[a]330]
XXV. The Flight	[a]340]
XXVI. Roxy Griever	[a]345]
XXVII. In Hiding	[a]357]
XXVIII. The Sheriff Scores	[a]371]
XXIX. The Island at Last	[a]377]