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I.Calico Patchwork[13]
II.Old Aaron's Flag[29]
III.Little Dutchie[40]
IV.The New Teacher[52]
V.The Heart of a Child[70]
VI.The Prima Donna of the Attic[92]
VII."Where the Brook and River Meet"[110]
VIII.Beyond the Alps Lies Italy[119]
IX.A Visit to Mother Bab[129]
X.An Old-Fashioned Country Sale[146]
XI."The Bright Lexicon of Youth"[166]
XII.The Preacher's Wooing[176]
XIII.The Scarlet Tanager[189]
XIV.Aladdin's Lamp[203]
XV.The Fledgling's Flight[207]
XVI.Phœbe's Diary[212]
XVII.Diary—The New Home[221]
XVIII.Diary—The Music Master[226]
XIX.Diary—The First Lesson[229]
XX.Diary—Seeing the City[235]
XXI.Diary—Chrysalis[240]
XXII.Diary—Transformation[245]
XXIII.Diary—Plain for a Night[251]
XXIV.Diary—Declarations[256]
XXV.Diary—"The Link Must Break and the Lamp Must Die"[261]
XXVI."Hame's Best"[268]
XXVII.Trailing Arbutus[271]
XXVIII.Mother Bab and Her Son[284]
XXIX.Preparations[291]
XXX.The Feast of Roses[295]
XXXI.Blindness[303]
XXXII.Off to the Navy[310]
XXXIII.The One Chance[315]
XXXIV.Busy Days[319]
XXXV.David's Share[327]
XXXVI.David's Return[331]
XXXVII."A Love That Life Could Never Tire"[335]

Patchwork


CHAPTER I

CALICO PATCHWORK

The gorgeous sunshine of a perfect June morning invited to the great outdoors. Exquisite perfume from myriad blossoms tempted lovers of nature to get away from cramped, man-made buildings, out under the blue roof of heaven, and revel in the lavish splendor of the day.

This call of the Junetide came loudly and insistently to a little girl as she sat in the sitting-room of a prosperous farmhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and sewed gaily-colored pieces of red and green calico into patchwork.

"Ach, my!" she sighed, with all the dreariness which a ten-year-old is capable of feeling, "why must I patch when it's so nice out? I just ain't goin' to sew no more to-day!"