EDMUND CARLTON PEARSON
(1841-1897)

"E'en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth,
In simpleness and gentleness and honor and clean mirth."


NOTE

A number of the incidents described in this book have been used in a series of stories published in The Outlook. To The Outlook Company my thanks are due for their courteous permission to retell these stories in an altered form.

E. L. P.


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