A MOUNTAIN WOMAN

By Elia Wilkinson Peattie

To
My best Friend, and kindest Critic,
My Husband.

Transcriber's Note: I have omitted signature designations and have closed abbreviations, e.g., “do n't” becoming “don't,” etc. In addition, I have made the following changes to the text:

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3819seem toseemed to
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564divertisementdivertissement
9119divertisementdivertissement
15517scarfs.scarves.
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FOREWORD.

MOST of the tales in this little book have been printed before. “A Mountain Woman” appeared in Harper's Weekly, as did “The Three Johns” and “A Resuscitation.” “Jim Lancy's Waterloo” was printed in the Cosmopolitan, “A Michigan Man” in Lippincott's, and “Up the Gulch” in Two Tales. The courtesy of these periodicals in permitting the stories to be republished is cordially acknowledged.