Of streaming, pitiless, icy sands;
A single heart with its feeble beat—
A mouse in the lion's throat—
A swimmer at sea—a sunbeam's mote
In the grasp of a tempest of hail and sleet!
Table of Contents.
| Page | |
|---|---|
| [CHAPTER I] | |
| Her Adoptive Parents | 1 |
| [CHAPTER II.] | |
| Her First Trip in a Blizzard | 9 |
| [CHAPTER III.] | |
| The Burial of her Dead Mother | 22 |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | |
| Flaxen Adopts Anson as "Pap" | 32 |
| [CHAPTER V.] | |
| Flaxen Becomes Indispensable to the Two Old Bachelors | 38 |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | |
| A Question of Dress | 46 |
| [CHAPTER VII.] | |
| After Harvest | 69 |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] | |
| An Empty House | 78 |
| [CHAPTER IX.] | |
| "Baching" it Again | 86 |
| [CHAPTER X.] | |
| Flaxen Comes Home on a Vacation | 105 |
| [CHAPTER XI.] | |
| Flaxen Grows Restless | 113 |
| [CHAPTER XII.] | |
| Flaxen Says Good-bye | 124 |
| [CHAPTER XIII.] | |
| Flaxen's Great Need | 133 |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] | |
| Kendall Steps Out | 148 |
| [CHAPTER XV.] | |
| Bert Comes Back | 153 |