Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1926


Copyright, 1878,
By Roberts Brothers
Copyright, 1906, 1920,
By William S. Jackson.
Copyright, 1910,
By Little, Brown, and Company.



CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I Christmas-Day in Nelly's New England Home[1]
II A Talk about Leaving Mayfield[18]
III Off for Colorado[48]
IV A Night in a Sleeping-Car[71]
V First Glimpses of Colorado and a New Home[96]
VI Life at Garland's[125]
VII A Hunt for a Silver Mine[141]
VIII The Marches Leave Garland's[156]
IX Wet Mountain Valley[187]
X Rob and Nelly Go into Business[208]
XI How to find a Silver Mine[227]
XII Nelly's Silver Mine[250]
XIII "The Good Luck"[270]
XIV An Old Acquaintance[292]
XV Changes in Prospect[311]
XVI "Goot-By and Goot Luck"[323]

ILLUSTRATIONS

All that morning Rob fished and Nelly stuck grasshoppers on
the hook for himFrontispiece
FACING PAGE
Nelly sat on one side, with all the dolls ranged in a row
against the wall[20]
He would ring out such a "jodel" that the people would stop
and look up amazed[132]
There she saw the very place she recollected so well[256]