CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| I Would Be True | [15] |
| The Appeal to the Great Spirit | [22] |
| A Parable of Girlhood | [29] |
| The House of Truth | [32] |
| Marked for a Mast | [39] |
| Her Need | [44] |
| The Message of the Mountain | [47] |
| The Winning of an Honor | [51] |
| Daddy Gray’s Test | [56] |
| Wanted—A Real Mother | [61] |
| The Fir Tree and the Willow Wand | [69] |
| The Two Searchers | [73] |
| Why Elizabeth Was Chosen | [77] |
| Janie’s School Days | [81] |
| Self-Made Men | [89] |
| On The Road to Womanhood | [92] |
| Her Prayer | [97] |
| The Best Day | [105] |
| In the Way | [108] |
| An Old, Old Story | [114] |
| His Debt | [119] |
| How Kagigegabo Became a Brave | [123] |
| The White Flower of Happiness | [129] |
| The Speaking Picture | [134] |
| The Quest | [138] |
| The Treasure | [141] |
FIRESIDE STORIES FOR
GIRLS IN THEIR TEENS
I WOULD BE TRUE
’Twas a beautiful day in the late fall and the roadside was lined with the late asters and goldenrod. The sun was shining so brightly and the sky was as blue as a New Hampshire sky could be, yet the girl, walking along the winding, climbing road, saw none of them. The little brook by the roadside whispered and chattered as it ran along, yet she did not hear; a few late birds still twittered to her from the trees, but she did not notice; a chipmunk called to her from a dead tree by the roadside, but she paid not the least attention. She was alone with her thoughts and they were far from pleasant.
How different it all seemed from what it had seemed six months before! Then she had stood in the office of a great doctor in Philadelphia and heard him say to her father, “Unless you leave the city at once and go where there is pure air and simple food and real quiet, there is no help for you.”