Copyright, Canada, 1920
THE MUSSON BOOK CO., LIMITED
PUBLISHERS TORONTO

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I A Two Hundred Mile Dash[1]
II The City Swallows Daisy[6]
III The Maid and the Clerk[19]
IV A "Steer"[29]
V A Job[35]
VI The Plebeian[50]
VII A Human Horticulturist[62]
VIII A Knight in the Kitchen[86]
IX A Dance and an Invitation[96]
X The Boxing Match and Afterward[116]
XI The Face Behind the Mask[152]
XII Sawn Off the Old Block[156]
XIII A Plot that Miscarried[161]
XIV The Golden Stair[175]
XV The Lady of the House[187]
XVI Taking a Rest[198]
XVII A Raincloud[206]
XVIII The Bleak Two[216]
XIX The Choice of the Dray[221]
XX John Nixon's Invitation[229]
XXI In the Blizzard[236]
XXII In the Drifted Sleigh[257]
XXIII Daisy's Home Coming[261]
XXIV A Western Wild Man[270]
XXV Why?[275]
XXVI A New Settler[281]
XXVII The Sewing Machine Lovemaker[292]
XXVIII The Coming of the Mother[307]
XXIX The Bud[313]

DAISY HERSELF

CHAPTER I. A Two Hundred Mile Dash.

Daisy had run away from her home on the farm outside Toddburn village with this young store clerk, Beatty, who now sat holding her hand in the moonlight "flyer" of the M. & N. Beatty, who came originally from the city, was a bad young rascal; and Daisy—who, neglected and exposed to temptation since her earliest girlhood, had developed an innate awareness of "fellows"—knew it. None of her several reasons for this escapade had been the usual one—love. It suited her, however, to let Beatty think that she had come prepared to follow him to the world's end—a lengthy journey, upon which the railway ticket Beatty had bought for her was only good for the first two hundred miles.