FRECKLES
GENE STRATTON-PORTER
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BYGENE
STRATTON-PORTER
AUTHOR OF THE SONG OF THE CARDINALDECORATIONS
BY E STETSON
CRAWFORD
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1904, by
Doubledav, Page & Company
Published, October, 1904
TO
ALL GOOD IRISHMEN
IN GENERAL
AND ONE
CHARLES DARWIN
PORTER
IN PARTICULAR
CONTENTS
- I. Wherein Great Risks Are Taken and the Limberlost Guard Is Hired 3
- II. Wherein Freckles Proves His Mettle and Finds Friends 20
- III. Wherein a Feather Falls and a Soul Is Born 40
- IV. Wherein Freckles Bravely Faces Trouble and Opens the Way for New Experiences 71
- V. Wherein an Angel Materialises and a Man Worships 117
- VI. Wherein a Fight Occurs and Women Shoot Straight 140
- VII. Wherein Freckles Wins Honour and Finds a Footprint on the Trail 160
- VIII. Wherein Freckles Meets a Man of Affairs and Loses Nothing by the Encounter 171
- IX Wherein the Limberlost Falls upon Mrs. Duncan and Freckles Comes to the Rescue 194
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- X. Wherein Freckles Strives Mightily and the Angel Rewards Him 205
- XI. Wherein the Butterflies Go on a Spree and Freckles Informs the Bird Woman 219
- XII. Wherein Black Jack Captures Freckles and the Angel Captures Jack 237
- XIII. Wherein the Angel Releases Freckles and the Curse of Black Jack Falls upon Her 264
- XIV. Wherein Freckles Nurses a Heart-Ache and Black Jack Drops Out 285
- XV. Wherein Freckles and the Angel Try Taking a Picture, and Little Chicken Furnishes the Subject 309
- XVI. Wherein the Angel Locates a Rare Tree and Dines with the Gang 323
- XVII. Wherein Freckles Offers His Life for His Love and Gets a Broken Body 340
- XVIII. Wherein Freckles Refuses Love without Knowledge of Honourable Birth and the Angel Goes in Quest of It 366
- XIX. Wherein Freckles Finds His Birthright and the Angel Loses Her Heart 395
- XX. Wherein Freckles Returns to the Limberlost and Lord O'More Sails for Ireland Without Him 415
LIST OF FULL-PAGE PICTURES
- "'I'll do pracisely what you tell me or die trying'" Frontispiece
- "'Ye winna see the like o' yon again while God lets ye live'" 34
- "'And what is it I've to be proud of, ma'am?' politely inquired Freckles" 206
- "'You won't come in?' she pleaded" 228
- "'There hasn't been an hour ... that the face of her hasn't been before me in all the tinderness, beauty, and mischief of it'" 292
- "He reached his arm about her and drew her up closely" 344
THE CHARACTERS
- FRECKLES, a plucky waif who guards the Limberlost timber leases and dreams of Angels.
- THE SWAMP ANGEL, in whom Freckles' sweetest dream materialises.
- MCLEAN, a member of a Grand Rapids lumber company, who befriends Freckles.
- MRS. DUNCAN, who gives mother-love and a home to Freckles.
- DUNCAN, head teamster of McLean's timber gang.
- THE BIRD WOMAN, who is collecting camera studies of birds for a book.
- LORD AND LADY O'MORE, who come from Ireland in quest of a lost relative.
- THE MAN OF AFFAIRS, brusque of manner, but big of heart.
- WESSNER, a Dutch timber-thief who wants rascality made easy.
- BLACK JACK, a villain to whom thought of repentance comes too late.
- SEARS, camp cook.
