ELSIE MAGOON OR THE OLD STILL-HOUSE IN THE HOLLOW. A Tale of the Past.
BYMRS. FRANCES DANA GAGE.
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1867.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by MRS. F. D. GAGE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey.
DEDICATION.
TO THE Friends of Temperance.
I COMMEND MY HUMBLE VOLUME, WITH AN EARNEST HOPE AND PRAYER, THAT HE WHO HEARS THE RAVEN'S CRY AND MARKS THE SPARROW'S FALL, MAY MAKE IT, IN THEIR HANDS, A MEANS OF GOOD.
THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
THE story of Elsie Magoon was written some years ago, at the request of a friend who was struggling to aid the cause of Temperance on the borders of the Mississippi. Believing then, as now, that no fiction can be wrought by the imagination equal in intensity of romance to the every-day realities of common life, I collected a few incidents which were stored in my memory, and wove them together with a thread of narrative; adding little to the facts, but changing names and localities, lest the actors, or their, descendants, should be recognized by their neighbors, even at this late day.
In the character of Elsie Magoon, I have endeavored to portray a true woman, filling her place as wife, mother, and member of society. Such wives and mothers are the great need of the age.
