Transcriber's Note: Punctuation errors have been corrected, but suspected misprints retained as possible dialect.
MRS. TREE
By
Laura E. Richards
Author of
"Captain January," "Melody," "Marie," etc.
Boston
Dana Estes & Company
Publishers
Copyright, 1902
By Dana Estes & Company
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All rights reserved
MRS. TREE
Published June, 1902
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
TO
My Daughter Rosalind
CONTENTS
- Wedding Bells 11
- Phœbe's Opinions 25
- Introducing Tommy Candy and Solomon, his Grandfather 41
- Old Friends 55
- "But When He Was Yet a Great Way off" 75
- The New Postmaster 92
- In Miss Penny's Shop 107
- A Tea-party 124
- A Garden-party 142
- Mr. Butters Discourses 161
- Miss Phœbe Passes on 175
- The Peak in Darien 189
- Life in Death 201
- Tommy Candy, and the Letter He Brought 217
- Maria 233
- Doctor Stedman's Patient 249
- Not Yet! 267