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Gene Stratton-Porter
Freckles
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664116703
Table of Contents
Wherein Great Risks Are Taken and the Limberlost Guard Is Hired
Wherein Freckles Proves His Mettle and Finds Friends
Wherein a Feather Falls and a Soul Is Born
Wherein Freckles Faces Trouble Bravely and Opens the Way for New Experiences
Wherein an Angel Materializes and a Man Worships
Wherein a Fight Occurs and Women Shoot Straight
Wherein Freckles Wins Honor and Finds a Footprint on the Trail
Wherein Freckles Meets a Man of Affairs and Loses Nothing by the Encounter
Wherein the Limberlost Falls upon Mrs. Duncan and Freckles Comes to the Rescue
Wherein Freckles Strives Mightily and the Swamp Angel Rewards Him
Wherein the Butterflies Go on a Spree and Freckles Informs the Bird Woman
Wherein Black Jack Captures Freckles and the Angel Captures Jack
Wherein the Angel Releases Freckles, and the Curse of Black Jack Falls upon Her
Wherein Freckles Nurses a Heartache and Black Jack Drops Out
Wherein Freckles and the Angel Try Taking a Picture, and Little Chicken Furnishes the Subject
Wherein the Angel Locates a Rare Tree and Dines with the Gang
Wherein Freckles Offers His Life for His Love and Gets a Broken Body
Wherein Freckles Finds His Birthright and the Angel Loses Her Heart
Wherein Freckles returns to the Limberlost, and Lord O'More Sails for Ireland Without Him
CHAPTER I
Wherein Great Risks Are Taken and the Limberlost Guard Is Hired
Freckles came down the corduroy that crosses the lower end of the Limberlost. At a glance he might have been mistaken for a tramp, but he was truly seeking work. He was intensely eager to belong somewhere and to be attached to almost any enterprise that would furnish him food and clothing.
Long before he came in sight of the camp of the Grand Rapids Lumber Company, he could hear the cheery voices of the men, the neighing of the horses, and could scent the tempting odors of cooking food. A feeling of homeless friendlessness swept over him in a sickening wave. Without stopping to think, he turned into the newly made road and followed it to the camp, where the gang was making ready for supper and bed.
The scene was intensely attractive. The thickness of the swamp made a dark,