A Kentucky Cardinal

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A KENTUCKY CARDINAL

A Story

By

JAMES LANE ALLEN

Author Of "The Blue-Grass Region Of Kentucky"
"Flute And Violin" Etc.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1895

Dedication

This to her from one who in childhood used to stand at the windows of her room and watch for the Cardinal among the snow-buried cedars.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Audubon Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
My Rain Crow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8
"My Mocking-Bird!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facing     "     10
"'You Couldn't. I Am Your Guest'" . . . . "         "      54

The Audubon Drawings

         By JAMES LANE ALLEN.
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The Blue-Grass Region Of Kentucky. Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $2.50.
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Flute And Violin And Other Kentucky Tales and Romances. Illustrated. Post 8vo,
    Cloth, $1.50; Silk Binding, $2.25.
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Published by Harper & Brothers, New York

    For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by the
publishers to any part of the United States, Canada, or
Mexico, on receipt of price

Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers

All right reserved

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1925, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.