The Shorn Lamb
The Shorn Lamb
The
Shorn Lamb
Author of
"Mammy's White Folks,"
"Billy and the Major,"
"Miss Minerva's Baby"
Chicago
The Reilly & Lee Co.
Printed in the United States of America
Copyright, 1922
by
The Reilly & Lee Co.
All Rights Reserved
The Shorn Lamb
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE 1 A Multiplicity of Parents 9 2 "I'm Rebecca Taylor" 32 3 Mill House Folks 42 4 Rebecca Asks References 64 5 Aunt Testy Takes Charge 74 6 In Aunt Peachy's Realm 90 7 Philip's Home-coming 106 8 Rebecca Gets Acquainted 114 9 A Reluctant Knight Errant 130 10 Charms And Pictures 146 11 Magic—black And White 157 12 Aunt Pearly Gates' Wisdom 177 13 Spottswood Capitulates 188 14 A Very Dark Incubator 213 15 A Fearsome Story 225 16 Major Taylor in Doubt 240 17 Betsy's Mortification 250 18 The Missing Deed Book 262 19 Aunt Peachy Gloats 278 20 The Importance of Proof 287 21 The Dancing Mamma is Found 298 22 A Terrified Conjurer 306 23 The Lost is Found 317 24 The Clouds Break 325
"God tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb"
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