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Title: Patchwork
A Story of 'The Plain People'

Author: Anna Balmer Myers

Illustrator: Helen Mason Groce

Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22827]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: "OH, LOOK AT THIS--AND THIS!"]

PATCHWORK

A STORY OF

"THE PLAIN PEOPLE"

By ANNA BALMER MYERS

[Illustration]

WITH FRONTISPIECE IN COLOR BY
HELEN MASON GROSE

A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York

Published by arrangement with George W. Jacobs & Company

Copyright, 1920, by
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY

All rights reserved
_Printed in U.S.A._

_To my Mother and Father
this book is lovingly inscribed_

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

I. CALICO PATCHWORK 13

II. OLD AARON'S FLAG 29

III. LITTLE DUTCHIE 40

IV. THE NEW TEACHER 52

V. THE HEART OF A CHILD 70

VI. THE PRIMA DONNA OF THE ATTIC 92

VII. "WHERE THE BROOK AND RIVER MEET" 110

VIII. BEYOND THE ALPS LIES ITALY 119

IX. A VISIT TO MOTHER BAB 129

X. AN OLD-FASHIONED COUNTRY SALE 146

XI. "THE BRIGHT LEXICON OF YOUTH" 166

XII. THE PREACHER'S WOOING 176

XIII. THE SCARLET TANAGER 189

XIV. ALADDIN'S LAMP 203

XV. THE FLEDGLING'S FLIGHT 207

XVI. PHOEBE'S DIARY 212

XVII. DIARY--THE NEW HOME