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Title: Pearl and Periwinkle

Author: Anna Graetz

Release Date: January 8, 2007 [EBook #20314]

Language: English

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Pearl and Periwinkle

BY

ANNA GRAETZ

[Illustration: Emblem]

L. B. C.
Col. O.
1917

CONTENTS

Chapter I

Page

Myra's Dreadful Children 5

Chapter II

Pigs, Cabbages and--Mr. Robert Grey 11

Chapter III

At the Shrine of Joe Smith 19

Chapter IV

The Clan 29

Chapter V

The Wall that Parted 37

Chapter VI

Joe Smith's Choice 41

Chapter VII

Periwinkle Breaks the Ice 49

Chapter VIII

"Even Unto Bethlehem" 55

CHAPTER I

MYRA'S DREADFUL CHILDREN

Miss Hetty Maise, having spent the night in fitful spells of slumber, at
last awakened by the beams of sunlight, sat up in bed with a start,
quite unrefreshed and possessed of an uncomfortable feeling that
something unpleasant was about to happen. A venturesome sunbeam, casting
its light upon a picture on the heavy walnut dresser, seemed to recall
the cause of her sleepless night and present uneasy state of mind.
Drawing her lips tightly together she frowned severely at the
inquisitive intruder.

"Those children," she thought, "Myra's dreadful children! If the
minister himself hadn't insisted that it was my plain duty to take them
I shouldn't have done it. It seems almost a sin to take in two children
who have been circus performers."

Miss Hetty was up by this time, for she hated to be idle. In fact the
minister's son had once remarked that she was accustomed to sti