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Title: The Boy from Hollow Hut
A Story of the Kentucky Mountains

Author: Isla May Mullins

Release Date: October 29, 2009 [EBook #30356]

Language: English

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THE BOY FROM HOLLOW HUT

[Illustration: "I kin kill rabbits if I can't do nothin' else"]

The Boy From Hollow Hut

A STORY OF THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS

By ISLA MAY MULLINS

Illustrated

New York Chicago Toronto

Fleming H. Revell Company

London and Edinburgh

Copyright, 1911, by

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

New York: 158 Fifth Avenue

Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave.

London: 21 Paternoster Square

Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street

To MRS. J. B. MARVIN

Whose unceasing devotion to the cause of education in the
mountains of Kentucky inspired this little story

CONTENTS

I. A STRANGER AND A PROMISE 11
II. A PACKAGE BY MAIL 24
III. IN THE WILDERNESS 36
IV. A HALT ON THE ROAD 44
V. A DOUBLE RESCUE 57
VI. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING 72
VII. A TRIP TO THE CITY 78
VIII. OPPORTUNITY 91
IX. A STARTLING APPEARANCE 98
X. STEVE DEVELOPS A MIND OF HIS OWN 111
XI. EXPERIENCE 129
XII. LOVE'S AWAKENING 149
XIII. OLD TIES RENEWED 160
XIV. "ALL RIGHT, SON" 180
XV. FLICKERING HOPE 190
XVI. IN THE CRUCIBLE