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Title: Christine
A Fife Fisher Girl

Author: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Illustrator: Stockton Mulford

Release Date: April 22, 2010 [EBook #32085]

Language: English

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CHRISTINE

By AMELIA E. BARR

Christine
Joan
Profit and Loss
Three Score and Ten
The Measure of a Man
The Winning of Lucia
Playing with Fire
All the Days of My Life

D. APPLETON & COMPANY
Publishers New York

[Illustration: When she came to the top of the cliff, she turned and
gazed again at the sea. Page 6]

CHRISTINE

A FIFE FISHER GIRL

BY
AMELIA E. BARR

AUTHOR OF "JOAN", "PROFIT AND LOSS", "THE MEASURE OF A MAN",
"ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE", ETC.

FRONTISPIECE BY STOCKTON MULFORD

"_The sea is His, and He made it_"

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON
1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

I Inscribe This Book To

Rutger Bleecker Jewett

Because He is my Friend, And
Expresses All That Jewel of a
Monosyllable Requires And
Because, Though a Landsman,
He Loves the Sea And
In His Dreams, He is a Sailor.

Amelia E. Barr.
_January 7th, 1917._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Fishers of Culraine 1
II. Christine and the Domine 23
III. Angus Ballister 38
IV. The Fisherman's Fair 61
V. Christine and Angus 86
VI. A Child, Two Lovers, and a Wedding 115
VII. Neil and a Little Child