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Title: Reels and Spindles
A Story of Mill Life

Author: Evelyn Raymond

Illustrator: Frank T. Merrill

Release Date: December 25, 2008 [EBook #27613]

Language: English

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REELS AND SPINDLES

_A Story of Mill Life_

BY

EVELYN RAYMOND

AUTHOR OF "A DAUGHTER OF THE WEST," "A LITTLE LADY OF THE HORSE," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK T. MERRILL

[Illustration: Logo]

BOSTON AND CHICAGO
W. A. WILDE COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1900,
BY W. A. WILDE COMPANY.

_All rights reserved._

REELS AND SPINDLES.

[Illustration: "SHE PULLED A BOOK FROM HER POCKET AND BEGAN TO READ."]

PREFACE.

It was love for others which made Amy Kaye make use of the first
opportunity which offered, even though it was an humble one and she was
handicapped by ignorance. But having once decided what course was right
for her, she followed it with a singleness of purpose and a thoroughness
of effort which brought a prompt success. The help she was to others was
no small part of this success. For in an age of shams and low ideals the
influence of even one sincere girl is far-reaching; and when to that
sincerity she adds the sympathy which makes another's interests as vital
to her as her own, this influence becomes incalculable for good.

It is the author's hope that the story of "Reels and Spindles" may aid
some young readers to comprehend and make their own this beauty of
simplicity and this charm of sympathy which are the outcome of
unselfishness.

E. R.

BALTIMORE, April 3, 1900.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A BYWAY OF THE ARDSLEY 11

II. THE MILL IN THE GLEN 23

III. FAIRACRES 33

IV. HALLAM 47

V.