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Title: Jewel Weed

Author: Alice Ames Winter

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JEWEL WEED

by

ALICE AMES WINTER

Author of "The Prize to the Hardy"

With Illustrations by Harrison Fisher

[Illustration: "Surely you must have read it long ago"--Page 360]

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York

Copyright 1906
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
October

TO
MY FATHER AND MOTHER
CHARLES G. AND FANNY B. AMES

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I A Light from the Far East 1
II Mother and Son 28
III An Occidental Luminary 41
IV At Madeline's 54
V Salad Days 77
VI Jewel Weed 99
VII Lena's Progress 116
VIII The Falls 132
IX An Invitation 152
X Bitter-Sweet 173
XI Politics and Play 194
XII An Engagement 210
XIII An Awakening 222
XIV The Return of Ram Juna 242
XV The Honeymoon