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Title: The Trumpeter Swan

Author: Temple Bailey

Illustrator: Alice Barber Stephens

Release Date: February 7, 2006 [EBook #17697]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "WHEN I AM MARRIED WILL YOU SOUND YOUR TRUMPET HIGH UP
NEAR THE MOON?"]

The
Trumpeter Swan

By

TEMPLE BAILEY

_Author of "The Tin Soldier" "Contrary Mary"
"Mistress Anne" "Glory of Youth"_

_Sonus ex nubibus te revocabit a mundo_
A sound from the clouds shall call thee from this earth

Illustrated by
ALICE BARBER STEPHENS

THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY PHILADELPHIA
1920

COPYRIGHT
1920 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A Major and Two Minors 7
II. Stuffed Birds 33
III. A Wolf in the Forest 61
IV. Rain and Randy's Soul 88
V. Little Sister 108
VI. Georgie-Porgie 127
VII. Mademoiselle Midas 147
VIII. Ancestors 161
IX. "T. Branch" 181
X. A Gentleman's Lie 214
XI. Wanted--a Pedestal 245
XII. Indian--Indian 263
XIII. The Whistling Sally 289
XIV. The Dancer on the Moor 313
XV. The Trumpeter Swan 333
XVI. The Conqueror 361

ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE

"When I am Married Will You Sound Your
Trumpet High Up Near the Moon?" _Frontispiece_

"It's So Heavenly to Have You Home" 9

Becky Drew A Sharp Breath--Then Faced
Dalton Squarely--"I Am Going to Marry Randy" 143

"Oh, Oh," She Whispered, "You Don't Know
How I Have Wanted You" 257

THE TRUMPETER SWAN

CHAPTER I

A MAJOR AND TWO MINORS

I

It had rained all night, one of the summer rains that, beginning in a
thunder-storm in Washington