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Title: A Tar-Heel Baron

Author: Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

Illustrator: Edward Stratton Holloway

Release Date: July 23, 2008 [EBook #26112]

Language: English

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A Tar-Heel Baron

_SECOND EDITION_

[Illustration: "OAKWOOD"]

A Tar-Heel Baron

_by_

Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

With Illustrations by

Edward Stratton Holloway

Philadelphia & London
J. B. Lippincott Company
1903

COPYRIGHT, 1903
BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

Published February, 1903

_Electrotyped and Printed by_
_J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A._

TO

F. A. P.

"_One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake._"

Contents

Chapter Page

I FRIEDRICH VON RITTENHEIM 7
II THE SNARE OF THE FOWLER 22
III A WEAK MAN'S STRENGTH 38
IV "THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE" 47
V A STRONG MAN'S WEAKNESS 61
VI "I WARRANT THERE'S VINEGAR AND PEPPER IN'T!" 74
VII IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS 85
VIII SYDNEY RIDES AGAINST TIME 105
IX "IT NEEDED ONLY THIS!" 118
X THROUGH THE MIST 132
XI IN THE CORN 146
XII ILLUMINATION 156
XIII RECONCILIATION 171
XIV THE FOURTH OF JULY 179
XV THE GANDER-PULLING