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Title: Step by Step
or, Tidy's Way to Freedom

Author: The American Tract Society

Posting Date: August 5, 2008 [EBook #1052]
Release Date: September, 1997

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STEP BY STEP ***

Produced by Judy Boss

STEP BY STEP

OR

TIDY'S WAY TO FREEDOM.

"Woe to all who grind
Their brethren of a common Father down!
To all who plunder from the immortal mind
Its bright and glorious crown!"
--WHITTIER.

[colophon omitted]

Published By The

American Tract Society,

28 Cornhill, Boston.

Transcriber's Note: I have removed page numbers; all italics
are emphasis only. I have omitted running heads and have closed
contractions, e.g. "she 's" becoming "she's"; in addition, on page
180, stanza 3, line 1, I have changed the single quotation mark at the
beginning of the line to a double quotation mark.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by THE AMERICAN
TRACT SOCIETY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.

Riverside, Cambridge:

Stereotyped And Printed By H. O. Houghton.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. INTRODUCTION. . . . . . 5
II. THE BABY. . . . . 13
III. SUNSHINE. . . . . 24
IV. SEVERAL EVENTS. . . . 36
V. A NEW HOME. . . . . 43
VI. BEGINNINGS OF KNOWLEDGE. 50
VII. FRANCES. . . . . 62
VIII. PRAYER. . . . . 75
IX. THE FIRST LESSON. . . . 87
X. LONY'S PETITION. . . . . 95
XI. ROUGH PLACES. . . . . 105
XII. A GREAT UNDERTAKING. . 112
XIII. A LONG JOURNEY. . . . 127
XIV. CRUELTY. . . . . 137
XV. COTTON. . . . . 147
XVI. RESCUE. . . . . 154
XVII. TRUE LIBERTY. . . . 165
XVIII. CROWNING MERCIES. . . 174

OLD DINAH JOHNSON. . . . .

STEP BY STEP.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.

MY DEAR CHILDREN,--All of you who read this