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Title: The Second Chance

Author: Nellie L. McClung

Release Date: July 15, 2007 [eBook #22076]

Language: English

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THE SECOND CHANCE

by

NELLIE L. McCLUNG

Author of
"Sowing Seeds in Danny"

Frontispiece by Wladyslaw T. Benda

_"Then I went down to the potter's house and behold
he wrought a work on the wheels.

"And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in
the hand of the potter; so he made it again another vessel
as seemed good to the potter to make it."_

----Jeremiah xviii, 3-4.

TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
PUBLISHER
Copyright, Canada, 1910. by
WILLIAM BRIGGS

TO MY MOTHER
MRS. LETITIA McCURDY MOONEY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. Martha
II. The Rising Watsons
III. "Knowledge Is Power"
IV. Something More than Gestures
V. At the Chicken Hill School
VI. Pearl's Unruly Conscience
VII. The Second Chance
VIII. A Good Listener
IX. Mrs. Perkins's Turn
X. The New Pupils
XI. The House of Trouble
XII. Pearl Visits the Parsonage
XIII. The Ladies' Aid Meeting
XIV. "In Case----"
XV. The Sowing
XVI. Spiritual Advisors
XVII. The Pioneers' Picnic
XVIII. The Lacrosse Match
XIX. The End of the Game
XX. On the Quiet Hillside
XXI. Frozen Wheat
XXII. Autumn Days
XXIII. Pearl's Philosophy
XXIV. True Greatness
XXV. The Coming of Thursa
XXVI. In Honour's Ways
XXVII. The Wedding
XXVIII. A Sail! A Sail!
XXIX. Martha's Strong Arguments
XXX. Another Match-maker
XXXI. Mrs. Cavers's Neighbours
XXXII. Another Neighbour
XXXIII. The Correction Line
XXXIV. The Contrite Heart
XXXV. The Lure of Love and the West

CHAPTER I

MARTHA

In the long run all love is paid by love,
Tho' undervalued by the hosts of earth.
The great eternal government above
Keeps strict account, and wi