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Title: Grandfather's Love Pie

Author: Miriam Gaines

Release Date: December 27, 2006 [EBook #20197]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "AUNTEE, I'LL THINK OF SOMETHING--I PROMISE YOU I WILL."]

SECOND EDITION

GRANDFATHER'S
LOVE PIE

BY

MIRIAM GAINES

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
JOHN EDWARD WHITING

1913
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY
INCORPORATED
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

COPYRIGHT, 1913,
BY
MISS MIRIAM GAINES.

TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED FATHER,
JOHN THOMAS GAINES,
THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS DEDICATED.

GRANDFATHER'S LOVE PIE

I.

"O, Auntee, what is it?"

The awed young voice paused at the threshold.

It was a sight the little girl had never witnessed before--she had seen
Auntee sad at occasional intervals, and a few times had looked upon
tears in the usually merry eyes of her beloved chum, but never before
had she beheld Auntee sobbing in such an abandonment of grief.

There was a very tender tie of love between these two--Alsie, the dear
little twelve-year-old daughter of an older sister of the family, and
Alice, the only remaining unmarried child of a household of many sons
and daughters.

The family circle had never been broken, however, and it was a household
where love prevailed, for although several members lived in far-away
homes, the flame of affection burned as bri