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Title: The Pearl of Love
or, Josey's Gift

Author: Madeline Leslie

Release Date: September 26, 2010 [EBook #33811]

Language: English

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The Pearl of Love:

OR,

JOSEY'S GIFT.

_BY MRS. MADELINE LESLIE._

"Love is the fulfilling of the law."--ROM. 13:10.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY A. F. GRAVES,

20 CORNHILL.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

REV. A. B. BAKER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of
Massachusetts.

To

FRANK RANDALL, RUTH, MAY, RANDOLPH MORGAN,
AND JAMES WALDINGFIELD,

CHILDREN OF

D. F. APPLETON, Esq., New York,

THESE "BIBLE PEARLS" ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
BY THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

Page

JOSEY'S RIDE 11

CHAPTER. II.

THE TWO NURSES 21

CHAPTER III.

THE WRONG BABY 33

CHAPTER IV.

JOSEY'S TEMPER 48

CHAPTER V.

JOSEY'S CHRISTMAS 61

CHAPTER VI.

THE BURNED BABY 74

CHAPTER VII.

JOSEY'S SORROW 86

CHAPTER VIII.

JOSEY'S GIFT 100

_The Pearl of Love._

CHAPTER I.

JOSEY'S RIDE.

"Please mamma, may I go to ride with you?" asked little red-cheeked
Josey Codman.

Mamma was tying on baby's silk hood, and did not answer for a minute.

"I would let him go," urged Aunt Fanny. "He can sit between us; and he
wont be a bit of trouble."

Josey clapped his hands.

"I'm going, mamma, isn't I?"

"Can Nurse get him ready quick enough?"

"Yes, indeed! Run, Josey, for your new hat. Nurse bring his sack from
the hall. It's fortunate I curled his hair before dinner. It's all dry
now; come, pet, stand still while I baste in a clean ruffle."

Baby Emma didn't like so many wrappi