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Title: Blue Goose

Author: Frank Lewis Nason

Release Date: March 3, 2010 [EBook #31485]

Language: English

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The BLUE GOOSE

FRANK LEWIS NASON

AUTHOR OF TO THE END OF THE TRAIL

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
NEW YORK

Published, March, 1903, R
Second Impression

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"_So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a
noise and behold a shaking, and the bones came together bone to bone._

"_And, lo, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, but there was no
breath in them._

"_Son of man, prophesy unto the wind. Come from the four winds, O
breath, and breathe upon these that they may live._

"_And the breath came into them and they lived._"

To
MY FRIEND OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS,
CHARLES EMERSON BEECHER,

who, with infinite skill and patience, has breathed the breath of life
into the dry bones of Earth's untold ages of upward struggle, who has
made them speak of the eternity of their past, and has made them
prophesy hope for the eternity to come, this book is dedicated by the
author.

CONTENTS

I. THE BLUE GOOSE

II. THE OLD MAN

III. ELISE

IV. THE WATCHED POT BEGINS TO BOIL

V. BENNIE OPENS THE POT AND FIRMSTONE COMES IN

VI. THE FAMILY CIRCLE

VII. MR. MORRISON TACKLES A MAN WITH A MIND OF HIS OWN AND A MAN WITHOUT
ONE

VIII. MADAME SEEKS COUNSEL

IX. THE MEETING AT THE BLUE GOOSE

X. ELISE GOES FORTH TO CONQUER

XI. THE DEVIL'S ELBOW

XII. FIGS AND THISTLES

XIII. THE STORK AND THE CRANES

XIV. BLINDED EYES

XV. BENDING THE TWIG

XVI. AN INSISTENT