271

CHAPTER XXV.
The Sleighing Party--Clara Hastings--Mother and Son 280

CHAPTER XXVI.
Letter Writing--Daddy's Nocturnal Labors and early Walk 294

CHAPTER XXVII.
Doing and Getting Good--Wycoff's Reform 308

CHAPTER XXVIII.
Daddy's Soliloqy--A Beer-Soaker--A Knock-Down Argument--A
Present for Little Wolf 323

CHAPTER XXIX.
A Chapter of Accidents and Deliverances 333

CHAPTER XXX.
Another Saloon Scene--The Bridal Trousseau--The Lovely Nurse 341

CHAPTER XXXI.
Threats--Little Wolf and Black Hawk--Tragic Death of Hank
Glutter 354

CHAPTER XXXII.
The May Day Weddings--Miss Orrecta Lippincott's
Surprise--How Old Lovers Behave 367

CHAPTER XXXIII.
The Old Brown House Deserted--The Pearl and Diamond
Ring--Mr. and Mrs. Marsden's Conjectures 380

CHAPTER XXXIV.
A Trip to California--Jumping Overboard--The Grand Supper
and what Came of it--The Captain's Little Daughter 393

CHAPTER XXXV.
A Visit to Mrs. Sherman's Room--Daddy and his New
Spouse--Ominous Signs 408

CHAPTER XXXVI.
More News from Little Wolf--Tom Tinknor's Testimony 415

CHAPTER XXXVII.
Another Death in the Old Brown House 423

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Daddy's Temperance Lecture 430

CHAPTER XXXIX.
Death in Mid Ocean--Love Making and a Double Wedding 448

LITTLE WOLF.

CHAPTER I.

A SAD BREAKFAST--THE SHERMAN FAMILY--THE LANGUAGE OF
FLOWERS--WHAT A YOUNG MAN WAS SURE OF--THE PARTING.

Early in the morning of a long ago midsummer's day, the inmates of a
quiet New England home were making unusual preparations for the
approaching repast. The mistress of the house was ostensibly
overseeing the table; but there was an uncertainty in her movements,
which indicated a contradictory mingling of interest and abstraction,
such as agitates the mind, when trifles intrude on more weighty
matters. Not so the maid in attendance, who had served in her present
capacity for more than twenty years, and was without dispute an adept
in the culinary department, if not in affairs of the heart. She was
not so