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Title: You Never Know Your Luck, Complete
Being The Story Of A Matrimonial Deserter

Author: Gilbert Parker

Last Updated: March 14, 2009
Release Date: October 18, 2006 [EBook #6288]

Language: English

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YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK

[BEING THE STORY OF A MATRIMONIAL DESERTER]

By Gilbert Parker

CONTENTS:

Volume 1.
PROEM
I. "PIONEERS, O PIONEERS"
II. CLOSING THE DOORS
III. THE LOGAN TRIAL AND WHAT CAME OF IT
IV. "STRENGTH SHALL BE GIVEN THEE"
V. A STORY TO BE TOLD

Volume 2.
VI. "HERE ENDETH THE FIRST LESSON"
VII. A WOMAN'S WAY TO KNOWLEDGE
VIII. ALL ABOUT AN UNOPENED LETTER
IX. NIGHT SHADE AND MORNING GLORY
X. "S. O. S."
XI. IN THE CAMP OF THE DESERTER

Volume 3.
XII. AT THE RECEIPT OF CUSTOM
XIII. KITTY SPEAKS HER MIND AGAIN
XIV. AWAITING THE VERDICT
XV. "MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM"
XVI. "'TWAS FOR YOUR PLEASURE YOU CAME HERE, YOU GO BACK FOR MINE"
XVII. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT?
EPILOGUE

INTRODUCTION

This volume contains two novels dealing with the life of prairie people
in the town of Askatoon in the far West. 'The World for Sale' and the
latter portion of 'The Money Master' deal with the same life, and 'The
Money Master' contained some of the characters to be found in 'Wild
Youth'. 'The World for Sale' also was a picture of prairie country with
strife between a modern Anglo-Canadian town and a French-Canadian town
in the West. These books are of the same people; but 'You Never
Know Your Luck' and 'Wild Youth' have several characters which move
prominently through both.

In the introduction to 'The World for Sale' in this series, I drew a
description of prairie life, and I need not repeat what was said there.
'In You Never Know Your Luck' there is a Proem which describes briefly
the look of the prairie and suggests characteristics of the life of
the people. The basis of the book has a letter written by a wi