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Title: Little Maid Marian

Author: Amy E. Blanchard

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_LITTLE MAID MARIAN_

[Illustration: "BE YE REMOVED INTO THE MIDST OF THE SEA"]

LITTLE MAID
MARIAN

BY
AMY E. BLANCHARD

_Author of "Little Sister Anne," "Mistress May," "Playmate
Polly," "Three Little Cousins," etc._

THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY PHILADELPHIA

Copyright, 1908, by
GEORGE W. JACOBS AND COMPANY
_Published July, 1908_

_All rights reserved_
Printed in U. S. A.

_CONTENTS_

I. A MUSTARD SEED 9

II. THE SCHOOL-TEACHER 27

III. A NEW ROAD 47

IV. COMPANIONS 67

V. BLACKBERRIES 87

VI. THE WHITE APRON 105

VII. PATTY'S LETTER 125

VIII. A TRIP TO TOWN 143

IX. A VISIT TO PATTY 161

X. RUNNING AWAY 179

XI. A LETTER'S REPLY 199

XII. THE CHRISTMAS TREE 217

_CHAPTER I_

_A Mustard Seed_

The cat and kitten were both eating supper and Marian was watching
them. Her own supper of bread and milk she had finished, and had
taken the remains of it to Tippy and Dippy. Marian did not care very
much for bread and milk, but the cat and kitten did, as was plainly
shown by the way they hunched themselves down in front of the tin
pan into which Marian had poured their supper.

In the next room Grandpa and Grandma Otway were sitting and little
bits of their talk came to Marian's ears once in a while when her
thoughts ceased to wander in other directions. "If only one could
have faith to believe implicitly," Grandma Otway said.

"If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, and should say to that
mountain, be ye removed," quoted Grandpa Otway.

Marian sighed. They talked that way very often, she remembered, and
she herself had g