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Title: A String of Amber Beads

Author: Martha Everts Holden

Release Date: November 6, 2005 [eBook #17019]

Language: English

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A STRING OF AMBER BEADS

by

MARTHA EVERTS HOLDEN

"AMBER"

Siegel, Cooper Co.,
New York. ---------- Chicago.
Copyright 1893 by
Charles H. Kerr & Company

DEDICATED

TO THE LATE

ANDREW SHUMAN

MY LITERARY ADVISER

AND

TRUEST FRIEND

CONTENTS.

I. "I DIDN'T THINK."
II. "STAY WHERE YOU ARE."
III. A COWARDLY MATE.
IV. THEY CARRY NO BANNER.
V. SHUT IN.
VI. THE CIRCLING YEAR--A CLOCK.
VII. SOMETHING BETTER THAN SURFACE MANNERS.
VIII. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
IX. THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE ME MOST WEARY.
X. NOTHING SO GRAND AS FORCE.
XI. A RAINY RHAPSODY.
XII. CAUSE FOR WONDER.
XIII. THE FIRST KATYDID.
XIV. A PLEA FOR MEN.
XV. WHAT I'M TIRED OF.
XVI. NOTHING LIKE A GOOD LAUGH.
XVII. HOLD! ENOUGH!!
XVIII. RIPE OPPORTUNITIES.
XIX. A SUNSET CLOUD.
XX. ONE SECRET OF SUCCESS.
XXI. A NEW BEATITUDE.
XXII. BLESSED BE BASHFULNESS.
XXIII. A BEWITCHED VIOLIN.
XXIV. A HAT PIN PROBLEM.
XXV. POLITENESS VS. SINCERITY.
XXVI. THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN.
XXVII. SERMONS FROM FLIES.
XXVIII. THE MAN WHO KNOWS IT ALL.
XXIX. BALD HEADS AND UNEQUAL CHANCES.
XXX. HUMAN STRAWS.
XXXI. A SALLOW FACED GIRL FOR YOUR PITY.
XXXII. AND YET HE CLINGS TO LIFE.
XXXIII. OH! TO RID THE WORLD OF SHAMS.
XXXIV. DRESS PARADE OF THE GREAT ALIKE.
XXXV. IF GOD MADE YOU A WILLOW DON'T TRY TO BE A PINE.
XXXVI. TWO TYPES.
XXXVII. A DREAM GARDEN.
XXXVIII. ANYTHING WORSE THAN A BLUE-JAY? HARDLY!
XXXIX. GOOD HEALTH A BLESSING.
XL. WHY, BLESS MY SOUL! IT REALLY SEEMS TO THINK.
XLI. TAKE TO DRINK, OF COURSE!
XLII. A WARNING TO GIRLS.
XLIII. A FROG MAY DO WH