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Title: A Cathedral Courtship

Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin

Illustrator: Charles E. Brock

Release Date: May 16, 2008 [EBook #25493]

Language: English

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A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP

_By the same Author._

=Penelope's Irish Experiences.= 6s.

=Penelope's English Experiences.= Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. 6s.

=Penelope's Experiences in Scotland.= Illustrated by Charles E.
Brock. 6s.

=Timothy's Quest.= Illustrated by Oliver Herford. 2s. 6d.

=Marm Liza.= 6s.

=Village Watch-Tower.= 3s. 6d.

=Polly Oliver's Problem.= Illustrated. 3s. 6d.

=Summer in a Canyon.= Illustrated. 3s. 6d.

=Birds' Christmas Carol.= Illustrated. 1s. 6d.

=Story of Patsy.= Illustrated. 1s. 6d.

_By Mrs. Wiggin & Miss Nora A. Smith._

=The Story Hour.= Illustrated. 2s. 6d.

=Children's Rights.= 5s.

=Republic of Childhood.= 3 vols. 5s. each.

_LONDON: GAY AND BIRD._

[Illustration: 'Jack! Jack! save me!']

A Cathedral Courtship

BY
Kate Douglas Wiggin

_ILLUSTRATED_

BY
CHARLES E. BROCK

GAY AND BIRD
22 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND
LONDON

1901

_All rights reserved_

_Originally published in 1893 with 'Penelope's English Experiences,' and
reprinted 1893 (twice), 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897._

_PREFACE_

_'A Cathedral Courtship' was first published in 1893, appearing in a
volume with 'Penelope's English Experiences.' In course of time, the
latter story, finding unexpected favour in the public eyes, left its
modest companion, and was promoted to a separate existence, with
pictures and covers of its own. Then something rather curious occurred,
one of those trifles which serve to make a publisher's life an exciting,
if not a happy, one. When the 'gentle reader' (bless his or her warm and
irrational heart!) could no longer buy 'A Cathedral Courtship,' a new
desire for it sprang into being, and when the