The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage
By
Alice MacGowan
Author of
"Judith of the Cumberlands,"
"The Last Word," "Huldah,"
"Return," etc.
With Illustrations in Colour by
Robert Edwards
G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1909
Copyright, 1909
ALICE MacGOWAN
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
To
Emma Bell Miles
who could without doubt have written
much better this story of her own home country
the book is affectionately inscribed
by
The Author
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| I. A Pair of Haggards | 1 |
| II. The Up-Sitting | 19 |
| III. The Burying | 39 |
| IV. A Dance and a Serenade | 50 |
| V. The Asking | 70 |
| VI. The Wedding | 88 |
| VII. Lance's Laurel | 104 |
| VIII. The Infare | 124 |
| IX. The Interloper | 140 |
| X. Poverty Pride | 154 |
| XI. "Long Sweetenin'" | 168 |
| XII. "What Shall He Have Who Killed the Deer?" | 185 |
| XIII. Broken Chords | 193 |
| XIV. Roxy Griever's Guest | 211 |
| XV. A Stubborn Heart | 223 |
| XVI. Lance Cleaverage's Son | 237 |
| XVII. The Coasts of the Island | 247 |
| XVIII. The Hegira | 266 |
| XIX. Callista Cleaverage Goes Home | 277 | ...