Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
The mission-box
"Well, I don't know. I think she might have left out some of them. There is Norah Flynn. She said she would come if she could be spared, and Miss Ackerman said,—
Chapters
1. CHAPTER I.
"Well, I don't know. I think she might have left out some of them. There is Norah Flynn. She said she would come if she could be spared, and Miss Ackerman said,—
2. CHAPTER II.THREE o'clock on Thursday afternoon found all Miss Ackerman's class assembled in her mother's beautiful drawing-room, opening with a wide, long window on the veranda and command...
3. CHAPTER III.THE next morning Ida was all eagerness to begin her work. Directly after breakfast she hunted out a large business-looking work-basket, and was busily looking for her thimble, s...
4. CHAPTER IV.LITTLE Mary Edgar went home from her visit at Miss Ackerman's with her head full of serious thoughts. She was much the youngest of Miss Ackerman's large class—so young, indeed,...
5. CHAPTER V.THE next day was Sunday. Mary changed her dime and had a two-cent piece to put into the collection. It was rather less than she was in the habit of giving, but it looked more im...
6. CHAPTER VI.THE rest of the afternoon passed off very pleasantly to most of the party, and when Matilda went home, she told her mother that she had had a real good time, and the girls were...
7. CHAPTER VII.Mr. Ferarra was a gentleman of Spanish descent, doing business both in the neighboring city and in Mexico. He had married an American lady, daughter of one of his partners, and...
8. CHAPTER VIII."She will not send it," replied Mrs. Riker quietly. "I saw Mary take it to Sarah Southmayd's, and when I met Mrs. Murray in the street and asked her about it, she told me quite...
9. CHAPTER IX.WHEN Eunice arrived at home and looked at the bundle of work she had taken from Ida, she was rather dismayed. But she was a capital seamstress, and the little sewing-machine was...
10. CHAPTER X.MATILDA JENKINS had not been one of those who stopped after school to talk over the work. She had appeared unusually thoughtful in the class, and had made some remarks which cau...
11. CHAPTER XI."I think Maria must have been out of her senses," said she. "I never thought for a moment of the thimble being stolen, and I found it the next morning just where I left it. What...
12. CHAPTER XII.MONDAY and Tuesday were very busy and interesting days to Miss Ackerman's class. All the girls hastened to finish their work, and, to their credit be it said, not one was behind...
13. CHAPTER XIII.TWO or three days after the class-meeting, Mrs. Murray called on Mrs. Riker. She was influenced by two reasons: she was really anxious to repair the injustice of which she had b...