Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
NORTON ISLAND was two miles and a half from the pretty watering-place of Dixtown; it was a point of interest to visitors to the latter place, who enjoyed sailing across the bay to picnic there, when the day was calm and the sun shone brightly. It had lofty cliffs, which termin...
NORTON ISLAND was two miles and a half from the pretty watering-place of Dixtown; it was a point of interest to visitors to the latter place, who enjoyed sailing across the bay...
2. CHAPTER II.MOTHER CRAMPTON had passed her seventy-seventh birthday, and it seemed probable she would live to be ninety or more, for her steps were elastic and her eyes bright. She was a we...
3. CHAPTER III.MISS PRINGLE kept a small baker's shop in Dixtown, and carried on a brisk trade; in fact, she was rather noted for her home-made bread. The appearance of her shop from without d...
4. CHAPTER IV.Mrs. Gillies did not encourage her son to do his best at his first situation; she rather gave him a distaste for it. Every word that Tom uttered which displeased her made her sh...
5. CHAPTER V.WHEN Tom awoke, he could scarcely open his eye, it was so stiff and sore. No one pitied him, and he knew very well he deserved no sympathy, and that, if the truth were known, he...
6. CHAPTER VI."Yes," answered Mrs. Gillies. "He was christened Thomas, but we generally call him Tom, sometimes Tommy, it doesn't matter which. He's on his own account from this day. I'm sure...
7. CHAPTER VII.GRANDMOTHER GILLIES did not carry out her intention of calling on her son to complain of Tom, because she was so late home from Dixtown. She made up her mind she never would tru...
8. CHAPTER VIII.TOM thought seven o'clock never would come on Sunday morning. He was up and dressed soon after five, but he dare not open the house, having received orders to wait in the kitchen.
9. CHAPTER IX."TOM, you must be off and fetch some water," said Miss Pringle the next morning. "It's very annoying, to be sure, that I should come to this. Take two pails with you."
10. CHAPTER X.DICK returned to Norton Island that afternoon, and went to work at the quarries on the following morning. He thought of nothing all day but the bright sovereigns he had seen Mis...
11. CHAPTER XI.TOM was very miserable when he awoke. Dick was not by his side, and he had evidently slept until a late hour. He tried to rouse himself and stand up, but he felt very weak and i...
12. CHAPTER XII.WHILE the events we have narrated in the last two chapters occurred, Annie Newton was passing through deep waters. Her father's health, as we know, had been declining for some t...
13. CHAPTER XIII.AT the close of Dick's first week with Miss Pringle, he had won a high place in her opinion; but not so with Annie or her father, who were duly informed by Mother Crampton of th...
14. CHAPTER XIV.DICK was no nearer the wished-for money on that Saturday afternoon when Tom went home, nor did he see any chance of clutching the prize. He was growing weary of controlling hims...
15. CHAPTER XV.TWO years later Dixtown appeared just the same to a casual observer as on the day when we closed our last chapter. The sun shone as brightly, the birds sang as gaily, the myrtle...