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HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON M–C–M–I–X
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THE MOTHER: A Short Novel
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HIGGINS–A MAN’S CHRISTIAN.50
HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, N. Y.
Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published November, 1909.
CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
I.Hell Bent1
II.The Pilot of Souls4
III.In the Snake-Room8
IV.The Cloth in Queer Places11
V.Jack in Camp20
VI.“To the Tall Timber!”25
VII.Robbing the Blind32
VIII.Touching Pitch43
IX.In Spite of Laughter54
X.The Voice of the Lord57
XI.Fist-Play65
XII.Making the Grade72
XIII.Straight from the Shoulder78
XIV.The Shoe on the Other Foot85
XV.Cause and Effect97
XVI.The Wages of Sacrifice109
TO THE READER
What this book contains was learned by the writer in the course of two visits with Mr. Higgins in the Minnesota woods–one in the lumber-camps and lumber-towns at midwinter, and again at the time of the drive. Upon both occasions Mr. Higgins was accompanied by his devoted and admirable friend, the Rev. Thomas D. Whittles, to whose suggestions and leading he responded with many a tale of his experiences, some of which are here related. Mr. Whittles was at the same time good enough to permit the writer to draw whatever information might seem necessary from a more extended description of Mr. Higgins’s work, called The Lumber-jack’s Sky Pilot, which he had written.
HIGGINS A MAN’S CHRISTIAN
HIGGINS A MAN’S CHRISTIAN