Front matter
Reading edition
“I DIDN’T!” PROTESTED JOHN. “IT WAS—SOMETHING, I DON’T KNOW WHAT—THAT SPOKE” (Page 19)
SURPRISE HOUSE
BY Abbie Farwell Brown
With Illustrations
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1917
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE YOUNG CHURCHMAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY ABBIE FARWELL BROWN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published October 1917
—And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.