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Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
AUNT HATTIE'S LIBRARY
THE CHEST OF TOOLS.
BY
AUNT HATTIE [MADELINE LESLIE]
AUTHOR OF THE "BROOKSIDE SERIES," ETC.
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"The lip of truth shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment."—SOLOMON.
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CHICAGO: HENRY A. SUMNER & COMPANY. 1880.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by REV. A. R. BAKER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
AUNT HATTIE'S LIBRARY for her Little Friends.
SERIES II.
VOL. I. THE APPLE BOYS. VOL. II. LITTLE MISS FRET. VOL. III. THE FACTORY BOY. VOL. IV. FRANKIE'S DOG TONY. VOL. V. THE GOLDEN RULE. VOL. VI. LYING JIM.
To
NELLIE, ROLAND COTTON, ANNIE, AND FULLER APPLETON,
CHILDREN OF MY BELOVED NEPHEW,
THE REV. JOHN COTTON SMITH, D.D.,
THESE SMALL VOLUMES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, WITH THE EARNEST PRAYER THAT THEIR LIVES MAY PROVE THEM TO BE LAMBS IN THE FOLD OF THE GREAT AND GOOD
Shepherd of Israel.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE CUT FINGERS
CHAPTER II. HENRY'S LIE
CHAPTER III. THE LIE FOUND OUT
CHAPTER IV. ANOTHER LIE
CHAPTER V. THE BROKEN KNIFE
CHAPTER VI. SEARCH FOR THE LIAR
CHAPTER VII. THE UNHAPPY LIAR
CHAPTER VIII. THE LIAR REFORMED
CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION
THE CHEST OF TOOLS.
