Maria Thompson Daviess
Reading edition
Author of “The Melting of Molly,” “Miss Selina Lue,” “Over Paradise Ridge, etc.”
Frontispiece from Painting by
E. Sophonisba Hergesheimer
1916
To Jessie Morson Grahame Who expects “the best” of me
Contents
Sparkling Waves Over High Explosives
Vive la France!
That Mr. G. Slade of Detroit
The Impossible Uncle Robert
“Here’s My Boy, Governor”
“We Both Need You”
The Girl Bunch
In the Dress of Magnificence
“O’er the Land of the Free—”
Vitriol and the Hoodoo
Business and Pie
The Beautiful Madam Whitworth
Brothers by Bloodshed
To Bear Men and to Save Them
“Behold, I Am a Spy!”
“Immediately I Come to You!”
The Tall Timbers of Old Harpeth
The Camp Heaven
All is Lost
“You Are—Myself!”