Front matter

“For God’s sake give me suthin’ to eat.”

THE GIRL FROM TIM’S PLACE

THE GIRL FROM TIM’S PLACE

BY

CHARLES CLARK MUNN

Author of “Pocket Island,” “Uncle Terry,” “The Hermit,” “Rockhaven.”

ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK T. MERRILL

New York

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Published, March, 1906.

Copyright, 1906, by LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

All rights reserved.

The Girl from Tim’s Place.

INTRODUCTION

When we leave the world’s busy haunts and penetrate the primal solitude of a vast wilderness, a new realm peopled by mystic genii opens to us. Each sombre gorge, where twisted roots clasp the moss-coated walls, discloses fabled gnomes and dryads. Nymphs and naiads outline their shadowy forms in the mist of every cascade. Elfin sprites dance in the ripples of a laughing brook, and brownies scamper away over the leaf-swept hilltops.

A wondrous Presence, multiform, omnipresent, and ever fascinating, meets us on every hand, and there in those magic aisles and sombre glades, where man seems far away and God very near, Nature sits enthroned.

It is with the hope that a few of my readers may feel this forest-born mood, and in its poetic spirit forget worldly cares, that I have written the story of “The Girl from Tim’s Place.”

THE AUTHOR.

ILLUSTRATIONS

“For God’s sake give me suthin’ to eat” (Frontispiece)23

All the goblin forms and hideous shapes of Old Tomah’s fancy were rushing and leaping about21

Nearer and nearer that unconscious girl it crept!123

He grasped and struck at this enemy in a blind instinct of self-preservation195

“Won’t you please give me a lift an’ a chance to earn my vittles for a day or two?”260

“Thank God, little gal, I’ve found what belongs to ye”272

“Quit takin’ on so, girlie,” he said325

“I did mean to hate you, but I–I can’t”416

PART I CHIP MCGUIRE