Front matter
Reading edition
Author Of “The Garden Without Walls”
With Illustrations By Orson Lowell
New York
Henry Holt And Company 1914
Their virgins had no marriage-songs; and they that could swim did cast themselves into the sea to get to land, and some on boards, and some on other things.
THE RAFT
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I—A MAN
CHAPTER II—“I’M HALF SICK OF SHADOWS”
CHAPTER III—ALL THE WAY FOR THIS
CHAPTER IV—LOVE’S SHADOW
CHAPTER V—ENTER PETER AND GLORY
CHAPTER VI—JEHANE’S SECOND MARRIAGE
CHAPTER VII—THE WHISTLING ANGEL
CHAPTER VIII—“COMING. COMING, PETERKINS”
CHAPTER IX—KAY AND SOME OTHERS
CHAPTER X—WAFFLES BETTERS HIMSELF
CHAPTER XI—THE HOME LIFE OF A FINANCIER
CHAPTER XII—THE ‘MAGINATIVE CHILD
CHAPTER XIII—PRICKCAUTIONS
CHAPTER XIV—PETER IN EGYPT
CHAPTER XV—MARRIED LIFE
CHAPTER XVI—THE ANGELS AND OCKY WAFFLES
CHAPTER XVII—A HOUSE BUILT ON SAND
CHAPTER XVIII—PETER TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XIX—THE CHRISTMAS CAB
CHAPTER XX—THE HIDING OF OCKY WAFFLES
CHAPTER XXI—STRANGE HAPPENINGS
CHAPTER XXII—CAT’S MEAT LOOKS ROUND
CHAPTER XXIII—AND GLORY SAID
CHAPTER XXIV—THE TRICYCLE MAKES A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXV—THE HAPPY COTTAGE
CHAPTER XXVI—THE HAUNTED WOOD
CHAPTER XXVII—PETER FINDS A FAIRY
CHAPTER XXVIII—WAKING UP
CHAPTER XXIX—A GOLDEN WORLD
CHAPTER XXX—HALF IN LOVE
CHAPTER XXXI—A NIGHT WITH THE MOON
CHAPTER XXXII—IF YOU WON’T COME TO HEAVEN, THEN——
CHAPTER XXXIII—THE WORLD AND OCKY
CHAPTER XXXIV—THE BENEVOLENT DELILAHS
CHAPTER XXXV—WINGED BIRDS AND ROOTED TREES
CHAPTER XXXVI—THE SPREADING OF WINGS
CHAPTER XXXVII—THE RACE
CHAPTER XXXVIII—A NIGHT OF IT
CHAPTER XXXIX—ON THE RIVER
CHAPTER XL—MR. GRACE GOES ON THE BUST
CHAPTER XLI—TREE-TOPS
CHAPTER XLII—THE COACH-RIDE TO LONDON
CHAPTER XLIII—AN UNFINISHED POEM
CHAPTER XLIV—IN SEARCH OF YOUNGNESS
CHAPTER XLV—LOVE KNOCKS AT KAY’S DOOR
CHAPTER XLVI—THE ANGEL WHISTLES
CHAPTER XLVII—“THEIR VIRGINS HAD NO MARRIAGE-SONGS; AND THEY THAT COULD SWIM——”
CHAPTER XLVIII—AND GLORY