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Freckles

by Gene Stratton-Porter

Pages
about 297
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
Reading time
5.5 h at 250 wpm
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From the opening

IV Wherein Freckles Faces Trouble Bravely and Opens the Way for New Experiences

VIII Wherein Freckles Meets a Man of Affairs and Loses Nothing by the Encounter

IX Wherein the Limberlost Falls upon Mrs. Duncan and Freckles Comes to the Rescue

XI Wherein the Butterflies Go on a Spree and Freckles Informs the Bird Woman

XIII Wherein the Angel Releases Freckles, and the Curse of Black Jack Falls upon Her

XV Wherein Freckles and the Angel Try Taking a Picture, and Little Chicken Furnishes the Subject

XVI Wherein the Angel Locates a Rare Tree and Dines with the Gang

XVII Wherein Freckles Offers His Life for His Love and Gets a Broken Body

XVIII Wherein Freckles Refuses Love Without Knowledge of Honorable Birth, and the Angel Goes in Quest of it

XX Wherein Freckles Returns to the Limberlost, and Lord O'More Sails for Ireland Without Him

Freckles came down the corduroy that crosses the lower end of the Limberlost. At a glance he might have been mistaken for a tramp, but he was truly seeking work. He was intensely eager to belong somewhere and to be attached to almost any enterprise that would furnish him food and clothing.

Long before he came in sight of the camp of the Grand Rapids Lumber Company, he could hear the cheery voices of the men, the neighing of the horses, and could scent the tempting odors of cooking food. A feeling of homeless friendlessness swept over him in a sickening wave. Without stopping to think, he turned into the newly made road and followed it to the camp, where the gang was making ready for supper and bed.

The scene was intensely attractive. The thickness of the swamp made a dark, massive background below, while above towered gigantic trees. The men were calling jovially back and forth as they unharnessed tired horses that fell into attitudes of rest and crunched, in deep content, the grain given them.

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