E-text prepared by Al Haines
AN ARROW
IN A SUNBEAM
AND OTHER TALES.
"MOVE ANOTHER INCH AND I'LL FIRE!" CRIED AL,
POINTING THE MUSKET AT THE MAN'S BREAST.--P. 48.
LONDON:
WILLIAM NICHOLSON AND SONS,
20, WARWICK SQUARE, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.,
AND ALBION WORKS, WAKEFIELD.
188-
AN ARROW
IN A SUNBEAM;
AND OTHER TALES.
The golden sunshine, vernal air,
Sweet flowers and fruits, thy love declare;
When forests ripen Thou art there,
Who givest all.
LONDON:
WILLIAM NICHOLSON AND SONS,
20, WARWICK SQUARE, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.,
AND ALBION WORKS, WAKEFIELD.
188-
CONTENTS.
AN ARROW IN A SUNBEAM . . . . . . Sarah Orne Jewett
MISS SYDNEY'S FLOWERS . . . . . . Sarah Orne Jewett
A BRAVE BOY . . . . . . C. S. Sleight
LADY FERRY . . . . . . Sarah Orne Jewett
A BIT OF SHORE LIFE . . . . . . Sarah Orne Jewett
HOW LILY GOT THE CAT . . . . . . Frances Lee
AN ARROW IN A SUNBEAM.
he minister of a fashionable church had noticed Sunday after Sunday alittle old lady with a sad, patient face, dressed in very shabbymourning, sitting in the strangers' pew.
Like Job this good man could say, "The cause that I knew not, I soughtout." He soon learned from the sexton her name and residence, and wassurprised to find her in the very topmost room of a house, amidevidences of real poverty.
In the one little window bloomed a monthly rose and a vigorousheliotrope, and beside the pots lay half-a-dozen books, such as arerarely seen in the homes of the very poor. On the wall hung two fineengravings, and an old fashioned gold watch was suspended from a