Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
"OH, MOTHER, MOTHER, DO NOT SEND ME AWAY FROM YOU!"
LITTLE MAID MARIGOLD
BY
E. H. STOOKE
New York
American Tract Society
150 Nassau Street
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I. MRS. HOLCROFT TELLS MARIGOLD ABOUT HER AUNTS,
AND READS MISS PAMELA'S LETTER
II. A NEW STEP IN LIFE AND A NEW FRIEND
III. MARIGOLD MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF HER AUNTS
IV. MARIGOLD'S FIRST DAYS IN HER AUNTS' HOME
V. MARIGOLD'S UNTIDINESS, A MEETING WITH FARMER JO
AND HIS MOTHER, AND A VISIT TO THE LACE-MAKER
VI. THE LACE-MAKER'S STORY, AND MARIGOLD'S
CONFIDENCES WITH BARKER
VII. MARIGOLD'S FIRST DAYS AT SCHOOL, AND HER
ENCOUNTER WITH MURIEL WAKE
VIII. MARIGOLD BECOMES FRIENDLY WITH GRACE LONG,
MISS HOLCROFT SPEAKS HER MIND
IX. MARIGOLD VISITS BARKER'S MOTHER
X. THE RECONCILIATION BETWEEN MARIGOLD AND
MURIEL WAKE
XI. MARIGOLD IS INVITED TO ROCOMBE FARM,
AND HER ARRIVAL THERE
XII. MARIGOLD'S VISIT AT ROCOMBE FARM
XIII. GOOD NEWS FROM HOME, MARIGOLD AND
MISS PAMELA VISIT MRS. BARKER
XIV. CONCERNING THE ARRIVAL OF MURIEL WAKE
AND MOLLY JENKINS
XV. A GREAT SURPRISE FOR MURIEL WAKE
XVII. MARIGOLD AT DEATH'S DOOR
LITTLE MAID MARIGOLD
CHAPTER I
MRS. HOLCROFT TELLS MARIGOLD ABOUT HER AUNTS,
AND READS MISS PAMELA'S LETTER
"MARIGOLD, it is time for the boys to go to bed. I wish you would givethem their supper, as I want to get this embroidery finished to-night,if possible."
The speaker was Mrs. Holcroft, a pale-faced, dark-eyed woman of aboutthirty-five, with a slight figure, and a somewhat nervous manner.She had been six years a widow, and a snowy cap rested on her brownhair—hair that was streaked with white around her temples. Marigold,her little daughter, aged eleven, w