Freckles. Stratton-Porter Gene

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       Gene Stratton-Porter

      Freckles

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664116703

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       Wherein Great Risks Are Taken and the Limberlost Guard Is Hired

       CHAPTER II

       Wherein Freckles Proves His Mettle and Finds Friends

       CHAPTER III

       Wherein a Feather Falls and a Soul Is Born

       CHAPTER IV

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

       CHAPTER V

       Wherein an Angel Materializes and a Man Worships

       CHAPTER VI

       Wherein a Fight Occurs and Women Shoot Straight

       CHAPTER VII

       Wherein Freckles Wins Honor and Finds a Footprint on the Trail

       CHAPTER VIII

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

       CHAPTER IX

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

       CHAPTER X

       Wherein Freckles Strives Mightily and the Swamp Angel Rewards Him

       CHAPTER XI

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

       CHAPTER XII

       Wherein Black Jack Captures Freckles and the Angel Captures Jack

       CHAPTER XIII

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

       CHAPTER XIV

       Wherein Freckles Nurses a Heartache and Black Jack Drops Out

       CHAPTER XV

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

       CHAPTER XVI

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

       CHAPTER XVII

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

       CHAPTER XVIII

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

       CHAPTER XIX

       Wherein Freckles Finds His Birthright and the Angel Loses Her Heart

       CHAPTER XX

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

CHAPTER I

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Wherein Great Risks Are Taken and the Limberlost Guard Is Hired

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      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,