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[Illustration: "A MAN AND A WOMAN--AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING" (See Page 374)]
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"SMILES"
A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS
BY ELIOT H. ROBINSON Author of "Man Proposes"
ILLUSTRATED BY H. WESTON TAYLOR
THE PAGE COMPANY BOSTON--PUBLISHERS
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Copyright, 1919, by The Page Company
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
All rights reserved
First Impression, May, 1919 Second Impression, June, 1919 Third Impression, July, 1919 Fourth Impression, August, 1919 Fifth Impression, September, 1919 Sixth Impression, October, 1919 Seventh Impression, December, 1919 Eighth Impression, February, 1920 Ninth Impression, September, 1920 Tenth Impression, August, 1921
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TO MY BOYS This Story of a Girl Who Loved Children IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
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The Keynote of Life is Love-- Lacking it, naught is worth while-- The Symbol of Service, the Cross And the Sign of Courage, A Smile.
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AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I wish to acknowledge, most gratefully, the valuable assistance rendered to me, in the preparation of the chapters dealing with the medical and hospital incidents, by Robert W. Guiler, M.D.; by Alonzo J. Shadman, M.D., to whom I am indebted for my description of the unusual operation in Chapter XXI; and by Miss Elizabeth E. Sullivan, Superintendent of Nurses at the Boston Children's Hospital. And, above all, I desire to make acknowledgment of the debt of gratitude th