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Fireside Stories, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Title: Oldtown Fireside Stories The Ghost In The Mill; The Sullivan Looking-Glass; The Minister's Housekeeper; The Widow's Bandbox; Captain Kidd's Money; "Mis' Elderkin's Pitcher"; The Ghost In The Cap'n Brownhouse
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Release Date: August 14, 2007 [EBook #22320]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLDTOWN FIRESIDE STORIES ***
Produced by David Widger
OLDTOWN FIRESIDE STORIES.
By Harriet Beecher Stowe.
BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD & COMPANY
1872.
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[Illustration: Frontispiece]
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871
By James R. Osgood & Co.
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
CONTENTS:
THE GHOST IN THE MILL
THE SULLIVAN LOOKING-GLASS.
THE MINISTER'S HOUSEKEEPER.
THE WIDOW'S BANDBOX.
CAPTAIN KIDD'S MONEY.
"MIS' ELDERKIN'S PITCHER."
THE GHOST IN THE CAP'N BROWNHOUSE.
[Illustration: The Ghost in the Mill, page 001]
THE GHOST IN THE MILL
"Come, Sam, tell us a story," said I, as Harry and I crept to his knees, in the glow of the bright evening firelight; while Aunt Lois was busily rattl