A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg

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Douglas Amanda M.. A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg

CHAPTER I. A LITTLE GIRL

CHAPTER II. A JOYFUL RETURN

CHAPTER III. WELCOME

CHAPTER IV. OLD PITTSBURG

CHAPTER V. HOW THE WORLD WIDENED

CHAPTER VI. A NEW FRIEND

CHAPTER VII. DAFFODIL'S NEW WORLD

CHAPTER VIII. IN SILK ATTIRE

CHAPTER IX. WITH THE EYES OF YOUTH

CHAPTER X. THE PASSING OF THE OLD

CHAPTER XI. THE WOOF OF DAILY THINGS

CHAPTER XII. SPINNING WITH VARIOUS THREADS

CHAPTER XIII. THE SWEETNESS OF LOVE

CHAPTER XIV. SORROW'S CROWN OF SORROW

CHAPTER XV. ANOTHER FLITTING

CHAPTER XVI. SAINT MARTIN'S SUMMER

CHAPTER XVII. OH, WHICH IS LOVE?

CHAPTER XVIII. A REVELATION

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"It is so good to get out among you all," Barbe Carrick said, as she was pillowed up in a big high-backed chair and wrapped in a soft gray blanket. Her hair was gathered in a pretty white cap with a ruffle of lace about the edge, framing in her rather thin face. "So good! And the good news! Why, I feel almost well."

It had been a slow autumnal fever, never very serious, but wearing. Mrs. Bradin knew the use of many herbs and was considered as good as a doctor by most of the settlers.

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"Never mind; I'm home. And I have all my limbs, and have never been ill. It has been a desperate struggle, but it's ending grandly. And everybody – "

"They are all alive and well. Oh, we've been watching, and hoping – it doesn't matter now, you are here;" and she leaned down on his shoulder and cried.

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