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The incidents narrated in this book are based on fact, and, while not absolutely true in every particular, the characters are all drawn from real life. The photographs are true likenesses of the people they are supposed to represent, and while in some instances the correct names are not given (for reasons which the reader will readily understand), the various scenes, relics, etc., are true historically and geographically. The places described can be easily recognized by any one who has ever visited the section of Pennsylvania in which the plot (if it can really be called a plot) of the story is laid. Many of the recipes given Mary by Pennsylvania German housewives, noted for the excellence of their cooking, have never appeared in print.

THE AUTHOR.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY FRIENDS WITH GRATITUDE FOR THEIR MANY HELPFUL KINDNESSES.

"HE WHO HAS A THOUSAND FRIENDS, HAS NEVER A ONE TO SPARE."

THE HOUSEKEEPER'S SYMPHONY

"To do the best that I can, from morn till night.

And pray for added strength with coming light;

To make the family income reach alway,

With some left over for a rainy day;

To do distasteful things with happy face,

To try and keep the odds and ends in place.

To smile instead of frown at Fate,

Which placed me in a family always late

For meals; to do the sewing, mending and

The thousand small things always near at hand,

And do them always with a cheerful heart,

Because in life they seem to be my part;

To know the place of everything and keep

It there, to think, to plan, to cook, to sweep,

To brew, to bake, to answer questions,

To be the mainspring of the family clock.

(Or that effect) and see that no tick, tock

Is out of time or tune, or soon or late,

This is the only symphony which I

Can ever hope to operate."

MARION WILEY.