The Pearl of Peace: or, The Little Peacemaker

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Leslie Madeline. The Pearl of Peace: or, The Little Peacemaker

CHAPTER I. THE QUARREL

CHAPTER II. SALLIE'S HOME TROUBLES

CHAPTER III. HATTY'S PEACEFUL HOME

CHAPTER IV. THE PEACE-MAKER

CHAPTER V. MATILDA'S CONSCIENCE

CHAPTER VI. THE QUARREL SETTLED

CHAPTER VII. THE SICK GIRL

CHAPTER VIII. THE PEACEFUL DEATH

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SALLIE MUNSON was the daughter of a man who had sailed as Captain of a schooner, bound for the West Indies, more than five years before the date of our story. He left a wife and seven children, of whom Sallie was the youngest, and the only daughter. At the time he left home she was just past six, and was therefore now eleven.

Five long, weary, waiting years of watching, suspense and anxiety, had left Mrs. Munson careworn and old before her time. Her eldest son was married and settled at a distance; the second had gone with his father as a sailor; the sixth boy, her darling, blue-eyed Jamie, was buried at the end of her little garden; leaving four children dependant on her labor for their support. To be sure, Abner, the oldest at home, was nearly seventeen; but though steady and honest, he lacked energy and thrift. When away from home he was the butt and laughing-stock of his more shrewd companions; and so his patient mother obtained what employment she could for him, under her own eye, and sent his brother Joseph, a stout, fun-loving lad of fifteen, to work in a neighboring tan yard.

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This was what had made Sallie exclaim in anger against her cousin. The reason Matilda was unwilling her companion should explain why she looked feverish, was because she well knew Hatty's character as a peace-maker; and her conscience loudly whispered that she had told much more than was true.

After the girls parted, and she went into her own home, do you think she was happy? Are quarrelsome people generally so? We shall see.

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