Chapter I: Front Matter

GIDEON'S BAND

BOOKS BY GEORGE W. CABLE

Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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GIDEON'S BAND

A TALE OF THE MISSISSIPPI

BY

GEORGE W. CABLE

ILLUSTRATED BY

F. C. YOHN

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1914

Copyright, 1914, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published September, 1914

TO EVA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Steamboat Levee 1

II. "The Votaress" 5

III. Certain Passengers 9

IV. The First Two Miles 13

V. Ramsey Hayle 17

VI. Hayles's Twins 25

VII. Supper 31

VIII. Questions 37

IX. Sitting Silent 43

X. Peril 50

XI. First Night-Watch 57

XII. Hugh and the Twins 68

XIII. The Superabounding Ramsey 75

XIV. The Committee of Seven 83

XV. Morning Watch 90

XVI. Phyllis 95

XVII. "It's a-Happmin' Yit--to We All" 106

XVIII. Ramsey Wins a Point or Two 113

XIX. This Way to Womanhood 122

XX. Ladies' Table 131

XXI. Ramsey and the Bishop 138

XXII. Basile and What He Saw 147