Chapter I: Front Matter

By Elsie Singmaster

KATY GAUMER. Illustrated.
GETTYSBURG. Illustrated.
WHEN SARAH WENT TO SCHOOL. Illustrated.
WHEN SARAH SAVED THE DAY. Illustrated.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

KATY GAUMER

KATY GAUMER

BY
ELSIE SINGMASTER

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1915

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY THE CENTURY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY ELSIE SINGMASTER LEWARS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published February 1915_

CONTENTS

I. THE GREAT NEWS 1

II. THE BELSNICKEL 17

III. THE GREAT MAN 32

IV. THE KOEHLERS' CHRISTMAS DAY 49

V. ANOTHER CHRISTMAS DAY 63

VI. THE MILLERSTOWN SCHOOL 88

VII. THE BEE CURE 105

VIII. WILLIAM KOEHLER MAKES HIS ACCUSATION FOR
THE LAST TIME 124

IX. CHANGE 143

X. KATY MAKES A PROMISE 153

XI. KATY FINDS A NEW AIM IN LIFE 159

XII. KATY BORROWS SO THAT SHE MAY LEND 169

XIII. EMPTINESS 192

XIV. KATY PLANS HER LIFE ONCE MORE 204

XV. AN OLD WAY OUT OF A NEW TROUBLE 219

XVI. BEVY PUTS A HEX ON ALVIN 235

XVII. ALVIN DOES PENANCE AND IS SHRIVEN 254

XVIII. A SILVER CHALICE 267

XIX. THE SQUIRE AND DAVID TAKE A JOURNEY BY NIGHT 281

XX. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS 300

XXI. THE SQUIRE AND DAVID TAKE A JOURNEY BY DAY 306

XXII. KATY IS TO BE EDUCATED AT LAST 321

NOTE.--The first two chapters were published as
a short story under the title of "The Belsnickel"
in the _Century Magazine_ for January, 1911.

KATY GAUMER