Chapter I: Front Matter

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OLD EBENEZER.

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OPIE READ'S
SELECT WORKS

Old Ebenezer
The Jucklins
My Young Master
A Kentucky Colonel
On the Suwanee River
A Tennessee Judge

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OLD EBENEEZER

by

OPIE READ

Author of "My Young Master," "The Jucklins," "On the Suwanee River," "A Kentucky Colonel," "A Tennessee Judge," "The Colossus," "Emmett Bonlore," "Len Gansett," "The Tear in the Cup and Other Stories," "The Wives of the Prophet."

Illustrated

Chicago Laird & Lee, Publishers

Copyrighted 1897, by Wm. H. Lee. (All Rights Reserved.)

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

1. Sam Lyman 7

2. The Noted Advocate 14

3. The Timely Oracle 21

4. A Fog Between Them 38

5. The Belle of the Town 49

6. Humbled Into the Dust 55

7. The Wedding Breakfast 63

8. Suppressing the News 70

9. At Church 83

10. The Old Fellow Laughed 91

11. In the Lantern Light 100

12. Wanted to Dream 112

13. In a Magazine 122

14. Nothing Remarkable in It 132

15. Must Leave the Town 143

16. Sawyer's Plan 155

17. At the Creek 164

18. At the Wagon Maker's Shop 174

19. A Restless Night 181

20. Afraid in the Dark 191

21. With Old Jasper 197

22. The "Boosy" 207

23. After an Anxious Night 222

24. At Mt. Zion 235

25. At Nancy's Home 249

26. Out in the Dark 262

27. The Revenge 270

28. A Gentleman Mule-Buyer 278

29. Gone Away 294

30. The Home 306

31. There Came a Check 316

32. Laughed at His Weakness 326

33. The Petition 338

OLD EBENEZER.