Gene Stratton-Porter
The Greatest Children's Books - Gene Stratton-Porter Edition
Laddie, A Girl of the Limberlost, The Harvester, Michael O'Halloran, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, The Fire Bird…
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Table of Contents
Freckles
CHAPTER I Wherein Great Risks Are Taken and the Limberlost Guard Is Hired
CHAPTER II Wherein Freckles Proves His Mettle and Finds Friends
CHAPTER III Wherein a Feather Falls and a Soul Is Born
CHAPTER IV Wherein Freckles Faces Trouble Bravely and Opens the Way for New Experiences
CHAPTER V Wherein an Angel Materializes and a Man Worships
CHAPTER VI Wherein a Fight Occurs and Women Shoot Straight
CHAPTER VII Wherein Freckles Wins Honor and Finds a Footprint on the Trail
CHAPTER VIII Wherein Freckles Meets a Man of Affairs and Loses Nothing by the Encounter
CHAPTER IX Wherein the Limberlost Falls upon Mrs. Duncan and Freckles Comes to the Rescue
CHAPTER X Wherein Freckles Strives Mightily and the Swamp Angel Rewards Him
CHAPTER XI Wherein the Butterflies Go on a Spree and Freckles Informs the Bird Woman
CHAPTER XII Wherein Black Jack Captures Freckles and the Angel Captures Jack
CHAPTER XIII Wherein the Angel Releases Freckles, and the Curse of Black Jack Falls upon Her
CHAPTER XIV Wherein Freckles Nurses a Heartache and Black Jack Drops Out
CHAPTER XVI Wherein the Angel Locates a Rare Tree and Dines with the Gang
CHAPTER XVII Wherein Freckles Offers His Life for His Love and Gets a Broken Body
CHAPTER XIX Wherein Freckles Finds His Birthright and the Angel Loses Her Heart
CHAPTER XX Wherein Freckles returns to the Limberlost, and Lord O'More Sails for Ireland Without Him
To all good Irishmen in general
and one CHARLES DARWIN PORTER
in particular
CHARACTERS
FRECKLES, a plucky waif who guards the Limberlost timber leases and dreams of Angels.
THE SWAMP ANGEL, in whom Freckles' sweetest dream materializes.
MCLEAN, a member of a Grand Rapids lumber company, who befriends Freckles.
MRS. DUNCAN, who gives mother-love and a home to Freckles.
DUNCAN, head teamster of McLean's timber gang.
THE BIRD WOMAN, who is collecting camera studies of birds for a book.
LORD AND LADY O'MORE, who come from Ireland in quest of a lost relative.
THE MAN OF AFFAIRS, brusque of manner, but big of heart.
WESSNER, a Dutch timber-thief who wants rascality made easy.
BLACK JACK, a villain to whom thought of repentance comes too late.
SEARS, camp cook.
CHAPTER I
Wherein Great Risks Are Taken and the Limberlost Guard Is Hired
Freckles came down the corduroy