Hale, Mabel / 2008-07-23 00:00:00
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THE HERO OF HILL HOUSE
BY MABEL HALE
CONTENTS
Home and Mother
The Stricken Home
Austin and His Father
Austin Goes to His Father
Humiliation for Austin
To the Country Again
The Runaway
Wayside Friends
The Captain's Guest
With Uncle John Again
Austin Takes Care of Himself
The Revival
The Young Church-Member
Home Again
The Battle of Two Wills
Seeking New Pasture
To the Hay-Fields
Six Weeks of Haying
Indecision and Restlessness
Mother Hilman's Opinion
Like the Troubled Sea
Planning for Themselves
Austin and Amy
A Shopping-Expedition
Harry Hill
Uncle Philip's Children
The Family Circle Narrows
A Stormy Season
Austin's New Home
The Opinions of Parson Hawley and His Wife
THE HERO OF HILL HOUSE
CHAPTER 1
HOME AND MOTHER
It was the evening of a quiet day in late autumn, and the inmates of the
little farm home were gathered safely together around the supper-table. I
say the family, but they were not all there. Father's place was vacant, for
he had gone to town that afternoon and would not be home till late bedtime.
His reason for being late was the great shadow over this otherwise happy
home. The children, down to baby Doyle, three years old, knew that when he
came, he would be in no condition to be seen in the presence of his
children, and that money which was needed badly in his home would have been
spent for strong drink.
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