Preface

LADDIE

A TRUE BLUE STORY

by

GENE STRATTON-PORTER

To

LEANDER ELLIOT STRATTON

"The Way to Be Happy Is to Be Good"

Contents

CHAPTER

I.

Little Sister

II.

Our Angel Boy

III.

Mr. Pryor's Door

IV.

The Last Day in Eden

V.

The First Day of School

VI.

The We dding Gown

VII.

When Sally Married Peter

VIII.

The Shropshire and the Crusader

IX.

"Even So"

X.

Laddie Takes the Plunge

XI.

Keeping Christmas Our Way

XII.

The Horn of the Hunter

XIII.

The Garden of the Lord

XIV.

The Crest of Eastbrooke

XV.

Laddie, the Princess, and the Pie

XVI.

The Homing Pigeon

XVII.

In Faith Believing

XVIII.

The Pryor My stery

LADDIE

CHARACTERS

LADDIE, Who Loved and Asked No Questions.

THE PRINCESS, From the House of My stery.

LEON, Our Angel Child.

LITTLE SISTER, Who Tells What Happened.

MR. and MRS. STANTON, Who Faced Life Shoulder to Shoulder.

SALLY and PETER, Who Married Each Other.

ELIZABETH, SHELLEY, MAY and Other Stanton Children.

MR. and MRS. PRYOR, Father and Mother of the Princess.

ROBERT PAGET, a Chicago Lawyer.

MRS. FRESHETT, Who Offered Her Life for Her Friend.

CANDACE, the Cook.

MISS AMELIA, the School Mistress.

Interested Relatives, Friends, and Neighbours.