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The circuit rider

a tale of the heroic age
  
  
  
  
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  • I. —The Corn Shucking 9

  • II. —The Frolic 20

  • III. —Going to Meeting 30

  • IV. —A Battle 40

  • V. —A Crisis 52

  • VI. —The Fall Hunt 61

  • VII. —Treeing a Preacher 68

  • VIII. —A Lesson in Syntax 75

  • IX. —The Coming of the Circuit Rider 86

  • X. —Patty in the Spring-House 94

  • XI. —The Voice in the Wilderness 99

  • XII. —Mr. Brady Prophesies 100

  • XIII. —Two to One 116

  • XIV. —Kike's Sermon 122

  • XV. —Morton's Retreat 131

  • XVI. —Short Shrift 141

  • XVII. —Deliverance 153

  • XVIII. —The Prodigal Returns 166


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  • XIX. —Patty 173

  • XX. —The Conference at Hickory Ridge 184

  • XXI. —Convalescence 196

  • XXII. —The Decision 204

  • XXIII. —Russell Bigelow's Sermon 212

  • XXIV. —Drawing the Latch-string in 223

  • XXV. —Ann Eliza 229

  • XXVI. —Engagement 243

  • XXVII. —The Camp-Meeting 252

  • XXVIII. —Patty and her Patient 287

  • XXIX. —Patty's Journey 278

  • XXX. —The Schoolmaster and the Widow 291

  • XXXI. —Kike 297

  • XXXII. —Pinkey's Discovery 304

  • XXXIII. —The Alabaster Box Broken 307

  • XXXIV. —The Brother 313

  • XXXV. —Pinkey and Ann Eliza 320

  • XXXVI. —Getting the Answer 329