The Jamesons

by

Mary E. Wilkins

Author of "A Humble Romance,"
"A New England Nun,"
"Pembroke," "The People of Our
Neighborhood," etc.

with pictures

New York
Doubleday & McClure Company
Philadelphia
Curtis Publishing Company
1899



I

THEY ARRIVE


Until that summer nobody in our village had ever taken boarders.
There had been no real necessity for it, and we had always been
rather proud of the fact. While we were certainly not rich--there was
not one positively rich family among us--we were comfortably provided