XVIII.--Emily's Marriage 226

XIX.--Married Life 240

XX.--Life Pictures and Life Work 254

XXI.--John Jones 274

XXII.--Clara leaves us 290

XXIII.--Aunt Hildy's Legacy 317




THE HARVEST OF YEARS




CHAPTER I.

"EMILY DID IT."


Among my earliest recollections these three words have a place, coming
to my ears as the presages of a reprimand. I had made a frantic effort
to lift my baby-brother from his cradle, and had succeeded only in
upsetting baby, pillows and all, waking my mother from her little nap,
while brother Hal stood by and shouted, "Emily did it." I was only five