Joel: A Boy of Galilee $1.50 In the Desert of Waiting .50 The Three Weavers .50 Keeping Tryst .50 Asa Holmes 1.00 Songs Ysame (Poems, with Allison Fellows Bacon) 1.00 L. C. PAGE & COMPANY 200 Summer Street Boston, Mass. [Illustration: "'ALEC,' HE SAID, PAUSING IN THE DOORWAY, 'WHAT'S A GREEN GOODS MAN?'" (_See page 75_)] Cosy Corner Series FLIP'S "ISLANDS OF PROVIDENCE" By Annie Fellows Johnston Author of "Asa Holmes," "The Little Colonel Stories," "Big Brother," etc. _Illustrated by_ E. F. Bonsall "_I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air;_" --_Whittier_ _Boston_ _L.C. Page & Company_ _Publishers_ _Copyright, 1902_ BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION AND SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK _Copyright, 1903_ By L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) _All rights reserved_ Published August, 1903 _Fourth Impression, February, 1907_ _Colonial Press_ Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, Mass., U. S. A. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "'ALEC,' HE SAID, PAUSING IN THE DOORWAY, 'WHAT'S A GREEN GOODS MAN?'" (_See page 75_) _Frontispiece_ "'YOU'RE BOUND TO HEAR IT SOMETIME'" 19 "'THE LORD HAS CERTAINLY SENT YOU, DICK'" 57 "HE MADE SEVERAL RAPID CALCULATIONS ON THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE" 109 "'IT'S THE FIRST MONEY I EVER EARNED IN MY LIFE,' SHE SAID, GLEEFULLY" 117 "HIS HAND WENT UP INVOLUNTARILY TOWARD HIS HAT" 145 "HE BLURTED OUT HIS TROUBLE IN BROKEN SENTENCES" 161 "'IT WAS THAT UNLUCKY GOLD COIN'" 177 * * * * * FLIP'S "ISLANDS OF PROVIDENCE" CHAPTER I.