E-text prepared by David Garcia, Karina Aleksandrova, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 32965-h.htm or 32965-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32965/pg32965-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32965/32965-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Kentuckiana Digital Library. See http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=kyetexts;cc=kyetexts;view=toc;idno=b92-126-29177789 MOTHERING ON PERILOUS * * * * * THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO * * * * * MOTHERING ON PERILOUS by LUCY FURMAN With Illustrations by Mary Lane McMillan and F. R. Gruger New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1913 All rights reserved Copyright, 1910 and 1911, By the Century Co. Copyright, 1913, By the Macmillan Company Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1913. To my Boys of Six Years Ago [Illustration: "When was a lonely heart more truly comforted?"] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Arrival on Perilous 3 II Getting Acquainted 9 III Acquiring a Family 17 IV War, not Peace 37 V Getting Better Acquainted 47 VI A Trade and Other Matters 55 VII Heroes and Hero Worship 65 VIII Dress, Chivalry and the Trojan War 71 IX More Trading, and some Family History 84 X About Mothers 92 XI Over on Trigger 100 XII The Fightingest Boy 117 XIII Around the Fire 125 XIV The Visit Home, and the Funeral Occasion 141 XV Trouble on Trigger and Elsewhere 157 XVI Filial Piety and Croup 169 XVII Blessings and Hatings 176 XVIII Christmas Anticipations 183 XIX Christmas and Danger 192 XX War and Worse on Trigger 202 XXI Suspense 212 XXII The "Eech," and Tragedy 222 XXIII Despair, and Budding Romance 236 XXIV The Babe 249 XXV Change and Growth 260