[Illustration: ROSE O' THE RIVER] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ROSE O' THE RIVER BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE WRIGHT NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT 1905 BY THE CENTURY COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1905 BY KATE DOUGLAS RIGGS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published September 1905_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS The Pine And The Rose 1 Old Kennebec 13 The Edgewood "Drive" 28 "Blasphemious Swearin'" 40 The Game Of Jackstraws 50 Hearts And Other Hearts 67 The Little House 81 The Garden Of Eden 93 The Serpent 102 The Turquoise Ring 114 Gold And Pinchbeck 135 A Country Chevalier 145 Housebreaking 160 The Dream Room 168 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Rose O' The River Frontispiece "She's Up!" 6 "He's A Turrible Smart Driver" 20 He Had Certainly "Taken Chances" 32 In A Twinkling He Was In The Water 64 "Rose, I'll Take You Safely" 76 Hiding Her Face As He Flung It Down The River-Bank 116 She Had Gone With Maude To Claude's Store 128 "As Long As Stephen Waterman's Alive, Rose Wiley Can Have Him" 158 "Don't Speak, Stephen, Till You Hear What I Have To Say" 174 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE PINE AND THE ROSE It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.