Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works in the International Children's Digital Library.) [Illustration: NETTIE COMFORTS HER MOTHER.] THE CARPENTER'S DAUGHTER. "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." BY THE AUTHORS OF "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD," ETC. ETC. WITH COLOURED FRONTISPIECE. LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE. BY THE AUTHORS OF "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD." Price ONE SHILLING each, with coloured Frontispiece THE TWO SCHOOLGIRLS. THE CARPENTER'S DAUGHTER. THE PRINCE IN DISGUISE. GERTRUDE AND HER BIBLE. MARTHA AND RACHEL. THE WIDOW AND HER DAUGHTER. THE LITTLE BLACK HEN. THE ROSE IN THE DESERT. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS. London: Savill, Edwards & Co., Printers, Chandos Street. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. SATURDAY EVENING'S WORK 1 II. SUNDAY'S REST 20 III. NETTIE'S GARRET 55 IV. THE BROWN CLOAK IN NOVEMBER 69 V. THE NEW BLANKET 82 VI. THE HOUSE-RAISING 97 VII. THE WAFFLES 112 VIII. THE GOLDEN CITY 135 THE CARPENTER'S DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I. SATURDAY EVENING'S WORK. Down in a little hollow, with the sides grown full of wild thorn, alder bushes, and stunted cedars, ran the stream of a clear spring. It ran over a bed of pebbly stones, showing every one as if there had been no water there, so clear it was; and it ran with a sweet soft murmur or gurgle over the stones, as if singing to itself and the bushes as it ran.