The Rainbow Bridge BOOKS BY FRANCES MARGARET FOX =WHAT GLADYS SAW.= A NATURE STORY OF FARM AND FOREST. With full page illustration. Containing 318 pages. Cloth bound. Price, $1.25. =THE RAINBOW BRIDGE.= A STORY. With full page colored frontispiece. Containing 254 pages. Cloth bound. Price, $1.25. [Illustration: MRS. MOORE ROCKED A BABY BEFORE THE NURSERY FIRE.] The Rainbow Bridge A Story By FRANCES MARGARET FOX _Author of "What Gladys Saw," "Farmer Brown and the Birds," etc._ ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK T. MERRILL [Illustration] W. A. WILDE COMPANY BOSTON CHICAGO _Copyright, 1905_ BY W. A. WILDE COMPANY _All rights reserved_ THE RAINBOW BRIDGE _To the dear friend of my childhood and later years Mrs. William W. Crouch_ Contents I. A LITTLE PILGRIM BEGINS A JOURNEY 11 II. MARIAN'S FIRST DAY IN SCHOOL 19 III. SHE GOES TO CHURCH 27 IV. AUNT AMELIA 40 V. MARIAN'S NEW HOME 48 VI. THAT YELLOW CUCUMBER 58 VII. AN UNDESERVING CHILD 66 VIII. IN THE NAME OF SANTA CLAUS 73 IX. AT THE RICH MAN'S TABLE 83 X. A GAME OF SLICED BIRDS 94 XI. THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR 105 XII. MARIAN'S DIARY 127 XIII. DIPHTHERIA 146 XIV. MUSICAL CONVERSATIONS 163 XV. LITTLE SISTER TO THE DANDELION 173 XVI. PROFESSOR LEE, BOTANIST 185 XVII. THE COMPOSITION ON WILD FLOWERS 192 XVIII. MARIAN'S LETTER HOME 199 XIX. THE MOST TRUTHFUL CHILD IN SCHOOL 204 XX. MORE CHANGES 215 XXI. MARIAN REMEMBERS HER DIARY 220 XXII. FLORENCE WESTON'S MOTHER 231 XXIII. HOW MARIAN CROSSED THE RAINBOW BRIDGE 241 The Rainbow Bridge CHAPTER I A LITTLE PILGRIM BEGINS A JOURNEY