

Transcribed from the 1914 Gay and Hancock, Ltd. edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

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                           A Summer in a Cañon


                         A CALIFORNIA STORY: _By_
                           KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

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                          GAY AND HANCOCK, LTD.
                12 AND 13 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN
                                  LONDON
                                   1914

                          _All rights reserved_

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                          _Popular Edition_ 1914
                             _Reprinted_ 1914

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CONTENTS

                              CHAPTER I
                                                                  PAGE
PREPARATION AND DEPARTURE                                            1
                              CHAPTER II
THE JOURNEY                                                         32
                             CHAPTER III
LIFE IN THE CAÑON—THE HEIR APPARENT LOSES                           53
HIMSELF
                              CHAPTER IV
RHYME AND REASON                                                    99
                              CHAPTER V
THE FOREST OF ARDEN—GOOD NEWS                                      133
                              CHAPTER VI
QUEEN ELSIE VISITS THE COURT                                       164
                             CHAPTER VII
POLLY’S BIRTHDAY: FIRST HALF IN WHICH SHE                          188
REJOICES AT THE MERE FACT OF HER EXISTENCE
                             CHAPTER VIII
POLLY’S BIRTHDAY: SECOND HALF                                      203
                              CHAPTER IX
ROUND THE CAMP-FIRE                                                232
                              CHAPTER X
MORE CAMP-FIRE STORIES                                             249
                              CHAPTER XI
BREAKING CAMP                                                      268




            SCENE: _A Camping Ground in the Cañon Las Flores_.

                           PEOPLE IN THE TENTS.

DR. PAUL WINSHIP        _Mine Host_.
MRS. TRUTH WINSHIP      _The Guardian Angel_.
DICKY WINSHIP           _A Small Sc