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FOR JOHN'S SAKE; AND OTHER STORIES.

[Illustration: _Frontispiece._

"Ruth advanced to the table, and with trembling hands put her full glass
down."--_Page 4._]




FOR JOHN'S SAKE

AND OTHER STORIES.

BY

ANNIE FRANCES PERRAM.

_Author of "That Boy Mick," "Go Work," "The Opposite House," &c._

[Illustration]

  LONDON:
  WESLEYAN METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION
  2 AND 3 LUDGATE CIRCUS BUILDINGS; 2 CASTLE STREET, CITY ROAD, E.C.




PREFACE.


IT is probable that many of these pages may be read with the comforting
conviction that the scenes they depict and the lives they lightly
sketch, in no way come within the range of possibility; but to any
reader so little acquainted with the snares and perils, the misery and
degradation that lay outside the pale of Total Abstinence, the assurance
is tendered that the darkest pictures contained in this collection of
stories are minutely faithful to life, and that the saddest incidents
related have occurred under the personal observation, or within the
knowledge of the writer.

                                                            A. F. P.




CONTENTS.


          FOR JOHN'S SAKE.

                                                              Page

          CHAPTER I. AFRAID FOR HERSELF                          1

             "   II. JOHN'S BROTHER                              9

             "  III. HOPES AND FEARS                            15

             "   IV. QUITE UNLIKE HIMSELF                       21

             "    V. A CHANGE OF OPINIONS AND OF HOUSEMAIDS     28

