GROWING UP
A Story of the Girlhood of
JUDITH MACKENZIE
By JENNIE M. DRINKWATER
“Each year grows more sacred
with wondering expectation.”
—Phillips Brooks.
A. L. BURT COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK.
A Story of the Girlhood of
JUDITH MACKENZIE
By JENNIE M. DRINKWATER
“Each year grows more sacred
with wondering expectation.”
—Phillips Brooks.
A. L. BURT COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK.
Copyright, 1894,
By A. I. Bradley & Co.
By A. I. Bradley & Co.
CONTENTS
I. The Horn Book
II. Square Root and Other Things
III. Was this the End?
IV. Bensalem
V. Daily Bread and Daily Will
VI. The Best Thing in the World
VII. A Small Disciple
VIII. This Way or That Way?
IX. The Flowers That Came to the Well
X. The Last Apple
XI. How Jean Had an Outing
XII. A Secret Errand
XIII. The Two Blessed Things
XIV. An Afternoon with an Adventure in It
XV. “First at Antioch”
XVI. Aunt Affy’s Experience
XVII. The Story of a Key
XVIII. Judith’s Turning Point
XIX. A Morning with a Surprise in It
XX. Judith’s Afternoon
XXI. Marion’s Afternoon
XXII. Aunt Affy’s Evening
XXIII. Voices
XXIV. “I Always Thought You Cared”
XXV. Cousin Don
XXVI. Aunt Affy’s Faith and Judith’s Foreign Letter
XXVII. His Very Best
XXVIII. A New Anxiety
XXIX. Judith’s Future
XXX. A Talk and What Came of It
XXXI. About Women
XXXII. Aunt Affy’s Picture
XXXIII. Nettie’s Outing
XXXIV. “Sensations”
II. Square Root and Other Things
III. Was this the End?
IV. Bensalem
V. Daily Bread and Daily Will
VI. The Best Thing in the World
VII. A Small Disciple
VIII. This Way or That Way?
IX. The Flowers That Came to the Well
X. The Last Apple
XI. How Jean Had an Outing
XII. A Secret Errand
XIII. The Two Blessed Things
XIV. An Afternoon with an Adventure in It
XV. “First at Antioch”
XVI. Aunt Affy’s Experience
XVII. The Story of a Key
XVIII. Judith’s Turning Point
XIX. A Morning with a Surprise in It
XX. Judith’s Afternoon
XXI. Marion’s Afternoon
XXII. Aunt Affy’s Evening
XXIII. Voices
XXIV. “I Always Thought You Cared”
XXV. Cousin Don
XXVI. Aunt Affy’s Faith and Judith’s Foreign Letter
XXVII. His Very Best
XXVIII. A New Anxiety
XXIX. Judith’s Future
XXX. A Talk and What Came of It
XXXI. About Women
XXXII. Aunt Affy’s Picture
XXXIII. Nettie’s Outing
XXXIV. “Sensations”
GROWING UP
I. THE HORN BOOK.
“I remember the lessons of childhood, you see,
And the horn book I learned on my poor mother’s knee.
In truth, I suspect little else do we learn
From this great book of life, which so shrewdly we turn,
Saving how to apply, with a good or bad grace,
What we learned in the horn book of childhood.”
—Owen Meredith.
Judith’s mother sat in her invalid chair before the grate; she lookedvery pretty
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