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MOTHERS TO MEN
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO
SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
MOTHERS TO MEN
BY
ZONA GALE
AUTHOR OF "FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE," "FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE
LOVE STORIES," "THE LOVES OF PELLEAS
AND ETARRE," ETC.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911
All Rights Reserved
Copyright, 1911, by The Butterick Publishing Company, The Ridgeway
Company, The Crowell Publishing Company, and The Standard
Fashion Company.
Copyright, 1911,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
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Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1911.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
MOTHERS TO MEN
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE |
| MOTHERS TO MEN | 1 |
| I | 13 |
| II | 28 |
| III | 37 |
| IV | 64 |
| V | 95 |
| VI | 130 |
| VII | 169 |
| VIII | 195 |
| IX | 206 |
| X | 242 |
| XI | 264 |
| XII | 284 |
| XIII | 314 |
MOTHERS TO MEN
"Daddy!"
The dark was so thick with hurrying rain that the child's voice wasdrowned. So he splashed forward a few steps in the mud and puddles ofthe highway and plucked at the coat of the man tramping before. The mantook a hand from a pocket and stooped somewhat to listen, still ploddingahead.
"Daddy! It's the hole near my biggest toe. My biggest toe went rightthrough that hole an' it chokes my toe awful."
The man suddenly squatted in the mud, presenting a broad, scarcelydistinguishable back.
"Climb up," he commanded.
The boy wavered. His body ached with weariness, his feet were sore andcold, something in his head was numb. But in a moment he ran on, twosteps or three, past the man.
"Nope," he said, "I'm seeing if I could walk all the