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  THE PANSY BOOKS.

  =Each volume 12mo, cloth, $1.50=

  Chautauqua Girls at Home. Christie's Christmas. Divers Women. Echoing and Re-Echoing. Eighty-Seven. Endless Chain (An). Ester Ried. Ester Ried Yet Speaking. Four Girls at Chautauqua. From Different Standpoints. Hall in the Grove (The). Household Puzzles. Interrupted. Judge Burnham's Daughters. Julia Ried. King's Daughter (The). Little Fishers and Their Nets. Links in Rebecca's Life. Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On. Modern Prophets. Man of the house. New Graft on the Family Tree (A). One Commonplace Day. Pocket Measure (The). Profiles. Ruth Erskine's Crosses. Randolphs (The). Sevenfold Trouble (A). Sidney Martin's Christmas. Spun from Fact. Those Boys. Three People. Tip Lewis and His Lamp. Wise and Otherwise.

  =Each volume 12mo, cloth. $1.25.=

  Cunning Workmen. Dr. Deane's Way. Grandpa's Darlings. Miss Priscilla Hunter. Mrs. Deane's Way. What She Said.

  =Each volume 12mo, cloth, $1.00.=

  At Home and Abroad. Bobby's Wolf and other Stories. Five Friends. In the Woods and Out. Young Folks Worth Knowing. Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening. New Years Tangles. Next Things. Pansy Scrap Book. Some Young Heroines.

  =Each volume 12mo, cloth, 75 cts.=

  Couldn't be Bought. Getting Ahead. Mary Burton Abroad. Pansies. Six Little Girls. Stories from the life of Jesus. That Boy Bob. Two Boys.

  =Each volume 16mo, cloth, 75 cts.=

  Bernie's White Chicken. Docia's Journal. Helen Lester. Jessie Wells. Monteagle.

  =Each volume 16mo, cloth, 60 cts.=

  Browning Boys. Dozen of Them (A). Gertrude's Diary. Hedge Fence (A). Side by Side. Six O'Clock in the Evening. Stories of Remarkable Women. Stories of Great Men. Story of Puff. "We Twelve girls." World of Little People (A).

  NORMAN WAS A HANDSOME BOY WHEN SHE MARRIED MR. DECKER.]

  Little Fishers: and Their Nets

  BY PANSY AUTHOR OF "CHRISTIE'S CHRISTMAS," "A HEDGE FENCE," "GERTRUDE'S DIARY," "THE MAN OF THE HOUSE," "INTERRUPTED," "THE HALL IN THE GROVE," "AN ENDLESS CHAIN," "MRS. SOLOMON SMITH LOOKING ON," "FOUR GIRLS AT CHAUTAUQUA," "RUTH ERSKINE'S CROSSES," "SPUN FROM FACT," ETC., ETC.

  _ILLUSTRATED_

  BOSTON D LOTHROP COMPANY FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS

  COPYRIGHT 1887 BY D LOTHROP COMPANY

  CONTENTS.

  PAGE.

  CHAPTER I. THE DECKERS' HOME 7

  CHAPTER II. BEGINNING HER LIFE 24

  CHAPTER III. THE TRUTH IS TOLD 43

  CHAPTER IV. NEW FRIENDS 63

  CHAPTER V. A GREAT UNDERTAKING 85

  CHAPTER VI. HOW IT SUCCEEDED 106

  CHAPTER VII. LONG STORIES TO TELL 125

  CHAPTER VIII. A SABBATH TO REMEMBER 143

  CHAPTER IX. A BARGAIN AND A PROMISE 164

  CHAPTER X. PLEASURE AND DISAPPOINTMENT 179

  CHAPTER XI. A COMPLETE SUCCESS 204

  CHAPTER XII. AN UNEXPECTED HELPER 226

  CHAPTER XIII. THE LITTLE PICTURE MAKERS 240

  CHAPTER XIV. THE CONCERT 257

  CHAPTER XV. A WILL AND A WAY 271

  CHAPTER XVI. AN ORDEAL 288

  CHAPTER XVII. THE FLOWER PARTY 304

  CHAPTER XVIII. A SATISFACTORY EVENING 320

  CHAPTER XIX. READY TO TRY 334

  CHAPTER XX. THE WAY MADE PLAIN 351

  CHAPTER XXI. THE NEW ENTERPRISE 365

  CHAPTER XXII. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE 382

  CHAPTER XXIII. THE CROWNING WONDER 400

  CHAPTER XXIV. THE PAST AND PRESENT 418

  Little Fishers: and Their Nets.