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TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY

by

GRACE MILLER WHITE

Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy







New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Made in the United States of America



Copyright, 1909, by
W. J. WATT & COMPANY



WITH
LOVE AND GRATITUDE
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO
MY FATHER






TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY

CHAPTER I


One September afternoon, not many years ago, three men sat on the banks
of Cayuga Lake cleaning the fish they had caught in their nets the
previous night. When they glanced up from their work, and looked beyond
the southern borders of the lake, they could 