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THE MASCOT OF SWEET BRIAR GULCH

by

HENRY WALLACE PHILLIPS

Author of Red Saunders
Plain Mary Smith
etc.

With Illustrations by F. Graham Cootes







New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright 1908
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
October



THE MASCOT OF SWEET BRIAR GULCH






THE MASCOT OF SWEET BRIAR GULCH


The gulch ran in a trough of beauty to the foot of Jones's Hill, which
rose in a sweeping curve into the clouds.

Wild flowers, trees in profuse leaf, and mats of vines covered the
scarred earth, and the sky was as limpid as spring water; the air carried
a weight o