'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands   By: Eliot H. (Eliot Harlow) Robinson (1884-)

"SMILES"

A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS

By ELIOT H. ROBINSON

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"SMILES"

A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS

BY ELIOT H. ROBINSON Author of "Man Proposes"

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Copyright, 1919, by The Page Company

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TO MY BOYS This Story of a Girl Who Loved Children IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

The Keynote of Life is Love Lacking it, naught is worth while The Symbol of Service, the Cross And the Sign of Courage, A Smile.

AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I wish to acknowledge, most gratefully, the valuable assistance rendered to me, in the preparation of the chapters dealing with the medical and hospital incidents, by Robert W. Guiler, M.D.; by Alonzo J. Shadman, M.D., to whom I am indebted for my description of the unusual operation in Chapter XXI; and by Miss Elizabeth E. Sullivan, Superintendent of Nurses at the Boston Children's Hospital. And, above all, I desire to make acknowledgment of the debt of gratitude that I owe to Mr. Henry Wightman Packer for his helpful criticism throughout the writing of this story.

ELIOT HARLOW ROBINSON.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. DONALD MACDONALD, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

II. ENTER BIG JERRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

III. AN INNOCENT SERPENT IN EDEN . . . . . . . . . . . 25

IV. "SMILES" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

V. GIVING AND RECEIVING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

VI. AN UNACCEPTED CHALLENGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

VII. "SMILES'" GIFT AND THE "WRITING" . . . . . . . . . 66

VIII. SOME OF SEVERAL EPISTLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

IX. THE HIGH HILLS, AND "GOD'S MAN" . . . . . . . . . 91

X. "SMILES'" CONSECRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

XI. ADOPTION BY BLOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113