Smiles

'Smiles', by Eliot H. Robinson

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Title: 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
Author: Eliot H. Robinson
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"SMILES"

A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS
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By ELIOT H. ROBINSON
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Life and Trials in Germany and Her Escape from the
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[Illustration: "A MAN AND A WOMAN--AS IT WAS IN THE
BEGINNING" (See Page 374)]
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"SMILES"
A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS
BY ELIOT H. ROBINSON Author of "Man Proposes"
ILLUSTRATED BY H. WESTON TAYLOR
THE PAGE COMPANY BOSTON--PUBLISHERS
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Copyright, 1919, by The Page Company
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
All rights reserved
First Impression, May, 1919 Second Impression, June, 1919 Third
Impression, July, 1919 Fourth Impression, August, 1919 Fifth
Impression, September, 1919 Sixth Impression, October, 1919 Seventh
Impression, December, 1919 Eighth Impression, February, 1920 Ninth
Impression, September, 1920 Tenth Impression, August, 1921
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TO MY BOYS This Story of a Girl Who Loved Children IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
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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.
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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.
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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

XII. THE THREE OF HEARTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
XIII. GATHERING CLOUDS . . . . .