1
Sowing and Reaping - A Temperance Story
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Sowing and Reaping, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Edited by Frances Smith Foster
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: Sowing and Reaping
Author: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Release Date: February 10, 2004 [eBook #11022]
Language: English
Character set encoding: US-ASCII
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOWING AND REAPING***
E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Andrea Ball, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Transcriber's Note: This document is the text of Sowing and Reaping. Any bracketed notations such as [Text missing], [?], and those inserting letters or other comments are from the original text.
SOWING AND REAPING
A Temperance Story
A Rediscovered Novel by
Frances E.W. Harper
Edited by Frances Smith Foster
Chapter I
"I hear that John Andrews has given up his saloon; and a foolish thing it was. He was doing a splendid business. What could have induced him?"
"They say that his wife was bitterly opposed to the business. I don't know, but I think it quite likely. She has never seemed happy since John has kept saloon."
"Well, I would never let any woman lead me by the nose. I would let her know that as the living comes by me, the way of getting it is my affair, not hers, as long as she is well provided for."
"All men are not alike, and I confess t
Sowing and Reaping - A Temperance Story
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper