E-text prepared by David Garcia and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team from page images generously made available by the Kentuckiana Digital Library "http://kdl.kyvl.org/" [i] [i] [ii] [ii] [iii] [iii] THE MELTING OF MOLLY By MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS Author of Miss Selina Lue, The Road to Providence Rose of Old Harpeth, etc., etc. ILLUSTRATED BY R. M. CROSBY INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS 1912 [v] [v] MOLLY CARTER AND I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO OUR GOOD FRIEND CAROL KING JENNEY [vi]