E-text prepared by Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Instead of the Thorn A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published April 1916 TO C.T.R. WITH LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORIES OF JOCKEY HILL Contents At the South Shore Hot Tea Cold Water The June Night The Cape The Shingled Cottage The Days that Followed