Freckles (Version 2)
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one hand. He finds this place in the Limberlost Swamp, as a Limberlost guard of precious timber.
In the process, he discovers a love for the wilderness and animals he encounters every day on his rounds and a burning desire to learn about all the new birds and plants he sees on his rounds every day. He also finds and falls in love with a girl he calls the "Swamp Angel." This is the story of his plucky courage in sticking to his job in the swamp, and his adventures in learning about the natural world he finds himself in every day. He is befriended by the "Bird Woman" and with her help learns to love the Limberlost he has been hired to guard. - Summary by Mary Anderson (8 hr 3 min)
Chapters
Wherein Freckles Faces Trouble Bravely and Opens the Way for New Experiences
54:43
Read by Rita Boutros
Wherein Freckles Meets a Man of Affairs and Loses Nothing by the Encounter
20:37
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Wherein the Limberlost Falls upon Mrs. Duncan and Freckles Comes to the Rescue
10:41
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Wherein the Butterflies Go on a Spree and Freckles Informs the Bird Woman
20:03
Read by Elijah Fisher
Wherein the Angel Releases Freckles, and the Curse of Black Jack Falls upon Her
27:21
Read by James Wood
Wherein Freckles and the Angel Try Taking a Picture, and Little Chicken Furnish…
18:20
Read by James Wood
Wherein Freckles refuses Love Without Knowledge of Honorable Birth, and the Ang…
31:07
Read by Roger Swarey