Chapter XIII 



How the Story of Scraggks came to 

 be Written 



THE book I was writing when 

 Scraggles came to me was " In 

 and Out of the Old Missions of Cali- 

 fornia." These interesting buildings 

 were founded by Saint Francis of 

 Assisi, whose love for the birds and 

 lower animals has already become almost 

 a proverb. It was just as I was finish- 

 ing one of the last chapters of the book 

 that Scraggles' life went out. Was it 

 not singular that, while dealing with 



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