In the attic of a dreary lodging-house, old Treffy grinds out Home, Sweet Home on his battered barrel-organ while a ragged orphan boy, Christie, listens. As Treffy’s health fails, Christie takes the organ out into the streets, and the two of them, helped by a little girl named Mabel, ask what it would take to reach a home that lasts.
A tender Victorian evangelical tale of poverty and faith, openly religious throughout. Download the free EPUB.