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100 1 _aLyster, Annette,
_d1831-1908
245 1 0 _aFootprints
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-28
520 _a"Footprints : A story of the snow by Annette Lyster" is a Victorian-era children's moral novella, likely written in the late 19th century. Set on a Devonshire farm during a rare deep snowfall, it uses the snow—and the footprints it preserves and reveals—as a symbolic and literal means to uncover truth, explore guilt, and affirm repentance and forgiveness within a family. During a snowbound winter, the Marlowe children delight in outdoor play while their elderly kinsman Jasper grows agitated and resolves to tell a long-concealed story. He recounts his youth as Jasper Helps, adopted alongside the generous Harry Franks by stern Hugh Marlowe, and his jealous slide into debt and bad company. Persuaded by a rogue named Harper, Jasper enables a midnight theft from the household bureau; Harper kills the beloved sheepdog, and circumstantial signs point to innocent Harry, who is jailed. A thaw later re-exposes earlier footprints in the snow, tracing Jasper’s and Harper’s movements and proving Harry’s innocence, though Jasper has already fled and fallen ill before eventually being found, forgiven, and restored through Harry’s steadfast kindness. In the present, Jasper confesses everything to the children during the storm; when the thaw returns, he dies quietly, leaving them a clear lesson about pride, truth, and the mercy that follows honest repentance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1889
653 _aChristian life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFamily -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSiblings -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aUncles -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFarmers -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aMissing children -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aCourage -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aTheft -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aNash, J.
_q(Joseph),
_d-1922
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76173
999 _c116898
_d116898