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Title: Rainbow Hill

Author: Josephine Lawrence

Illustrator: Thelma Gooch

Release Date: September 4, 2008 [EBook #26533]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RAINBOW HILL ***

Produced by Al Haines

[Transcriber's note: Extensive research found no evidence
that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

[Frontispiece: "THIS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE BEEN ON A FARM?" HE ASKED.]

RAINBOW HILL

_By_

_Josephine Lawrence_

_Author of_

_ROSEMARY_

_Illustrated by_

_Thelma Gooch_

NEW YORK

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

_Rainbow Hill_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I PLANS
II LOOKING FORWARD
III RAINBOW HILL
IV FIRST IMPRESSIONS
V DAYS OF DELIGHT
VI WINNIE IS NERVOUS
VII AN ADVENTURE FOR SARAH
VIII STORM SIGNALS
IX ONE WISH COMES TRUE
X AN EVENTFUL DAY
XI ALL SERENE AGAIN
XII NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
XIII THE GAY FAMILY
XIV THE GAY FINANCES
XV THE POOR FARM
XVI SARAH'S SURPRISE
XVII WILLING AND OBLIGING
XVIII A NEW FRIEND
XIX JACK--HIRED MAN
XX A LITTLE GIRL LOST
XXI DOWN LINDEN ROAD
XXII SARAH HAS AN IDEA
XXIII BONY JOINS THE CIRCUS
XXIV TRULY A SACRIFICE
XXV UP TO MISCHIEF
XXVI SOMETHING TO REMEMBER
XXVII SUMMER'S END

RAINBOW HILL

CHAPTER I

PLANS

Doctor Hugh leaned back in his swivel chair and looked anxiously at his
mother.

"I don't believe you realize how incessant the noise will be," he
urged. "Every morning hammering and sawing and the inevitable shouting
and argument that seem to attend all building operations, especially
when the job is one of alteration, like this."

"I shall not mind the noise, dear," said Mrs. Willis tranquilly. "Let
me see the plans again."

She held out her hand for the blue prints and four interested heads
immediately bent above them, Rosemary being tall enough to look over
her mother's shoul