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Title: Three Margarets

Author: Laura E. Richards

Illustrator: Ethelred B. Barry

Release Date: August 10, 2007 [EBook #22293]

Language: English

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[Illustration: UNCLE JOHN AND THE YOUNG CUBANS.]

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BOOKS FOR GIRLS
By Laura E. Richards

The MARGARET SERIES

Three Margarets
Margaret Montfort
Peggy
Rita
Fernley House

The HILDEGARDE SERIES

Queen Hildegarde
Hildegarde's Holiday
Hildegarde's Home
Hildegarde's Neighbors
Hildegarde's Harvest

DANA ESTES & COMPANY
Publishers
Estes Press, Summer St., Boston

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THREE MARGARETS

By
LAURA E. RICHARDS

Author Of "Captain January," "Melody,"
"Queen Hildegarde," Etc.

Illustrated by
ETHELRED B. BARRY

Boston
Dana Estes & Company
Publishers

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Copyright, 1897
By Estes and Lauriat

Colonial Press:
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Arrival 9
II. First Thoughts 21
III. The White Lady of Fernley 36
IV. Confidence 51
V. The Peat-bog 65
VI. The Family Chest 81
VII. The Garret 98
VIII. Cuba Libre 115
IX. Day by Day 131
X. Looking Backward 147
XI. Heroes and Heroines 163
XII. In the Saddle 187
XIII. In the Ni