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Title: A Little Country Girl

Author: Susan Coolidge

Release Date: November 5, 2008 [EBook #27162]

Language: English

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A

LITTLE COUNTRY GIRL.

BY

SUSAN COOLIDGE,

AUTHOR OF "THE NEW YEAR'S BARGAIN," "WHAT KATY DID,"
"A GUERNSEY LILY," ETC.

* * * * *

BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1895.

_Copyright, 1885_,
BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

CONTENTS.

Chapter Page
I. ON THE "EOLUS" 7
II. THE FIRST EVENING 33
III. A WALK ON THE CLIFFS 61
IV. THE MANUAL OF PERFECT GENTILITY 90
V. DOWN TO BEAVER TAIL 118
VI. A TALK ABOUT SHYNESS 149
VII. TWO PICNICS 175
VIII. BRIC-A-BRAC 204
IX. PERPLEXED 229
X. A WORD FITLY SPOKEN 248
XI. FIVE AND ONE MAKE SIX 265

A LITTLE COUNTRY GIRL.

CHAPTER I.

ON THE "EOLUS."

IT was on one of the cool, brilliant days which early June brings to the
Narragansett country, that the steamer "Eolus" pushed out from Wickford
Pier on her afternoon trip to Newport. The sky was of a beautiful
translucent blue; the sunshine had a silvery rather than a golden
radiance. A sea-wind blew up the Western Passage, so cool as to make the
passengers on the upper deck glad to draw their wraps about them. The
low line of the mainland beyond Cona