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Title: We Girls: A Home Story

Author: Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

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[Illustration: BINDING THE RINGS.]

WE GIRLS: A HOME STORY

By

MRS. A.D.T. WHITNEY

AUTHOR OF "FAITH GARTNEY'S GIRLHOOD," "THE GAYWORTHYS,"
"A SUMMER IN LESLIE GOLDTHWAITE'S LIFE," ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

BOSTON
1870, 1890

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. THE STORY BEGINS
CHAPTER II. AMPHIBIOUS
CHAPTER III. BETWIXT AND BETWEEN
CHAPTER IV. NEXT THINGS
CHAPTER V. THE "BACK YETT AJEE."
CHAPTER VI. CO-OPERATING
CHAPTER VII. SPRINKLES AND GUSTS
CHAPTER VIII. HALLOWEEN
CHAPTER IX. WINTER NIGHTS AND WINTER DAYS.
CHAPTER X. RUTH'S RESPONSIBILITY.
CHAPTER XI. BARBARA'S BUZZ.
CHAPTER XII. EMERGENCIES.

WE GIRLS: A HOME STORY.

CHAPTER I.

THE STORY BEGINS.

It begins right in the middle; but a story must begin somewhere.

The town is down below the hill.

It lies in the hollow, and stretches on till it runs against another
hill, over opposite; up which it goes a little way before it can stop
itself, just as it does on this side.

It is no matter for the name of the town. It is a good, large
country town,--in fact, it has some time since come under city
regulations,--thinking sufficiently well of itself, and, for that
which it lacks, only twenty miles from the metropolis.

Up our hill straggle the more ambitious houses, that have shaken off
the dust from their feet, or their foundations, and surrounded
themselves with green grass, and are shaded with trees, and are called
"places." There are the Marchbanks places, and the "Haddens," and the
old Pennington place. At these houses they dine at five o'clock, when
the great city bankers and merchants come home in the afternoon train;
down in the town, where people keep shops, or doctors' or lawyers'
offices, or manage the Bank, and where the manufactories ar