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Title: Highacres
Author: Jane Abbott
Release Date: August 30, 2009 [eBook #29865]
Language: English
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HIGHACRES
by
JANE D. ABBOTT
Author of "Keineth," "Larkspur" and "Happy House"
With Illustrations by Harriet Roosevelt Richards
Philadelphia and London J. B. Lippincott Company
Copyright, 1920, by J. B. Lippincott Company
Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
At the Washington Square Press
Philadelphia, U. S. A.
TO
THOSE DEAR CHUMS
"WRITE A STORY ABOUT SCHOOL," YOU ASKED
ME. "WRITE A STORY IN WHICH THE HEROINE
HAS A MOTHER AND A FATHER--WE'RE SO
TIRED OF POOR ORPHANS," YOU BEGGED. I
HAVE TRIED TO DO IT, ASKING YOUR FORGIVENESS
FOR ONE LITTLE STEP-FATHER. TO
YOU I AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATE THE STORY
[Illustration: AMID THE UNFORGETTABLE SHOUTS OF THE BOYS AND GIRLS SHE
SLID EASILY ON DOWN THE TRAIL]
CONTENTS
I. KETTLE MOUNTAIN
II. SUNNYSIDE
III. ON THE ROAD TO COBBLE
IV. THE WESTLEYS
V. JERRY'S WISH COMES TRUE
VI. NEW FACES
VII. HIGHACRES
VIII. SCHOOL
IX. THE SECRET DOOR
X. THE DEBATE
XI. AUNT MARIA
XII. THE PARTY
XIII. HASKIN'S HILL
XIV. THE PRIZE
XV. CUPID AND COMPANY
XVI. FOR THE HONOR OF THE SCHOOL
XVII. DISGRACE
XVIII. THE RAVENS CLEAN THE TOWER
XIX. THE LETTER
XX. THE FAMILY COUNCILS
XXI. POOR ISOBEL
XXII. JERRY WINS HER WAY
XXIII. THE
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