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Title: Highacres

Author: Jane Abbott

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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