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The Project Gutenberg EBook of All Aboard, by Fannie E. Newberry This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: All Aboard A Story for Girls Author: Fannie E. Newberry Release Date: August 7, 2006 [EBook #19001] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL ABOARD *** Produced by Al Haines ALL ABOARD A STORY FOR GIRLS BY FANNIE E. NEWBERRY _Author of "The Odd One," "Not for Profit," "Bubbles," "Joyce's Investments," "Sara a Princess," etc., etc._ "Our Faith, a star, shone o'er a rocky height; The billows rose, and she was quenched in night." NEW YORK: A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. COPYRIGHT, 1898. By A. I. BRADLEY & CO IN MEMORY OF A HAPPY VISIT, LET ME DEDICATE TO YOU, MY COUSINS H. S. AND W. FASSETT, THIS LITTLE BOOK WITH MY AFFECTIONATE REGARDS CONTENTS. CHAP. I. Debby has a Caller II. The Leave-taking III. New Surroundings IV. Introductions V. "On the Bay of Biscay, O!" VI. Portuguese Towns and Heroes VII. Kite-flying and Gibraltar VIII. Nightmare and Gossip IX. A Game of Gromets X. Mrs. Windemere's Dinner XI. A Sunday at Sea XII. The Story of a Wreck XIII. Algiers and Andy XIV. Guesswork XV. Tropical Evenings XVI. Danger XVII. Lady Moreham Speaks XVIII. Last Days Together XIX. Old Ties and New XX. In Old Bombay XXI. Friends Ashore XXII. In Elephanta's Caves "ALL ABOARD!" CHAPTER I. DEBBY HAS A CALLER. "And they're twins, you say?" "Yes'm, two of 'em, and as putty as twin blooms on a stalk, 'm." The second speaker was a large, corpulent woman, with a voluminous white apron tied about her voluminous waist. She stood deferentially before the prospective roomer who had asked the question, to whom she was showing the accommodations of her house, with interpolations of a private nature, on a subject too near her heart, to-day, to be ignored even with strangers. As she stood nodding her head with an emphasis that threatened to dislodge the smart cap with purple ribbons, which she had rather hastily
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