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Title: Under the Country Sky

Author: Grace S. Richmond

Illustrator: Frances Rogers

Release Date: March 1, 2007 [EBook #20719]

Language: English

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UNDER THE COUNTRY SKY

By GRACE S. RICHMOND

Author of

"Red Pepper Burns," "Mrs. Red Pepper,"
"The Twenty-Fourth of June,"
"The Second Violin," Etc.

With Frontispiece in Colors
By FRANCES ROGERS

A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York

Published by Arrangements with DOUBLEDAY, PAGE AND COMPANY

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COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1915, 1916, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Heart Burnings 3
II. Something Really Happens 15
III. A Semi-Annual Occurrence 31
IV. A Literary Light 39
V. Shabbiness 50
VI. When Royalty Comes 60
VII. Snowballs 71
VIII. Soapsuds 84
IX. A Reasonable Proposition 96
X. Stuart Objects 105
XI. Borrowed Plumes 119
XII. Early Morning 135
XIII. A Copyist 143
XIV. Out of the Blue 153
XV. "Great Luck!" 164
XVI. A Little Trunk 176
XVII. Reaction