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Title: Red-Robin

Author: Jane Abbott

Illustrator: Harriet Roosevelt Richards

Release Date: August 16, 2006 [EBook #19057]

Language: English

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RED-ROBIN
BY
JANE ABBOTT

AUTHOR OF KEINETH, HIGHACRES, APRILLY, Etc.

With Illustrations By
HARRIET ROOSEVELT RICHARDS

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Made in the United States of America

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COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

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[Illustration: THE EFFECT WAS VERY CHRISTMASY--Page 196]

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TO BETSY

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

Prologue--A Story Before the Story 11
I. The Orphan Doll 19
II. A Prince 28
III. The House of Forsyth 39
IV. Red-Robin 49
V. Jimmie 61
VI. The Forsyth Heir 70
VII. Beryl 79
VIII. Robin Asserts Herself 90
IX. The Lynchs 103
X. The Lady of the Rushing Waters 114
XI. Pot Roast and Cabbage Salad 126
XII. Robin Writes a Letter 138
XIII. Susy Castle 151
XIV. A Gift to the Queen 164
XV. The Party 176
XVI. Christmas at the Manor 190
XVII. The House of Laughter 204
XVIII. The Luckless Stocking 220
XIX. Granny 235
XX. Robin's Beginning 250
XXI. At the Granger Mills 266
XXII.