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Title: While Caroline Was Growing

Author: Josephine Daskam Bacon

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WHILE CAROLINE WAS GROWING

BOOKS ABOUT CHILDREN
BY
JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON

THE MADNESS OF PHILIP
MEMOIRS OF A BABY
BIOGRAPHY OF A BOY
THE IMP AND THE ANGEL
SISTER'S VOCATION
TEN TO SEVENTEEN

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO
. SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
. MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO

WHILE CAROLINE
WAS GROWING

BY

JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1911

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_All rights reserved_

Copyright, 1906, by P. F. Collier & Son
Copyright, 1907, by the S. S. McClure Co.
Copyright, 1909, by the S. S. McClure Co., Benjamin B. Hampton,
P. F. Collier & Son, and by the Phelps Publishing Company

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Copyright, 1911, by The Macmillan Company

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Set up and Electrotyped. Published March, 1911

Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

To S. B.
long Caroline's admirer,
from J. D. B.

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. AN IDYL OF THE ROAD 1

II. A LITTLE VICTORY FOR THE GENERAL 38

III. THE PRIZE 77

IV. WHERE THIEVES BREAK IN 113

V. A PILLAR OF SOCIETY 158

VI. HIS FATHER'S HOUSE 202

VII. THE PRETENDERS 235

VIII. A WATCH IN THE NIGHT 269

IX. THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 297

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