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Title: The Youngest Girl in the Fifth
A School Story

Author: Angela Brazil

Illustrator: Stanley Davis

Release Date: June 6, 2007 [EBook #21687]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: GWEN IS CAUGHT BY THE STORM]

The Youngest Girl

in the Fifth

A School Story

BY

ANGELA BRAZIL

Author of "The Leader of the Lower School"
"A Pair of Schoolgirls" "The New Girl at St. Chad's"
"A Fourth Form Friendship" &c.

_ILLUSTRATED BY STANLEY DAVIS_

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED

LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

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Contents

CHAP.

I. AN UNEXPECTED REMOVE

II. THE GASCOYNE GIRLS

III. A FALSE STEP

IV. A DELICATE TRANSACTION

V. TROUBLE IN THE FIFTH

VI. A CASTING VOTE

VII. DICK CHAMBERS

VIII. GWEN RECEIVES A LETTER

IX. KEEPING CHRISTMAS

X. A PRODIGAL

XI. A PRIZE ESSAY

XII. GWEN TURNS HENWIFE

XIII. THE SHOE PINCHES

XIV. GWEN MEETS TROUBLE

XV. STORM CLOUDS

XVI. FIRST AID

XVII. A PRESSING ACCOUNT

XVIII. GWEN'S BRIGHT IDEA

XIX. A SCHOOL GYMKHANA

XX. A DAY OF RECKONING

XXI. RETRIBUTION

XXII. THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT

XXIII. GWEN TO THE RESCUE

XXIV. THE SENIOR OXFORD

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Illustrations

GWEN IS CAUGHT BY THE STORM _Frontispiece_

GWEN MEETS DICK

"THINGS GO SO HARDLY WITH ME SOMEHOW, DAD"

"OH, I SAY, WELL CAUGHT!"

"YES, YOU CAN EASILY GO MILES OUT OF YOUR WAY"

"IT WAS BASIL WHO SPIED HIM FIRST"

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