E-text prepared by Rose Koven, Juliet Sutherland,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(www.pgdp.net)
Author of "What Katy Did," "Mischief's Thanksgiving,""Nine Little Goslings," etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY JESSIE McDERMOT
Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1907
Alfred Mudge & Son, Inc., Printers,
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
CHAPTER | PAGE | |
I. | A Talk on the Doorsteps | 7 |
II. | The Day of Happy Letters | 29 |
III. | The First Wedding in the Family | 51 |
IV. | Two Long Years in One Short Chapter | 80 |
V. | Car Forty-seven | 102 |
VI. | St. Helen's | 132 |
VII. | Making Acquaintance | 163 |
VIII. | High Valley | 190 |
IX. | Over a Pass | 220 |
X. | No. 13 Piute Street | 250 |
XI. | The Last of the Clover-leaves | 280 |
t was one of those afternoons in late April which are as mild and balmyas any June day. The air was full of the chirps and twitters ofnest-building birds, and of sweet indefinable odors from half-developedl