WE GIRLS:

A HOME STORY

By

MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY,

AUTHOR OF "FAITH GARTNEY'S GIRLHOOD," "THE GAYWORTHYS,"
"A SUMMER IN LESLIE GOLDTHWAITE'S LIFE," ETC.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. THE STORY BEGINS.

CHAPTER II. AMPHIBIOUS.

CHAPTER III. BETWIXT AND BETWEEN.

CHAPTER IV. NEXT THINGS.

CHAPTER V. THE "BACK YETT AJEE."

CHAPTER VI. CO-OPERATING.

CHAPTER VII. SPRINKLES AND GUSTS.

CHAPTER VIII. HALLOWEEN.

CHAPTER IX. WINTER NIGHTS AND WINTER DAYS.

CHAPTER X. RUTH'S RESPONSIBILITY.

CHAPTER XI. BARBARA'S BUZZ.

CHAPTER XII. EMERGENCIES.

Transcriber's note: Illustrations
Frontispiece: BINDING THE RINGS.
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WE GIRLS: A HOME STORY.

CHAPTER I.

THE STORY BEGINS.

It begins right in the middle; but a story must begin somewhere.

The town is down below the hill.

It lies in the hollow, and stretches on till it runs against another hill, over opposite; up which it goes a little way before it can stop itself, just as it does on this side.

It is no matter for the name of the town. It is a good, large country town,—in fact, it has some time since come under city regulations,—thinking sufficiently well of itself, and, for that which it lacks, only twenty miles from the metropolis.

Up our hill straggle the more ambitious houses, that have shaken off the dust from their feet, or their foundations, and surrounded themselves with green grass, and are shaded with