A Bookful of Girls

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Fuller Anna. A Bookful of Girls

Blythe Halliday’s Voyage

CHAPTER I. THE CROW’S NEST

CHAPTER II. THE LITTLE SIGNORINA

CHAPTER III. A NEW DAWN

Artful Madge

CHAPTER I. THE PRIZE CONTEST

CHAPTER II. THE MINIATURE

CHAPTER III. NOAH’S DOVE

The Ideas of Polly

CHAPTER I. DAN’S PLIGHT

CHAPTER II. WESTWARD HO!

CHAPTER III. A MERRY CHRISTMAS

Nannie’s Theatre Party

CHAPTER I. NANNIE’S THEATRE PARTY

Olivia’s Sun-Dial

CHAPTER I. OLIVIA’S SUN-DIAL

Bagging a Grandfather

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“You never told me how you happened to name her Blythe.”

The two old friends, Mr. John DeWitt and Mrs. Halliday, were reclining side by side in their steamer-chairs, lulled into a quiescent mood by the gentle, scarcely perceptible, motion of the vessel. It was an exertion to speak, and Mrs. Halliday replied evasively, “Do you like the name?”

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Then the lips of the little girl parted with a still more radiant smile, and she murmured, “Alla bella Italia!”

A moment later, Blythe and her companion had passed on and up to the forward deck where, climbing a short ladder to the railing of the “crow’s nest,” they dropped lightly down into this most novel of elevators. There was a shrill whistle from the boatswain, the waving of white handkerchiefs where Mrs. Halliday and Mr. DeWitt stood, forward of the wheel-house, to watch the start; then the big windlass began to turn, the rope was “paid out,” and the slow, rather creaky journey up the mast had begun.

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