The Corner House Girls Growing Up
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Hill Grace Brooks. The Corner House Girls Growing Up
CHAPTER I. ALL UP IN THE AIR
CHAPTER II. THE OLD GENTLEMAN WITH THE GREEN UMBRELLA
CHAPTER III. THE AERIAL TRAMWAY
CHAPTER IV. SCHOOL IN THE OFFING
CHAPTER V. THE SHEPARDS
CHAPTER VI. NAMING THE NEW BABY
CHAPTER VII. A FELINE FUROR
CHAPTER VIII. NEIGHBOR
CHAPTER IX. EVERYTHING AT SIXES AND SEVENS
CHAPTER X. ABOARD THE NANCY HANKS
CHAPTER XI. AFLOAT ON THE CANAL
CHAPTER XII. MISSING
CHAPTER XIII. THE HUE AND CRY
CHAPTER XIV. AN UNEXPECTED DELIGHT
CHAPTER XV. THE PURSUIT
CHAPTER XVI. THE RINGMASTER
CHAPTER XVII. SCALAWAG GETS A NEW HOME
CHAPTER XVIII. A LONG LOOK AHEAD
CHAPTER XIX. SCHOOL BEGINS
CHAPTER XX. BEARDING THE LION
CHAPTER XXI. ADVENTURES WITH SCALAWAG
CHAPTER XXII. THE GREEN UMBRELLA AGAIN
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MAD DOG SCARE
CHAPTER XXIV. IT ENGAGES AUNT SARAH'S ATTENTION
CHAPTER XXV. LOOKING AHEAD
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Nobody had ever called Ruth Kenway pretty. That was, perhaps, because her next youngest sister, Agnes, was an acknowledged beauty. Everything is comparative.
Mrs. MacCall said that "handsome is as handsome does." Then, of course, in the minds of the other members of the Corner House family, Ruth was very beautiful indeed.
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"The Corner House Girls' Odd Find" made two of their very dearest friends wealthy, and incidentally brought to the sister what Agnes had longed for more than "anything else in the whole world" – a touring car. In that they took a long trip, as related in "The Corner House Girls on a Tour." On that journey, but recently completed, Neale O'Neil had accompanied the sisters to drive the car. Mrs. Heard, a good friend, had been their chaperon, and Sammy Pinkney, the boy who was determined to be a pirate, was what Neale termed "an excrescence on the touring party" during the exciting trip.
Ruth Kenway had been thinking of something that had occurred during their automobile trip just before spying the old gentleman with the green umbrella. She had that very day received a letter from Cecile Shepard, whom, with her brother Luke, the Corner House girls had met during their tour. And Ruth hoped that Cecile would spend a week at the old Corner House before going back in September to the preparatory school which she attended.
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