The Corner House Girls in a Play

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Hill Grace Brooks. The Corner House Girls in a Play

CHAPTER I. THE SOVEREIGNS OF ENGLAND

CHAPTER II. THE LADY IN THE GRAY CLOAK

CHAPTER III. BILLY BUMPS' BANQUET

CHAPTER IV. THE BASKET BALL TEAM IN TROUBLE

CHAPTER V. THE STONE IN THE POOL

CHAPTER VI. JUST OUT OF REACH

CHAPTER VII. THE CORE OF THE APPLE

CHAPTER VIII. LYCURGUS BILLET'S EAGLE BAIT

CHAPTER IX. BOB BUCKHAM TAKES A HAND

CHAPTER X. SOMETHING ABOUT OLD TIMES

CHAPTER XI. THE STRAWBERRY MARK

CHAPTER XII. TEA WITH MRS. ELAND

CHAPTER XIII. NEALE SUFFERS A SHORTENING PROCESS

CHAPTER XIV. THE FIRST REHEARSAL

CHAPTER XV. THE HALLOWE'EN PARTY

CHAPTER XVI. THE FIVE-DOLLAR GOLD PIECE

CHAPTER XVII. THE MYSTERIOUS LETTER

CHAPTER XVIII. MISS PEPPERILL AND THE GRAY LADY

CHAPTER XIX. A THANKSGIVING SKATING PARTY

CHAPTER XX. NEALE'S ENDLESS CHAIN

CHAPTER XXI. THE CORNER HOUSE THANKSGIVING

CHAPTER XXII. CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE

CHAPTER XXIII. SWIFTWING, THE HUMMINGBIRD

CHAPTER XXIV. THE FINAL REHEARSAL

CHAPTER XXV. A GREAT SUCCESS

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"My dear girls!" the woman in the gray cloak said, with a hand on a shoulder of each of the younger Corner House girls, "how providential it was that you saw my danger. I am very much obliged to you. And how brave you both were!"

"Thank you, ma'am," said Tess, who seldom forgot her manners.

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"Why – why," stammered her sister, not wishing to displease Dot, but bound to be honest. "You aren't a very big girl, even now, Dot Kenway."

"Humph!" exclaimed Dot, quite vexed. "I wear bigger shoes and stockings, and Ruth is having Miss Ann Titus let down the hems of all my old dresses a full inch – so now!"

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