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JANICE DAY

BY

HELEN BEECHER LONG

ILLUSTRATED BY

WALTER S. ROGERS

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS :-: NEW YORK

Copyright, 1914, by

SULLY AND KLEINTEICH

All rights reserved

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A New-Fashioned Girl 1

II. Poketown 10

III. "It Jest Rattles" 22

IV. First Impressions 32

V. 'Rill Scattergood and Her School 43

VI. An Afternoon of Adventure 56

VII. The Little Girl Who Lost the Echo 64

VIII. A Bit of Romance 73

IX. Tea, and a Talk with Daddy 84

X. Beginning with a Bedstead 96

XI. A Rainy Day 109

XII. On the Road with Walky Dexter 122

XIII. Nelson Haley 131

XIV. A Time of Trial 139

XV. New Beginnings 149

XVI. "Showing" the Elder 159

[Pg vi]XVII. Christmas News 173

XVIII. "The Fly-By-Night" ...