George M. Baker

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. STOLEN SWEETS.

CHAPTER II FALLEN FORTUNES.

CHAPTER III. MRS. THOMPSON'S CROSS.

CHAPTER IV. BECKY SLEEPER'S CHARITY.

CHAPTER V. IN SCHOOL AND OUT.

CHAPTER VI. BECKY'S LAST FROLIC.

CHAPTER VII. MRS. THOMPSON DISOBEYS ORDERS.

CHAPTER VIII. BECKY'S NEW BIRTH.

CHAPTER IX. TEDDY SLEEPER DINES OUT.

CHAPTER X. THE ROMANCE OF A POOR OLD MAID.

CHAPTER XI. BECKY BEARDS THE LION IN HIS DEN.

CHAPTER XII. AMONG THE WOODPECKERS.

CHAPTER XIII. DELIA SLEEPER'S SHIP COMES IN.

CHAPTER XIV. TWO YEARS AFTER.

Transcriber's Notes:

Becky’s Leap. Page 89.

THE MAIDENHOOD SERIES.

RUNNING TO WASTE.

THE STORY OF A TOMBOY.

BY GEORGE M. BAKER.

AUTHOR OF “AMATEUR DRAMAS,” “DRAWING-ROOM STAGE,”
“SOCIAL STAGE,” “MIMIC STAGE,” ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.

NEW YORK:
LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874,

By GEORGE M. BAKER,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

TO

MRS. RACHEL E. BOLES,

A PATIENT INVALID, WHO WOULD HAVE ME BELIEVE
THAT A FEW OF HER WEARY HOURS HAVE
BEEN LIGHTENED BY THE READING OF
“THE STORY OF A TOMBOY,”

I Dedicate this Book,

IN REMEMBRANCE OF A LONG FRIENDSHIP,
AND IN GRATITUDE FOR MANY
KIND ACTS.