3 CHAPTER ONE CATHERINE'S INSPIRATION 15 CHAPTER TWO GETTING STARTED 46 CHAPTER FOUR WITH PAIL AND BROOM 86 CHAPTER SEVEN A PARTY AT POLLY'S 101 CHAPTER EIGHT A FORTUNATE MEETING 120 CHAPTER TEN THE MAKING OF A COMPACT 133 CHAPTER ELEVEN BROOKMEADOW 151 CHAPTER TWELVE ARRIVAL AT WINSTED 164 CHAPTER THIRTEEN CAUGHT IN A SHOWER 176 CHAPTER FOURTEEN AN INTERLUDE 186 CHAPTER FIFTEEN SUNDAY SCHOOL 203 CHAPTER SIXTEEN ALICE ON THE WAY 212 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN FINDING A VOCATION 221 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN DOCTOR'S ORDERS 246 CHAPTER NINETEEN JOURNALISM 254 CHAPTER TWENTY THE THREE R'S 271 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE THE LAST PARTY 284 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO AUF WIEDERSEHEN Title: The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted Author: Katharine Ellis Barrett Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 The Wide Awake Girls Series THE WIDE AWAKE GIRLS IN WINSTED BY KATHARINE RUTH ELLIS Author of “The Wide Awake Girls” Illustrated from drawings by SEARS GALLAGHER Boston Little, Brown, and Company Copyright, 1909, All rights reserved Printers To GLADYS GODDARD who has been the friend of many boys and girls PREFACE The author wishes to acknowledge gratefully the kindness of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company in allowing her to use the poem Vantage, by Josephine Preston Peabody in this book. She also thanks Miss Margaret Sherwood for consenting to a similar use of her poem, Indian Summer. Books for girls are frankly suggestive, their value lying in their kindling power. Among the girls of all sorts who may read this story, there will be, here and there, one who loves right words. It is for the sake of such an occasional reader that the poems mentioned have been included. The schools sometimes lead their pupils to believe that English literature, like Latin, belongs to the past. But there are, here and now, “musicians of the word” who, partly because they are living, can touch our hearts as none of the dead-and-gone ones can. If through these pages some girl finds her way to the little green volume of Singing Leaves, or the sweet stories of Daphne and King Sylvaine and Queen AimÉe, Catherine Smith and her friends will have done the world of girls a service worth the doing. CONTENTS
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PART ONE STARTING A LIBRARY THE WIDE AWAKE GIRLS IN WINSTED |