Caps and Capers: A Story of Boarding-School Life


CAPS and CAPERS

A Story of Boarding-School Life

by

Gabrielle E. Jackson

Author of “Pretty Polly Perkins,”

“Denise and Ned Toodles,” “By Love’s

Sweet Rule,” “The Colburn Prize,”

etc., etc.

With illustrations

by C. M. Relyea

PHILADELPHIA

HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY


Copyright, 1901, by Henry Altemus


To

the dear girls of “Dwight School,”

who, by their sweet friendship,

have unconsciously

helped to make this winter

one of the

happiest she has ever known,

this little story is most

affectionately

inscribed

by the

AUTHOR.


Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Which Shall It Be?   13
II. “A Touch Can Make or a Touch Can Mar”   21
III. “A Feeling of Sadness and Longing”   29
IV. New Experiences   41
V. Two Sides of a Question   53
VI. Dull and Prosy   63
VII. The P. U. L.   71
VIII. Caps and Capers   81
IX. A Modern Diogenes   89
X. “They Could Never Deceive Me”   97
XI. “La Somnambula”   107
XII. “Have You Not Been Deceived This Time?”   119
XIII. English as She is Spelled   127
XIV. “Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells”   135
XV. “Pride Goeth Before a Fall”   143
XVI. Letters   153
XVII. “Haf Anybody Seen My Umbrel?”   161
XVIII. The Little Hinge   169
XIX. “Fatal or Fated are Moments”   179
XX. “Now Tread We a Measure.”   187
XXI. Conspirators   197
XXII. “We’ve Got ’em! We’ve Got ’em!“   205
XXIII. A Camera’s Capers.   213
XXIV. Whispers   225
XXV. “What Are You Doing Up this Time of Night?”   233
XXVI. “Love (and Schoolgirls) Laugh at Locksmiths”   243
XXVII. Ariadne’s Clue   253
XXVIII. “When Buds And Blossoms Burst”   261
XXIX. Commencement   271
XXX. “O Fortunate, O Happy Day”   279

Illustrations

PAGE
“Now, girls, come on! let’s eat our cream.” Frontispiece
“You could have popped me over from ambush.” 37
“Do you wish to join the P. U. L.?” 75
“Go, tell Mrs. Stone she isn’t up to snuff.” 115
“Sthick to yer horses, Moik.” 149
“Let us begin a brand new leaf to-day.” 175
“I feel so sort of grown up and grand.” 193
“An’ have ye been in there all this time?” 221
“Away went Marie, vanishing bit by bit.” 247
“Her hand resting lightly on the arm of her friend.” 285

CAPS AND CAPERS


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