CAPS AND CAPERS
Frontispiece—Caps and Capers. “NOW, GIRLS, COME ON! LET’S EAT OUR CREAM.” See p. 92.
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