Dorothy at Skyrie

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	[Early Visitors ]	9
II.	[An Unfortunate Affair ]	22
III.	[On the Road to South Meadow ]	41
IV.	[The Learned Blacksmith ]	56
V.	[An Accident and an Apparition ]	69
VI.	[More Peculiar Visitors ]	85
VII.	[At the Office of a Justice ]	96
VIII.	[A Walk and Its Ending ]	112
IX.	[A Live Stock Sale ]	127
X.	[At Milking-Time ]	143
XI.	[Helpers ]	158
XII.	[Seth Winters and His Friends ]	177
XIII.	[A Beneficent Bee ]	195
XIV.	[An Astonishing Question ]	210
XV.	[Concerning Several Matters ]	227
XVI.	[The Fate of Daisy-Jewel ]	245
XVII.	[On the Road to the Circus ]	259
XVIII.	[That South Meadow ]	275
XIX.	[Dorothy Has Another Secret ]	293
XX.	[All's Well That Ends Well ]	308

CHAPTER I

EARLY VISITORS

"Hello! How-de-do?"

This salutation was so sudden and unexpected that Dorothy Chester jumped, and rising from the grass, where she had been searching for wild strawberries, beheld a row of pink sunbonnets behind the great stone wall.

Within the sunbonnets were three equally rosy faces, of varying sizes, each smiling broadly and each full of a friendly curiosity. It was from the biggest face that the voice had come, and Dorothy responded with a courteous "Good-morning!" then waited for further advances. These came promptly.

"I'm Alfaretta Babcock; this one's Baretta Babcock; and this other one, she's Claretta Babcock. The baby that's to home and can't walk yet—only just creep—she's Diaretta Babcock."