Illustrations
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| “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
CHAPTER I
WHICH SHALL IT BE?
“And now that I have them, how am I to decide? That is the question?”
The speaker was a fine-looking man about thirty-five years of age, seated before a large writing-table in a handsomely appointed library. It was littered with catalogues, pamphlets, letters and papers sent from dozens of schools, and from the quantity of them one would fancy that every school in the country was represented. This was the result of an advertisement in the “Times” for a school in which young children are received, carefully trained, thoroughly taught, and which can furnish unquestionable references regarding its social standing and other qualifications.