GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS :-: NEW YORK
Copyright, 1914, by
SULLY AND KLEINTEICH
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. A New-Fashioned Girl [1]
II. Poketown [10]
III. "It Jest Rattles" [22]
IV. First Impressions [32]
V. 'Rill Scattergood and Her School [43]
VI. An Afternoon of Adventure [56]
VII. The Little Girl Who Lost the Echo [64]
VIII. A Bit of Romance [73]
IX. Tea, and a Talk with Daddy [84]
X. Beginning with a Bedstead [96]
XI. A Rainy Day [109]
XII. On the Road with Walky Dexter [122]
XIII. Nelson Haley [131]
XIV. A Time of Trial [139]
XV. New Beginnings [149]
XVI. "Showing" the Elder [159]
XVII. Christmas News [173]
XVIII. "The Fly-By-Night" [184]
XIX. Christmas, After All! [197]
XX. The Trouble with Nelson Haley [210]
XXI. A Stir of New Life in Poketown [217]
XXII. At the Sugar Camp [226]
XXIII. "Do You Mean That?" [235]
XXIV. The School Dedication [241]
XXV. Through the Second Winter [253]
XXVI. Just How It All Began [262]
XXVII. Poketown in a New Dress [271]
XXVIII. No Odor of Gasoline! [280]
XXIX. Janice Day's First Love Letter [290]
XXX. What the Echo Might Have Heard [302]
ILLUSTRATIONS
The quick eye of Janice Day caught sight of this row of nondescripts. (See page 15.) [Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
The old violin wailed out the tune haltingly [72]
God's world did look bigger and greater from The Overlook. (See page 155.) [154]
She just had to raise her eyes and look into his earnest ones. (See page 307.) [306]