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Title: Highacres
Author: Jane Abbott
Release Date: August 30, 2009 [eBook #29865]
Language: English
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HIGHACRES
by
JANE D. ABBOTT
Author of "Keineth," "Larkspur" and "Happy House"
With Illustrations by Harriet Roosevelt Richards
Philadelphia and London J. B. Lippincott Company
Copyright, 1920, by J. B. Lippincott Company
Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company At the Washington Square Press Philadelphia, U. S. A.
TO THOSE DEAR CHUMS
"WRITE A STORY ABOUT SCHOOL," YOU ASKED ME. "WRITE A STORY IN WHICH THE HEROINE HAS A MOTHER AND A FATHER--WE'RE SO TIRED OF POOR ORPHANS," YOU BEGGED. I HAVE TRIED TO DO IT, ASKING YOUR FORGIVENESS FOR ONE LITTLE STEP-FATHER. TO YOU I AFFECTIONATELY DEDI