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SIX GIRLS AND BOB

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BOOKS BY
MARION AMES TAGGART

THE SIX GIRLS SERIES

SIX GIRLS AND BOB. A Story of Patty-Pans
and Green Fields. 330 pages.

SIX GIRLS AND THE TEA ROOM. A Story.
316 pages.

SIX GIRLS GROWING OLDER. A Story.
331 Pages.

SIX GIRLS AND THE SEVENTH ONE. A
Story. 358 pages.

BETTY GASTON, THE SEVENTH GIRL.
A Story. 352 pages.

SIX GIRLS AND BETTY. A Story. 320 pages.

SIX GIRLS GROWN UP. A Story. 343 pages.

These volumes are attractively illustrated and bound
uniformly. Price, $1.50 each.

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SIX GIRLS AND BOB

A Story of Patty-Pans and Green Fields

by

MARION AMES TAGGART

Author of "The Little Grey House," "The Wyndham Girls," "Miss Lochinvar," etc.

Illustrated by William F. Stecher

W. A. Wilde Company Boston Chicago

Copyright, 1906 By W. A. Wilde Company

All rights reserved

SIX GIRLS AND BOB

_To Gertrude
In Loving Remembrance_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE FOURTH FLOOR, EAST 11

II. FIRE, AND OTHER ESCAPES 27

III. KEREN-HAPPUCH, THE FIRST 43

IV. AN ANGEL IN DISGUISE 58

V. TAKING POSSESSION 75

VI. MAKING THE BEST OF IT 91

VII. THE DOVE'S ALIGHTING 105

VIII. GRETTA 121

IX. JUNE'S PERFECT DAYS 135

X. HAPPIE'S TEMPTATION 151

XI. HAPPIE'S CHOICE 167

XII. LAURA'S PHILANTHROPY 184

XIII. HUMILITY, CALVES AND GINGER POP 202

XIV. AN ARK ADRIFT? 217

XV. THE PROMISE OF THE GREEN BRANCH 234

XVI. A PRANK---- 251

XVII. AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 267

XVIII. THE BITTENBENDER TRUNK 282

XIX. DISPOSSESSION AND POSSESSION 298

XX. AT THE SUBSIDENCE OF THE WATERS 315

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

"THIS SUNNY LITTLE MAIDEN WAS BENDING ABSORBED
OVER THE GAS RANGE" _Frontispiece_ 14

"'HOW DO YOU DO, MARGERY?'" 51

"'CAN'T YOU EVER COME TO SEE ME?'" 129

"HE FOLLOWED LAURA TO THE FRONT DOOR" 191

"THE GIRLS CROWDED AROUND TO SEE WHAT WAS REVEALED" 290

SIX GIRLS AND BOB