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Title: The Biography of a Prairie Girl

Author: Eleanor Gates

Release Date: May 29, 2009 [EBook #28989]

Language: English

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THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PRAIRIE GIRL

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PRAIRIE GIRL

BY ELEANOR GATES

[Illustration]

PUBLISHED BY THE CENTURY CO.
NEW YORK MCMIX

Copyright, 1902, by
The Century Co.

_Published October, 1902_

THE DEVINNE PRESS.

TO

MRS. PHOEBE A. HEARST

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE COMING OF THE STORK 3

II A FRONTIER CHRISTENING 11

III "LITTLE BOY BLUE" 30

IV A PARIAH OF THE PRAIRIES 48

V THE MISFIT SCHOLAR 64

VI THE STORY OF A PLANTING 87

VII TWICE IN JEOPARDY 103

VIII A HARVEST WEDDING 118

IX THE PRICE OF CONVALESCENCE 134

X "BADGY" 152

XI A TRADE AND A TRICK 170

XII THE PROFESSOR'S "FIND" 187

XIII A RACE AND A RESCUE 206

XIV HARD TIMES 224

XV THE FATE OF A CROWING HEN 242

XVI THE RESERVATION TRIP 257

XVII ANOTHER MOUND ON THE BLUFF 276

XVIII THE LITTLE TEACHER 292

XIX TOWARD THE RISING SUN 311

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PRAIRIE GIRL

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A PRAIRIE GIRL

I

THE COMING OF THE STORK

IT was always a puzzle to the little girl how the stork that brought her
ever reached the lonely Dakota farm-house on a December afternoon
without her being frozen; a