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Title: Ruth Fielding At College
or The Missing Examination Papers
Author: Alice B. Emerson
Release Date: September 14, 2008 [EBook #26613]
Language: English
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Ruth Fielding At College
OR
THE MISSING EXAMINATION PAPERS
BY ALICE B. EMERSON
Author of "Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill," "Ruth Fielding on Cliff
Island," Etc.
_ILLUSTRATED_
NEW YORK
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1917, by
Cupples & Leon Company
Ruth Fielding at College
Printed in U. S. A.
[Illustration: "ASHORE! PUT US ASHORE!" RUTH GASPED.]
CONTENTS
I. Looking Collegeward
II. Maggie
III. Expectations
IV. First Impressions
V. Getting Settled
VI. Miss Cullam's Trouble
VII. Fame Is Not Always an Asset
VIII. The Stone Face
IX. Getting on
X. A Tempest in a Teapot
XI. The One Rebel
XII. Ruth Is Not Satisfied
XIII. The Girl in the Storm
XIV. "Oft in the Stilly Night"
XV. An Odd Adventure
XVI. What Was in Rebecca's Trunk
XVII. What Was in Rebecca's Heart
XVIII. Bearding the Lions
XIX. A Deep, Dark Plot
XX. Two Surprises
XXI. Many Things Happen
XXII. Can It Be a Clue?
XXIII. The Squall
XXIV. Treasure Hunting
XXV. The End of a Perfect Year
RUTH FIELDING AT COLLEGE
CHAPTER I
LOOKING COLLEGEWARD
"Oh, my back! and oh, my bones!"
By no possibility could Aunt Alvirah Boggs have risen from her low
rocking chair in the Red Mill kitchen without murmuring this complaint.
She was a little, hoop-backed woman, with crippled limbs; but she
posse
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