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Title: The Camerons of Highboro

Author: Beth B. Gilchrist

Illustrator: Phillipps Ward

Release Date: November 15, 2009 [EBook #30479]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

[Illustration: How good bacon tasted when you broiled it yourself on a
forked stick]

THE CAMERONS OF HIGHBORO

BY

BETH B. GILCHRIST

Author of "Cinderella's Granddaughter," etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY PHILLIPPS WARD

NEW YORK

THE CENTURY CO.

1919

Copyright, 1919, by The Century Co.

Published, September, 1919

CONTENTS

I ELLIOTT PLANS AND FATE DISPOSES 1
II THE END OF A JOURNEY 23
III CAMERON FARM 37
IV IN UNTRODDEN FIELDS 63
V A SLACKER UNPERCEIVED 91
VI FLIERS 120
VII PICNICKING 146
VIII A BEE STING 171
IX ELLIOTT ACTS ON AN IDEA 197
X WHAT'S IN A DRESS? 223
XI MISSING 244
XII HOME-LOVING HEARTS 265

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

How good bacon tasted when you broiled it yourself
on a forked stick _Frontispiece_
Laura took the new cousin up to her room 26
Cutting the wiry brown stems in the fern-filled
glade. 140
"I'm getting dinner all by myself" 199

THE CAMERONS OF HIGHBORO

THE CAMERONS OF HIGHBORO

CHAPTER I

ELLIOTT PLANS AND